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 Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:25 pm
"Hello everyone,
We've always been thinking of how to give more opportunities for you to earn gold, and recently we've increased the gold earning for PM, posting, commenting, and many other activities on Gaia. We'll soon be making more quests to give even more opportunities to earn gold also. Though on the downside, some people had found the new gold earning system as a way to exploit the site. They run bots which spam the site, and sell the gold for profit. These botters need to be stopped, and today there will be changes in the PM system to stop the botters.
The botting activities had caused our database to slow down, they cause a large amount of gold to be granted, making prices in the marketplace to skyrocket, and not to mention filling people's inbox with spam.
We are doing a lot in fighting botting activities, and I'm sorry to say that in the process, we will need to disable the "friends@gaia" feature which allows users to PM everyone on their friendslists. On top of that, gold granting for PM will be disabled also.
None of us wish to take away opportunities for you to earn gold, and we will be implementing other ways to earn gold on Gaia as well as make adjustments to the gold earning system to grant more gold on the side. Though more importantly, let's make Gaia free of spam and botters first.
Please be patient while we tackle the botting problems. We'll continue to make Gaia great, one step at a time.
-Lanzer "
So, this was today's announcement. What does everyone think of this? Both the changes in the system, and the fact that people are so desperate to be "number 1" at a VR game that they try to cheat the system.
Why do people do this anyway? Isn't it more rewarding to work for something than to cheat your way to it? And I know it's not just on Gaia. I play a few other online games, and I have seen the same issues on all of them. Granted, one of the games offers actual prizes at the end of the 3 month rounds, but all of the others are like Gaia. There are no tangible rewards for being "the best". So what is the motivation to cheat?
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:52 pm
It's all for the fame, glory and items.
When you become a rich gaian, there will be many people who know your username. Of course, with being 'rich' you can attain all the impossibly pricy items on the site and ravish your avatar with these items. Anything will be within your grasp, or so to speak.
Sure, they may feel guilty at one point or another. But the benefits you attain from botting override your sense of guilt. And even if you are caught, there is really nothing the admins can do about it except ban you. And what's so big about that? To botters, that just means more work. Creating a new account, more mules, etc, etc. There is no physical punishment to botting in their view.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:37 pm
I'm a clothes whore. There are so many items I would love to have so I can dress up for all different holidays and seasons and all that... but isn't part of the fun of the game in earning what you have?
I guess what I can't understand is people who don't yearn for that sense of accomplishment. Yeah, I am just starting out. My "quest item" only costs about 13-15k. But when I get it, I will know that I earned it, rather than stealing to get it. My next quest item, Gwee the Dragon, isn't really expensive by Gaian standards either, but I would rather work for it than steal just to get it a little sooner.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:52 pm
While I would love to be able to outright buy a halo. I take pride in knowing I've completed gathering nearly 5 mil worth of store items in one year without cheating. 3nodding it means something. that and I had fun doing it. playing games, talking with friends, and donating to them as well throughout the year.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:29 pm
Well it's just pixel gold. Just like in the real world cheating/stealing to get money is illegal and just wrong, so why do it on the internet?
It's just silly.
As you said, getting it on your own is a much better feeling.
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:51 pm
Yup, I don't see the point of it.
I actually have morals which I extend to all aspects. Despite my laziness and ineptness at questing and focusing on a goal, I feel pretty accomplished with what I've acquired on my own. I wouldn't mind having some other items, but I'm sufficed.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:19 am
I don't know, I sometimes think that people just like cheating the system and feeling smug and proud. I used to cheat on my spelling tests. We got to mark our friends tests and between us we made a deal to change wrong answers. There was no point to it, but it made us laugh
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