GetImOliver
12-20-2005, 05:16 PM
First off, I have to rant and say that I am 100% against any kind of this activity in an MMO. Buying money offline, or essentially paying anything extra to recieve in-game MMO benefits is plain wrong.
Somewhere in the latest issue of Gamepro magazine was an ad for some powerlevelling and money buying company. I don't remember the name of the company, although I did read it about three times just to make sure I was reading what I thought I was reading. Sure enough, smack dab in the middle of one of the biggest magazines about games had an ad promoting all of this crap. I simply could not believe they were endorsing something not just morally wrong but even illegal . Surely they know nearly all user end license agreements prohibit any kind of this activity. More than just that, though, many people will use the services based only on that ad. "Oh it's not wrong, Gampro had an ad for it!" as I strangle their pimply little pale necks. I'm simply disguisted that games where no one can have an advantage due to non-game reasons could be so horribly corrupted and endorsed by main-stream media.
There won't be any big parent support for this kind of cause. The ad didn't feature naked women or swear words so they could care less. Now if they want to shut little Timmy up about his hard times in Everquest they can just buy him a few thousand platt for Christmas. I know fellow moral MMOers know this rant and probably sick and tired of it, but when it goes this far I can't help but post about it.
rant = over
Somewhere in the latest issue of Gamepro magazine was an ad for some powerlevelling and money buying company. I don't remember the name of the company, although I did read it about three times just to make sure I was reading what I thought I was reading. Sure enough, smack dab in the middle of one of the biggest magazines about games had an ad promoting all of this crap. I simply could not believe they were endorsing something not just morally wrong but even illegal . Surely they know nearly all user end license agreements prohibit any kind of this activity. More than just that, though, many people will use the services based only on that ad. "Oh it's not wrong, Gampro had an ad for it!" as I strangle their pimply little pale necks. I'm simply disguisted that games where no one can have an advantage due to non-game reasons could be so horribly corrupted and endorsed by main-stream media.
There won't be any big parent support for this kind of cause. The ad didn't feature naked women or swear words so they could care less. Now if they want to shut little Timmy up about his hard times in Everquest they can just buy him a few thousand platt for Christmas. I know fellow moral MMOers know this rant and probably sick and tired of it, but when it goes this far I can't help but post about it.
rant = over