pawnchito wrote:people didnt post on forums about trading money for gold in wow yet i made several real life benjamins by trading them. now its even easier with the paypals and venmos and bitcoins. people will absolutely always pay to win if they make enough to be able to afford luxuries. the hardcores pay with time in game, the rich folk pay with work money.
I mean like really real life money transactions are so prevalent they had fucking people in jail earning that keep. Like dude life finds a way or something is all im saying.
Crazy take but this type of game would be perfect for NFTs. Could you imagine, trade some eth for a 500+ anvil.
also, if you were a part of black market you think people would go to the official forums and advertise that? I know if i was selling contraband the first place id let people know about it is the "establishment" website.
Yes you did see them post in forums, yes they did leave evidence behind it was blatantly obvious and in plain sight.
There is no evidence that ever happened in this game. You are positing pure conjecture based on experience from a completely different MMO.
You also had to invent a non-argument to target in order to try and validate your own argument (I.E. this was already a problem so lets make it more of a problem) when in reality this idea is terrible and Sub-tokens damaged a market that had not yet been damaged by ptw. Regardless of whether 1 or 2 people used IRL money, the majority of market affairs prior to sub-tokens were done between in-game items that had no relevance to real money.
Sub-tokens changed that irregardless of any "prove the negative" or "false dichotomy" fallacies you can muster.