Artemis Dragmire
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2009.12.25 17:53:00 -
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Going to support this. Not because I was told to, but because I have always believed there is too much metagaming in EVE - Online.
I've grown accustomed to it over the years, have come to accept the need for alts, especially in my line of work, but I have trained my own alts, with my own money, and my own time.
I've always thought character selling/trading was right on the borderline of what should be allowed for metagaming. People should, at the very least, pay for and train their own alts, not purchase them from other people in some barely secure web forum.
Furthermore, with the recent increase in account hacking and the subsequent selling of the characters hacked, I think it's high time CCP looks into this issue, and shuts down this method for the ISK farmers to make income.
Also, without the character bazaar, CCP's job of administering the e-justice becomes a lot easier. Not just for ISK sellers, but for people trying to dodge a banhammer for other reasons as well.
For all the reasons mentioned above, and also for all the reasons Verone mentioned, I support this motion 100%.
Oh, and I'd just like to make something clear to those that don't get it:
You can have your account hacked and your character sold without ever having clicked a keylogger link on the EVE-O forums. There are many ways of getting keyloggers installed on your system, and not even running the most paranoid of firewalls/anti-virus/malware software will save you. It is far too easy to compromise a system and get this information.
I've taken college courses on the subject, and know HOW this is done, it's actually quite a simple task to compromise your average system. So don't go thinking "I'm immune because I'm not ******ed". It's just stupid talk.
Take matters into your own hands, players of EVE, support this motion, get CCP to realize that this is a huge issue that needs to be dealt with. And the first step is what is suggested above.
For everyone else:
Change your passwords, TODAY. How long has it been since you last changed em? Can you type your password from memory? It's probably been too long then.
Run a system scan or three, just to be sure.
Good luck, and Merry Christmas to CCP & The Players.
A giant lump of flaming dog poo for the dirty ISK farmers.
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