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Originally Posted by Mblake1981
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Our guild SK sold his account on ebay for $800, had full planar armor. He was the only guy I new personally who "ebayed", which had a bad stigma attached and for good reason. I have and always will find it bizarre behavior, many older people blame EQ for starting many bad trends and I think they have good reason for it.
Anyway, your story keeps getting more extreme, if you truly lived that then I guess grats to you for living experiencing some wild stuff.
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I remember hearing about boxing early on, but I always scorned it like "that's super lame to pay an extra 10 dollars just to be more efficient at a game that is supposed to be fun"
So I think there may have been those of us that blanked out the fact that it was happening pretty often, we just assumed most people playing were of the same mindset as we were.
In that sense, the fact that it is bannable here may be the distinguishing feature of the server, more than the content lock level. The idea is to play it like a role playing game, not like a platinum mining simulator.
But people did play it like they were on a factory floor, and maybe that was the first time a digital currency achieved real life value. Other games you could obsess over for your skill and stuff but this game had sellable assets. You can't sell "I am the best at PONG" but you can sell a spare 100k platinum. And you can make 100k platinum a lot faster if you're playing at least 2 characters but ideally 4 adequately. I think it was the first game that did that. The duping and stuff on games like UO or diablo didn't let those items become really valuable I think.
I'm just rambling now. I think that there are genuinely two camps and they both didn't realize how many people were in the other camp.