Gil Farmers: Evil or Good?Follow

Gil selling for a career is a lot like telemarketing for a career. Have at it, have fun, pull your paycheck, but you better be prepared to be hated with visceral force by most of the public you come in contact with while pulling your paycheck.

I'd understand if the pay for gilselling was spectacular, but it's not, it sucks. Final verdict, gilsellers are simply too lazy to go out and get real jobs, and would rather sit around and farm monotonously for days on end, going slowly insane.

***** 'em.

Well, I don't help them I just so happened to have come across an oppurtunity to party with them, and in my blissfull ignorance I didn't realize that they were gillsellers. In fact I've really only just learned of this and am starting to hate them and do the usual ignore and get real mad at the Redapple group for taking my logging spots in Gheslba OP.

But if the pay really sucks I have to agree why do it, but I don't really know the pay off for it.

~Ram

I'd like you to keep in mind that people sell crack to kids as a full time job, so this point is rather moot

to elaborate my point, gil farmers(or sellers if you prefer) are breaking the ToS by making money off of the game

on the same token, crack dealers are obviously breaking the law

in the case of gil sellers, are breaking the "law of the game" so really it is all the same thing

btw, my vote is evil, for both gil farmers, and crack dealers

For me anyway, the issue with gilsellers isn't the fact that they're occupying the same space, farming the same mobs, mining the same points etc. When I'm farming, I couldn't care less is another player is doing the same thing, and the same goes for any helm activity like logging, mining, harvesting etc.

The issue isn't the fact that they're there, it's the hell they wreak with the concept of fair play.
I can't think of a better analogy, but say you and two other people are playing a game of whack the gopher. You know, those games they have at arcades, with the mallets and the plastic gophers.
If the three of you stand there and try to get as many as you can, on an individual basis, you're probably going to get about the same amount; more or less accoding to reflexes and skill. But it'll work out about even, because it's just a game, no one is making life or death of it, and you can have a good time.

Now, the guy who whacks gophers for MONEY.
He stands there day and night at the machine, whacking gophers. He learns more about the pattern of the gopher pops than any passerby that just wants to play the damn game is going to have. When someone else comes to PLAY that game, oh, you can bet our paid gopher-smacker is going to be unreasonably aggressive about it, and throw in dirty tactics if he thinks he can.
Well, if you're still getting too many of his gophers, he'll bring a friend along next time, and they'll both work against you, hovering over every possible pop.
Eventually, everyone else gets sick of playing what has become a non-game. There might be a few that take some joy in beating him at his own game, but not many. Most don't find it worth the stress.

I know you're prolly following me, so I'll just leave it at that. They make the game extremely non-fun, and that's my quarter they're pissing me off on. What's worse is that I know it WOULD be fun, if the paid gopher-whacker would go find another game to play. But day in and day out, there he is.