Lately, security has been playing on my mind a lot.
I’ve become friends through association with another player who uses bots to make gold and power level characters and then sell them on various sites (I wont link them because I don’t approve of them). He doesn’t have a problem with what he does and claims he’s never compromised an account etc… The guy is young, at college and uses it to keep his “tech addiction” flowing. Fair enough, he’s not hurting anyone, is he?
When I was levelling quite some time ago I used to see bots a fair bit and the fuckers would be doing a circle round and round getting the mobs I needed, I played on a PvE server as well which meant I couldn’t just ambush their asses into next week. We’ve all seen gold seller ads and we’ve all seen the services people offer. These guys are destroying the game experience:
- The economy gets ruined, those who work for their gold are de-valued because some asshole with a VISA can buy all the gold he wants.
- The play experience gets ruined when you’re in trade or minding your business and get THOSE whispers (although some times I do ask for a 56 which garners no reply!)
- For the people buying the gold or the power levelling or the honour grinding… YOUR experience is worsened.
Point 3 is what I want to focus on.
Where’s the satisfaction in buying a hog after waiting 30 minutes for your gold to be delivered? Where do you get the joy from with a level 80 pre-made for you – that’s not your work, hell in all likelihood a programme did the work, not even a human being.
Don’t people feel cheated by this? Don’t they feel inhuman? Do they not feel cheap?
I know people have busy lives and that’s the reason for buying gold etc but as long as people buy gold there will be a market for it. Getting people to stop buying gold though, well now, I fear that’s an impossible situation.
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