MrBow wrote:
Stick to the topic please, thx.
Anyway: my topic is about GOLDFARMERS and they are not the same as botters or goldbotters. The fact is, botters are illegal atm, and goldfarmers not (soon maybe)
Here are some YouTube videos or documentaries on Chinese Gold Farmers. It's interesting and hopefully will change your outlook on "real" gold farmers and not botters. Search "Chinese Gold Farmers" on YouTube for more.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KH1LGdjZUKQ
Basically, people are working or making a "living" on goldfarming in third world countries. Banning goldfarmers in Korea, a non-third world country will probably not affect anything.
Honestly, I don't have a big problem with legit gold farmers. There is a demand that is supplied. Yes, it creates imbalances, but I think the imbalance isn't that great in that a lot of people are not going to spend fortunes on gold. I can only think of HuyFong (maybe) so a slight few have advantages. Also, with item malls, big money spenders can just astral items and +5+7+9 them and sell it for gold which is like indirectly buying gold with money (silk).
"Legit" gold farmers in general aren't so bad even if they inflate game prices which sounds bad because people think of the Depression where people couldn't afford food, but in game the pot prices are the same and the gold also all trickles down to other players. For example, no one in hell can afford STR 8 stones at 5 million gold a pop if "bot farmed gold" wasn't trickled down to the other players. Because of gold farming, everyone is a LOT richer in gold. This eases the game for EVERYBODY in that the pots are no longer relatively fricking expensive.
Ideally, "legit" gold farmers mess up the need to be economic and strategic and skilled and whatever else to achieve higher levels but I guess we can't avoid it. It greatly benefits a FEW (in game, but poor in health?) and eases the economy on the entire server.
