People who buy money on MMO sales sites.

[Pheer]

i think you overdid it a bit with the "let me ask my dad" shit uthgaard, you want to act dumb but not TOO dumb [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[PurelyElf]

Originally Posted by soup [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not really. How does people being able to buy characters in exchange for plat negatively affect you or anyone?

MMOs, and especially EQ (imo) are community based and community driven games. It's not so much about the pixels as it is the people behind the pixels. People have reputations here, and they really matter. Or should :/

If I make a friend and spend months hanging out in game and getting to know them, it sucks when one day I /tell them to discover that no longer know me. Likewise, if at some point in my character's life I'm mercilessly harassed (CC'd for no reason, tracked down and PK'd in every zone I try to lns to, scammed for what few items I have..) by someone, I would like to always be able to dislike them for that reason. If I discovered that the character had been sold, and now my most hated enemy had become kind and friendly, I would be distraught.

Guess I'm something of a roleplayer sorta. Is that a wrong way to play this game? The powergamers who only care about raiding, gear and using said gear to PK the rest of us may not care if people sell characters, but I want something more from this game.

What's so bad about buying coin for rl cash if they allow people to purchase characters? All the coin farmers do is cause inflation, which happens anyway. Players like me will always be poor compared to people that spend their time farming and playing the market, so a little more inflation brought about by chinese sweatshops hardly makes a difference. imo ofc

[Striiker]

Heh! I love getting some inside glimpses into the background workings of the environment. Time to set up some honeypots to catch more of these folks. :-)

[greatdane]

What's so bad about buying coin for rl cash if they allow people to purchase characters?

Legal reasons, mainly. You could also say that it cheapens the integrity of the server as a whole, and while buying characters for plat does so as well, it isn't nearly the same. You still have to acquire a substantial amount of in-game cash, so you won't get someone who has never played before in your Sebilis group. Everquest is easy enough that someone who has played one class to a high level can probably play any class adequately, but not someone who hasn't even played one character to 50+. If someone buys a level 50 rogue, they might not have experience playing that class, but you know they've achieved something - 50k plat takes some time and effort to farm, and you can't do it in any kind of timely manner until you've already leveled one char to or near 50. Any EQ veteran can pick up any class and learn it well enough to solo and group in a day.

[azeth]

Originally Posted by greatdane [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If someone buys a level 50 rogue, they...

will likely hit backstab every 5.5 seconds and handle corpse runs.

[bulbousaur]

Fun read there, Uth.

[soup]

Originally Posted by PurelyElf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

MMOs, and especially EQ (imo) are community based and community driven games. It's not so much about the pixels as it is the people behind the pixels. People have reputations here, and they really matter. Or should :/

If I make a friend and spend months hanging out in game and getting to know them, it sucks when one day I /tell them to discover that no longer know me. Likewise, if at some point in my character's life I'm mercilessly harassed (CC'd for no reason, tracked down and PK'd in every zone I try to lns to, scammed for what few items I have..) by someone, I would like to always be able to dislike them for that reason. If I discovered that the character had been sold, and now my most hated enemy had become kind and friendly, I would be distraught.

Guess I'm something of a roleplayer sorta. Is that a wrong way to play this game? The powergamers who only care about raiding, gear and using said gear to PK the rest of us may not care if people sell characters, but I want something more from this game.

What's so bad about buying coin for rl cash if they allow people to purchase characters? All the coin farmers do is cause inflation, which happens anyway. Players like me will always be poor compared to people that spend their time farming and playing the market, so a little more inflation brought about by chinese sweatshops hardly makes a difference. imo ofc

I don't really dig this. It's like saying YOU want the person behind the character to always be the same, so that's how it should be. As if the fact that I spend all this time leveling up a character and then decide I want to play something else is irrelevant, because of YOUR expectations for that character.

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by PurelyElf [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What's so bad about buying coin for rl cash if they allow people to purchase characters?

Because P99 and the other emulators ride the fine line/gray area of incroaching on Sony's intellectual rights. You could say it flies "under the radar" so-to-speak because no one is profiting real $$-wise from this.

[Lazortag]

Originally Posted by Polixenes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What's the P99 devs view on players who trade P99 pixels for pixels in another game where RMT is allowed, thus doing P99 RMT through a transformer?

i.e. money laundering

You actually aren't allowed to trade for anything outside of p99, even if it's on another eqemu server. Fun fact.

[Skope]

Originally Posted by Lazortag [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You actually aren't allowed to trade for anything outside of p99, even if it's on another eqemu server. Fun fact.

can i log into your char and strip them, sell your stuff in EC and trade the p99 plat for RL $$?