Whatever happened to playing a game for fun? (in General)

Over the years ive have seen a trend occur within this little community we call CB.

Not to pick on Zenai since i just happened across his post. But reading it just brought the question to my mind.

Is CB here to entertain the bored, computer game loving people, like myself. Or has it turned into a stock where people invest hundreds of dollars just try to double or triple the invested amount of cash.

I have seen all to often the title "Selling out (blah blah blah)",or"Leaving game because (insert excuse here)." And then after selling everything for max profit(i.e overcharging, whatever you want to call it), they come back, 6 months or so later.

Heres an example. someone sells out,characters(just wrong) and all. Retires account,whatever. Comes back. Invests some of their profit back in the game. uses there whole ncb to build another character. then sells out again(repeat sentence as many times as necessary). Dont tell me it doesnt happen.

My thought is it destabalizes the economy of the game, things havent even been semi-affordable for along time. It also takes away from the fun factor.

someone else posted their concern about newbies being able to sell off stuff due to NCB. I happen to agree. But I will take it one step further, which will probably anger alot of people.

I say due away with character selling all together. Building a character is a personal thing.Sure you waste your life away burning turns. Thats the point.
Ok, buying money for items and then reselling later, I can see that. but selling your recently out of ncb character is just plan exploitation of a simple kindness Jon has shown by even offering that option.

Well, thats my my 2 cents stretched out on the railroad track.

Remember this is my OPINION/OBSERVATION.

If you dont like it To Bad. Learn how to play a game for fun.

Quite frankly, I haven't seen the character market really profitable at all.

It's pathetic. Koy didn't even go for 20 mil.. It was 1st by a long shot, 20 mil is nothing compared to the BA put in to that.

20 million is at the lowest $100.00. just for a character that had time put into it. This isn't a job, it's a game.

Oh, as an added bonus for all of you english professor's, there are 6 misspelled words that spellcheck caught and 1 word spelled phonetically correct(in a to,too,two kind of way)in my original post.

50k for the first person to list all 7.

* ive * Dont * destabalizes * havent * alot * dont doesnt

If you dont like it To Bad
you meant to say TOO BAD.

that makes 7 (doesnt didn't count up there)

The spell checker has flagged the following words as mis-spelled:

• ive
• Dont
• destabalizes
• havent
• alot
• dont

Phonetically correct word(correct word is "too"):

• ...all to often ...
• ...it To Bad.

Spart, 20 mil is nothing for in-game money. The worth of the character doesn't have much to do with the USD rate. single weapons and pieces of armour go for more than the top character in the game..?

You have to consider, in Koy's sale price, how much was paid for it to begin with. Originally it might have been a mere time investment, but it changed hands for cash and then more play time was added to it before the second, crappier sale. The faux-noob was the one to profit on that one, yes?

Think about the time put into Koy for the 100 USD you were talking about. That's about the worst job in the world. If people were just playing the game for money, don't you think they would just go get a minimum wage job? They'd make more money that way.

I doubt anyone makes a significant income from this...

Duke anyone?

And that is one multi we know of. How many are not caught?

The NUB, it its current form makes it very easy to multi and make some profit.

However, Jon has stated numerous times characters are crap.

I personally disagree and would like to see no character sales.

But... Being able to sell characters does make the top ranks less stagnant. Right now, I do not have time to wake up every few hours to burn BA to start a NCB.

"Whatever happened to playing a game for fun?"

perhaps they have fun playing the game this way.

Buying NCB BA will cost much much more than the char will ever be worth.