Am I Evil?
Last Spring, I started playing Final Fantasy XI on my PS2. While it wasn't completely revolutionary from the many MMORPG's that came before it, it was definitely an evolutionary improvement. In many ways, it was the best MMORPG I had ever played
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As far as the wether or not its cheating, i guess is the better question. My first response was a knee-jerk purist opinion that of course its bad. How could you think of it. But I thought about it a bit, and the whole point of playing the game is for fun. Now, you're not really working out to improve your strenght, or studying to learn spells. You're spending real world resources to improve your character. Namely time, in the effort of playing the character, and money in monthly fees. And the whole point of doing this is for personal enjoyment. From what you said you have to spend a bunch of time to get the cash you needed. You instead chose to spend the other resource, that you had more of to achive the same goal. I don't see that as a bad thing.
The whole point of the game is enjoyment. So if you were in a rut and the $16 gave you a leg up for many more hours of entertainment, then that was a resonable investment. On the other hand, if you have to continually throw money at it to maintain any fun factor, then I'd say the game itself is flawed and its time to move on.
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Here's the scary thing. I figured I needed around 100k, and I figured that would take me approximately 100 hours of extremely boring gameplay. (Boring to me. Some people like fishing and crafting.) So, I fixed it. But, things are even worse for other character classes at higher levels. For example, the Ninja class has two items that are considered "must have." The total for those two items? About 300,000g.
Yeah, World of Warcraft can't come soon enough for me.
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