Buying in-game items or money from other players, using real money?

[Angelfire]

Northern Song.. er.. do I call you North or Song?
It's good that you speak of things you notice, don't let the negative responses bug u, most of these fellas mean well:)

Strangely enough I played on a wow private server a while back where you could buy rare items from the admins for 'donations'. They did it very cleverly though, it would be specific items that you could not get anywhere else, like a purple Gryph or a massive axe etc. with the same stats as a normal one, it just looked cooler than normal is all.

I was one of the fellows who originally suggested the idea for fundraising purposes and it actually worked very well for a couple of months.


I enjoyed being able to swap my real life work time by being able to 'buy' gear that would take me too long to get solo... so I could hang out with the rest of the guild on their raids etc. without being the weakest link.. (I was da uber healer:))

But then...

The uber pwnzer 13 year old daddies credit card characters started showing up.

In no time the server was 'home to the horrible', ooc central... and we started losing our RP lovers fast.

It attracted flies, thats the kindest way I can put it.

'I pay for my stuff so STFU I can do what I want!'

anhyhoo... that was my experience... not to mention the enterprizing players who started spamming the game and the forums with stuff that you could buy straight from them ingame with real cash.

They even spammed us in PM's... hahaha.

Even the Admins had issues... The private server was only legal as a non-profit scheme and having these kids spend so much money gave them (the kids) a kind of blackmail power. It was all a mess.

So yeah... what originally was a cool idea turned to a fly magnet!

methinks even trying something like that would require an intricate and well thought legal game entrance agreement, this way there would be no room for 'blackmail' or exploitation.

Even so, it would definitely not get my vote.

it's good that you brought it up though, I think there would definitely be people who were wondering about this subject.

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