wow, very surprised to see that so many people don't like trading.
I'm a huge trader, and I often find myself playing mmo's *just* to trade (and craft, if possible).
I currently play Eve but only log in a couple of times a day to check my transactions and manage my orders and contracts. I make enough money to buy gametime from other players using ingame credits (which is legal, in case anyone wondered!).
I used to trade a lot in Lineage 2 when that first came out, and I was supplying an entire alliance with gold and items at one point, mostly by trading alone. I eventually gave it up because of getting frustrated by all the farmers and bots.
How I feel about scamming.. it depends. I definately think it's part of the game, unless the scammers use shady game mechanic exploitations, or do it on alts which are impossible to tie to their main character. I consider "legit scamming" to be fair, as long as the scammer risks earning a bad reputation for it. I have never scammed myself, as I enjoy forming a customer base.
I never could get into trading in GW though. I just don't like having to stand there manually shouting to sell stuff (especially having to compete with all the spam, ugh). I enjoy when I can come home from work and see 6 items missing from my shop and a fat wallet, then taking a few minutes to invest it and putting more stuff up to sale as I go make dinner or something.
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