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I have always had a sick fascination with browzing the various sites that sell game stuff, podering what kind of people would pay hundreds of dollars for items and cash. I kind of forgot about all that for awhile, noticing the Yantis IGE banners, the site take-overs and so forth, but not paying much attention.

BUT TODAY, I thought, I wonder what is happening over on PLYRAWK.com, so I browsed over there, and LO AND BEHOLD, Fennon ro auction had only 44 items (used to be 300 plus), YANTIS is gone, and the bottom has fallen out of PP prices.

So have Yantis IGE become so successful they dont need old PA.com anymore? Fennon ro seems to still have good population. Could it be that the 'buy my success' crowd has moved on to other trendy games??

what do you think is going on here, guys, I am amazed.

I've always wanted to get a peak at Yantis' sales figures. I have no idea if he manages to sell elemental equipped druids for $700, but that's a huge profit considering he would offer most people about $40 for that character.

Like Jophiel I have no explanations, but Stromm is down from 20 pages to less than a full one on PA. I guess it's just like the others.

Yantis advancing above these sites is all I can think of. It's like a small, private business selling things on Ebay to augment their store sales. Once they become successful and begin to grow significantly, they will probably forget miniscule Ebay profits.

I want to open a platinum selling business. ***** college.

You, sir, are what is wrong with the gaming world today.

Yeah I also agree...

And I also go out of my way and NEVER group with noobs who sell/buy items/pp/chars with real money. It just destroys the whole idea of EQ. If I find out that someone is in a group and cheated like that, then I either boot them or I get the group leader to boot.

Grulkraad has essentially answered this:

In Grulkraad's defense, he is doing something that, while against the EULA, SOE clearly has no intention of stopping. Moreover, SOE is obviously thinking of getting involved in just this kind of activity themselves.

In a world as diverse as ours, it is a fanciful notion that rules can be enforced solely by an honor system. There will always be someone who violates them for personal gain. There are even more people who will do so when there is clearly no enforcement.

Ethics aren't game-world specific unless you are roleplaying. It's hard to imagine someone roleplaying a Yantis Plat farmer. While I might (and do) fault Grulkraad's ethics, I primarily blame SOE for failure to enforce their own rules to the detriment of the game and its playerbase.

Joph, I find that comment to be a tad hurtful. Like I have said before, I have only intentionally trained people 2 times total, and that was with EXTREME provocation. I am not trying to be inflammatory by any means, merely telling the truth. I think what you said was pretty -f-ed up actually.

I think a lot of other people sell PP as well, and I don't feel that it is such a big deal. While it is a violation of the EULA and proper ethics and all, it is something that is here to stay. I don't mind making money off of something I myself would NEVER do. I think making PP in game is too damn easy to ever to have to resort to such methods.

Can you elaborate on the meat pickle thing there Joph, because I am not quite certain of what you are talking about. I have already explained the facts about training in my eyes and on a PvP server in a prior thread, and I think we can safely agree to disagree on PP sales, but whats the deal with the personal attack? I just don't understand why you would lay into me like that over VERY little. Any thread I have started has been harmless and inoffensive. I once in a while get a little overzealous, but not to the point where I deserved that kind of comment. I wish more people would speak up and tell the truth on these boards, because if the ratio of total saints on every server was as high as it is here, EQ would be a totally different game.