In Real Life, let's imagine you do not GAMBLE in any way, a moral issue as you put it. Your wife buys a lottery ticket now and then, doesn't really bother you much she has her own values. She give you 5 Easy Pick lotto tickets for your birthday or Fathers Day or something like that... One of the tickets hit the Jackpot for, oh maybe 500K or even 10M, doesn't matter as long as it's a substantial figure in your perspective.
Would you apply the SAME Morality issues to this situation that you do with the Plat?
Playing a game of chance where you have no way of affecting the outcome is quite different then going out and buying items/gold from people who break the rules. You can't walk into your local 7/11 and say I'm going to buy this ticket and I'm going to pick the numbers that are guaranteed to win. You can however go out and pay $29.99 for a stack of platinum in EQ.
As stated above, my intention was only to give OP a different perspective. You also are reading too much into it...
I am having a bit of a morality problem and I would like the advice of the masses. I have played EQ2 since launch (off and on) and talk about it quite a bit to my wife. As a casual gamer who crafts often and has a severe altaholic problem money is always an issue. My wife (wanting to do nothing but help me) bought me a large sum of gold off of some site. While I appreciate her enthusiasm and knowing her heart was in the right place I had to have a talk with her explaining how this breaks the economy and ruins the game taking the challenge out. She understands now but I am still left with a bank with more plat then I have seen before. My question is what should I do with it? I don't want it since I didn't really earn it myself... well.. my paycheck did, but thats another story. lol. I have debated finding a few newbies and giving them each a very good start... donating it to a guild... or just deleting it. Opinions?
Yet theres not a whole lot of evidence to support the breaking of the economy. Thought taking the challenge out is kinda debatable.
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Playing a game of chance where you have no way of affecting the outcome is quite different then going out and buying items/gold from people who break the rules. You can't walk into your local 7/11 and say I'm going to buy this ticket and I'm going to pick the numbers that are guaranteed to win. You can however go out and pay $29.99 for a stack of platinum in EQ.
As stated above, my intention was only to give OP a different perspective. You also are reading too much into it...
Done with this one, OP has resolved his issue
Yet theres not a whole lot of evidence to support the breaking of the economy. Thought taking the challenge out is kinda debatable.