Due to less available materials and less people farming them, prices should actually go up.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Enndoh',index.php?page=Thread&postID=212904#post2 12904
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Due to less available materials and less people farming them, prices should actually go up.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Enndoh',index.php?page=Thread&postID=212904#post2 12904
/LOL
Please read the artical completely. This will not stop 2nd Market Service nor Gold Farming.
It states that China does not know how to handle Role Playing games at this time and this has been a known issue with the Chinese Government for over a year now. They keep trying to shut down the industry yet it keeps growing.
2 Years ago 2nd market was only 1 Billion in Sales
Last year it was 5 Billion.
This year we expect to do 8 Billion in sales. Actually the industry itself is becoming legitamised slowly and more game companies are researching into how to make money from it vs. fighting it.
Currently it's mainly Blizzard Ent. that is the ones pushing to try and get rid of it. But most other companies are slowly embracing the industry as it's becoming bigger then the 1st Market Industry. The avg 2nd Market customer will spend x8 more on 2nd Market Services then 1st Market.
This means:
You buy wow for $20:
A Customer will then spend on avg ~8x20 = $160 on 2nd Market Services!
But in my experience the avg customer will spend $500 on their account within a year. With higher end clients spending $5,000-10,000 a year.
This is why the industry will not just disappear and if countries ban it, all that will happen is just like the Internet Casino's! They will move to countries that allow the product and management of said services.
If you have any more questions about the industry just hit me up. :P
Don't even hint at this crap, it's not welcome here. And I changed your website too, don't even link that crap here, have you even read the rules?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'TeK23',index.php?page=Thread&postID=212922#post21 2922
-Svpernova09
Hint what? I'm merly posting to a thread listed. If you do not approve of the thread, remove it or lock it.
I am not the OP / just someone replaying to an article with real facts and information.
One thing i do know for sure is when the real botters got shut down months back item quantity on the AH dropped dramatically and prices on everything skyrocketed. Against TOS yes but stopping them hurt the in game economy pretty badly.
You mean we can now report currency farmers to people who will do something about it?
(loleve)
Are you talking about when Glider "MDY" shut down their US botting operations due to the lawsuit?
If so yea that was a blast to the botting industry, but since then you now have bots x10 worst then glider ever was. There are full quest bots now and it's horrible, you can buy the bots and they level your toons from 1-80 without ever touching the account after they start.
That's why gold is rock bottom, why sites are selling powerleveling for dirt like $75 for 1-80 and all of this crap. It's killing the in-game markets and also the 2nd market industry, the big issue is all of the "illegal" websites using these type of bots. What many people do not understand is there is a handful of "legitament" businesses that are legal registered businesses with 100's of employee's making millions a year and paying their taxes, etc...
Then there are 10,000's of illegal workshops in forgien countries running sweat shops that pay no taxes and have just a house full of computers running bots with a couple of guys getting paid $5-10 a day to watch all of the computers. There are also a ton of these small startup shops now poping up all over forum sites that are also illegal and do not have business licenses or pay taxes. Kids running bot shops out of their parents home, etc...
This is what's wrong with the industry and why it has such a bad stigma and why many people hate it. Not to include all of the scammers and crooks out to steal your money, but that's in any industry with lots of fluid cash.
Sorry you got me on a rant. /lol
Oh also and worst then just the quest bot is the new gathering / farming ONLY bots.
Now someone has actually released this bot and all it does it goes around flying the maps and mining nodes or picking up herbs. The bot is a pure gold farming bot! These things can make 8-10k a day in gold or more from mats depending on the AH and it makes find the nods near impossible because if you get enough of the scrubs running on your server you can't find any nods.
Really what kills most games is "Botting!"
Not RMT/2nd Market Services but automated programs, because 1 person can manage 100+ bots and now when you are in lowbie zones all you see are bots leveling. With these new bots for gathering, etc... it's going to get worst and you'll have bots in end-game farming and gathering all day. :thumbdown:
Lame,
I thought playing games for money was awesome.
And Supernova, we could've read the same text if it was a smaller font.
Kind regards,
Negativ1337
It is awesome and that's called Professional Gaming :DQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Negativ1337',index.php?page=Thread&postID=212985# post212985
There are many Tourny's you can enter into and get paid! :thumbsup:
But that's mainly FPS games like Counter-Strike, etc...