Who cares if the cheaters or the cheater apologists care? SE cares and the typical gamer consumer cares. Yeah, supply and demand will determine the winners and losers in this mmorpg market just as in any other.
But take note, for all their argument and posturing, the cheater apologists always fall back to the same line: "'I' (meaning the conscious self affirmative acknowledgement cheaters, including their apologists, choose) don't care", period. It doesn't get any weaker for them when we clearly see that "They do not, care."
The real defenders of justice have achieved victory in this thread to the extent that all the b.s. alleged general benefits of cheating have been irrefutably dispelled. (See the end of this thread post-Spoiler warning if you want to know what that Victory entails.) They can't deny that cheating by buying gil results in redistribution, results in "cutting in line", results in the destruction of the game taken to its logical conclusion. In the end, integrity to the extent it exists is the only salvation of the mmorpg genre having any value whtsoever.
The market will adjust to account for the failure to guard +0.5 against the blowing away of alleged available content. To the extent anyone is hampered by cheaters is the extent to which game content has been destroyed. It lessens the value consumers will voluntarily assign to the game. Because that is so, there is a *real* overwhelming undercurrent which will lead to mmorpg developers tightening "security" to ensure their content has "integrity" to ensure that their "content" exists at all.
Yes, the barbarians support gil buying, the destruction of civilization, and whatever else. These are the trolls we kill in movies like LOTR and games like FFXI. Yeah, they're gonna bring it on, and as usual, they're gonna lose. Material and Spiritual well being results from free trade cooperation, *rules* (note the Shakespearian triple, if not quadruple, entendre meaning) against theft.
The mass will not buy, will not play, the cheater rife games barbarians or any pipe dreaming corrupt mmorpg developers might develop and advocate. So what if they "support" gil buying? It's inescable for the mmorpg developers to by necessity of the sole foundation upon which they exist to support the opposite of "gil buying" precisely because the gamer consumer is looking to play a game. And soooooo`.......
Part of the entertainment is the forthcoming ideological, material, and conceptual defeat of the heathen "gil buyer" barbarians. Let them play the Beastmen as we play the Adventurers. To Victory!
(Hell yeah this thread is about much more than mere "gil buying". To the Gamer's Paradise (and all the B.-A./S. essays that inspires)! This is about annointing the barbarians by sword or gold, or both. ;p Even women and children, who want the luxury of being women and children, will rise against you.)
Spoiler Warning: /ma "Edit" <Post>
/p Yes, it's the one and only, suddenly taken much more suurrrilously ... Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, to the 2006 MonxDot, y'all, They Got Served Post, Yeah, at the beginning I was about to do that, but now I have done this, Recording. You just saw how I did it. So now you too, know how to get it on and get down.
Edited, Sun May 14 03:08:38 2006 by MonxDoT
