7:56 pm, October 12, 2013
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Why Not Buy Gold From Gold Sellers?
This is a pretty simple argument that I recently though up. Why did we dislike people who bought from gold sellers in Guild Wars 1? Because, they could buy their way to get whatever they want in the game.
Well, now that we can get anything we want to get by buying gold legitimately, what is the inherent problem with buying it cheaper on the black market?
I mean, I guess you can say that you are supporting the company by buying it legitimately, but, as a player, I don't really care about that. Just like I don't care about copying music from a friend's computer to use in my iPhone.
So, if we accept the following two premises, I think the logical conclusion is that there is no reason to discourage people from buying gold from black market gold sites.
Premise 1: The reason for discourage gold buying from a player's perspective was to prevent players from artificially obtaining in game wealth that they did not "work" for.
Premise 2: If, by being able to buy gold from the developer, you can legitimately gain wealth by not working for it, then:
Conclusion: There is no philosophical reason to discourage players from buying gold from black markets to artificially gain wealth without working for it.
Well, now that we can get anything we want to get by buying gold legitimately, what is the inherent problem with buying it cheaper on the black market?
I mean, I guess you can say that you are supporting the company by buying it legitimately, but, as a player, I don't really care about that. Just like I don't care about copying music from a friend's computer to use in my iPhone.
So, if we accept the following two premises, I think the logical conclusion is that there is no reason to discourage people from buying gold from black market gold sites.
Premise 1: The reason for discourage gold buying from a player's perspective was to prevent players from artificially obtaining in game wealth that they did not "work" for.
Premise 2: If, by being able to buy gold from the developer, you can legitimately gain wealth by not working for it, then:
Conclusion: There is no philosophical reason to discourage players from buying gold from black markets to artificially gain wealth without working for it.