Prof. Dr. W. Broll
Gutachten zum Einfluss von Bots auf Spielspaß und Ökonomie in MMORPGS
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inflation tended to decline. As Heeks pointed out in 2009, it therefore cannot inevitably be assumed that gold farming actually has any appreciable effect on the mudflation immanent in most MMORPGs.
From a technical point of view it would be relatively simple for a game provider to prohibit gold farming or to make it financially significantly less attractive than this is still currently the case.
With most existing MMORPGs, as with WoW, such measures have to the greatest possible extent not been taken so far. A possible influence on the game’s economy is obviously consciously accepted or at least tolerated.
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