Curse

Miss Puddles · Jul 13, 2007, 12:08 AM // 00:08

ebay no longer sells ingame gold.
do your research.

Malice Black · Jul 13, 2007, 12:20 AM // 00:20

I found 1 listing, selling Ultima online gold..people still play that?!

Seems E-bay did cave it though..too much bad press I guess.

Sarevok Thordin · Jul 13, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

Ebay is just a generic term for out of game purchasing of ingame currency. :P

Roshi_ikkyu · Jul 13, 2007, 12:23 AM // 00:23

And it was never the place to get gold, well unless your a MMO equal of a script-kiddie.

You'll never stop gold selling, if they manage to outsmart the bots and make it bot free (Which is like shooting down the sun with a pea-shooter), there is still socio-economicly struggling place where farming a online game make a profit for the sale.

Yep some dude in rural china is farming GW for sweat shop wages because the owners of the company still make a profit.

And Anet can bann them, they just steal another account from a newb who d/led the lastest scam 3rd party program. Or shock horror buy a new account, so long as it makes a few 100k before its banned its paid itself off.

But perhaps your drops suck because you play 15hrs a day?

And I still fail to see a direct connection between your rage over drops and Ebay. Which is the root of all evil just the most pronounced in its field.

Malice Black · Jul 13, 2007, 12:32 AM // 00:32

More bots showing up is good in the long run, this means botters are having to run more bots to keep up supply implying that botting is becoming less profitable then it use to be.

I MP I · Jul 13, 2007, 01:04 AM // 01:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by perfect

Destroy Ebay? huh? The OP must subscribe to this magazine:

Your rant is complete nonsense.

LOL. On topic, Ebay has nothing to do with your drops or other peoples drops sucking. Its all really dumb luck. Whether anyone chooses to believe this is up to them.

Fitz Rinley · Jul 13, 2007, 01:19 AM // 01:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roshi_ikkyu

You'll never stop gold selling, if they manage to outsmart the bots and make it bot free (Which is like shooting down the sun with a pea-shooter), there is still socio-economicly struggling place where farming a online game make a profit for the sale.

If you make what they do worthless then they will not Bot. If people do not need to go to them to get what they are after they will not have a market. Destroy the foundation of their market and you will eliminate the bots. It is not a pea shooter, it is an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile. If no one has a reason to buy from them they will have no reason to destroy our gaming and in the meantime we will be able to get things we want.

Quote:

Yep some dude in rural china is farming GW for sweat shop wages because the owners of the company still make a profit.

And if you support the restrictions you support the sweat shop.

Quote:

And Anet can bann them, they just steal another account from a newb who d/led the lastest scam 3rd party program. Or shock horror buy a new account, so long as it makes a few 100k before its banned its paid itself off.

Banning is insufficient. Destroy the foundation of their economy. Destroy the reason they appear. Make their service unnecessary by making drops sufficiently plentiful that no Guild Wars players have any interest in purchasing their products/services.

Quote:

But perhaps your drops suck because you play 15hrs a day?

So, I am supposed to be punished for playing the game as a player of the game for the purposes of playing the game. Or am I supposed to be punished for playing the game because I am disabled and the game is something for me to do. I am supposed to be punished because other people are criminals when I have commited no crime nor have I been tried or convicted. Or is it a crime for someone who is disabled to play the game and stay out of the way of the the people on the street?

Quote:

And I still fail to see a direct connection between your rage over drops and Ebay. Which is the root of all evil just the most pronounced in its field.

Then let me provide you a little lesson in the use of the American English dialect. It is a normal structure of American English, as a Germanic and Agglutinating language, to utilize prominant nouns as eupemisms and dysphemisms for conceptual ideas such utilizing:
jello n. to cover all gelatin dishes
phillips n. to cover cross-head screwdrivers
e-bay v. to cover internet commercical transactions.
In addition, like many other languages where word order controls gramar inflection and connotation, context of occurence is always paramount. So, a discussion of e-bay in context of a gaming forum where virtual gold and virtual items are sold over internet sites references that specific logistical function where as in a discussion forum on footwear it would not be relative to EULA violations for exchange of virtual products or services for real currency.

