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"Bartek Boski" <bartlomiej.boski@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Kenner Costen wrote:
>> Who sells gold the cheapest for WOW? I have been using Dr Hu on Ebay but
>> $39 for 300g seems high for virtual gold.
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> You are not a player - you are an idiot!
Seems a little harsh.
I also considered buying gold and don't think of myself as an "idiot". I've
never used cheats in games that I've played but I did contemplate buying
gold for WoW in order to get a mount.
I'm already paying for game time and I don't want to waste my limited game
time grinding away to get enough gold for a mount. I wouldn't consider
constantly buying gold to equip a character but by the time I got to lvl 40
(a long time) I was thoroughly sick of walking and regarded having a mount
as a necessity if I was going to continue playing.
A quick web-search revealed places selling 100G for around $10 and I figured
it would take me close to a month of my limited gaming time to get this, so
it was worth it. Frankly, the only thing stopping me was the possibility of
sanctions from Blizzard.
I understand that limited gold is "part of the game" but I found I never had
more than 20 gold at any one time up to level 40 and I wasn't willing to
wait another 10-20 levels to be able to afford a mount (which seemed
unlikely since the cost of spells was going up as I leveled). I realize I
could have adopted a more income generating game-style but I have a job in
real life, I'm not paying Blizzard so that I can get another one in the
virtual world.
I have always frowned on game cheats but, in the circumstances, I regarded
this as a relatively harmless one. I realize that the existence of people
farming gold to sell does affect the game world somewhat and that buying
from them perpetuates the practice but I don't I think this has anything
like the impact of other cheats. It doesn't, for example, affect public game
play in the same way that people using map hack in D2 affected party play in
public games.
As it happens, a friend was good enough to help me out with the necessary
gold so I didn't have to buy it.
Does that mean I'm not an idiot after all?
Magnie