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Originally Posted by Kaldur

I don't know dude, what Calindor mentions opens a lot of ground for debate, although, personally I wouldn't consider buying in-game currency in-game a form of "cheating" and even less, "cheating people" in-game.

Wtf man, alot of ground to debate? Honestly, without having the intention of flaming or offending you, that's a huge load of bull.
So, say there'd be two players. You and a friend. Both of you kept doing quests, a bit farming, leveling or w/e in a typical MMO together. As a side note, both of you wanted to do PvP-duel later on. While you kept at it, although after awhile it got kinda boring (as it is in most MMOs as most MMOs still fail at being MMOs), your friend read this "selling ingame currency for real money"-shout in the chat-log. He decided to buy some, cause it seemed easier than farming 2 hours in the woods.
So, the day came and both of you showed up for the PvP duel, but what the heck, your friend suddenly had some neat gear with uber def and atk rates and beat you to a pulp. You were like "man, did you do some secret farming sessions when I wasn't there? haha" and he answered "nah, I've bought some ingame cash for real money.". Wouldn't you feel kinda... like being cheated?
I don't know how you see it, but that alone is enough reason for those people to be cheating you. The question rather is, how is that not cheating?

Someone mentioned that RMT's tend to destroy an MMO economy, but I beg to differ, the ones who actually destroy the game's economy it's us, the greedy players, who want to make a profit on everything we do, so we tend to overprice everything, thus, inflating the whole economy.

Sure, as long as those RMT just farm the same mob over and over for a tiny amount of gold all day, it's unlikely that they'd be a huge part of inflation. But as soon as those RMTs use spots that used to be great farming spots for real players, they ARE monopolozing and controlling the prices at their wish and they ARE stealing those spots from real players.

I'm not saying buying currency is a good thing to do since it is performed by shady RMT companies, but they (RMT's) are getting the currency from the game, it's not counterfeit or illegal.

It's like using knuckle dusters when boxing or super-duper high speed cyborg feet when playing football or using two queens against one in chess from the beginning. Just because you've paid real money for it, how does that make it fair to the player who follows fair rules? It's an unfair advantage, taken from a world that should have nothing to do with this one and it's against the rules. Even if those rules may be unwritten about MMOs, it's nothing else, it's 100% the same thing.
Especially when a game is competitive, it's the 2nd worst possible cheating ingame (besides hacking).