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Originally Posted by Dampyre
However I for one see no real reason a game company would want to stop it .. I mean they are at least getting their 30 pieces of silver so why should they bother...
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While you're right players wont collectively agree, there can be a general social agreement that it is bad, and its the "wrong" thing to do. Just as we as civilized people generally agree that stealing is "wrong". We do have police though, to enforce this when some people don't abide by the general acceptance that some things are universally "wrong" or "right". We have GM's in game for those who refuse to abide by our policy, buying gold or items in game is illegal in our world and there are consequences.

And why would a game company care, or want to stop it? Besides the fact that we play these games, and enjoy playing them as much as the next man, it can be simplified in terms of money.

These are subscription based games, a majority of revenue is made from subscriptions, its what makes this market so profitable and it's why theres tons of people trying to get a piece of the pie. If we make it so that a player either has to quit playing or buy money, and therefore pay us to play on our servers and pay someone else for the cash, well most people are just going to stop playing altogether.

When enough players quit there isn't anyone left for the Secondary Market to sell to, so they leave. We lose money, or have to go as far as shutting the game down.

The longer Vanguard runs, the more money we can make, so why would we want to voluntarily allow our players to be forced to buy money or quit? We want people to play as long as they want.

The faster we allow our economy to inflate, the shorter our half-life.

These are games, and real money should have no baring on that status and well being of a character once you are inside the game. It is for entertainment and when you allow people to become better than someone in game because they have more money, then you have not only failed your game, you have failed your players and the community that they have created.


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