Uber upgrade?

[gekko]

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.

<< edit: adding, as adeyke so succinctly put it, the obligatory SARCASM ALERT end edit >>

Punishing murderes is stupid, because we've been punishing them for thousands of years (even killing many of them) and murder still happens. We want to stop murders from happening, but we can't; therefore, we shouldn't bother trying.

<< edit: END SARCASM ALERT: SERIOUS NOW!! end edit >>

Just because utopia is impossible, doesn't mean we shouldn't aspire to it. Just because we can't stop the purchasing, duping, botting, and hacking of items, doesn't mean we shouldn't bother trying.

More to the point: just because other people are purchasing/selling these items, does not make it OK for YOU to do so -- whether your personal involvement (or lack thereof) will have any realistic effect on such actions existing has no effect on the morality of your actions. You shouldn't murder people, just because people will get murdered whether you kill them or not.

Your post was in most ways absolutely correct -- and missed the point entirely. It's not about whether or not we can stop such actions on a large scale -- it's about individual choices.

gekko

edit: added sarcasm alert and minor spelling corrections