HI,
Anyone here buy MMO games currency before?
If YES, where u purchase from and why u want to buy it ?
If NO, why u don't want to buy it ?
I want to know about your opinions.

I believe that many guys will be tired of getting golds by killing monsters, and me too, although I love playing online games very much. So I have to look for some good sites to buy gold. Luckily, I have found one------offgamers. At least which I think is not a scaming site . their service and price are reasonable too.I trust it and I am always buy golds from the site. I think maybe you guys can have a try. It does no bad, I think.
After you have tried, you may agree with me.

MMO gold should not be purchased using real life currency.
 
It is to ensure that the game is fair to everyone, regardless if you are a CEO in real life who has tons of money or a student who wants to have a level playinig ground with everyone else.
 
Also, gold farmers are annoying.  They know the game so well that they tend to "camp" at all the right places at the right time and deny other players from gaining access to certain game resources.  Amongst many other undesirable effects that are unnecessarily brought to the game.  Too long a list to write.
 
Just a quick reply.

It's bad because it unbalances the game economy.
 
When you get found out, you will get banned.

If you don't like to make your own MMO fortune then you shouldn't be playing one.

Comments like BigMac's or imnotageek's above are completely invalid.
 
For me, and an obviously huge number of other people, a little real-world cash is more than worth a lot of real-world hours that could be spent enjoying the fun parts of a game instead of grinding for gold.

They are invalid for you, apparently. It is kind of weird that you would want to play a game that is only in part fun to do. Why not play games that are entirely fun to you? There's plenty of choice.
 
They are also valid to the developers of the games that consider it cheating.
 
Another point in this regard: consider what happens in some remote parts of the world to relieve you of that grinding: there's people doing the grinding for you earning subminimal wages at best and they may even be doing it as forced labor, and all that because you want to only play part of a game the easy way. I would not have an issue with it so much if it was a fully legit business, with decent labor conditions, but it's not, and cannot be so because that would make the gold too expensive for you to purchase to start with. Would you buy that gold with your real world cash if it made decent wages for those working for you? I think not...

I'm with BigMac, imnotageek, and b3n. The idea of the game is to play it. You wouldn't get someone else to do the training for you to go the olympics.

In my lengthy experience with WoW, I noticed a small number of people in my guild that would almost always have a ton of gold, but I had never noticed them doing anything to get it...

One day I questioned them, and they admitted to buying gold for real cash. They almost all responded with something similar to this:

The funny part is... most of those "hours that could be spent enjoying the game" were often spent standing around in a city doing absolutely nothing, or being logged into the game but either AFK or currently uninterested in what was happening.

Anyways, I don't hate people that buy gold, but I certainly don't approve it. Especially in WoW where you can easily make 100-300g in an hour with the new daily quests. If you're doing anything that demands more gold than that, you're probably playing the game more than you need to -- which means, you should be gathering your own gold anyways.

My $0.02.

@BigMac -  
Grinding daily quests is not fun.  Grinding mobs for drops is not fun.  Grinding a gathering profession to sell mats is not fun.  Any grinding for gold in games like WoW is not fun.  I enjoy playing MMOs but they tend to have too many time-sinks that are purely for making ingame gold.  Especially WoW, a game targeted mainly at the casual gaming market - if you only have an hour or two per night to play your game you'll hardly want to spend half of your time or more just trying to get enough ingame cash to fund your actual play time.  You want to get straight into the action with some PvP or getting into a raid or whatever floats your boat.
 
And while you talk about people earning subminimal wages in far-off places, consider the idea that quite a lot of the hardware in the computer you're using to post that was most likely made under similar conditions.  Not to mention half the clothes you're wearing.  Nor the fact that you could very easily go out and make your own clothes yourself but you choose to pay someone else to do it for you.  Ever been to McDonalds?  Same deal.
 
@rgeist554
Any time I spend AFK in a game is time I'm too busy in real-life to spend playing games.  Those other people you're comparing me with are likely in the same situation.  Which is exactly why people like me and them go for buying gold.  
 