Fitz Rinley · Jul 13, 2007, 01:41 AM // 01:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brother Andicus

A) If you play that much, why do you need collector staffs? Buy them.

Buy them with what? To buy things one has to have money. I did end up buying the three Skull Jujus I needed to get the collector staff. I am certain I will never see the mods I need to make it worth carrying, so I will probably have to buy them also some day. It cost me 3k to et a collector staff so I would have all three Necro staves in the Lotus line for my necro.

Quote:

B) If you really want it that much for the skin, stop whining and go grind some more.

What is the point in grinding if after three days in the area there is not a single drop? What is the point in grinding if you camp on the spawn point right outside The Eternal Grove and repeatedly walk out the door to kill the one thing that spawns it so often that you level and go 71% to getting another skill point and there is still no drop. Further, there is not even a gold drop. Anything of value drops so rarely as to be negligible.
[QUOTE]C) Get some guild-mates to come with you whilst farming for the items you need. More real people will generate more drops and since they are all guild-mates all the needed items will go to you.

Quote:

D) If you cant find any guild-mates willing to help, get a decent guild.

I am my guild and I will Never allow you or anyone else to make me destroy my colors, my coat of arms, or my individuality. I am quite aware that with the creation of Factions it was ANets intention to coerce the destruction of all non-Zerg guilds and obliterate all PvE players. I will never submit to either.

Quote:

E) If you cant find a decent guild,

You mean one with no indivudality, creativity, or personal expression? I see plenty of such "decent guilds." You are not big enough to make me. You may kill me but you will never defeat me.

Quote:

i) learn to use the internet,

You mean buy gold or virtual items on the internet - how thoughtfull of you to recommend it. However, I will not. And I will continue it inform ANet everytime I observe a violation of the EULA, although unless they destroy the reason for bots to begin with I have little faith in their interest in dealing with it.

Quote:

or ii) suck less.

How wonderfully descriptive. And this falls under which article of the confederated alliances for internet gaming protocols? I am certain their must be a specific regulation defining such a grand and austere term... Perhaps you can be so forthright as to enlighten us? You mean I should hack GW and create the what I want that way? (Rather than go through the normal routine of expecting things to happen from game play, which is of course the alternative to the hacking option.) Or maybe you mean I should bribe some member of Guild Wars to make something happen for me, and I am certain they could although they say they can't (just like they said there was no farming code). But since I am disabled and live on disability I have a budgetary choice between TV and internet and I chose GW over TV so, I guess the bribe option is out too. (Besides, I wouldn't do it anyway.) Or perchance you are attempting to say I should twinkle my nose at the computer and make the loot fairies wallop the monsters for better drops... Sorry, Tabatha Stevens isn't my mother. Ok, all out of options - so do elucidate you highness.

Taedronai · Jul 13, 2007, 02:51 AM // 02:51

Wow, sorry but you seem like you're making a war motivational speech or something...in the end, it is just a game, no need to go Winston Churchill style...

Cacheelma · Jul 13, 2007, 03:39 AM // 03:39

You play 15 hours a day and you don't get enough gold for some STAFF MODS?!

Where do you play on, exactly? Shing Jea? (I'd still say you should have enough gold even from Shing Jea. How much does the +30hp mod cost anyway? 6k?)

Sir Green Aluminum · Jul 13, 2007, 03:41 AM // 03:41

The connection between low drops and ebay is that gold sellers are partially to blame for causing the nerf. Who solo's and does pve all day?

Ebay pretty much means buying gold, he probably just played mmorpgs before ebay stopped selling gold. It's like in WoW I said pkers and someone was like OMG what a noob you played runescape, it's called griefing when someone comes and kills you.

Curse You · Jul 13, 2007, 04:51 AM // 04:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malice Black

Fixed your mistake. Only people who farmed like a bot or just farmed for hours upon hours wasting away their drab little life then they deserved poor drops.

So 2 hours of farming is bot like? I say that since I remember having my drops cut off after only something like 2 hours.

Quote: