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I type "wow" press down arrow press enter, look it's allakhazam! =D I would like to note that this is easier than the way I get to thottbot.com, type "thot" press down arrow, press enter. Obviously I do more work getting to thottbot than alla. =P

My point being, how hard can it be to type a few letters? How much energy does it really take? I mean I just typed all of this and haven't even broken a sweat yet! =D


Ahem...sorry about that, I'm really bored...anyway I just really don't see the point in boycotting anything as an individual ever, and if you want others to boycot thottbot you're most likely going to fail, since it's not hurting anyone to exist, and in fact all it does is help...never harm. Correct me if I'm wrong. =)

Haha. On the keyboard, press the down arrow key (located between the letters section and number pad section). =P

When you start typing in the address bar in your web browser does it not have a drop down menu of sites that you've been to beginning with those letters?

i personaly feel very very violated.. ige i view as the enemy, and i view them as just as bad as chinese or any other sweatshop farmers.
the reason for that is because ige are doing the same thing, sure they arnt as agressive about it (possibly) but what they are still doing is wrong, against the sprit and moral of Earning things in the world. if you buy gold then you might as well buy a level 60 charicter. both ways your damageing the game and damageing your experance of WoW. because we all know.. theres no excuse for not haveing a charicter past at least 30 by now.
eventhe most casual of gamer can be satisfied with the leveling curve of WoW.
unless they are a spoilt brat (age has nothing to do with it) who just wants to throw their money around and make things happen fast.

my stance on in game currency buying has allways been pretty negative, less in Linage 2 since if you lost everything due to someone attacking you, you had to either buy adena, start again as a level 1, or scrounge money off friends.. and usally they are too busy struggleing with their own financial probs within that game to help. so it was either quit or buy adena.

very informative, thank you.

Something else to chew on. eqprices is owned by IGE. They even have IGE ads all over their site. eqprices is registered to ogaming...Final nail in the coffin?

Registrant:
OGAMING NETWORK
Carnegie Tower
152 W. 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: EQPRICES.COM
Created on: 27-Jan-00
Expires on: 27-Jan-10
Last Updated on: 19-Jan-05

Administrative Contact:
BROYER, JM dns@ogaming.com
OGAMING NETWORK
Carnegie Tower
152 W. 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
United States
2122654900 Fax --
Technical Contact:
BROYER, JM dns@ogaming.com
OGAMING NETWORK
Carnegie Tower
152 W. 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
United States
2122654900 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.SITEPROTECT.COM
NS2.SITEPROTECT.COM

They eat babies.

They are goldsellers, meaning they sell online dollars for real life money. At 1st glace they may seem harmless, but when games like FFXI have their economy ruined by their hands, you would think twice before saying "Who Cares"

This thread got linked on Slashdot. Heh.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/161219&tid=209&tid=158

Personally, my main concern with Ige is their business practices. Though I disapprove of gold-selling (mainly because it completely ruined FFXI, which is much more susceptible to such things than WoW), I feel that denouncing Ige just for that removes other reasons to dislike them.

I just did a google search for (sell gil FFXI) (used FFXI because again, it's more established and pronounced there), and looked at the search results. The first three sites that offered to sell accounts too had identical prices and the same account listed first on Unicorn. This suggests to me that those non-ige sites are just fronts for ige, whether by their intent, or the intent of the other site hosts. The sites I looked at were ige, virdaq, and mysupersales (posted for verification/clarification by people who know their way around hosting info etc. My check was quick and dirty). If these sites are seprate sites who are referring ige, not ige's fault. If they are in fact owned by ige, this suggests fradulent practices to cover up a monopoly.

I find Allakhazam's revalation of a buyout ttempt particularly interesting. Was this before or after they attempted to appear "sanctioned" by this site, by buying half (rough estimate) the ad space on your ad hoster?

So, having established ige's apparent policy of assimilating competition/advertising sources (pending verification), we have a better stance for referecing the selling practices themselves without relying on them solely to win the point.

As has been mentioned, many gil-sellers out there may or may not be directly employed by ige. However, ige acts as an enabler. Suppose gil-farming group X is completely on their own; they need to have a way of moving their gil, and in a market of many small groups, that means commpetition to get noticed. They probably cannot move that much gil, because any buyer will have to choose between them and the large number of people/sites/accounts like theirs.

Add in ige, a centralized site. To those who want to buy gil, ige becomes a go-to site, due to their size and advertising. Because of their ability to move gil, ige is willing and able to buy it from the farmers, allowing them to focus on harvesting, without worrying about how they'll profit from it. In this sense ige is indeed employing more gil-farmers than it may seem. This easy payoff allows gil-farming to flourish, causing the glut of gil-farmers currently seen on FFXI. This basically keeps regular players out of most of the profitable methods of making gil, forcing them to watch AH prices rise higher and higher, and face a difficult decision.

NOTE: I have used FFXI here because it is much more susceptible. WoW's binding of items, plus Diablo II-esque item system places less emphasis on having specific items (and those items that do have emphasis are usually BoP) and thus less emphasis on having the gold for those items. Instancing, and having profitable vendor trash, are also good steps against gil-selling. I do not believe we are completely immune, though.

IGN is not IGE

I'm pretty sure Cosmos is not owned by IGE. And the utility for uploading data to thottbot is cosmos. So we don't have anything to worry about them getting any information that won;t be used on Thottbot. The Cosmos team is not corrupt. So there is nothing bad about uploading thottbot data. You're not contributing to IGE at all. You are actually just taking away bandwidth which costs money, in turn taking away thier money.

It may be owned by IGE but I bet it's the same people behind it.

One other thing. IGE owning thottbot is actually a good thing. They are a big company and what not. They have the money to support the thott servers. So no more of those week data backups.

Edited, Wed Feb 16 11:05:35 2005 by Extabyte

.... Yea, we're talking about IGE.