Wizards and Warriors Outsourced to China

[Skanky Burns]

Its trading wealth for status. They are able to show off their 1337 gear without having to put in effort.

[Seeker]

How is the 'gold' anyones property? I mean it might be property in some obscure namby-pamby way, but as someone who grew up on a farm property is something that you can feel and touch and hurts if you drop on your toe. Would Locke have recognized these figments of imagination as property?

[Cyclotron]

I would assume that Locke would recognize anything which was the product of labor as property, so yes.

[Dis]

as if I need another reason not to play mmorpg's. People can't even play for themselves.

[Arrian]

Wow, pathetic on the part of the people paying others to play for them. Good on the Chinese gamers, though! to playing computer games for fun and profit!

-Arrian

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Its trading wealth for status. They are able to show off their 1337 gear without having to put in effort.

that I understand, but it can all be wiped out in an instant.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Asher
I thought this was an NBA thread.

[laurentius]

Originally posted by Seeker
How is the 'gold' anyones property? I mean it might be property in some obscure namby-pamby way, but as someone who grew up on a farm property is something that you can feel and touch and hurts if you drop on your toe. Would Locke have recognized these figments of imagination as property?

Thats an interesting question. It may not be as physical as actual gold, but it is in a physical form on the hard drive of the game server, so it in fact too has a physical form.

Also I would see this as a matter of basic contract, every time you use paper money for instance you trade your work for goods. Or if you have a large cheque, its much much less physical than the things you can get with it.

[MORON]

Man, companies should just sell high lv accounts and items and get it over with.....

[DinoDoc]

"We farm out the different jobs. Some people say, 'I want to get from Level 1 to 60,' so we find someone to do that."

And then they ***** and moan on game boards about a lack of content.

[Skanky Burns]

Which is a problem for the company actually running the MMORGP. Rarity is what keeps people interested in the game - some will keep playing until they have the +21 firesword of death. If the company sells these items or characters that contain these items they will at best create a ceiling price for these items which others will simply undercut, or they reduce rarity in their games and for a short period of time everyone is running around with all the best gear before they get bored and find an interesting game to play.

[Elok]

Couple of things:

1. 100 grams of WoW gold? Uh, Freudian slip?

2. It really says something that these games are so freaking tedious that people will pay money to bypass most of it, but addictive enough that these people are also paying money for monthly fees for the game itself.

[Cyclotron]

Originally posted by Elok
Couple of things:

1. 100 grams of WoW gold? Uh, Freudian slip?

I wouldn't be surprised if their previous dealings were with heroin. It's not like there's much difference anyway.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Elok
Couple of things:

1. 100 grams of WoW gold?

Uh...what's the big deal?

[Elok]

Last I checked (my roommate plays WoW constantly), 1 Gold meant 1 gold piece, not "one gram." As an electronic datum, the stuff has no weight/mass, and if "grams" aren't the game's unit label of choice...well, huh?