Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:58 pm by Killa
Oh my Lord, that is sad. As some of you may know, I play RuneScape a lot because I only had a month free in World of Warcraft, and I just can't convince mom and pop to pay fifteen dollars a month to play. (I was lucky to become a member in RS.) Whenever I go to one of the free worlds to meet a friend, I always see people saying "Selling account, only five dollars." Or "Selling level 94 account on Ebay" which just pisses me off. But you have the same thing on Guild Wars. In Runescape, a character called Zezima is the number one player in the whole world, and I have seen his account for sale on Ebay for over 17,000 dollars and it had four or five bids on it. Now I never imagined that crime on MMOGs could ever get this bad. People in China are using "Sweatshops" for Liniege, WTF? So little kids come in and play L2 all day long just mining or something, and then they trade it with their boss in the game, then they get paid real money? At first it doesn't sound that bad, but the bosses are using them so unfair situiations don't get the best of them. In RS for example, if you are training your combat on the same kind of monster, not moving very much, not eating food to heal yourself, not moving your camera, not clicking, not talking will make what they call "Random Events" happen. This can range from a level 123 killer chicken to appear and attack you, or if you're mining or woodcutting the head of your hatchet or pickaxe can fly off. All of these were ment to stop "Autoers" or "Bots" from working. I knew that in any free online game that the virtual crime was bad, such as hacking where you can get someone's password and log into their account, take all their stuff that they worked months or even YEARS to get, only for someone to take it in two minutes.
Was sort of inevitable, I suppose.