Gold buyers. We know their kind too well. You know, the evil and darkly secretive gamers, who live in basements and funnel their parents credit card money into their digital characters so they can unleash a storm of wtf pwned newb on unsuspecting casual gamers. Or so goes the legend… 
Eurogamer has recently done an interview with an anonymous gamer who actually ended up being in charge of the site WoW Gold Facts. In this interview he tried to make the point that perhaps gaming companies should actually make gold buying a legal system within the game, as he says that gamers that actually buy gold end up totalling around 30% of the gamer population.
Of course… He has no real way of backing up this statistic, well, at least not with anything that has been released as of yet. But for the benefit of the doubt, let’s say this is true… If 30% of gamers really do buy gold, does that mean it should be implemented legally in some form in the game since it’s such a large number or is it still cheating regardless of how many participate in it?
What do you think? Leave a comment, let us know!
[Via: arstechnica][Pic]
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Based on my own experience, this sounds about right. A good chunk of the MMO players I know have bought gold, or paid to have themselves power-leveled.
I know some people see it as cheating; they’re in school.
Other folks see it as leveling the playing field; they’ve got jobs.
I think there’s merit there, similar to the way EVE Online does RMT.
I, as a player who never spent money on ‘gold’ (ISK), could use in-game money to buy game time cards making the game free for me to play. I save $15/month, someone else spends $30/month (paying for both his and my account) and earns some in game cash.
CCP monitored the trades and came down on scammers. The key difference is CCP are getting the nett gain (good for the game), and the transaction is between two players. I know illegal RMT also occurs in EVE, but that’s another topic.
To me it’s simple, the game developers decide what is and isn’t allowed.
If something is against the EULA(such as gold selling for WOW) then it is cheating.
Is someone playing a game to have fun, or to satisfy the need to feel superior to all the rest of the players? If its the latter, then the fool deserves to be parted with his money.
For those crying they don’t have time to catch up with others due to real life issues, why not just play a more casual game instead?
What could be a more casual game than WoW?