What has gotten into this world and MMORPGs?!

Originally Posted by DragoonKain

That's not what it said on the news. Maybe they are different stories.

You know what? You're right probably. He killed him and then got a life sentence.

Yeah he killed the guy, right now there are no laws against you stealing RPG swords. Sometimes your account doesn't even get banned. I see people get away with online theft all the time, and I think it was Japan that was trying to look into this and see if there needs to be protection for your virtual items.

Oh and newsflash, it's not mostly kids that buy online currency, it's the people that work, have money but also HAVE LIVES so they don't want to spend 10 hours saving up online currency to buy their sword, instead they spend $50 RL money to buy it.

For them this makes sense, plenty of people buy their online currency because it saves them time that they might not have. I don't like it because it skews the in game economy and those that play need to work extra hard. This is why I don't like MMOs, either you're buying money or you spend hours and hours trying to find ways to earn it and frankly I just don't have that kind of time. I definitely don't spend RL money on it, it's bad enough I have to pay a monthly fee. $80 for a new sword? No thanks.

As for paying for things that aren't physically there, you don't just spend money for something physical in return all the time. I don't see how this is any different than having someone clean your house for money. It saves you time, you're just too lazy to do it yourself. You can pay for service, and this online gold thing is a service.

Jam it back in, in the dark.