Filed under: Blacksmithing, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Economy, Making money

“The ethics of a botched deal” turned out to be a much more popular article than I’d been expecting. I didn’t really think the subject matter was going to result in that much commentary, but, having read all of the comments, I think I see why. Everyone’s been on at least one end of a bad deal, and stuff like that is a lot more common in the early days of an expansion with new recipes, dungeons, and raids everywhere you look, with the attendant opportunities for costly mistakes.

A few people quite fairly said it would be tough to make a call on the incident given the limited account I’d written in the original article. Others pointed out that you could probably draw an ethical distinction between the Blacksmith’s decision to: a). accept a tip, and b). keep the gold gained from vendoring the 2H mace (and I think this is accurate, although it does raise another question. More on this in a bit). Commenters also observed that, the ethics of the Blacksmith’s actions aside, you wouldn’t necessarily want to be a repeat customer of his for reasons that hadn’t been articulated in the original piece.

So behind the cut is a more inclusive look at the issue, a little more background on what happened, and how other players responded to it ingame.

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