The Daily Grind: Gold farming in your favorite game
Filed under: Economy, MMO industry, The Daily Grind
Though not every game developer discusses it, pretty much any game with a currency has an issue with people farming for funds and reselling them for real world cash. What we're asking you for this morning's Daily Grind is how farmers impact your game play experience. Are they a daily hassle? Do you have to fight them for the best farming spots? Have they caused massive inflation in your game's economy? Are they constantly spamming you with messages? Or are they completely inconspicuous? Let us know the game you're playing and how gold farmers have changed -- or not changed -- the way you play.
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Tateru Nino said on 8:56AM 12-01-2007
Well, I don't know about *farmers* but I'd like to log on to LoTRO just *once* without being spammed at least once by a gold-seller.
So far, hasn't happened. Been spammed every time I get logged in there for a session. It's discouraging.
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Bellerophon said on 9:43AM 12-01-2007
In EVE I've been spammed a few times through the in-game mail but a nice deterrent is to jack up the cost of accepting mails.
As for Macro miners they pass by from time to time. Sometimes it's fun to suicide gank them if I've run out of things to do.
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Ghen said on 10:53AM 12-01-2007
Blizzard has done a pretty decent job of keeping my chat box empty concidering the vast popularity of gold selling in the game.
Hellgate London basically has zero spam protection, but that sorta works in the gamer's interests since spammers will get lazier, use the same characters to spam, and are easier to /ignore for a day.
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sevenwind said on 12:22PM 12-01-2007
Believe it or not I get it every now and then in Vanguard.
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Schad said on 3:05PM 12-02-2007
Every day I log in to about 3 e-mails in DDO for plat. I get a tell about once a week.
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