WoW question: chinese farmers or bots?

[ksuohio]

yup...

although I could see how this works out well if you leave in a dorm and your roommate plays but is on a break or something..

One of my close friends exchanged passwords with me. If I ever want help, I will log one of his toons on my laptop and then play on my computer. He's always borrowing my mage for food and water.

[Timman_24]

Yup, mages are the game's vending machine. My friend always gets assualted in IF for food, drink, whatever. I wouldnt be surprised if half the people in the game buy gold online. Everyone I see has the craziest items. Also prices are real high on even trivial things, suggesting the game has too much gold flowing around. Hard to keep up legitimately .

[kbw]

Well the thing to do when you come across a Chinese farmer is for you and your friends to tag every thing in site so that the farmer gets no loots, then follow him around for a while steal killing every thing he comes across and maybe pull some mobs on him if you get bored.

[slavik]

here's an idea ...

create a game where getting gold is difficult and you need a lot of it for rare items ... set up a company to sell ingame gold, since you are the developer, adding gold to your accounts is a quick trip to Mr. Database. Hide this from everyone ese and you're done.

Nobody would be able to match your prices, you can even make your game free and it is nothing big that a developer team won't be able to handle by themselves.

kinda like EA did (still does?) with one of the Ultima games by offering premade characters.