No please no.

A million times no, I rather have then hire 2-3 GM's to actually log in and play and manually ban spammers and bots.

First prove that the current way is not working?

Oh yeah, let's give the rich snobs, who somehow find pleasure in buying everything instead of achieving it, an advantage over everyone else.

Let me ask you this. If you buy everything, what is the point in playing the game? You achieve nothing. Congrats.

No.

No.
This wont work anyway. There are still goldsellers in GW2, they just undercut the official conversion rate.

Ban the gold spammers. Permanently, quick. With in-game masters (judging he acts lawfully) there's no mistake. Now by the time you go through a whole trial to judge who is selling gold and who isn't, it's the time they spammed it in chat several times. We need quick action! Said in the chat "buy gold at www..." BAN! There's absolutely no excuse to mistake that for a player and if innocents are banned they will appeal. Now that would give work since you need people there 24/7, or you can copy the other games. But something must be done! It's a game which involves players which are people, you can't automate everything! We need a proper Zenimax GM to maintain the game in-game. Maybe one person is too few for the amount of players but the quality it would give the game would make it stand up! NOT EVERYTHING IN LIFE CAN BE AUTOMATED.

it'll turn into rift p2w, except in the first month

Emphatic no.

Other than a subscription, I do not want to feel that I must do outside transactions or buy privilege from the game company in order to succeed at the game.

"buy gold at www.insertgoldsellingwebsitehere.com"
"hey guys, please don't buy gold, you just encourage the botters"

How do you want them to automatically determine which gets banned, and which dosen't?

It's great for people to suggest things like "automatically ban people advertising gold selling in chat", but these people seem not to think about how hard it is to avoid false positives. Especially when gold farmers are changing their spam to crap like:

|3uy Go|d today at \vv/\vv/\vv/ dot |3uyG0|d dot com for thirty dollar per 200 thousand go|d.

Doowie wrote: »

Because I work 5 days a week and have over 1,000euros extra a month to waste on crap, that makes me a snob? How about stop being jealous and being blind to the fact that even with a paid currency, pretty much 99% of us who have money wouldn't buy it anyway as I personally find the currency in ESO only useful for repairs!

I'd rather use that extra cash for nights out, vacations and buy new computers/games and other random crap that I normally end up selling a few months later because I don't use it anymore xD

However I agree with most people in this thread. Don't add ingame currency to be bought! You'll only end up with angry parents due to their kids getting hold of their credit card or PayPal information!

Is this where you try to pretend like you are the only one who works a 5 day a week regular job, and making "omg 1000 extra euros/month!!!!!"

Please. Spare me.

No, you clearly aren't the person I'm addressing.

I'm addressing little Johnny who doesn't attend school because his parents make more than enough money to set him up for life. He sits at home, buys everything in the game with real life money, and then proceeds to lord over the rest of the population until finally, we catch up months, maybe years later through hard work.

Please. Try not to be so narrow-sighted. While you might spend a couple bucks here and there to get a little more extra cash in game, though I still think that's ridiculous, don't be so naive as to think that other people won't spend thousands so that they can be top dog in a virtual world. It happens. And it ruins games.

Dumbest thing I ever read. You are clearly a gold seller's target audience.

Also tell me how current methods don't work? You report/ignore them, they get deleted.

The only thing that doesn't work with that is they merely repurchase the game to do it again. People like you open to pay to win style playing are what propagates the issue. They can afford to do it because people are using the service. Your answer is to open a game store to starve them? That would push this to free 2 play and make the problem worse a million fold.

There's two situations you are addressing here:

- People that work and play.
- People that don't work and play.

I most games, like LOTRO, you can speedup your actions in-game by using real life money. Say I work 6 days a week in an 8 hours shift, throw in the traffic time, family time, basic needs time and other obligations. Virtually I'd spare 2-4 hours a day to play ESO. So no matter how much I play, there will always be people with more advantages than me (it is cooperative but also a competitive game). This brings all kinds of trouble, to frustration to not being able to keep up with your friends/guild. Now if I work a lot I might as well spare money to buy let's see, an EXP accelerator. This would make up for the time. This is just the leveling situation. It's about being able to enjoy the game with few hours and put some extra money.

Now you have people that don't work and play, kids, rich people, retired people, benefits people, does not matter. This people can put at least 12 hours in the game which I'm doing in my holidays. So I'm able to harvest more, level more, do more things and enjoy my game time.

And the situation frustrating is the people that never work and can spend money. Is it the kids fault their parents worked hard or have money to him spare? Is the retired's oldie fault to have worked all his life and now spends his money in the game which makes him happy? Is wrong someone spends all their benefits and food stamp money in the game? The answer is, it doesn't matter. Some people have more time and/or money than others because they acquired legally/not legally or didn't acquire it.

How much is a person willing to put in the game? Time? Money? Share their account to be Emperor? The one who gives more whatever currency they have should get more of the game. I'm up for a in-game cash store IF THE SUBSCRIPTION IS DROPPED! In my experience, WOW makes *** cash compared to games like Wonderland Online and Perfect World, even if they are more *** than WOW. Asian cash shops are absolutely mental when is about money, just like their counterparts in the world, who is making more and faster? US or China? You know the answer.

The game will never have balance because no one will have same amount of money or same amount of time or same amount of people sharing their account as the other. It is impossible to keep pure balance!

Joolio wrote: »

How much is a person willing to put in the game? Time? Money? Share their account to be Emperor? The one who gives more whatever currency they have should get more of the game. I'm up for a in-game cash store IF THE SUBSCRIPTION IS DROPPED! In my experience, WOW makes *** cash compared to games like Wonderland Online and Perfect World, even if they are more *** than WOW. Asian cash shops are absolutely mental when is about money, just like their counterparts in the world, who is making more and faster? US or China? You know the answer.

So what about the people who work hard 5-6 day weeks, and don't have enough extra money to buy their way to the top? They are just out of luck? You're right. That's balanced. "WOW makes *** cash" lol...ok

Please. I really don't want to play a game where I get nickel and dimed to death.

The only thing this will do is put ZOS in a price war with the gold spammers. And it wouldn't be long before the value of gold is worthless, and the economy (what there is) is ruined.
The best we can do right now is just keep keep reporting and ignoring.