Ebay gold

is still at the same price it was before the Girffon Nerf.

I'm assuming this means the griffon nerf was completely ineffective at halting farmings effectiveness...and therefore anet never intended to stop farmers...

either that or the farmbots/sweatfarmers must've stashed away plenty of gold to last... and the Trolls outside Droks are still being slaughtered...

How do you know that ?
No but farming continues so thats why

Thats quite a jump in logic. Because something was ineffective, they had no intention of fixing it? Thats like saying "My pencil lead broke, I dont have to take notes in class anymore" instead of going and sharpening your pencil or grabbing a new one so you resume taking notes. As J3mo and Diablo said, maybe there are other reasons as to why its the same price. We dont know, and only time will tell.

Yor pencil breaking doesn't mean you can go to sleep ?_?

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Farming wont end unless they end it - not just change where they do it.

Pfft, who needs it to even break? I usually just put it down and go to sleep on my arms

OMG i didnt know that the only place you could get big crazy drops and loot to ebay was those things.

woe is me ..........but wait a moment..........what about all those poor fools farming other things like crazy all over?

maybe they know something you dont.

there is still farming hope after all..........................

as if one spot could affect a global price

The price actually did spike temporarily after the update. Obviously, however, farming outside of Augury Rock wasn't the only place where gold could be made relatively quickly.

false analogy. two completely different situations.

Ahhh, I get it. Fallen I had to read your paragraph I swear 6 times. I think he's saying that this was just one fix. It didn't work, that doesn't mean that ArenaNet is giving up. Just that it's going to take refining, work and some new ideas.

ANet should just find some way to make Ebay partly responsible for allowing the selling to happen. If Ebay felt enough pressure they could stop it themselves. I know there are other sites that sell gold, but meh Ebay is a good start. I'm aware that Ebay probably has some buyer/seller agreement that takes all blame away from them, which is why I used the word "find". Just my thought.

And who said they nerfed anything? They simply added the Queen and her Scarabs as something else to kill/do with the new green and gold drops.

Wow, that is rich. I pulled up one of the Ebay gold sellers and it says:

Heh then they follow it up with an "all characters, items..... are the sole property of NCSoft"

Common practice. Only reason why they are allowed to do it.

i think gold is dropping. and as far as scarab affecting ebay sales. i was curious and found kepkhets refuge selling for 5 bucks on ebay. more than 100k gold.

I read the disclaimer on one of those accounts and it came back with something like this:

"By bidding on this auction you are stating that you are in no way affiliated with NCsoft Entertainment Inc."

Another one stated:

"By viewing this auction you are stating that you are in no way affiliated with NCsoft Entertainment Inc."

LoL So by viewing this auction, you are entering a legally binding contract that you are in no way associated with NCSoft Entertainment Inc. So by the actual legal wording you are not allowed to be in a vendor/customer relationship with NCSoft... does this make any sense.

EDIT: I was thinking a bit more about this, and with this holding legal weight, I believe I could stick something like this on this post... "By reading this post, you are agreeing to pay an amount no less $1,000 (USA) for the services previously rendored".

My business law classes make the word "affiliate," normally in regarding a subsidiary/parent relationship between to otherwise independent company, a very important and very binding clause. However, the definition that also applies is anyone who has an active and currently binding legal contract between the service or product provider and the customer.

So, by their own definition, the farmers have made it impossible for them to sell gold to anyone who has an accepted and active EULA agreement with NCSoft...

Apparently, the farming corporations are using arm-chair attorneys.

I'm kinda hoping someone with a law degree or professional experience, rather than a business law minor make some comments about this.

Actually, this is legally binding. In, I think 1996, Bill Clinton passed a law that allowed legitimate internet websites to bar Government and Corporate acsess to wherever they placed a little disclaimer about it on the web.

I'm not sure of the exact article and number of the law, but I've seen it on many Emulation and Music Download websites.

Yea, Inde has it. Sorry, I could have made it more clear... I just kinda stopped in the middle of my thought I dont think that ANet is ganna stop with just one try. And Black, I know its completely two different situations, but its the same principal. You arent going to sit there (OK, most people wont just sit there) and stare at their pencil if the lead breaks, and ANet isnt going to just sit on their thumbs and say "Well, we tried, but they are just too smart," when the issue of farming comes up.

How many people buy Ebay GW gold? I would say a lot less than the number of auctions on Ebay. Bot gold may be a litte slower in acquiring, but it's in no way straining the number of Ebay auctions.

I'd never buy form E-bay. Have too many friends get burned on it. Also, about a month ago, someone had posted a thread about their friend being banned from GW for buying stuff off of Ebay.