i agree

So then what are they going to do about all the vendors?
What about repairs?
Feeding your horse?
Buying bank space?
Using the guild stores?

Your idea is terrible and won't accomplish anything. Something else will replace the gold as currency and that would be the target of bots and gold spammers and that would still be sold via RMT.

This would make no difference to gold sellers, instead they would farm crafting mats more (which they already do) and focus on selling them for real money. You'd be replacing gold sellers with mat sellers.

babylon wrote: »

Sure. I have a stack of ripe apples left to feed my horse.

I recognize your sarcasm from other threads lol. There could be an apple orchard just outside of town...you go collect some apples and feed your horse.

Just because there has always been gold in MMO's...doesn't mean it has to stay that way.

Apart from the simple fact that gold-sellers are no longer sending me mail spam about buying in game gold for real money, they are now offering me motifs and crafting improvement items for real money.

If there was an apple orchard, you can bet they would sell apples for real money to people who couldn't be bothered to go collect them.

I don't craft as I find it takes too long to find the correct items in order to make something and you end up with an inventory and bank full of items that you cant use so I just sell materials. If I choose to craft I just buy what I need using gold.

Currently I use gold to buy soul gems to charge my weapons, I've bought larger inventory bags and more spaces in the bank, I pay to repair my armour and weapons, I sometimes pay to fast travel if I cant be bothered to find a wayshrine, I buy consumables like repair kits and potions (although potions really don't help much in combat) and I'm also saving for a horse as they're quite expensive.

Removing gold wont resolve the issue as all the farmers will do is start farming other items and we'll be back to square one! Other MMOs have gold farmers and still have an in game currency system its just that they've found a better way of managing it and I think Zenimax will find a way too.

@deggar13b16_ESO

Read more carefully, please. EVERYTHING is BoA/BoP. Gold Farmers will have NOTHING to trade with players for RMT goods.

How about we just shut down the servers? Then we certainly show those bots who the boss is.

Seriously. Without money/trading I can just play Skyrim.

@driosketch I don't see how any of your conclusions follow from making Gold/Items BoA/BoP. And most crafters I know personally would love to have a true ability to do all the crafts. And, GW2 has neatly solved the crafting materials banking problem already.

tangorn wrote: »

DamitJanit wrote: »

It really would fix the gold spamming issues, and as far as the things like.... apples (lol) theres no reason there couldnt be a work-around, they could put apple trees in and we could pick the apples to feed our horses. And for people who dont enjoy crafting, they could trade for things they need/want. I think its a fabulous idea!

There are two ways to go.
1. No trading allowed whatsoever. What are you going to do with the gold claymore that you picked up from the boss drop then if you only have staff wielders? Roll a 2h toon?
2. Trading is allowed, just with no gold, old fashion natural trades. Then what would happen is that some cheap and abundant items (like your apples, or maybe oranges) will become a universal currency, all prices will be in apples, so that you can compare this claymore with some nice staff better than you can apples and oranges. Result - gold sellers replaced by apple sellers.

Now, where is my stash of bottle caps...

1. you have an auction house, guild stores and NPC stores
you can still sell claymore to NPC store, guild store or put up got auction and still make good dough - provided someone is willing to pay for it

you saying you can't make in game gold this way?
works for lots of MMO's out there

2. there is still the possibility of trading worms/crawlers for items and behind the scenes (out of game a money transfer is done) - you have identified said person prior to sale and then exchange useless stuff for expensive stuff

this is not going to work

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

And finally another absurd post appears , it been a while since i saw something like hehe.

This sentence is absurd. Lol

ez2k.stoobzzub17_ESO wrote: »

what would happen if they just take gold out of the game completely? Make it so that all things must be crafted. This would mean that you could no longer buy anything. No gold=No gold sellers? Come to think of it...the only time, and I mean ONLY time I spend money is to fix my armor. Thoughts?

You bring something quite interesting to the table... I'm actually not opposed to this. I'm about 99.9% sure that this would never happen, but the idea is something that I think should be tested.

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

So then what are they going to do about all the vendors?
What about repairs?
Feeding your horse?
Buying bank space?
Using the guild stores?

Your idea is terrible and won't accomplish anything.

The vendors is something that would have to be considered... BUT...

-Repairs... allow players to conduct repairs, I can craft so I should be able to fix it.

-Feeding horses... there is plenty of food to be found, I could find or prepare food for my horse.

-Bank space... not sure on this, maybe skill points, or some other interesting method. (as far as bag upgrades, let players craft their own bigger bags - the larger the bag the more rare material required)

-Guild stores... instead of ESO implementing mini AH's within guilds which is an idea I'm not fond of (I would certainly prefer a server wide AH even though there may be some disadvantages). They could turn it into a Guild trade hub instead. eg: List items you have, and which items you're looking for.

Just ideas...