RF online GM's go Ape on Gold Farmers

[Trippy]

Here's the video (requires XviD/Divx codec): RFOnline-Farmwars.avi

[kaid]

The only thing I can think of when watching that video is omg the pace of that game seems glacial. I think I would stab my eyes out if I had to plod around like that.


Kaid

[HaemishM]

Public humiliation of gold farmers accomplishes a few things.

1) It gets rid of gold farmers, at least for a little while.
2) It makes your gaming publich THINK you are doing something to protect the game they are playing. Whether or not your efforts are a fleck of spittle in a rainstorm, the public nevertheless THINKS you are trying, which means they give you a bit more slack.
3) It discourages people who might have thought to make easy money by gold farming, but who aren't going to open up a business around it.

If your game is item-centric, you need to start offering player-based selling of gold and items in-game, and you need to charge a transaction fee for it. We've gone far enough in the MMOG medium to realize that this shit is GOING to happen, so long as you have people willing to play the game. You might as well make some money off it, and undercut the fuckers trying to leech onto your game.

[Soln]

Here's the video (requires XviD/Divx codec): RFOnline-Farmwars.avi

Um, having watched that, that's not cool?  Two GM's filmed it, did it in isolation, and even wrote lyrics and sang a theme?  Uhhh.  Little too much preparation?  And what was up with them not being able to outrun the people they teleported there, and the fact they seemed to fight the same two players (apple and bluesky) more than once?  Wasn't the point to gank them and then boot them?  Or just grief them into quitting?  Confusing is all.

[Threash]

Gold farmers are like telemarketers, they might just be doing a job but god damn its fun to fuck with them.