Thinking thinky thoughts.
I've been drawing for, like, hours. I now have detailed reference art for three of the main characters, one of which hasn't been addressed in what little of the story I have posted sofar. But that one happened to turn out the cutest. :3 I haven't sat down to draw in months. I missed it so. ^^ But I can't find my good outlining pens so I can color my sketches. >.>
Anyway. I have to have background noise so I've had G4 on in the background and Attack of the Show! just came on. They just had a debate about goldfarming in MMORPGs. For those who don't know, goldfarming = paying someone to level up your character. I personally just think it's lazy, and I wonder why someone would pay to play a video game just to have someone else actually play it. But they just showed damning evidence that some of the people being paid to do this are doing so in sweatshop-like conditions overseas and living off of this.
The debate was between a Blizzard representative (World of Warcraft) and a guy that happens to be a goldfarmer himself (Not running a sweatshop or anything. He just does the game playing himself and accepts the money). It was actually really interesting and now I have gone from being disappointed in my fellow gamers for paying someone else to downright hating the idea. Cheating in single-player games is a given. But cheating in a MMORPG just seems low. People should be able to enjoy their gameplay without having to try and compete with some levelled up hunk of awesomeness being controlled by some n00b with too much money and no conscience. But that's my two pesos. Thoughts?
Anyway. I have to have background noise so I've had G4 on in the background and Attack of the Show! just came on. They just had a debate about goldfarming in MMORPGs. For those who don't know, goldfarming = paying someone to level up your character. I personally just think it's lazy, and I wonder why someone would pay to play a video game just to have someone else actually play it. But they just showed damning evidence that some of the people being paid to do this are doing so in sweatshop-like conditions overseas and living off of this.
The debate was between a Blizzard representative (World of Warcraft) and a guy that happens to be a goldfarmer himself (Not running a sweatshop or anything. He just does the game playing himself and accepts the money). It was actually really interesting and now I have gone from being disappointed in my fellow gamers for paying someone else to downright hating the idea. Cheating in single-player games is a given. But cheating in a MMORPG just seems low. People should be able to enjoy their gameplay without having to try and compete with some levelled up hunk of awesomeness being controlled by some n00b with too much money and no conscience. But that's my two pesos. Thoughts?