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svartmetall
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This minor rant was sparked off by the 2,485th. "WTS..." post on our /as last night.
First time I ever saw someone ask for cash was ages ago, when I was lvling my main at H...saw someone say "selling [can't remember what item was], 200G" and I remember thinking jesus, that's lame, making people PAY for a mob drop...? Now, we have a situation where people lotto for drops they can't use solely so they can sell them for huge sums of cash - just look on the Midgard Trading forum, people STARTING bididng at 4 or 5 plat - TG drops being the most egregious example of this kind of thing.
Drops are FREE. If you get, say, a hammer you can't use, fucking GIVE it to someone else who can! Don't turn round to another player and go "oh, well, I rolled higher than you in a lotto even though I can never use this hammer but you can have it if you give me 4,000 Gold" or some bullshit like that.
I say again, drops are FREE. Your Epic armour? It's meant for YOU. And you got a shitload of XP for getting it. That TG drop? Didn't pay any money to the fucking mob for it, now, did you (Councilor Nokkvi drops a Bloody Nice Sword, and says "That'll be 5,000 Gold please"!)? And in fact that mob gave you a whole heap of XP for it as as well. So, actually, it wouldn't hurt you to just give that staff/hauberk/gem/whatever to someone who can use it, because it would make their night. XPing at Lair? Got a nice bracer or something you can't use/don't need? Well that's just a bonus, you're there for the XP, so give it to someone, don't demand 100G or whatever.
I NEVER charge money for drops, IMO it's exploitative rip-off bullshit; if I get something I can't use, I just give it to someone rather than going "I have that thing you wanted, if you spend days and days farming you can have it" because that's just greed, plain and simple. The furthest I will go is to trade drops; I have a TG pair of Bonedancer gloves and TG bracer that I'd like to swap for a TG axe, but I refuse to pay extortionate rip-off prices (and yes, I can afford 5 plat for a TG axe, but I refuse to pay on general principle - so don't give me any shit about 'oh he's just bitter because he doesn't have any money') and I certainly refuse to charge them. I prefer to view other players as my Realm mates/allies/whatever, rather than a market to be fleeced for as much cash as possible.
I like to farm Ornulf in Dellingstad for those ROG cloak drops, they can be uber, and when I get ones I can't use, I just give them to ppl who can use them. It's a nice feeling to make someone's night...I think back to how I felt at lvl 4 when someone just randomly came up to me and gave me some bits of kit because he was feeling nice. Case in point - I've been lvling my Savage, and two nights ago did a quest and got a claw as reward (I'd thought I'd get a choice of rewards and was kind of hoping for a belt choice); didn't really need it, so gave it to a Savage I walked past in Aegir, made their night.
I guess it's all down to what kind of Realm we want to play in. A co-operative community, or a greed-crazed marketplace where everything has price, including fun...I vote for the former.
First time I ever saw someone ask for cash was ages ago, when I was lvling my main at H...saw someone say "selling [can't remember what item was], 200G" and I remember thinking jesus, that's lame, making people PAY for a mob drop...? Now, we have a situation where people lotto for drops they can't use solely so they can sell them for huge sums of cash - just look on the Midgard Trading forum, people STARTING bididng at 4 or 5 plat - TG drops being the most egregious example of this kind of thing.
Drops are FREE. If you get, say, a hammer you can't use, fucking GIVE it to someone else who can! Don't turn round to another player and go "oh, well, I rolled higher than you in a lotto even though I can never use this hammer but you can have it if you give me 4,000 Gold" or some bullshit like that.
I say again, drops are FREE. Your Epic armour? It's meant for YOU. And you got a shitload of XP for getting it. That TG drop? Didn't pay any money to the fucking mob for it, now, did you (Councilor Nokkvi drops a Bloody Nice Sword, and says "That'll be 5,000 Gold please"!)? And in fact that mob gave you a whole heap of XP for it as as well. So, actually, it wouldn't hurt you to just give that staff/hauberk/gem/whatever to someone who can use it, because it would make their night. XPing at Lair? Got a nice bracer or something you can't use/don't need? Well that's just a bonus, you're there for the XP, so give it to someone, don't demand 100G or whatever.
I NEVER charge money for drops, IMO it's exploitative rip-off bullshit; if I get something I can't use, I just give it to someone rather than going "I have that thing you wanted, if you spend days and days farming you can have it" because that's just greed, plain and simple. The furthest I will go is to trade drops; I have a TG pair of Bonedancer gloves and TG bracer that I'd like to swap for a TG axe, but I refuse to pay extortionate rip-off prices (and yes, I can afford 5 plat for a TG axe, but I refuse to pay on general principle - so don't give me any shit about 'oh he's just bitter because he doesn't have any money') and I certainly refuse to charge them. I prefer to view other players as my Realm mates/allies/whatever, rather than a market to be fleeced for as much cash as possible.
I like to farm Ornulf in Dellingstad for those ROG cloak drops, they can be uber, and when I get ones I can't use, I just give them to ppl who can use them. It's a nice feeling to make someone's night...I think back to how I felt at lvl 4 when someone just randomly came up to me and gave me some bits of kit because he was feeling nice. Case in point - I've been lvling my Savage, and two nights ago did a quest and got a claw as reward (I'd thought I'd get a choice of rewards and was kind of hoping for a belt choice); didn't really need it, so gave it to a Savage I walked past in Aegir, made their night.
I guess it's all down to what kind of Realm we want to play in. A co-operative community, or a greed-crazed marketplace where everything has price, including fun...I vote for the former.