Gil Buyers

[Hamlet]

60 months is not the same as three days ago. I'm just saying.

Hamlet: I'll get right on that. Meanwhile, keep on thinking of stuff you'd do if FFXI was real. I appreciate your contributions in that area. Especially since you've managed to target an area that no one has tackled yet. Kudos to you.

Well, there's only so much you can talk about in general discussion about ffxi. Changes to the game come slowly, so basically, topics are going to mostly about the same thing:

1. bad parties
2. bad luck experiences
3. good luck experiences
4. gilselling (because it's a neverending problem)
5. creative joke threads, like "if ffxi was real"

In theory, an ffxi message board's general discussion area could consist of 5 threads and cover almost everything.

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Hamlet: I'll get right on that. Meanwhile, keep on thinking of stuff you'd do if FFXI was real. I appreciate your contributions in that area. Especially since you've managed to target an area that no one has tackled yet. Kudos to you.

Oh, I will. And you keep being anal and complaining about new threads rather than creating them. All will continue to be well in ffxionline.com land

[Murphie]

In theory, yes. But I think FFXIO is doing just fine with threads. Every day when I log on there are a few hundred responses and a couple dozen new threads. I think that's pretty good.

Anyway, this is going wildly off topic. If you have any more personal observations to make about me feel free to PM them.

[Telal]

For the record, i'll never buy gil. I just don't understand buying in game money with real money.

If i can't afford the best equipment, and you don't want to PT with me, because i don't have the sword of pwn, with the chestplate of uber demon protection, I don't need your PT anyway.

[Jekk]

It seems there's people who buy money on games for many MMORPGs, I have friends who play Maple Story and they say people buy money there, and my other friend who plays WoW says the same. Lazy people.

[Telal]

Oh it isn't a FFXI only issue by far.
I was "present" when IGE exploded onto the Everquest scene, the game never recovered.

[Moaku Hyena]

For the record, i'll never buy gil. I just don't understand buying in game money with real money.

If i can't afford the best equipment, and you don't want to PT with me, because i don't have the sword of pwn, with the chestplate of uber demon protection, I don't need your PT anyway.

(Word) (up) (Home Key).

I remember seeing "GET A HAUBY NOOB" in someone's sig on KI, and pretty much...heard that ingame.
If you really have to have this really fancy ubertasticalpwn gear to do anything fun, then (@%&!&^@ you). Of course, it's that mentality that drives players into buying gil. Even worse, companies like IGE, MOGS, GamerKings, Power4Game, etc. take advantage of this to get players to buy gil.

[Tirrock]

Two friends of mine have bought gil. About 10m each, I believe. While it's sort of sad (I personally don't like gilbuying), I'm not about to stop being friends with them because of it either. In both their cases, their justification was their limited play time.

Personally, I feel it cheapens everything too much. Like brown belt... that was a major major pain for me, but I felt damn good when I obtained that belt. I look at it and I remember what I went through to get it. There's not much of an attachment to the same item if I were to go to IGE, spend $50 (or however much 4m is) and then go to the AH and buy it.

[Moaku Hyena]

Fsh. I was excited when i got Raise II. Because it dropped down to 60k.
And Protect IV, which was 110k. You get really excited when you did hard work to complete something, but cheating makes that Hauby worth naught.

And you better believe that people buy Gold/ Gil/ Zeny in every game. In Second Life, it's okay (It's not a MMORPG; I don't know WHAT to classify it as. And yet somehow I believe that IGE or someone is manipulating that too...), but in a MMORPG? If you can't work for the money, then don't even play it.
People buy Zeny in Ragnarok Online and Maple Story.
People buy Platinum in Everquest and Everquest II.
People buy Adena in Lineage II.
People buy Information in The Matrix Online.
People buy CHARACTERS in those games. The Level 75 n00b is worse than the Level1 n00b since the Level 75 n00b has the potential of wiping the party. And not a newb, but a n00b.

The desire to "Play at the next level" is clearly being exploited by companies. If you want to play at the next level, then GAIN it instead of BUYING it.

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[Murphie]

I suspect people even buy currency (Influence?) for City of Heroes and City of Villans, although I can't imagine why. It's worthless.

[Telal]

and horriblly easy to get, my scrapper (lvl 37) has earned millions mor einfluence than he could ever spend. :D

[Murphie]

Sometimes I wish I'd kept my CoH account. It was a fun distraction from time to time.

[Moaku Hyena]

I suspect people even buy currency (Influence?) for City of Heroes and City of Villans, although I can't imagine why. It's worthless.

Believe it or not, they absolutely do.

[Matera]

Fsh. I was excited when i got Raise II. Because it dropped down to 60k.
And Protect IV, which was 110k. You get really excited when you did hard work to complete something, but cheating makes that Hauby worth naught.

And you better believe that people buy Gold/ Gil/ Zeny in every game. In Second Life, it's okay (It's not a MMORPG; I don't know WHAT to classify it as. And yet somehow I believe that IGE or someone is manipulating that too...), but in a MMORPG? If you can't work for the money, then don't even play it.
People buy Zeny in Ragnarok Online and Maple Story.
People buy Platinum in Everquest and Everquest II.
People buy Adena in Lineage II.
People buy Information in The Matrix Online.
People buy CHARACTERS in those games. The Level 75 n00b is worse than the Level1 n00b since the Level 75 n00b has the potential of wiping the party. And not a newb, but a n00b.

The desire to "Play at the next level" is clearly being exploited by companies. If you want to play at the next level, then GAIN it instead of BUYING it.

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QFTW

If you want to play at the next level, farm your bloody ass off. It feels so much better.