Cesspit (which has provided some of my favorite reading of late) offers a platform for Abalieno to stand on and shout at the RMT-blind people below. For the most part, I’m completely in agreement.

Real money should stay OUT of a game world. Stop. There isn’t anything else to add. That rule should be NEVER get touched.

We play games exactly because at least there we can be on equal footing and not getting discriminated by money. Because we can dream of being different and live the utopia. Making games is about dreaming of a better world, not to replicate its darker sides if not to exorcize them.

On RMT, and ideals (Magneto Vs Xavier) | The Cesspit.

I’m as cynical as the next guy. I’ve read the self-validations the industry props itself up with. I know that there’s no real way to stop this practice, that people will always do it because there is a market. I know that people are busy, and finding time to play your game in a modern First-World country is sometimes hard.
SO WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PLAYING A GAME? If you don’t have time to play honestly, don’t fucking play. Go hang out with your girlfriend, or drink beer with your buddies in a pub, or learn how to knit. No one is making you fork over your money to Blizzard, et. al., for the privelage of paying someone else to play the game you don’t have time to play. Fuck your guildmates, and go have a life.
Just because it has to happen doesn’t mean I have to agree with it.