For me, it's very simple. I'm tired of this "$ -> gold" conversion madness, and of "people using cash" to gain direct game play benefits that affect, not only their game play, but also game play of others around them. Because in "open PvP world" this does affect others around you.
So if the game will include this, I will simply not play it, and so will not any of my friends. A huge chunk players is looking (for a long time now) for a good game that offers equality between players in the aspect of success being generated purely by your effort and not by loads of cash influx from your credit card. (These are the players that DO spend the money. They only prefer that money is spent on things that can only affect your personal game play (cosmetics and similar), and not affect game play of others around you.)
So if you want to play the game with bunch of "wallet warriors" that like to throw cash into the game to gain power, be my guest. I hope you will enjoy it, because I, myself, will not touch such game with 6 foot pole.
@Pwnstar your argument feels like this for me -- if drugs will get sold anyway (we know they do), it's better to let the state just officially sell it so at least state benefits from it?
@pluto your argument feels like this for me -- hey not everyone will chose to buy those drugs, because some guy will not drop $100,000 on it to "maybe feel good". Most purchasing will be done by small guys that do not have a lots of cash, and a lots of time to enjoy life in a different way. That's also assuming that buying drugs is even considered bad, perhaps it's only bad when people actually die from it.
I'm drawing a picture here because it's not about who will chose to do that and who will not. The bad thing would be that it is officially available in the first place. Because if it is officially available then more people are gonna do it, and that's a fact.
An answer to something that's bad is NOT "since few people might attempt it (risking a huge deal in the process), lets just let everyone do it freely".
An answer IS to try to catch those attempting it and enforce strict punishment (bans), when caught. And if someone gets away with it, hey, at least it was on a rare occasion and at huge personal risk, which is a LOT better then a majority of population doing it, because it's included officially. And in the process ruining what would otherwise be a great game.
@Specter I know this was discussed but I'm never the one starting this. I'm always only posting counter arguments to people constantly trying to promote it. (Because if one side is constantly promoting something and other side is silent, It might start to look like no one has anything against the promoted issue, and we definitely do not want things appearing that way).