Kama vending, nay or yay?

Kama vending is something that is illegal in game according to the rules of Dofus mainly because it's way people make money out of Ankama's game and that is spoils the fun of it, however I'd like to investigate if it is really that bad for the game. There are obvious downsides such as the chance of it all being a scam and you losing your money but there are a fair amount of upsides too.

With the introduction of the Ogrine system players can now spend there money on Ogrines to turn into Kamas. This is essentially a game legal version of buying Kamas, there is a downside though. Although it is legal in game unlike Kama vending itself you do get a lot less for your money. Using today's average rate I found that the amount of 6000 Ogrines which cost's you £7.79 to buy would, when sold, get you a total of  1 584 000 Kamas. For £6.97 on a generic Kama site you can get 2mk. Although this does not seem like too much of a difference, when you scale it up to buying large amount of Kamas you notice a very large difference. Example: 60 000 Ogrines would cost you £77.90 and get you 15 840 000 Kamas. Whilst for £66.97 on a Kama site you would get 20 000 000 Kamas. This is their main selling point, more for your money, none of us like to get a bad deal when buying things.

Although a handy thing for subscription, I think that for smaller servers such as our own the Ogrine purchase via Kamas has ruined the servers economy. No one on the server has the money to buy items because most people would rather spend 150kk/200kk on a weeks subscription than to put towards new gear. Yes you may argue that as someone purchases Ogrines someone else receives that money, but who's to say they won't spend that money on subbing a character a few days later. It's a vicious cycle. Yes it is a handy tool, but we do over use it and Ankama probably made a large loss on subscription fees since they introduced it. Kama vending however actually just throws money into the economy of the game if you think about it, bots farm Kamas for days from low level mobs, that no one else would be bothered to kill, and then people buy the Kamas to spend on in game wares which increase the amount of Kamas on the server.

So what is your opinion? Do you think that Kama vending is good for the server and that without it all our pockets would be a little bit empties, or do you believe the "No real world trading" policy is just in it's rules against buying them?

I would love to here you opinions, message me in game and I will be happy to talk about it or any other interesting subject. If you have any ideas for a new thread please let me know, because I would be happy to write about your chosen subject.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Matt.

P.S. Oh yeah I forgot to mention, Andy's computer is broke so it's just me at the moment. No idea if/when he's getting it fixed but I'll keep you posted as I find out news on his return.

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