Curse

RPGmaniac · Apr 20, 2008, 07:01 AM // 07:01

To all the people who say it goes against Anet's Code of Conduct: they can change their own rules whenever they want without any notice. It's fully in their right. Therefore it's not a valid point.

You don't need too much money to get the bare basics such as runes, weapons, armor, etc. Unless you're going for Tormented Shields, Crystalline swords and Obsidian Armor. Plus it's easy to make a decent amount of cash if you just play through the game and don't buy armor at every city. In my experience with Prophecies, you only need to buy armor twice. Once at Ascalon and once at Droknar's Forge, which is WAY later in the game. Then there's collectors which will offer you max level gear for practically nothing.

If you just want to buy plat so you can play Barbie with your characters, then I would suggest playing with Barbies. There is a sense of accomplishment in spending hard earned money on something you've wanted for a long time.

Why should the person with the bigger wallet be able to buy his way to the top over the people who invested their time into earning their way? Plus even if Anet sells their own gold, I'm sure the third parties would simply undercut them.

GW GF · Apr 20, 2008, 07:03 AM // 07:03

I've been playing GW since it came out... so it's not like I'm some noob. And why don't you invite my char along and show me how you make 22k in a short amount of time?

explodemyheart · Apr 20, 2008, 07:05 AM // 07:05

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Originally Posted by GW GF

I've been playing GW since it came out... so it's not like I'm some noob. And why don't you invite my char along and show me how you make 22k in a short amount of time?

I just told you how you make that much money in that short amount of time.

hippo942 · Apr 20, 2008, 07:06 AM // 07:06

Well i think that the vast majority of people would just quit as why bother farming or even powertrading when someone can just buy it legally

wow this has to be one of the worst ideas I have seen

GW GF · Apr 20, 2008, 07:06 AM // 07:06

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Originally Posted by explodemyheart

I just told you how you make that much money in that short amount of time.

ok log on right now and take me.

put your money where your mouth is. I don't ever make that much or have seen anyone do it.

Dea atai fire ele. where do you want to meet?

RPGmaniac · Apr 20, 2008, 07:07 AM // 07:07

You'd be surprised how quickly merchanting those meaningless whites, blues, and purples can add up. Back when I did cartography, I would fight my way through instead of running. I'd only kill a portion of the monsters in the zone but after the money drops and merchanting my items (plus the occasional gold) I'd end up with about 3-4k. Do that a couple times and already you can afford 1.5k armor. Do some vanquishing. When you vanquish a zone, you get cash. Do a few quests. The cash rewards from quests adds up pretty quickly too, especially in Factions.

I am by no means "rich". I've played this game since July of 05 and have only broken the 100k point 3 times. I don't farm hardcore at all. I only do it once in a while when I'm bored and don't feel like doing anything that takes a while. All of those times I hit 100k were through normal playing over a period of a few months just saving up cash and not buying much, if anything at all. Normally I have less than 20k.

kobey · Apr 20, 2008, 07:09 AM // 07:09

I think the reason why they didn't implement it is because they didn't want to contradict their stand. Selling gold for money is likely to be inflating the GW economy (not gonna have a too large impact now, but nonetheless, thats the direction of the effect).

Another reason is probably fairness to those who earn the money through time spent (farming/normal play). Selling gold might actually have an overall negative effect on most players.

Xunlai Secret Agent · Apr 20, 2008, 07:10 AM // 07:10

@OP:

Because too many players take the position most commonly seen in this thread. It'd destroy their overall player base.

There is a way to implement it without tanking the economy, but with ultimately trivial technical concerns aside, its all in the publics perception. Hence why hospitals no longer do 'Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging'.

GW GF · Apr 20, 2008, 07:11 AM // 07:11

Ok since I obviously am the suck at making $$ why doesn't someone pm me and show me what to do. You guys are the experts, right?

I'm on GW right now as we speak. show me how to make the cash w/o wasting hours of my valuable time farming crap.

Not all of us have 18 hours a day to do this stuff.. sorry I do have a life and GW is fun not anything more. But if it is going to be fun then it needs to be FUN not boring

Ghostcell · Apr 20, 2008, 07:13 AM // 07:13

if they are banning people for buying gold then they sure as hell aren't going to start selling it.
i really hope they don't start selling gold... well we all know that they never will so i'm safe there.
besides other companies would just lower the price of their gold which would wreck anet.
the econamy has already taken enough of a beating from ursan, next we are going to have characters right out of pre with FoW armor.
leave it how it is, you can easily save up enough gold to buy 1.5k armor and runes without any grinding/farming, just play the game.

ModTerrik · Apr 20, 2008, 07:13 AM // 07:13

OK..

Why do we reward people with excess time and not excess money?

What difference does it make in how YOU play the game? Instead of worrying about how I got my money why don't you make money the way you want to? You want to buy it? Buy it. You want to spend 8 hours a day farming? Go for it! Whatever floats your boat. I haven't seen a single decent reason to not sell plat. (Outside of the economy issue which can be taken into account when pricing the gold)

explodemyheart · Apr 20, 2008, 07:16 AM // 07:16

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Originally Posted by GW GF

ok log on right now and take me.

put your money where your mouth is. I don't ever make that much or have seen anyone do it.

Dea atai fire ele. where do you want to meet?

Considering the fact that I am not currently taking a character through EotN, nor am I going to sit here for the next however many hours to take a character + someone who apparently doesn't understand how to make money through just to prove something that I already know to be true.

