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TheDisciple · 10-01-2007, 03:20 AM

Just wanted to raise a question on this point: Would you say that there's no difference between a game that allows/encourages first-party sales and one that attempts to disallow/discourage it?

The parallel that comes to mind for me is alcohol vs. heroin in contemporary America. If I have enough money and persistence, I can pay and get either; yet, one of these things is (more or less) completely legal, and one of these things both I and the person selling it to me can potentially go to jail for a long time over, even if we may not be caught. That seems like a world of difference in both ease of exchange and the culture around them.

10-01-2007, 03:20 AM	#547
TheDisciple New Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 11	Re: Obfuscation Just wanted to raise a question on this point: Would you say that there's no difference between a game that allows/encourages first-party sales and one that attempts to disallow/discourage it? The parallel that comes to mind for me is alcohol vs. heroin in contemporary America. If I have enough money and persistence, I can pay and get either; yet, one of these things is (more or less) completely legal, and one of these things both I and the person selling it to me can potentially go to jail for a long time over, even if we may not be caught. That seems like a world of difference in both ease of exchange and the culture around them.