Comments on: A phishing/goldselling rant, and a tip on how to catch the fake ones

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Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:47:04 +0000

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By: Joins The Hacked Masses, Blames Gold Buyers

Joins The Hacked Masses, Blames Gold Buyers — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:45:19 +0000

[...] has written up a good guide on how to spot those fishy mails that you might get. She’s also written down some of her own stuff about hacking and buying gold. Very good [...]

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:13:02 +0000

I totally agree with everything here. I never understood buying gold from third party sites and spent a bit of time in EQ2 pissed at the gold farmers taking mobs from me. I enjoyed PLAYING. I wanted to experience the difficulty of completing whatever quest or raid it was. I wanted to feel the accomplishment of finally getting whatever item it was I was hunting at the time. I did a little dance when I got my prismatic back in the prehistoric EQ2 days, and proudly showed that weapon off, being a little cocky to be among the elite who had gotten that far. Buying gold is cheating to me. Making money in any video game is not that hard, just takes a little time and effort.
Now the cash shops that SOE has now are a good compromise to me. Many of the things you can buy look cool, but do not detract from the status of items that have to be earned. SOE also has their marketplace where players can sell anything to each other for cash, items, gold, even toons. I am sure it has been exploited from time to time, but generally it allows the players to buy and sell for cash, without handing money over to some third company that may use unscrupulous methods to obtain their merchandise.