| It doesn't sound quite right does it ? Spending your | | | | the game. |
| hard earned money to buy AoC gold - swapping the | | | | - You are instantly giving yourself an unfair |
| real stuff for some virtual gold to spend with a virtual | | | | advantage from something that you did not earn in |
| merchant. However this is exactly what some people | | | | the game - a form of cheating I guess. |
| do to try and get on in these games that are | | | | - Fact - many of the gold farmer get some of their |
| designed for you to play almost full time (I wish). | | | | supplies by hacking into peoples accounts. |
| If you've got a 9-5 job and family commitments - it's | | | | - You spend the gold and two weeks later you're |
| going to take you a very long time to get some of | | | | buying some more. |
| the fun things in Age of Conan like a horse to ride | | | | - It could lead to your account being banned or |
| around on - or fall off in my case. This is really the | | | | suspended by Funcom. |
| situation I was in and indeed have been in many | | | | To be honest I think my main problem is the simple |
| online games over the years - I love them but I | | | | fact that some of the gold suppliers (I'm not |
| simply do not have the time to devote to them. | | | | suggesting all of them) use hacked web sites, trojans |
| I did consider using one of the web sites to buy AoC | | | | and gain access to accounts via keyloggers. If I |
| gold - however I have certain other problems with | | | | found all my hard earned AoC gold disappearing from |
| these web sites and the services they provide. | | | | my account I'd be upset to say the least - so there's |
| - Artificially bringing in lots of gold onto a server can | | | | no way I am going to have anything to do with that |
| seriously affect the dynamics of that economy and | | | | sort of practice. |