Horse, and respec.

Errywon noz Breton #1

Mablung wrote: »

HandofBane wrote: »

The excuses I have heard in the past tend to be either "I don't have time to farm gold myself" or "I just want to play the game, not grind". Neither justifies the purchase of gold, and both come across as someone trying to make themselves the victim of the game punishing them for being too casual in their playtime.

The most enraging replies have been "Well, I work hard in real life, why can't I use that money to be equal in game?" No, you want to play a game, you play it by the inherent rules put in place, which include no forking over RL cash for ingame currency (some F2P games aside).

And for the record, every single person in any of my guilds who admitted to buying gold in that game no longer had a guild by the end of that day.

I read this in Sylvester Stallones Judge Dredd voice and ended it with 'I am the LAW!'

Dammit, now I want the ability to create an automatic text macro to /say that every time I use Silver Bolts....

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@Laughter Song‌

Please stop spamming the same post in various threads. It's obnoxious with all of those videos.

The content is also obnoxious as well. You think gold buyers are "kids using mommy's credit card?" That's ridiculous. Gold buyers are busy adults who don't have any sense of morality in video games because that concept is silly.

It's a video game, stop treating it like life.

I have no idea why people buy gold, especially in this game.

Sad individuals indeed.

I do not care what anyones reason is to buy gold outside the game from goldsellers and bots which is one of the most common pains in most MMOs.

If you buy gold from goldsellers with your money, you do not only create MORE goldfarmers/bots, but you also violate the contract you signed to be allowed to use this service called ESO.

Not only do I hope that Zenimax finds you somehow and removes your account at once.

I also hope you stay the hell away from these games, because people who buy gold IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE FOLDFARMERS/SELLERS.

Just the question alone, that you needed to know if anyone was interested in this, is....why the HELL should anyone WANT to add more problems to the game and, like in WoW, you can buy a full geared, raidready highlvl for real money......

I understand why those who enjoy what WoW has come to, would like this.

BUT ESO....Why even CONSIDER buying anything for real money that you didnt earn yourself in the game, which IS the game. Why are you even playing a game that is MENT to be "hard". I would say not easy and anyone gets everyone like other MMO. But sure, call it "hard", even if there are BIG Successful MMOs that is hard in nature.

Loligo wrote: »

I'll admit to having bought gold in EQ and WoW and the reasoning was the same for both.

I started EQ about 3 months after release. By then, the n00b zones were already filled with twinked alts. Still, I didn't buy gold right away. I played for about 4 months before I started encountering grief in two formats: first, I'd get rejected for groups because my gear wasn't all twinked out hand-me-downs from alts; and second, because idjits would farm the decent lowb gear in order to sell it. I felt that left me with the choice of farming coppers like a serf until I could afford farmed gear, or just go buy some gold from a gold farmer and buy the gear that people expected I should have. I chose the latter. Frankly, it is my opinion that the other players forced this decision. Yes, I could have sucked it up with crap gear, but let's be honest here... if you weren't a necro, magician, or druid, EQ was a pretty sucky solo game. I won't debate the merits of a choice I made 15 years ago. I offer this only for an illustration of my thoughts at the time.

In WoW, I started at burning crusade, and ASSUMED it was going to be all twinks all the time, and assumed it would be at least EQ difficult. So I bought gold to start. I regretted the waste of money immediately, as WoW was so incredibly easy it was unnecessary.

It was in WoW that I really noticed how gold selling really impacts the game in a negative way, with bots running around hogging everything. As long as you stuck to quested gear, you were fine though.

After that, I've never done it. The gold bots really do wreck the play experience, and if the game is properly set up, it should be impossible for farmers to c**kblock other players by locking down gear like you could with warrior crafted armour in EQ.

Interesting post. I to played EQ from start, with a total of about 10 years playing the game.

I am puzzled that someone wanted stuff because of "other people" or whatever reason. How did you have the patience for 5-10 mins loading time between zones? How did you have any patience to do much at all, because "solo" was very hard for most in EQ, and not just at start, but for quite many years.

Did you reach level 50? which was the highest lvl before kunark when it raised to 60? Where did your patience come from when it took 3-6 MONTHS to reach highest level, even for those with groups?

Your statement that you got kicked from groups for not having enough gear MAY be true if you tried to group at a much higher level place then your current level. OR you did not even try to get a group more then a few times.

Getting groups was never a big problem in EQ. Getting a tank, or a healer, for the group, that was the main problem fram start and I think it still is?

As for soloing, first of all, it wasn't the most effective way to get exp, unless you count quad kiting for wizards and druids. If you played EQ as you state, you know exactly what Quad kiting was. Shamans and Necros where also decent at soloing, but FAR less exp then groups.

What level in EQ did you reach before stoped playing it?

Also, if you played EQ longer then a year, you would know the community there and there was NO goldsellers/buyers at that time. It was E-bay.

IF you played for a year or more, you would know that the community on each server outed morons who sold their account. This way, the buyer of the account found themselves not getting invited by any proper guilds at all.

Also, they where the laughing subject both in game and on the forums.

EQ is a PRIME example who US players are the best defense at these people who for whatever reason I can not understand...want to play a game, but dont really want to play it and rather buy the stuff they need to play for to get otherwise.

I had submitted very nice posts with various links and imbedded Videos of bots flying through zones etc., videos of the bot programs and how easy it is to purchase and/or use bot programs and every single Video and thread were removed.

So apparently telling and showing the truth are not allowed in ESO.

Drazticulous wrote: »

100g per skill point USED is not bad.... it makes you really want to THINK about how you want to play instead of just doing cookie cutter respec every time a new patch comes out for balance.

I think you have that backwards. It's makes you go look for cookie cutter builds exactly because it's expensive. Who wants to experiment when respec cost is so high, better go with something that's already tested.

Bags yes that is a huge one, bags here cost a ton and I wish instead of paying gold to the 'game' it was crafted so players could earn a living!