MeGrand
Gallente
Thunder Talons
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Posted - 2006.10.24 12:25:00 -
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I find the debate here fun to read - lets see if i've sumerasied this correctly
Somone who has worked very hard in RL, can in turn be very sucsesfully in eve
This leads to the following issues people are concerned about..
1) Its not a level playing field, alot of the reasons people play mmo's is because their fun, and thier partly fun because of escapeisum, and part of that is people hate RL intrudeing. In sterotyical form player A is a banker - buy billions worth of isk, player B is a supermarket till worker, play ALOT but has fewer assests.
Player A and B get into a fight - A can easily outlast B
So from player A's point of veiw - he's just happy his hard work has lead to him having fun in game
from player B's point of veiw - he's ****ed off because he cannot compete in resource terms - so its no longer for him a level playing feild
This is largely i think what death kill and other refer to by "cheating", RL interfering with eve
2) people worry that GTC are distorting the in game economic system
largey what people like shinra, and others are concered about.
As for myself?
well 1), i see no way to prevent this, shifting away from GTC's to just ebay is likley what will happen - reason only one partys (player B) consideres this cheating the other does not
at least with GTC sales ccp can monitor what is going on, so what if i cannot compete with everyone, provided enough people stay at around my level thier will allways be something worth doing
2), now this is my big worry, gtc do have the potential to badly distort the economics - worse case - alliacne A has billions can buy up all the HAC's regardless of cost - and so i can never hope to afford one
very hard one to do anything about though, as no isk is created using this - only moved around, but an issue i would advise ccp to montior closely - and fairly sure they do
So are selling GTC's cheating - NO
does excessive use have the potentialy to destroy my ability to have fun? - possible, time will tell - far to early yet, as we have only limited examples
(oh and thanks sh...... for the philosophical despute, i'm in agreement, and it made a nice thing to read while eating lunch)
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