A lot of people lead busy lives but still try to keep up with some gaming.  If they prefer to spend what little game time they have in MMOs then it's entirely up to them how they fund their in game activities.
 

when I used to play WoW the gold buyers were easy to pick out.  Generally decked out in every piece of epic gear available for their level that is commonly seen at the auction house auction.  I remember to make gold when I was at level 60 (havent played since BC's release) I would just run all sections of the scarlet monestary (Armory cathedral etc) and after vendoring everything(provided it wasnt a lucky purple drop) aquired running it all, I would usualy end up scoring about 20-30g give or take.  It was easy to do alone as a warrior.  Took roughly 45 minutes.  Honestly this was the fastest easiestly repeatable mean to make gold I had found.  Which leads me to a point, how anybody can make money selling gold WITHOUT a slave labor force, would surprise me. judging from my experience grinding for gold and what they charge (at least when I last played) those prices were ridiculously cheap.

earning gold is an important part of the game, if you don't like that then why play it at all? If you dislike the idea of playing a game where you have to earn money before you can spend it, then go play other games where that is not an issue.. like pvp? Go play counterstrike... at least there 's skill involved in that type of gameplay instead of just having the best gear and spells (that you bought with that money you don't want to work ingame for, perhaps part of the skill in games like WoW is finding out the best ways to make quick money ingame?).
 

I have no problem with McDonalds (as you might have guessed), those wages might not be top of the bill but it is honest work and pay and people can just quit working there if they don't like it. As for other stuf you mention, I pay some attention to what I buy and I have no problem with shoving a few extra bucks for good stuf that was made properly. As for IT stuf, it's not a big risk if you buy established brands or do you have some hot news of an IT company forcing people to work for them?

I prefer chicken over pork, but that's just my thang.

This is often still the case, except back at 60 all the BoE epic gear (Bind on Equip) was mostly terrible. Generally it was all stacked with worthless stats or just barely better than obtainable blue items.

Personally, I still don't see the need to buy gold unless your spending a gross amount already, and by then, you probably play more than enough to just gather the gold your self. Seriously, how much gold do gold buyers spend in a day that facilitates the need to buy gold?

Then again... that's not nearly as bad as this: http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory [...] pic_Mount_

oh dear.... but its just prostitution in another form right?

Farming/Adena (Gold) selling has completely ruined Lineage II.  

Yeah eve Eve-Online's economy nearly when to the wall because so many people were buying ingame currency on the web. It is against game rules / EULA agreements in most games to do this. It's equivalent to cheating. It's like playing Rise of Nations and deciding making workers to grow crops, cut down trees and mining mountains is just a waste of time, hit enter key type in cheat to give yourself 1000000 of each. Or it's like doing missions in games in god mode, just to get from a to b quicker. Grinding is part of the game, best thing i could say it find other methods to earns ingame currency that just mining / grinding. In the MMO's I play I help other people (with more skills / higher lvl) do their missions, they give me a small cut of what they make and it's still alot more than what I would have made doing a small crappy mission issued to me.
 
May I point out what you want to do is cheating. I'll tell you this if you do buy the ingame currency on the web you'll soon lose appreciation for the game and find the game boring because you made it too easy for yourself. Also by buying ingame currency you run the risk of getting your account banned, the person who gave you the gold (or whatever) probably also gave the gold to 200 other people that week, this raises a flag to GM's, GM's ban the person who sold you that gold, all accounts associated to the IP address to where that account logged on from and also the people who purchased the gold.
 
If you want to make gold (or whatever the currency is) fast in a game ask a friends in game to lend you the gold and tell them you give it back once you buy what you want, all I hope buying what you want helps you do missions faster so you can repay your friends.

Unfortunately not many people realize that, for MMORPG, it is not just about yourself.  And also, the rules are set by the game developer and if you do not agree to it, there is really no reason for you to play the game.
 
Buying or selling gold is bannable in games like WoW.  Blizzard has shutdown many accounts in the past (and continued to do so) because such actions violates the end user agreement.  If you like MMO but don't like the time-sink activities - which ironically, I think every single activity designed in the game is to somewhat "sink" you time, just that some may be more enjoyable too you than others - choose another game.
 
The last time I played Hellgate London, it is a pretty fast pace game.  No need to farm for gold.  Leveling is fast.  Full of action.  And the good thing is, wonderful loots drop very often.  It can be marginally passed as a MMO because you can group up wiith friends and the dungeons scale up accordingly.  For those of you who are too lazy to earn your way through the WoW progression, HG:L could be one of the alternatives.
 
Imagine if Blizzard actually sells their own gold online at their site, what would the game become?  (Which by the way, I have another alternative for you ... go Guild War and go PvP direct on day 1)  So, back to my first sentence.  In MMO, it is not only about you, is it?

That's my biggest problem with MMO's - The Farming.
 
They should design MMO's where people acquire gold and resources by playing fun parts of the game.
 
Farming sucks and devs should find a solution to it.
 
I don't play MMO because of the farming/grinding.
 
 
 
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