As long as they are the one farming the gold.
When is gold farming allowed? When the developer is the gold farmer. Fractured Online is sure to turn some heads this week with the announcement that the folks at Dynamight Studios are embracing real money trading.
Particularly in a recent video showcasing upcoming features it was confirmed that players will be able to buy tokens and then sell those for in-game gold to other players. Perhaps the only consolation among those fearful of pay to win is that there’s seemingly nobody to buy to or sell from.
Because Fractured Online peaked at 9 concurrent users on Steam yesterday and we can’t imagine there’s a whole 99.9999999999% of a population playing off-platform.
This all feels like the first step toward free to play.
MMO Fallout 
Why not? Provided everyone can buy and sell cash shop currency.
It’s only p2w if you can only sell currency for gold, which, let’s be honest, been done in mmo’s for forEVER via selling cash shop items for gold instead of direct exchange.
If f2p can earn gold and exchange it for cash shop currency using which they can obtain cash shop exclusives, then all is well with this system. Payers get their gold, p2w get their cash shop exclusives, dev takes percentage from the exchanges. Everyone’s happi~
It’s not even the first time a game makes this kinda choice. There were similar systems in mmos before.
Did you know that SkyForge used to have this sorta exchange? They did patch it out later lmao.
Err a bit of mistake there, replace ‘p2w’ with ‘f2p’ after ‘Payers get their gold.’
Man it’s a pain not having editing feature.