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There are a few reasons why players seem to really dis-like RMT, but from most of my experience, it comes down wonder king zed to these main three:
1) Players that spend money in cash-shops (I use cash shop to indicate any form of RMT, meaning actual cash-shops or character purchasing services just like in EVE) gain some sort of "advantage" over players that do not spend the extra money.
2) Cash shops encourage addictive spending.
3) Non-spending players, and their accomplishments, are devalued.
First of all, in order for most of these arguments to work, you must establish a certain set of rules or goals that MMORPG's set, in order for there to be something to "succeed" at legitimately so that someone can "cheat" by buying their way to that goal.
But there are no Golden Rules or Golden Goals in any of these MMO's. The closest any MMO comes to are in games that are only actual competition, like in kart racing mmo's or pvp-only games, but those games are very very rare.
Even then, there are ways to play that do not fall within the boundaries of the goal, and many players playing in many different ways.