Pick up every. single. item. If weapons have good mods, pull them off and sell them. If you get good weapon drops, sell them. If you get good runes, pull them off and sell them to the rune trader, if they're not good runes, sell them to the merchant still in the armor. Some materials will yield more gold if you sell them to the merchant rather than the material trader. Some rare scrolls will yield more gold if you sell them to the merchant rather than the rune trader. Use weapons you get as drops instead of buying new ones. As RPGmaniac said, you don't need to continually buy armor. In fact, if you're not a noob like you claim to be, you should be able to make it completely through any single campaign with starter armor and non-max weapons and a completely worthless skillbar. If that's not what you find fun, boo hoo. That's how you can make money without farming.

I'm sorry that you don't know how to maximize your profit. You have never done it and don't know people who have, I have done it and know other people who have. It's not my problem.

GW GF · Apr 20, 2008, 07:17 AM // 07:17

Well I'm still on GW waiting for some of the money making geniuses to PM me and actually show me how you can make money in a short amount of time.

All talk and NO action.. seriously.. somebody log on and show me.

PM Me my name is Dea Atai.

ModTerrik · Apr 20, 2008, 07:18 AM // 07:18

OH yea..one other thing. To the people complaining about not having money to buy plat...I have an idea..why don't you get a better job. Go back to school get that degree...quit the 22k a year 7-11 clerk.

Instead of taking all of your time farming your plat maybe you can use that time and save up your REAL money

ModTerrik · Apr 20, 2008, 07:19 AM // 07:19

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Originally Posted by explodemyheart

I'm sorry that you don't know how to maximize your profit. You have never done it and don't know people who have, I have done it and know other people who have. It's not my problem.

Way to NOT step up to the plate...lol

1 up and 2 down · Apr 20, 2008, 07:21 AM // 07:21

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Originally Posted by GW GF

Honestly because I want to have fun... there are a crap load of other games out there and if GW isn't fun then I'll go play something else. There is absolutely no reason for me to be loyal to GW.. It is after all a game and games are about fun... not about hours of boring farming just to get a few plat. (hellooo.. since when is farming even remotely interesting??) I'm suggesting a way to make it more interesting for me. And it's a way for anet to make more money.

Ok seeya, don't let the door hit you on the way out. If you are so worried about the game not being fun then leave. I can guarantee you that you will not find any good MMORPG's out there that will let you legally buy in-game gold.

Also you don't need to farm repetitively to get money for your 15k armor. All you have to do is PLAY THE GAME!! It isn't hard to just play through the story line and sell the drops you get. I know for a fact that the money you get from just playing the game is enough to get you a full set of 15k armor. I've managed to buy 5 sets of 15k armor just by playing through the game.

So don't hand me or anyone else here any BS that you can't make any money for your 15k armor because you don't have time to farm.

RPGmaniac · Apr 20, 2008, 07:22 AM // 07:22

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Originally Posted by GW GF

Well I'm still on GW waiting for some of the money making geniuses to PM me and actually show me how you can make money in a short amount of time.

All talk and NO action.. seriously.. somebody log on and show me.

PM Me my name is Dea Atai.

Idk if you're expecting 200k to just suddenly fall in your lap or something. It doesn't quite work like that. Explodemyheart and I have listed a few simple habits you can try while you're out doing quests and whatnot. It's not something that happens overnight though. While you're playing for the 1-2 hours you say you have every night, try these methods. You should notice that you'll steadily make a little more money. The only other option outside farming is power trading, which is where you buy items and resell them at a higher price for profit. You would then reinvest this money into buying more expensive items to resell.

*Gem* · Apr 20, 2008, 07:22 AM // 07:22

Personally I think we should get FoW armour, torment weapons and the like automatically put into our inventories when we roll a new character.

Hell, why don't we just have all our characters pre equipped perfectly from the get go in pve.

GW GF · Apr 20, 2008, 07:22 AM // 07:22

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Originally Posted by explodemyheart

Pick up every. single. item. If weapons have good mods, pull them off and sell them. If you get good weapon drops, sell them. If you get good runes, pull them off and sell them to the rune trader, if they're not good runes, sell them to the merchant still in the armor. Some materials will yield more gold if you sell them to the merchant rather than the material trader. Some rare scrolls will yield more gold if you sell them to the merchant rather than the rune trader. Use weapons you get as drops instead of buying new ones.

Well no sh** shirlock. Sorry I didn't mean for this post to get unfriendly but I'm not a f***ing moron. This is what I've been doing for the past few years.

My POINT is that people are buying plat anyhow... why not just buy it from anet. They can make the money and those that don't have the money don't have to buy it.. they can farm as always. It's even.

explodemyheart · Apr 20, 2008, 07:23 AM // 07:23

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Originally Posted by ModTerrik

OH yea..one other thing. To the people complaining about not having money to buy plat...I have an idea..why don't you get a better job. Go back to school get that degree...quit the 22k a year 7-11 clerk.

Instead of taking all of your time farming your plat maybe you can use that time and save up your REAL money

Who here complained that they couldn't afford to buy gold? People have simply put out the suggestion that there are people that can't and that's absolutely true. Some people have more pressing financial issues than to buy gold for a video game, other people that play are teenagers and don't have access to purchasing funds (uh, you know, a credit card?). There's any number of reasons why it is not possible to for one to purchase gold.

Furthermore, considering the current state of the US, 22k a year jobs are all that a lot of people, even college educated people, can get.