Your opinions on buying your success in MMORPGs

[TranquilNightElf]

Read before Voting:
The above options are all for one question. So please choose only one.

There are three questions to this poll (which I am hoping to include in the .ORG)
You can only choose one option per question (and please make sure that you do choose only one option as it will mess up the statistics)
Each option represent a different viewpoint.

EDIT:
It seems that there is a limitation to the number of characters that can come in the options.
So I'll post them here.

1.It's not a bad option to buy elusive weapons once in a while or level up my character So I can catch up to my team mates online

2.Heck if I find a legendary sword that I don't need, why shouldn't I be allowed to make money on something I worked to get.

3.I support this system of selling/buying completely.

4.Let them do as they please. To each his own

5.It's completely unfair.The rich now get the high ground on what was a level playing field.

6.It makes a mockery of the game itself, both on grounds of fairplay and ethics.


~TNE

I have two more questions with around 7 options in total, but since the poll allows me to only add 10 options as a max, I was unable to include them.
I will be including them in another thread.
found here
http://www.warboards.org/showthread.php?t=11137

[mcflurry_1982]

do we have to wait for the .org to read these questions?

buying one's success in any game is wrong. it lessens the amount of fun for the honest players. i know i get a sense of futility when i play a game and find that someone took the easy street. i spend x number of hours playing the game and making progress and they spend $y do to the same. the only people that are suppose to make a profit from the game itself are the developers and their parent companies.

[Rayne]

Yah. Anyone how buys gold pieces or items or an account for that matter, is a sad sad individual in my opinion. Sometimes, MMORPGs seem like work, but thats what it takes to get to lvl 60. So bite through it and dont be a wuss. :P

[TranquilNightElf]

do we have to wait for the .org to read these questions?


How do you mean? The first Question is asking you your opinions on this trend.
The other two I've written in another thread.

[mcflurry_1982]

sorry tne i posted that before u had set up the poll and posted the other thread

[TranquilNightElf]

Oh right.. nvm then ;)

Anyhoo I agree with the both of you
and voted for option 6. I find it the possibility of having to compete with players that used their wallets rather than their skills ridiculous. This is supposed to be a game.


Can a mod sticky the poll threads in order till it closes please? This one being the first
Thanx ^_^

[Ender]

No way, this is ridiculous. Since when did it stop becoming a game? The great thing about video games is that they are TRULY destroyers of demographics. Any person of any race of any economic level can play them and you couldn't fucking tell the difference. All this does is give the rich person even more power on what was once a way for anyone to whoever they wanted to be. Number 6, for me.

[Giggilyomeromicon]

I would have to go with #5. Its a source of money for the game servers, but Its compleatly unfair for someone who has worked for it. Some guy could just start up a PC, and then buy his way up to the top . .

[TranquilNightElf]

OooK.. >> the polls have been moved to the Arcade Rotunda, no problems there but at the very least a heads up from the person that did it would have been polite:p
especially when DC stickyed them in the lounge.

Whtever,

Let's get some more votes in guys...

[GrassDragon]

I don't understand why you guys have such a problem with it. If someone wants to spend cash on their gaming because they don't want to spend hundreds of hours doing runs or trading for an item, how does that hurt your gaming experience?

[TranquilNightElf]

I don't understand why you guys have such a problem with it. If someone wants to spend cash on their gaming because they don't want to spend hundreds of hours doing runs or trading for an item, how does that hurt your gaming experience?

Look at it this way, these games are meant to be alternate lives in the digital world and basically require you to spend a lot of time into them in the first place.For one thing Many people play the games because of the sense of achievement they get and are practically addicted to it.That sense of achievement from the fact people know (or nowadys used to know ) that they could have only gotten that amazing staff (or whtever) by completing some epic quest.
But now since anybody with enough cash can just go out and buy that darned thing, it means nothing.Your skill level as a players?.. means hardly anything now.. for all the others know, you could have gotten your loot from ebay.
I understand the secondary market is huge now and very tempting source of profit, but perhaps if the gaming companies regulate this trade to a degree such that there are truly somethings that real world money can't buy.. somethings that you truly have to compete, it might be better

~TNE

[GrassDragon]

If the issue is that "legit" gamers can no longer feel great about completing epic quests then they can now feel good about being "legit" gamers. I know that hackers have cheated in games for ages. On Diablo they dupe runes all the time. That doesn't make me feel any worse when I do 50 Countess runs to get that high rune. I feel better knowing that I got mine by working for it instead of hacking. The same is true of ebayers.

Skill is the real determinant of gaming respect, at least for me. Anyone can spend 50 bucks online and have a godly character. But if they can't play it, or know the ins and outs of they're build, or why it works so well, I don't respect them. Players that know what they're talking about is another story.

[TranquilNightElf]

If the issue is that "legit" gamers can no longer feel great about completing epic quests then they can now feel good about being "legit" gamers. I know that hackers have cheated in games for ages. On Diablo they dupe runes all the time. That doesn't make me feel any worse when I do 50 Countess runs to get that high rune. I feel better knowing that I got mine by working for it instead of hacking. The same is true of ebayers

Skill is the real determinant of gaming respect, at least for me. Anyone can spend 50 bucks online and have a godly character. But if they can't play it, or know the ins and outs of they're build, or why it works so well, I don't respect them. Players that know what they're talking about is another story.

That's very true.
I also agree with the point you made about legit players feeling good about being legit and how skill being the real determinant of gaming respect.
I don't mind the hard work involved in doing what I have to do. Infact, it makes it worthwhile.

But this whole thing does deepen the divide already existing in the community.It acts as a new,(and strong) source due to which an existing barrier is strengthened.A barrier,due to which people ask themselves,"Did this guy actually earn that and does he know how to use it properly?"
I guess I resent thatmuch more than anything else.

~TNE