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Originally posted by Ammon777
I vehemently oppose certain developers who seem to think that I am going to buy in-game items with real money. That really makes the future look terrible, in my opinion. A certain few of those guys are morons. They dont have a high enough intelligence quotient to foresee emergent patterns like i can. (I foresaw this whole player-content thing months ago, and i have the posts on this board to prove it, if you doubt enough to search. But thats immaterial and beside the point.) I can tell you that if these games turn into real-world money sinks, with all the greed that developers can muster, along with the inherent corruption that attends every world (virtual or real) that the root of all evil spawns (money), i will QUIT playing them altogether and spend my money on single-player games for the foreseeable future. The few of these "mass-market" pipe-dreams make the rest of you look bad. And the not surprisingly, the games they worked on were failures in my book, such as Sims Online. Get a clue, developers. You CANNOT force to charge me $1.00 for a freaking virtual item. I can see the logic behind selling an account on e-bay or making these games more interactive; however, for the sake of sanity do NOT start a process that gives RICH PLAYERS the edge over everyone else that isnt stupid enough to buy your in-game items, lands, or money. I detest some of you for even mentioning it.

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