Re:Wow, how insightful. (Score 1)

Now the issue is always going to be "how much is too much?". I'll take WoW as an example. From most people that I've interacted with in the game, accumulating the 90 gold or so necessary for a mount at level 40 is a challenge, but it's something that everyone achieves. However at level 60, the epic mount costs around 800-900 gold, and that's something that many people (myself probably included) will never reach.

Disagree. Generating the cash for an epic mount isn't hard. What's apparently hard for people is bothering to remember to do the things that generate gold. Take a gathering skill, loot and sell, daytrade or act as a supplier in the auction house, etc... They'd rather spend all their time grinding in dungeons for the current level version of the Awesome Scepter of Elite Uberness, than clearing zones with friends for cash, or constantly keeping an eye on profitable opportunities, or any of the other dozen plus things that generate cash while you're moving up. And this is even before you get to the task of actually grinding for gold when at high level.

Does this mean people are lazy and take the easy way out? Yup; but it's been that way since the first guy figured out if he could talk Joe the Caveman into doing the hunting for him, he could still eat without having to use a spear. WOW gold sellers are simply the latest example of that same behavior.

Gold Sellers will always be around as long as people are willing to pay others to play the game for them. That's the ultimate point in this discussion. Until the users as a whole are unwilling to pay third parties for game advantages, Gold Selling isn't going anywhere. Since I figure you're unlikely to change basic human behavior, the only way to curb Gold Sellers would be for Blizzard to devote serious attention to transactions in game. Since this is a task they're clearly unwilling to apply the necessary resources to deal with, I suspect come this time in 2016 (or 2026, or 3006) we'll have vocal members of the MMORG community bitching about Gold Sellers, and still have that silent percentage of the same that continue to make purchases.

If you can fix it, Nobel or someone should honor you since that would mean major change in humanity. Easy way out is genetically coded.