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Posted - 2006.07.26 04:27:00 -
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Well, a couple of things :)
1. You could clean out and resell those bottles back to Aquafina. If you were to just clean out and sell the bottles, there is nothing they could do and chances are if they tried, the backlashes from environmentalists would most certainly hurt them.
2. As for program checkers, they don't work. Punkbuster has already been defeated by reducing its run level to that of less than Administrator so it cannot see administrative processes. There will always be ways around it, so why bother? Plus then the game vendor is starting to cross into a grey area where they are messing around with a user's machine when they shouldn't be.
3. It would be nice to have automated scripting based on events. We used to use a program called tintin back in the MUD days and it was certainly beneficial to get right of the same clutter seen over and over again. Besides, ships of the future should have a bit more processing power than that of the Apollo missions and be able to be programed to react to certain conditions :)
On this note, there are already examples of python script injection going on (escrow bot example) so who knows what some crafty programmers who have been hired to help the external sellers are coming up with.
4. I understand that CCP has the full intended spirit to keep the game fun for everyone by not allowing external selling. Unfortunately that is probably going to be coming to an end soon as several countries are putting laws together to protect an individual's IP (time to play, etc) right's to virtual items. Korea comes immediately to mind with a court case a few years back where an individual won a lawsuit against a gaming company for banning him because he sold online items. Sony Online has also been hit and forced to provide a regulated market for the exchange of online items for real money. Second Life bypassed the whole problem and has an exhange. Blizzard doesn't even care as they spend all of their resources trying to keep their stuff going. One of the reasons for the Eve China shard might be along this line as well. It is a big can of worms to say the least, but so long as it remains 'black market' there will always be seedy types of organizations involved to take advantage. As a player, I don't want to try and log on one day to find out that CCP's provider is being DoS'ed because CCP banned an organized crime group's farming team.
But yeah, deifnitely a pickle on all sides of the fence. |