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 Scott Hartsman says gold farming hurts our games more than we know

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PostSubject: Scott Hartsman says gold farming hurts our games more than we know   Scott Hartsman says gold farming hurts our games more than we know Icon_minitimeThu Jul 21, 2011 7:36 pm


Scott Hartsman says gold farming hurts our games more than we know Scott-hartsman

Gold buying
is one of those aspects of MMO culture that is seemingly universally
denounced, yet enough people partake in the practice to keep the wheels
of this grey market activity going. Scott Hartsman may be saying the obvious when he denounced gold farming and selling to Gamasutra, but apparently it is still something we need to hear.

The Trion Worlds
general manager shared a glimpse of just how hard these activities hit
games, and how concerned he and other studio execs are about the
proliferation of credit card fraud that results: "It's those kinds
of things where people laugh and go, 'Oh, that never happens.' No. It
happens. It happens a s**tload. To the point where, over the last three
or four years, I would dare anybody to ask an exec at a gaming company
how much they've had to pay in MasterCard and Visa fines, because of
fraud. It happens a lot."


According to Hartsman, the more these events take place, the more money
studios spend on paying fines and dealing with them instead of
reinvesting funds into the games themselves -- all because of the
"jerks" perpetuating the crimes.









Source: Gamasutra
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