The real cost of buying game money
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Posted on: 2011-05-26 24:51 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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To be fair, the President's job is never to be scary.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Why does it matter. He's not someone scary like Mike Tyson or Chuck Norris.
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so we pay to do an activity that prisoners are forced to do in communist countries. im gonna get stared on my waterboarding resort and home testicle car battery massage system, who wants in on early investment?
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No offense taken. In the very next sentence you didn't quote I admitted it was naive. Since we both agree there is no disputing it then we are good.|
Originally Posted by Pampl
It's a good thing no one was disputing that, then.
Are you familiar with the phrase, "if wishes were horses then beggars would ride?" I think it's pretty relevant here. Wishing that people would stop buying game money does nothing to solve this, no matter how hard you wish. edit: re-reading this, it sounds snottier than I meant. No offense was intended. |
Of course, Jophiel hit it on the nail best. If it wasn't virtual goods it would be something else they were using that slave labor for.
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Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And getting a blister on the thumb or forefinger is slave labour?
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Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb...
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Originally Posted by Solo_One
so we pay to do an activity that prisoners are forced to do in communist countries. im gonna get stared on my waterboarding resort and home testicle car battery massage system, who wants in on early investment?
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The game is a somewhat different system than RL. It's not necessarily true that what works for one open ended system is the best choice for a different system.
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Originally Posted by Pampl
Don't want to get all political, but I think the history of prohibition and legalization of alcohol and other drugs show how faulty this reasoning is. Driving an activity underground means that the underground can use that activity to subsidize itself. Organized crime was the real winner from alcohol prohibition and the Mexican drug mafias are the real winners from the war on drugs. If you want Chinese gold farms to be driven out of existence, then you need to offer a legit alternative, not just moralize in louder tones.
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Epic!
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Originally Posted by Solo_One
so we pay to do an activity that prisoners are forced to do in communist countries. im gonna get stared on my waterboarding resort and home testicle car battery massage system, who wants in on early investment?
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Compared to what? Would their beatings be less severe if they were making those shoes you are wearing and fell behind quota?
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Originally Posted by Demobot
Agreed, Chaos. That sounds like so much fun.
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You're one of this planet's 'special people'. Hopefully you're the last one ever |
Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Cool. prisoners get to play MMOs inside instead of back breaking real mining.
I'm ok with that. |
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Thanks, I'll take that how I please.
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Originally Posted by TheJazMan
You're one of this planet's 'special people'. Hopefully you're the last one ever
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That's fine and good for victimless crimes. I think the main debate is over what one considers "victimless." Obviously, it cannot be extended in general. I mean, murder is illegal, and hitmen are really expensive. If we just made murder legal, would that mean there'd be no more need for hitmen? There is the concept of the cure being worse than the disease.|
Originally Posted by Pampl
Don't want to get all political, but I think the history of prohibition and legalization of alcohol and other drugs show how faulty this reasoning is. Driving an activity underground means that the underground can use that activity to subsidize itself. Organized crime was the real winner from alcohol prohibition and the Mexican drug mafias are the real winners from the war on drugs. If you want Chinese gold farms to be driven out of existence, then you need to offer a legit alternative, not just moralize in louder tones.
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In my opinion, such is the case of RMT. I don't want anyone doing it. Not NCsoft, not Chinese gold farmers, not "Johns" who buy the stuff. I don't have any power over the Chinese gold farmers. As for the Johns, I'm not too worried; most of them learn why RMT is bad the hard way. However, NCsoft I do have at least some power over as a paying customer, and hoping that most people agree with me to the extent that they won't do it. Moreover, NCsoft also has pseudo-police powers in the matter in that they are able to directly address the RMT problem through mechanics to make it difficult to near impossible to do, and banning accounts that engage in the practice.
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They get beaten if they do not meet their quotas, I read that article on the paper itself and was not surprised.
I am saddened that the industry is having difficulty preventing this altogether, the market for it is ridiculous.
It is slave labour, no matter how you look at it, and should be quashed.
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Originally Posted by zombie man
play?
Play??? Really?? You're going to call forced repetitive clicking 'play'? Really? That's like calling back breaking real mining 'exercise.' |
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Only 6-8 hours? What does Perfect_Pain have to say about this? I'm pretty sure she plays her MMO(s) for 25 hours a day.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
(insert random MMO here) playing at night for 6-8 hours per sitting.
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Forcing somone to play WoW? Ill take the physical work or the beatings instead.
Very unpleasant mess all around though.
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