I had a really long response to this written, and then accdentally hit the back button and it all went away.
Maybe later I'll reconstruct it, but now I'm feeling too irritable about the whole thing. (Dammit, didn't I once have a web browser that would *keep* the stuff in form fields when you did that?)
Anyway, the summary is that in my experience, when people sell game currency for real money, it tends to make the game worse for everyone else playing the game, and can have significant long-term destructive impact.
Which to me *does* make the person getting paid to play morally inferior, because they're the one making other people's lives worse.
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)
Maybe later I'll reconstruct it, but now I'm feeling too irritable about the whole thing. (Dammit, didn't I once have a web browser that would *keep* the stuff in form fields when you did that?)
Anyway, the summary is that in my experience, when people sell game currency for real money, it tends to make the game worse for everyone else playing the game, and can have significant long-term destructive impact.
Which to me *does* make the person getting paid to play morally inferior, because they're the one making other people's lives worse.
-Morgan."Mikuru-chan molested me! I'm... so happy!"
-Haruhi, "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
---(Not really)