"Gold Farming" in MMORPGs games!

This was a recent post from the college course Modification and Level Design where I discuss and answer the question of "Gold Farming" the pros and cons in terms of some game players taking advantage of Auto-Bots doing the "Gold Farming" for them.

"Gold Farming"

I have heard from my oldest brother, Carlos, that at his workplace there have been some few young engineers who buy very expensive online items for their avatars for WOW for example and this is real money exchange. I wonder how much of those items were just a simple "gold farming" and robbing other ignocent players who want to just get a good item. However I have heard about players who pay other players to play for them and level up for their avatars.

The only negative I see about these things whether it is fare for other players to be doing such a thing or this particular player when he or she wants to join a clan for example the clan will know this player is not as good as he should be or at least at the level that supposedly be. This could be very dangerous as well because if many people are doing these types of tricks or simply looking for a easier way to advance in this MMO they will unbalance the game for many others.

I have heard of a MMORPG that many players started doing similar things "gold farming" and getting very expensive items for the appropriate price however they themselves were starting to sell these items double the amount that these cost. This unbalance gameplay for many players who do not want to pay so much money, however what if other players could make money transfer and purchase the item and the leveling up what hopes would a new player have facing bad ass players that level-up unfairly.

By the way that particular MMORPG has been suffering ever since. I personally could not get into MMORPG yet, however I was interested in WOW for a while, however I have heard that there are many kids going there and not hard core gamers or at least not as much."

Julio A. Cruz