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Originally Posted by Venjenz If you say no, why is receiving money from a friend ok, but paying someone to be your friend so they give you money is not? The end transaction is the same after all, it just had two different lead motivations. |
Because (I assume) your friend earned that money in some way. He farmed it, or sold something he looted, etc. Back in EQ I was definately jealous of the people who inherited fortunes and I might have mumbled something under my breath but I don't honestly think they should be punished or anything. Also, you can't just always find a friend to give you piles of gold. It's the exception to the rule.
With IGE and the like, you didn't just get lucky because your friend quit. Your motivation is completely different. You BOUGHT the gold, you didn't just have it given to you. If you're walking along and find $10,000 sitting in the middle of a sidewalk and there isn't a soul in sight .. well it's your fucking lucky day .. no one can fault you of any wrong. But if you steal 10 grand (no I'm not saying IGE = stealing) someone CAN accuse you of a wrong.
Guys .. attitude is the problem. You finish a raid, go to a light armor merchant and she asks you for 13g 54s to repair your only slightly dented armor. You're upset. I can understand that. I hate repairing too. But then instead of actually accepting repairs and other gold / time funnels as a price you pay for the content you enjoy you go, "Fuck this shit. I make $300,000 a year and god dammit I'm better than this. I'd rather go fuck my wife than farm gold. My stink doesn't shit, I shouldn't have to spend time online farming." and then give Yantis a ring and give some rang rang a bowl of rice for supper. It's the attitude that pisses me off. IGE, etc thrives off people .. people who probably aren't lazy, as they do alot of other things in their lives .. but off of people who think that because they can afford to buy their way out of the only thing that comes remotely close to risk, they don't have to go through the effort.
If you only have 10 hours a week you can devote to warcraft, that's okay. That doesn't make you worse than a person who can devote 30, or 60. But it
DOES mean you shouldn't be able to accomplish what they can in the same time frame. If you can only play 1/3 as much, it should take you 3 times longer to get an epic mount. 3 times longer to get full tier 1. 3 times longer to hit High Warlord (okay .. haha .. I got a chuckle from that one, too). Etc.