a decreasing population it also brings a Gold Sink of wealth leaving the game and decreased demand so a depression of prices. Have to ask is this long term or just a short down term. Time will tell.
Companies tend to be fine with this (see: Blizzard and selling WoW Subscription Tokens for gold). Their main problem with external gold sellers is they 1) encourage bots, and 2) tend to also hack peo
ZOS has actually done a really excellent job of limiting gold sellers in ESO. PC launch was plagued with them, but now they are almost nonexistent. They will always be around, in every MMO, but in ESO
Ignoring the issues and fair play it can effect within the game people need to understand that many gold sellers are also involved in crime. CCP Games did some great talks about this in their Fanfest
There were two fellas in The Rift chatting away in zone chat yesterday about how much money they purchased from gold sellers. One said that the website he buys from is touting 500k for 90 USD. Crazy.