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I think is probably a good idea to kill of gold farmers who can be a royal pain in the rump in game. Any in-game solution to stops these guys is a clever move.

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I think CCP has the right idea because they don't have the numbers that WoW does. It promotes a sense of "we care about our game and players". And it is a business model that works for Eve Online. I don't think new players like myself knew about this until I read this!

For wow it could work but on the other hand will it spread like a virus and take away profits? I think a hook in mouth could be an outrageous amount of gold that they allow every 3-6 months as a promotional event. And then promote it as "kill the gold farmers". I like how SWG took care of the gold farmer spammer by allowing player wardens. I think one solution to this is to allow players to hunt down gold spammers and set up a reward system in any game. It would be fun!

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I think this is an excellent solution for multiple problems. This will reduce the number of people who goto gold sellers as well as probably bring down the gold-to-cash exchange rate. This also allows players who may otherwise quit playing a game, to continue by using their in-game money, the MMO company still gets their monthly fee for that person, just now someone else is paying it. I can't honestly think of a valid downside to any MMO doing this.

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superb idea, because it does not upset the economy, it is only existist money changing hands, not hundreds of farmers sucking the life out of everything

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I actually like this because of the way ccp has set it up to be secure and it cuts down farmers there is a few drawbacks i do see for wow. When you go to your local game store they would not have any game time cards in stock of course they could cure this by setting it up to sell time card codes online and only those could be used to trade for gold. next it would make people mad but less gold sellers would make people happy . The biggest win for this would be blizzard more time cards sold equal more money in there pocket imo it would be stupid for them not to set this up, time cards make them money farmers lose them money.

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I have used the GTC for ISK system 3 times now, it works great.

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