I did back in BC, mainly since it was like 20k for 15$ and back in the day that was a shit ton on my server lol
I did back in BC, mainly since it was like 20k for 15$ and back in the day that was a shit ton on my server lol
Nope. Cept once in Runescape, fuck grinding in that game. Years ago though.
I haven't bought gold, but I don't disapprove anymore. I think Blizzard's failure to stop botting and other cheating has removed all legitimacy from the game, and there's no longer a need to consider moral issues around buying gold, only issues of convenience and personal preference.
WoW? No
EQ? Once, bought 500k because I was desperate to win a Guise of the Deceiver from the King's Court Casino.
With that 500k, ended up getting something like 7 Golden Tickets which took me 3 to get 2 clickies, and the other 4 earned me about 1.7 million plat, lol.
I will maybe it's easier to make $$ than gold in my server, 1 month prepaids cost like 25k xD
"We live in a world where a style of play that uses posession and passing to try and make spaces is made fun of.
While a style of play where a team sits back for 90 minutes and breaks away in 1v1 situations is respected."
- Ronald Koeman.
No, never have and never will.
It risks my account, it damages the in-game economy, and I have qualms with it from an ethical standpoint since the money often comes from compromised accounts.
No wonder those gold sellers never go away... you people in this thread just keeps buying from them >.<
Thb I spent A LOT $ when i was playing korean grindy mmo. There it was taking forever to farm for good items (like months for best items) . It was simply a choice between working few hours or spending time in game farming for hundreds of hours.
But in wow i really can't understand why would anyone buy gold. Its just silly how easy it is to get it here.
I remember buying 1K back in TBC when I just started. I was about lvl 19 on my druid (Felt like quite the achievement at the time) and bought the normal and epic mounts and saved them in my bags. At the time it just seemed like a way to have some money, had no idea it came from hacked accounts or the like, and after learning that have never bought gold since.
Funny story. I had a buddy who played wow but his RL job was bad so i would buy gold from him and give him cash to help him pay his bills. Thats back when u had to fork out thousands for epic flying on all toons and i had alot of alts.
as far as from chinese never. They tend to ruin wow with all the bots( minning, herbing and BG's)
I paid for all of my gold with blood sweat and tears. Farming ore and doing dailies. yes the good ole days
Why buy gold when you can not be terrible at everything and have gold anyway?
Paladin Bash has spoken.
There will always be buyers because the game itself incentivizes new players to buy gold.
There's SO many QoL issues created by wealth disparities in WoW.
No gold?
No bags.
No cloth for bandages.
No potions.
No food.
No shiny BoE weapons to expedite your leveling experience. (What exactly IS the point of BoE gear in a world where everyone has BoA heirlooms? You would imagine the prices would sink on good BoE gear that shares slots with BoA gear, but it doesn't. The price of decent BoE leveling gear is atrociously high.)
No mounts.
No mount training.
No professions to level.
That's just off the top of my head.
When I first started playing, the first of many attempts at playing, I had one friend who played ubercasually and he never got around to actually playing with me or setting me up with any gold the first time around. So when I realized I couldn't buy bigger bags without buying gold, well, that was an easy answer! It felt like it'd take me weeks or months to earn the gold to get bags... whereas when I broke it down by gold/hour versus dollars earned/hour ... it'd take me a few hours to work IRL for the same gold that would take me weeks in-game. Frankly to not have bought gold in that moment would have been the absolute height of stupidity. It's honestly Blizzard's fault for creating quality of life and enjoyment of game issues so early in the game where new players feel like it's a good idea to go buy gold so that they can enjoy the game the way it's meant to be enjoyed in the first place. First thing I do on all new toons? Fully outfit them with a full set of bags, full bank space, and some gold for random leveling BoEs, food, drink, and some cheapo potions to expedite leveling. All that shit should be baseline and easily accessible to all new players not just ones with friends or ones who buy gold. And YES the leveling experience HAS changed drastically, don't fucking ask me or tell me what the new player experience is like NOW, I'm telling you how it was back before half of you probably even played, because my first WoW accounts were like either just BEFORE or just AFTER BC launched. I promptly quit by the end of my trial as a level 20 something rogue, after getting my face raped by those cackling dog-things in redridge mountains.
Second time around was very similar, new account because I couldn't be bothered to go find the info for the first one. Bought gold almost instantly to get bags and shit again. Then I saw expensive gear I wanted, and bought gold again. This time I made it to 43 hunter before quitting. I could even tell you the first epic I bought, if I looked it up. It's a level 40 epic gun that's a BoE worlddrop.
Last time around, current account, I bought several times while leveling in Cata. I had no external resources from like RL friends or a guild to give me handouts, and frankly, by this point in my life, I was making way too much money at a job where I could get almost limitless overtime if I really wanted it to be bothered with "farming" lowbie crap for gold. Like, I could pick up one day of OT, and buy more gold than most people could farm in a month of heavy farming. 1 day to 30 days, not a hard choice, especially since I'm talking max-level characters, and I was a mid level toon.
Is buying gold against the ToS and EULA? Yea, sure.
Is it a morally grey area in terms of the repercussions? Of course. And so is buying half the consumer goods that come from places with questionable treatment of and wages for their workers.
Ultimately my point is this though: As long as there's a path of least resistance for new players to follow, people will buy gold. And as long as there's people that may way more dollars per hour IRL converted to gold from a gold selling website than what they could personally farm up or play the market four... people will buy gold.
This made me laugh, probably more than it really ought to. ^^u
On topic: I have never and will never buy gold. There are so many real-world goodies to spend cash on! Plus, pretty much all sold gold these days comes from compromised accounts - would you really trust your credit information with those sort of people? Buying gold is wrong no matter which way I look at it.
2021-09-21
23:02 chelly: bobs and virginia
I'm not risking my account for this shit! D:
Yep, once, during BC. I bought 1,000g. I freely admit it because I don't like to hide from my mistakes. It was many years ago, I was a younger, dumber person. The gold was removed from my character by Blizzard a day or so later, and that was the only consequence I had.
Not only was I just a bigger idiot back then, I've also gained a much better understanding of the way the game actually works, and how the gold-selling market directly affects players.
---------- Post added 2012-11-13 at 10:37 PM ----------
You buy gold > You encourage the gold-selling business > They continue exploiting the game and compromising player accounts to keep up with demand.
Are we supposed to be impressed now that you've given us a number of how much money you make? Sorry, that's completely irrelevant. I'm very glad you live such an amazing life that you just don't have time to play this game legitimately. That doesn't mean you have a license to cheat.
Buying gold is stupid..?
Buying toon customization , faction change , name change ect.. is not ?
Sounds the same to me. Use of ''non-game'' money to change something in the game.
Give 30bucks to get 20k and buy a mount with it .. or give 30bucks to blizzard to change my orc to a tauren..
Only exception is in one side you make Blizzard very happy.
Last edited by Malkazam; 2012-11-14 at 06:00 AM.