[Hungkung]

Nicely said, both Tour and Swordmage.

The other thing about it is, you deal with X% of the population of the world(real and cyber) who have ego's that are so frail, that not being 'better than the jones' is something they can't live with. No judgement implied, it is just how things are, and goldbuying is a fast shortcut....

but it's like major mud, there were these incredible scripts out there, you could run your character for 24/7, so you were using a machine to play a machien and paying for both ends...that makes sense.

and people justify it all, that they don't ahve time to compete... in the end somewhere they forgot we play games to have fun not to make us feel bad.