Is World of Warcraft Gold Buying Becoming A Problem?
World of Warcraft, the largest MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game), has seen a whole lot of attention be it from television with the South Park episode or just in the news, as more and more gold sellers seem to be popping up and making fortunes from selling in-game currency (World of Warcraft gold).
Obviously selling World of Warcraft gold in-game is against Blizzard’s EULA but with the thousands and thousands of players buying gold that really doesn’t stop them at all. It also doesn’t seem to stop the gold sellers either. Blizzard has stated many times that buying gold hurts the in-game economy.
How does it hurt the World of Warcraft in-game economy?
The in-game economy as of right now shows a perfect example of supply and demand with items. People will throw in by saying it isn’t fair for people to use ‘real’ money to buy gold as it gives someone with more ‘real’ money an advantage. They are exactly right but why should it be fair. In this day and age is our economy fair? On the other side of the coin, is it really fair to the casual players that have a limited amount of time to play and wouldn’t be able to even get close to matching the hardcore gamers?
Anyway, it really isn’t making a difference too much in-game. What it does is it evens out the playing field for the casual World of Warcraft gamer.
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