Article on Cheating

[garmonbozia]

http://www.slate.com/id/2171993/

Decent read

[Editcross]

Decentish yes. Didn't really see the point though. Perhaps the article is for non-gamers?

[Revy]

It didn't catch my interest. So I didn't read the rest.

[MediaMisfit]

Duuuuuuuude that is hilarious. You can almost relate the practice of "Gold Farming" and what it did to the WoW economy to trends in the modern day economy. That's crazy.

[garmonbozia]

Yeah it's for casual or non-gamers. I didn't know about the wow and lineage stuff, so that was interesting to me.

[BANKS]

meh...

[Editcross]

People can make a killing gold farming if they work it like a 9-5. The hard part is actually trafficing the stuff. You can now roughly farm 600-800g in a day if you work at it with drops/mats and such. You could probably sell that for roughly $80-100 if you get a stupid buyer. In China they're paying people very little money to make tons in USD (since that's who usually buys the gold).

[Revy]

Bad Game

[Editcross]

Haven't played in two weeks.

[Revy]

Hopefully you aren't paying for it still then

[MediaMisfit]

It's like a mini eDaysOfOurLives. Oooooooooooo.....

*grabs ice cream and tissues

[pzykotic]

that might get taken a little more seriously if there weren't a Google ad on that page that asked if Dennis Kuccinich was going to be the next president.

[garmonbozia]

Slate's a pretty big deal.

[Zen]

The people that code cheats / farm gold etc. usually are not bad guys, it's the people that use their products and lie about it that are the problem. So I think calling the cheat developers racketeers and rapist is a bit overboard, they are just turning a buck where there is a market.

[pzykotic]

All I'll say is the next Harry Potter book is going to be called "denny kuccinich and a cold day in hell"

[Dwallace]

meh i liked that, reading about the gaming world around me is interesting

[pzykotic]

reading about the gaming world around me is interesting

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