A Public Service Announcement From The People Who Give Me Money On A Regular Basis

That’s how I tend to look at third party RMT providers.  Only a bit more white collar – they won’t break your legs, but they will clean out your credit card sometimes.

Brilliant. Nice to see the Rooster Teeth guys (you know, the Red vs Blue dudes) do some more quality work for NCSoft.

Yes, this is a big improvement over the last one.   It is both more engaging and about the right length.
I’m not sure having Papa Lou deliver the summary message was the right ending however.  It is a nice tag line, but you just spent the previous two minutes showing us what a dirtbag he was, but now suddenly we should listen to him about not breaking the EULA?  It is out of character for him and he is not a credible source.

<blockquote>So ncsoft paid a third party to do their work to make a video about the evils of paying a third party to do your work?</blockquote>
Not a bad stab at irony, but it doesn’t work seeing how the former is legit while the later is crooked, which is into the spirit of the thing.

Marginally better than before. But as before, the people who need to hear this info probably will not, and wouldn’t abide by it even if they did. And it passes up the big problem of RMT to address the comparatively small problem of powerleveling services. Explaining the bad side of giving out your password is less useful than explaining the bad side of supporting bot farmers… but it’s easier, so there you go.

It does run too long. They need some practice (or should I say powerleveling?) in satire.
Why do I suddenly feel like I was in a focus group?

@ Joker

If I may be allowed a pun: You’re joking, right?

The video is ridiculous, but not in the way you are pointing out. It is, first, as Wilhelm pointed out, by giving Papa Lou the honor of delivering the lesson of the video at the end of the clip, when he is portrayed, the rest of the time, as the first to benefit from any transgression of the game EULA; second, by insinuating that all powerleveling services are connected to the mob; and, third, by making the guilty player a minor who could not legally have used a credit card to retain powerleveling services (in which case, the kid either committed credit card fraud, or the real culprit is either of his parents).

Next, you won’t elicit pity from me by drawing on your memories as a student, when you participated in the real money trading syndicates (nice choice of word, by the way). As much as I may find some EULA’s restrictive, especially those that would let the company download every manner of tracking software to your computer, I do support the opposition to third-party sellers: they throw the natural balance of a game out of whack by catering to the lazy or the terminally competitive. If you must have RMT, I still prefer the game publisher doing it; while it’s probably hypocritical if they tried to clamp down on third-party services, and unethical if they’re also milking you through a subscription, at least you know it’s legal, and that you won’t be scammed.

I laughed.. I cried.. It was better than Cats.

joker: “Not a bad stab at irony, but it doesn’t work seeing how the former is legit while the later is crooked, which is into the spirit of the thing.”     Your faulty insinuation is that power leveling is illegal (it is not), and that these companies are controlled/operated by organized crime (they are not).  Last time I checked, nobody has ever been arrested for leveling someone else’s character. No one has ever been arrested purely for buying or selling virtual currency. In fact, ncsoft did try to have someone arrested for doing that in korea and the korean governement ended up passing a law that says it IS legal to do so. When I was a student, I participated in the “evil” real money trading syndicates. I sold my time (as is my god given right) to those that wished to purchase it. I never held a gun to anyone’s head. Nobody ever threatened to break my legs. This video is ridiculous, and the fact that ncsoft went out of their way to hire a third party (which they do for nearly every single facet of their korean ports) is laughable  and hypocritical.  It’s almost as bad as chastising your players for buying virtual goods in a community response message with real life currency and then announcing the opening of your cash shop and real money services. Oh wait, ncwest already did that one.

Go away plz?

Anyway its to long. Although its kind of funny in a needless creepy way when “mom” makes eyes with the gangster.

The only thing funny about this video is the fact that NCSoft made it.
NCSoft, the company that charges $12 for a respec on a game with a monthly subscription actually wants to argue against RMT? ROFL. Sorry….. fail.
Why do people buy powerleveling services? Because the “level up” portion of your game is not fun enough to play, and because you put too much emphasis on “end game” being the “real game.” There you have it.
Break your own legs, NCSoft.

<blockquote>You’re confusing NCsoft and Cryptic.</blockquote>
Technically, NCSoft does this, too.  But City of Heroes respec tokens are ~$9.99, while Champions Online charges $12.50.
Granted, other than the vague, “grinds are bad” tone, I can’t agree with much of anything Michael Hartman’s saying here.
Partly because his tone was worthy of a forum frequented by 12-year-olds… which is sort of forgivable because this is the <i>Internet</i>.
However, I can’t overlook that he seems to be trying to lump City of Heroes/Champions Online’s respec policies together with Aion Online’s failings.  I mean, City of Heroes/Champions Online don’t have nearly as protracted as a grind.  Another thing they don’t have is an end game.  So these complaints don’t belong in the same paragraph.

sinij: What? They charge for changing you character’s spec?! These companies actually have customers playing and paying their games? How?

It helps when there’s in-game methods of acquiring respecs too. In City of Heroes, you can earn a respec by doing certain mission chains or crafting certain formulas. In Champions Online, the game’s main money sink is actually reinvesting it into “retconning” your characters. In both games, if a major patch rolls that fundamentally changes character balance, a free retcon/respec token is issued.

If you go with a reputable provider and change your passsword afterwords there should be no problem.  It helps if there is nothing of value on any of the characters on that account.  Er, I mean, ya powerleveling services are bad.    But buying in-game currency with game time codes through EVE Online’s sanctioned system is ok, but cheesy, but better than macro mining.

sinij: If people feel like they need to buy power leveling/gold in your game – you are doing something wrong in your design. Remember, you are suppose to be designing games that people play for fun. Instead you made another grind…

Not this crap again. Games are not for everyone; some people like to level, some people don’t.

huh