Maybe they do not consider farming such an huge problem?
Or consider it even an advantage, but off course do not tell so in public because most players would not like it sooo much
Gold selling can keep people playing who would not bother with the grind, as long that does not impact gameplay too much, the company self claims to be against it (to pacify players) but only takes token steps against it it works out for them
Farmers are an problemif games have special items coming from one limited spawn, farmers then block other players from reaching that, but today most mmo's do not use that model anymore, you grind components from several sources and then "craft" the item for the most part, or grind cash like in Elite by trade, so the gold farmers do not "block ressources for other player" so there activity does not impact the game flow and can even be an interesting source of more players for an mmo company
There are many ways that work or not.
If Frontier benefits from it they would off course be stupid to state so in public, but stupid to fight it hard too.
And i think it would not have such an impact on gameplay in elite to outweight the benefit the ability to transfer cash has on the game, without it credits do become rather pointless as soon you made your first 150 millions.
You can outfit an t9 and from there on an 10 minute trade run nets over a million, so do the math.
Gold sellers would not make much money out of it, i doubt it would be very interesting for them
In wow or Eve the same applies, I never played Wow but in Eve buying an account or cash does not really help you in the long run, you lack the RL skills and knowledge to use that in game skills items and so on, you have to be in the know, have the connections and so on to benefit from it.
Yeah you can buy an pilot and Titan, but what do you do with it then? You need a fleet/guild to run it in, titans are fleet ships, not solo ships.
solo play in Eve is not very effective, so buying some ubah stuff does not really helps you.
Raid chars in Everquest at least too, you need a guild, you need a ton of knowledge to utilise it, you can single a few bigger obs, but there is not really an point in soloing with an raid char, they are specialised and effective in large groups., otherwise they are fancy, nothing more. eyecandy.
Or consider it even an advantage, but off course do not tell so in public because most players would not like it sooo much
Gold selling can keep people playing who would not bother with the grind, as long that does not impact gameplay too much, the company self claims to be against it (to pacify players) but only takes token steps against it it works out for them
Farmers are an problemif games have special items coming from one limited spawn, farmers then block other players from reaching that, but today most mmo's do not use that model anymore, you grind components from several sources and then "craft" the item for the most part, or grind cash like in Elite by trade, so the gold farmers do not "block ressources for other player" so there activity does not impact the game flow and can even be an interesting source of more players for an mmo company
There are many ways that work or not.
If Frontier benefits from it they would off course be stupid to state so in public, but stupid to fight it hard too.
And i think it would not have such an impact on gameplay in elite to outweight the benefit the ability to transfer cash has on the game, without it credits do become rather pointless as soon you made your first 150 millions.
You can outfit an t9 and from there on an 10 minute trade run nets over a million, so do the math.
Gold sellers would not make much money out of it, i doubt it would be very interesting for them
In wow or Eve the same applies, I never played Wow but in Eve buying an account or cash does not really help you in the long run, you lack the RL skills and knowledge to use that in game skills items and so on, you have to be in the know, have the connections and so on to benefit from it.
Yeah you can buy an pilot and Titan, but what do you do with it then? You need a fleet/guild to run it in, titans are fleet ships, not solo ships.
solo play in Eve is not very effective, so buying some ubah stuff does not really helps you.
Raid chars in Everquest at least too, you need a guild, you need a ton of knowledge to utilise it, you can single a few bigger obs, but there is not really an point in soloing with an raid char, they are specialised and effective in large groups., otherwise they are fancy, nothing more. eyecandy.
