Take a few minutes of your time and imagine this: A world with everyone having all the money they wish to own. Everyone can literally make dollar bills out of the average paper. Everybody's rich and no one has to work their butt off to earn a living. Heaven right? You couldn't be more wrong.

That scenario would be closer to being in hell actually. If everyone can make their own money, no one would work. Anyone thinking he or she could buy anything he/she wants is in for a big surprise - there's nothing to buy because everyone's abandoned the job they used to need. Nothing can be more chaotic than that.

Fact of the matter is, our society's perched on a precarious beam balancing need and production. The demand for one thing is fueling the industry that addresses this demand. So we're all part of one big loop of work-own-work and money's the big wheel that's keeping this in full motion. Without it (or even with all of it), society will just cease to function.

This is exactly the same with World of Warcraft. Blizzard has created the concept of WoW gold to infuse the cycle of producing and needing. You want an epic item? Go work for it by raising profession levels, farming WoW gold, and earning Gs on the Auction House.

With the rise of WoW gold buying, the scenario mentioned above is a looming possibility. If everyone starts to depend on WoW gold buying, here's what will happen:

o Everyone will be able to buy epic items. This negates the idea of reputation-based possessions. With everyone having epic gear, it loses its luster as a special part of the game.

o Every single character in WoW is max leveled. If you think that's cool, you're crazy. Would you live in a world full of identical blondes and hunks?

o Everyone will be toting epic mounts. Imagine if everyone's driving a Ferrari. Yep, it's that hard to stomach.

o Quests will be abandoned, defeating the purpose of "playing" the game.

o Auction House will have zero visitors.

o And this all leads to...

A total collapse of what could be the most polarizing title in the history of gaming. Just like Earth, Azeroth is highly dependent on the balance created by the concept of money and trading.

What should we all Azerothians do then? Totally diss the idea of buying WoW gold. Rather than buy them, learn core skills and techniques in the game. WoW guides for these are all over the web anyway, with most of them created by the best and richest players in the game. It's much more worthwhile and self-fulfilling to enhance your gamer skillz than just settle for buying gold.

Unless you hate WoW so much you want it gone.

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