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I disagree. What you are really buying from gold sellers is time and time is not valued equally.
I understand that some "bro" in high school has a lot of time and can sit his ass in front of computer and farm gold (aka shards which he then sells for gold) for hours.
I don't have time because I am a grown man. What I do have is money which I earn with "billable hour" type of contracts. My one "billable hour" can buy me more gold that I could ever farm within an hour of gaming, probably more than several hours.
So if I farm my own gold I:
1/ get less gold
2/ lose real money I could be earning instead of grinding Mobs
I never need to buy gold but if there was something that I really wanted and it would require absurd amount of gold then yeah, I would probably STRONGLY CONSIDER "outsourcing" that to gold farmer while I would be doing my regular work to pay for his service and still earn coin for myself. But wouldn't want to break any EULA with Funcom so I woudn't do it it the end *wink wink*
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Or there is another solution:
So what if you make the FC points tradable?
So peoples could buy and sell gold, it would be profitable both for FC and both for peoples who don't wanna spend money on game.
And make it possible to buy premium packs via FC points.
Ok, maybe it wouldn't liquidate all the gold sellers because some peoples want money by selling golds, but if enough peoples choosing the "safe-way" to buy gold, may the goldsellers would disappear with time.
You can already buy premium packs with FC points
yes, you can no longer extend your sub thru FC points. However, both RotGS and Turan are available through FC points.
Hey, you forget the crafters and the traders (like me). Making money is my content in the game
If Funcom would ever sell gold to the players, the goldsellers would even undercut their prices. And people tend to buy where it is cheaper...
What I would do against goldsellers, if I were Funcom:
I would enable a script which logs all transaction about money transfer on the server.
Next I would create a BAIT-character and level to Tortage
Then I would buy 100 Gold from a gold seller for my bait-toon
Now I would check my toon from which character I got 100 gold and so I get an ACCOUNT name
I would check money on all toons of this account and watch all transactions FROM and TO this account for the next 2-3 days. I´m confident that I will find a network of other characters (and so: other accounts) who transfer money from one to another.
Last but not least I would ... NOT ban them - but reduce all coins to ZERO on all characters of all accounts which had a connection in the logs.
Let´s see who will complain.
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Of course the are able to convert their money into unsuspicious shards (this is normal buying in the tradepost) but they are NOT able to convert them back into money again fast and this easy. In order to get 100 Gold they need to sell at least 5 shards. This means they´ll need time and buyers.
Sometimes I have tried to sell shards and even if I undercut the prices its no guarantee for selling because other do this too... And of course its not a QUICK solution.
Ich ignoriere die Beiträge von Zatochi und gehe daher nicht auf sie ein!
"Ich besteh ja zu 90% aus Ellenbogen und 10% Herz... Und Gehirn natürlich... nochmal 30, 40%. Durchsetzen - mit Charme und Köpfchen!"
[Stromberg]
Das bin ICH!(That´s ME!) ∙ Meine Videos: Ein Tag in Khemi ∙ Ein Tag in Conarch ∙ Outside Khemi