Originally Posted by
PArcher
More often than not, it *is* shameful. I know/knew several people who would buy clears so they didn't have the newbie bonus and could join farm parties...but had no where near the skill to actually farm the content, so when they kept failing they'd start the blame game and things break down from there (have a good number of people blacklisted because of this).
Then there's the people, especially early on in a patch cycle, will buy clears for bragging rights; if word got out they didn't legitimately clear, they'd get torn apart by the people they were trying to impress.