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Of course, everyone that pays their subscription fee has a complete right to play the game anyway they want to do so (within the Terms of Service).
People pay for online games, to play and have a good time. So why do store keepers go AFK and not *play*?
When that many people have a similar reaction, it is time to look at what is causing the reaction.
AFK owners/roomies are the symptom...not the disease. What is wrong with the Store category and how it is set up, that sends so many players off to do something else? What can change that attitude? How could it be changed to make a store owner *want* to be there and glad to be interacting with their customers?
With the catalog removed from every players buy mode and money tight, AFK owners could become a big problem to shoppers in EALand.
So how do we fix it?
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Gilly. I agree 100%. owning a store is too easy/boring. Providing you have money to stock you just set up your lot with everything you need and wait for the people to come and buy.
Maybe extending a store owners inventory to hold more merchandise and lessening their lot object limit would be helpful, this way they constantly have to restock.
Idk, it'd make me laugh.
In all reality, if you think about it... somebody being on their store lot is not really all that necessary providing that they are able to have all the needs set out for sale. I know in SL you go to the store, you buy what you want, you leave.
Maybe it's unfair to expect a store lot owner to sit there all day waiting to greet everyone. (I know this is a problem for TK's original post with the fruit) but really... I have never owned a store b/c I do not have the attention span to sit there and play with myself.
I think it would be great if stores did not accrue visitor hours but where ranked by dollar amount in sales.
I think it'd also be great to have an NPC that the store owner pays a fee to EA for so that they can leave their lot unattended while they go out about town.
I'm sure there are many suggestions on the wiki, and once I learn not to sleep... I'll be able to read up on it all.