20-01-2017, 06:26 AM
I just wanted to weigh in as a new player here and be one of the few to not have much gear or gold and say that to some the grind really is something that is seen as a chore rather than a reward, i set out to play with 2 other friends and i am the only real active player bar one who plays occasionally, so there is that temptation to say screw it and look to buy gear to catch up on years missed BUT in my opinion NI is all about the grind, i mean in all honesty the game itself gets quite dull and boring pretty quick, there's some excitement when you finish a map but other than that it's mindless killing of ai for hours on end, and i dare say a very small portion of the player base, if any simply stick around to kill nords, this in my opinion is a gear based game, levels play a part but progression is judged more so on gear than anything and as i said before that grind is tough, but it's that reward that makes it worthwhile, the satisfaction of finally getting that new bow, sword or shield after working hard to get it, that's a nice feeling to know you achieved that, for me it's the reason i stuck about but as i said before, from a new players perspective the grind sucks, they just want to be on the same level as everyone else, sure you can pick up dragons breath in-game, use it for the 15 or so waves you have for that map but to own it, that's what players really want. The biggest issue arises when trying to catch people who do buy/sell gear, at the end of the day whether the team at NI have no problem and allow it or the make a complete ban, it's going to happen, it's no different to drugs and gun laws, if someone wants something and they're willing to pay the price then they are going to pay that price, for the admins and devs to try and ban people for this offence it's an incredibly hard task because as others have stated, there are way too many variables and excuses to be made that have no way of being proven, the only solid evidence that could be attained would be transaction records, which to get one of the parties involved in the trade would have to willingly give that info and risk getting banned themselves, so in reality there's practically no way you could "convict" someone of IRL trades, i've played games with similar problems, people IRL trading and the people who hunt them down get no where, it may sound lazy of the devs and admins to say "it's not worth it" but honestly it is, for those of us on the grind with no intention of IRL trading it does suck, and it's splits the community in two and makes for, in the end, a smaller community again which is a blow NI could do without. At the end of the day the team at NI could do everything in their power and still these trades would occur, the only thing we really can do is simply play the game, grind the gear or gold and have the satisfaction of actually getting somewhere with your effort.