it is possible they did a aquuire it legaly, you have to remember people will sellthings for real life cash they have brought for uo gold, some items.. such as powerscrolls or artifacts are more lucrative to sell than selling uo gold in mass amounts.

*shrug* i'ld personally never buy a uo powerscroll through a website but then i do at least a coupple fo champ spawns every week so i can get them easily enough anyway!

Hmm, well why don't you think the item or items were acquired legally?

A few websites out there buy and sell mass resources and items on a 24/7 basis, with staff and even offices.

Not everyone cheats to get their items

As for me, no I don't think it's wrong to buy stuff from websites to advance your character.

I dont think its wrong either, i saw a ki rin minipet (a guildwars veteran award) for like $5 the other week on ebay. Was seriously tempted but resisted.

I don't see anything wrong with buying stuff for the game. If you can afford it, you can save yourself a lot of time. How many champ spawns would you have to do to maybe get the scroll you want?

I ended up buying a big lot of them on an e-bay auction, very shortly after scrolls came out. I used the couple I wanted and stocked a vendor with the rest.

To me, its no different buying somethin wioth cash than buying it with gold. You make gold by investing time....the same way you make money at work, no?

The only problem I see is with the extreme...spending alot of cash on game stuff. Same could be said for spending too much time on UO, heh.

I don't see a problem with it.

For example Sony set up an actual EQ shop where you could buy ingame items for real money.

Guess I'll be the annoying minority and state I don't believe buying in game advantages for RL cash is a good thing.

The way I see it the game should work as a closed economy of its own, without outside influence like that which comes from the real world economy. It just feels wrong to me that folks can simply buy their way into things without working for it in game. Sure, in the real world money talks and bull*** walks, but since UO still is a game and not the real world, some idealism could be applied.

Buying stuff from websites is no problem per se, it's just buying for RL cash. Buying stuff with UO gold is fine and dandy.

Aaaaand this was once again just how I feel about it all, I'm not gonna even try to tell you what YOU should do

I hear what youre saying Adrianna, but lets say a person can only play UO for 2 hours a week; should they be denied what they want or have to wait till the end of days to get it? Or should they be able to throw 20 dollars at it instead of a few months of their play time?

I personally bout gold on 2 occasions and grabbed a +15 Smithy scroll off of Ebay as gift for a friend once too.

To make a major exaggeration, the idea of folks being justified in buying their way ahead due to lack of time to get there by playing the game (which incidentally they already pay for, but apparently can't be bothered to do since it takes too long), sounds a lot like everyone should be allowed to buy the World Cup title since they don't have time to actually train and learn to play soccer and become good at it.

You make choices as to what you do with your life, if you don't have time to play a computer game, you don't get ahead in that game as fast. The "I don't have time to invest but I wanna have it all anyway" -attitude is greedy and in no way should anyone assume they're entitled to get everything.

Sorry if that sounded harsh, the issue doesn't really bother me THAT much. Folks have been buying stuff for cash for ages and it isn't changing, so what the heck.

If you have the money, and not the time, then go for it. If you have the time, why spend the money? I don't have a problem with people doing it. Personally I don't understand paying tons of RL cash for in game items. Maybe a buck or two I could understand, but not hundreds of dollars.