FenrisWulf,Jul 31 2004, 11:14 PM Wrote:ignorance
Look, I played EQ for nearly 5 years.
www.mysupersales.com
Multi-million dollar business spanning every MMORPG selling duped items, legit items, powerleveled/exploited accounts, and legit player accounts sold to them. The guy who runs it has purchased several fansites and message boards (paying for all costs, thousands in bandwidth, etc) to advertise.
www.playerauctions.com
Originally came about when sony had EQ stuff yanked from ebay.
Nothing can be done about it, because the online game industry is about making money. There's no such thing as fair, cheat free, etc, except in who you associate with. It quite -benefits- the companies to have a RL cash trade going on in their game because it keeps people playing. In MMORPG, an account that gets sold means continued revenue, versus one that gets cancelled or deleted. Even if they DO want to stop it, they can't.
We all want a legitimate environment, but it can't happen on a large scale. Even the basin is full of retards talking about their BoTD and 20/20/5 whatever the hell jewels and gems. But sure, it's legit. Really.
Me? I wish that I'd made $5000-100,000+ off items in EQ like people I know. Too young/naive/lacking in credit card.
Edit: The one thing I don't understand is how blizzard profits from b.net. All of the advertisements are now for blizzard products. In a MMOG, keeping people playing (either because the account gets sold, or because people with busy RL can 'keep up' by buying items, and therefore not cancel their accounts) brings in money for the company. But -how- does the battle.net model work?