True there are rules and regulations to abide by.
It doesn't seem like they were heavily enforced in the past.
Its about time SE put their foot down.
I'm all for that as a gamer, and FFXI player.
But what I was refering is the difference of hating the person Vs. the business/practice/industry they are in.
These people are doing it to make a living.
You have to understand that.
Though I'm not agreeing their line of business is ethical since they are swindling from SE money by providing a service that should be considered illegal. Technically they are messing around with intelectual property that is not theirs.
Although we own a game, likewise with gold/gil sellers, the service still belongs to SE since they host on their servers. We only pay to use it.
What I was refering to is how easily they will get judged for doing the things they do. Thats what I meant by strippers because some people think they are bad people for what they do. I'm sure a lot of strippers or gold/gil sellers may or may not be proud of their line of business, but they do it to get by.
But I've talked to some strippers before through friends who are close with them, and they really are cool peoples.
All I'm saying if we're going to hate on something, we ought to hate the industry and those who lead & pave the way for a service that screws up our economy.
Now some of the sellers may actually indeed be those who lead and pave the way, but others might beg to differ.
Some people may have also indeed had contact with sellers, and as a result hate their guts. It may just also be a specific seller too.
Sellers are players too, so they can screw anyone over just like any of us can screw another person over.
Its a very iffy fine line between judging the person, or an actual line of business.
Heck if it were up to me, I'd shut those businesses down, lol.
Now you do have a point. There are regulations, and when you break those rules someone is bound to hate you.
I guess depending on the standpoint, people will say "I hate gold/gil sellers" which means the industry and all of them as a unit Vs. "I hate this damn seller named Kong Kong Bundy; I hope that seller gets body-slammed in on a hill of Meriphutaud Mts."
Ahh!! But to conclude, here is the thing to top it off.
For any person getting into drugs, stripping, selling gold/gil, robbing a bank, playing a game, getting drunk, etc.
As a person you take responsibilities for your own actions.
With actions come consquences.
As people, we all should know that if we get involved into something that people consider non-ethical, we will bound to get labeled as "one of them."
Its sort of like if you hang out with the bad crowd, you may be a good person, but you will get labeled and outcasted like the rest of them.
I'm sure we've heard all the old sayings in our younger school years about don't hang out with this crowd.
So in a sense, a gil-farmer who works for a gil-seller does in a sense take a hit. As a person he/she may not be a bad person, but they've got to accepted that people like us who play the game just don't flat out like them.
Why? Because they screw up our economy.
Euphacent said:
Strippers don't go into other people's bars and strip.
Bars have dress codes, which everyone must follow. MMO's have EULA's, which everyone must follow.
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