Professional Farmers

[kandrathe]

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To cry that people shouldn't be allowed to farm high demand, valuable resources means you've decided you don't want people to be able to choose to buy or trade for those items; there is no other way to prevent high demand, valuable resources from being farmed, other than making them less valuable or reducing the demand. No, you feel that since you want to have the option to effectively (read -- with no serious competition) gather those resources yourself, it would be better if everyone else had the rules you are imposing on yourself be imposed on them as well.
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You may have misunderstood, or taken my concerns out of context. I have no problem buying any of my mats from *players* who use their time to raise money for mounts, etc. I have a *HUGE* problem buying anything from professional gold farmers who then sell the virtual gold for real world money. And, I have a *HUGE* problem with anyone who buys virtual gold for real world money. To me, either buying or selling gold, toons, etc for real world money is tantamount to cheating. I don't want to support anyone who cheats.

But, how can you tell the *players* from the *professionals*? Sometimes you cannot. Therefore, often when I suspect all the available materials at the AH are being sold by professionals, I pass on the AH and farm my own. I boycott them. You might not, but then IMHO you contribute to the problem. Like, spam, or internet porn, someone keeps them in business. I just don't want it to be me.