There actually very much is potential to sell a Windforce for a thousand dollars
If you find a Ladder Windforce in the first few weeks then it will fetch that much easily
Sadly I think the really high bids would come from self-styled "business people" who make money out of duping items
It would depend on other things like if they have a duping system working already and on how effective Blizzard are at deterring cheating in the Ladder amongst the generality of the BNet population
But a thousand dollars for what to a duper is a licence to print money is actually rather cheap
This will only really get sorted out if Blizzard stop auction sites selling BNet items and shut town these dupe dotcom sites - that would take a lot of energy and a fairly radical rethink in their current policy of combatting cheating by technical fixes alone
They might also tackle it by hammering enough casual cheaters - I'm talking CD Key deletion - to stop people feeling it was smart to use Maphack, d2hackit, etc
I would even like to see them hammer people who post in their forums or state in chat that they are cheating. If you were playing Poker and someone announced they were cheating they would not be allowed to continue playing, why do we have to put up with it on BNet
As for people who would pay money for legit items then it doesn't really bother me. If someone trades a legit Windforce for 40 legit Shaels or for some real world cash it's pretty much the same thing isn't it? The only real ethical distinction is that they haven't "earned" it but I personally don't have a big issue with that. It's the associated cheating that colours the issue for me. (I guess like someone Jay Walking on their way to do an armed robbery :P )
If you find a Ladder Windforce in the first few weeks then it will fetch that much easily
Sadly I think the really high bids would come from self-styled "business people" who make money out of duping items
It would depend on other things like if they have a duping system working already and on how effective Blizzard are at deterring cheating in the Ladder amongst the generality of the BNet population
But a thousand dollars for what to a duper is a licence to print money is actually rather cheap
This will only really get sorted out if Blizzard stop auction sites selling BNet items and shut town these dupe dotcom sites - that would take a lot of energy and a fairly radical rethink in their current policy of combatting cheating by technical fixes alone
They might also tackle it by hammering enough casual cheaters - I'm talking CD Key deletion - to stop people feeling it was smart to use Maphack, d2hackit, etc
I would even like to see them hammer people who post in their forums or state in chat that they are cheating. If you were playing Poker and someone announced they were cheating they would not be allowed to continue playing, why do we have to put up with it on BNet
As for people who would pay money for legit items then it doesn't really bother me. If someone trades a legit Windforce for 40 legit Shaels or for some real world cash it's pretty much the same thing isn't it? The only real ethical distinction is that they haven't "earned" it but I personally don't have a big issue with that. It's the associated cheating that colours the issue for me. (I guess like someone Jay Walking on their way to do an armed robbery :P )