PoE Real money pros and cons

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Charan wrote:

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Yxalitis wrote:

I posted this on the D3 forums ages ago, same applies here:

...it takes a devastating lack of life-priorities to spend a large sum of money on a virtual commodity totally contained within the confines of another commodity that cost far less.

An item explicitly stated as never actually belonging to you, to which you have no rights, except as grudgingly granted by the game publishers.

An item which can be deleted, banned, changed, modified, or made worthless by changes to the balance or stats of the item.

And yet, we see amulets sold for 1.6 billion gold, or $800 real actual dollars.

A weeks income for a lot of people..on one set of imaginary pixels that give a moderate increase in the ability to kill different types of pixels, in a game.

But that's the game we have, and whatever I may say or think, nothing will stop people spending enough money to feed a family for a fortnight on some in-game item.

Sorry, I find that sad, and pathetic.

Thank you for reading...

Can't say I disagree, but I'm trying to decide if my Diamond Kiwi, which is a virtual commodity totally contained within the confines of another commodity that cost far less (the game itself is free, after all) falls under this.

Or if you silver kiwi does.

If not, perhaps it'd be best to stipulate that you're speaking specifically of in-game items that have some impact on the game itself. This is implicit in your 'made worthless by changes to the balance or stats' given that the kiwi is already worthless in that regard.

So if we're talking purely cosmetically, which is more tragic, I wonder: $100 for a little bird that does nothing in-game, or $100 for a costume for a character in a game? Because until I found PoE/GGG, I would have laughed myself stupid at the thought of paying that much money for a character's costume, even in a free to play game.

What's the difference though? This is, of course, hypothetical: we didn't really do it for the kiwi, we did it to support GGG. Perhaps I felt no need to support, say, gPotato, even though they also offered their game for free and relied on a cash shop for income.

...And here's where I can surprise even myself and realise why this is all totally on-topic: that other game also had blatant pay to win items in its cash shop. The game got some money out of me but never on a $100 item that did NOTHING, let alone a $1000 one.

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kapitankapusta wrote:

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Yxalitis wrote:

yeah kids have 'small penors' i dont get your point ... you just missed the entire premise of my post... btw nice name CaptainCabbage lol

I was referring to those "rich" guys shutting up children with their "5g" to compensate their small stuff. There are plenty of ways to spend that so called "pocket money" and I would call buying a advantage in a video game to proof your point is not necessarily the best.

And yeah gotta love dem cabbage :D

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Yxalitis wrote:

You both DO know the difference,e we both contributed to the development of a game, we didn't buy the Kiwis, we got those as rewards for helping the developers.

$100 for a game, that's not too far off the mark, after all I paid $60 for Diablo 3.

To me that's a once-off "purchase" price for PoE.

That is NOT what this post is a bout, and funny enough, you know it too...

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Yxalitis wrote:

...it takes a devastating lack of life-priorities to spend a large sum of money on a virtual commodity totally contained within the confines of another commodity that cost far less.

An item explicitly stated as never actually belonging to you, to which you have no rights, except as grudgingly granted by the game publishers.

An item which can be deleted, banned, changed, modified, or made worthless by changes to the balance or stats of the item.

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Charan wrote:

Actually I thought it worth pointing out the difference before someone more likely to do so in a vehement manner can pounce.

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Punkonjunk wrote:

I don't like the implication that buying items means only the rich are victorious.
When you work 80 hours a week, it's hard to find time for a game.
so, your richness might be higher, but your time to play is lower, which sucks, and puts you at a disadvantage over the people who may not have as much money, but can afford to multibox 8 hours a day.

So it goes both ways.

At least we can all be glad, at least right now, no known dupe methods exist. Any currency changing hands is being generated via playing.