A different approach to RMT

dennissomb16_ESO

Bored, figure servers will be down for 8+ hours, had a different thought for RMT. We all hate the bots/hackers/gold sellers. Unfortunately one thing is true, people buy gold so these parasites exist to ruin every MMO at release. Commonly the main thing people buy with gold is crafting materials and gear with of course the occasional need depending on game for horse, housing, doesn't matter

Some companies like GW2 let player buy gold from them (GW2 you buy "gems" which you simply turn into gold). In the end this does nothing to stop the bots since the gold farmers simply sell the gold cheaper.

So why not have ESO simply have a store that sells what people want for money. No option to buy gold, but buy mats, horses, gear, you name it. Let them spend their money. If these players want to spend money, do it authorized by ESO, gut the gold market.

I know people always go to the "pay to win sucks" card, but the players are doing it anyway and honest players suffer because of bots, changes that effect players not botters (boss loot drop nerf as example). Personally I could care less if someone is V10 before me, running around in shiny gold gear with 200 horses. That has zero effect on me (I realize PvP is slightly different)

Anyway, just a different thought to fill the server downtime. What I really want is for ESO to fix the client side crap, hire more GMs, buy some BI software and data mining software and blow every hacker/botter/gold buyer out of the game every single day

nerevarine1138

No.

Giving in to the gold-sellers doesn't stop the problem, it just makes them try to undercut the developer's prices. The only way to fix bots is the way they're currently going about it: monitor the bots, break the bots, fix the client and ban. Lather, rinse, repeat. The only permanent fix for bots is for lazy players to stop cheating. But since that isn't going to happen, we'll all have to live with bots, just like every other MMO community.

Falmer

Personally, My fix would be to have NO player-to-player exchange of gold or equipment other than through the banking system with alts.

Make an actual economy within the games system of NPC merchants. They would buy and sell the player acquired equipment.

Make it impossible for one player to transfer gold to another players account except through this system. If people have purple equipment, then they sell it to a NPC vendor. That NPC vendor then sells the equipment to players. Prices, of course, would be adjusted to make this worthwhile to both parties.

Its basically an "auction house" but the NPCs will handle the pricing. Make it real 'supply and demand' pricing too. If there are already 100+ purple recipes of mudcrab pie in the system and only 2 have been sold in the past 24 hours, then the price they will pay drops dramatically. Likewise, if there is only a single 'Sword of Mudcrab bane' in the system and this item is always scooped up in under a minute, then the price they charge dramatically increases.

Without the ability to acquire gold except through actual game assets and not players, there would be no bots or gold spammers.

StoneSilence

Officially selling gold or items is the same. So I think you answered your own question:

If ESO start selling items you can get with game gold for real money, then the gold sellers will just sell gold cheaper, it will make sense to buy gold from the gold sellers and then use the gold to get the item in-game.

Aeradon

If I may, make everything purchased BoP to prevent effects on the economy.

dennissomb16_ESO

StoneSilence wrote: »

Officially selling gold or items is the same. So I think you answered your own question:

If ESO start selling items you can get with game gold for real money, then the gold sellers will just sell gold cheaper, it will make sense to buy gold from the gold sellers and then use the gold to get the item in-game.

True, but if you were a gold buyer (burn in hell!!) and you wanted for example 1000 voidstone ore, and you choice was buy it from eso for $10 (making up numbers) or buying enough bannable gold for $8, you may think twice. The correct answer of course is neither, but I am bored, and who knows something interesting may come of this heh