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Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.31 20:59:00 -
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Ebay is known for arbitrary descisions of this nature. They censor the bands avaliable, they've banned people from being able to sell their own music on Ebay before ffs.
The people who benefit are the REAL villians of the piece, IGE and Yantis. Their underhand methods cost MMO companies far more than Ebay trading ever has. And no, it's NOT enforcement - it's selective morality. They're allowing second life auctions, and banning ultima online ones despite UO allowing RMT. You can't stop RMT any more than you can stop recreational drug use, and stringent measures to do so - just like the war on drugs, hurts everyone in the longer term.
Neo-prohibition simply isn't working. I hope CCP are doing something smarter.
Eilene Fernite, selling ISK directly is inflationary and thus plain bad for the game in a way simply shuffling ISK between the players is not.
Tarkan Kador, amusing. CCP gets paid either way. So there is zero bottom-line impact from people paying with GTC's. They are paying. Just because they are using a different payment than you does not make you morally superior.
Nero Scuro, given Eve is the classic slow-burn business model, no it is not "exponential". Your lack of basic understanding of how Eve has gained subscribers is showing, I'm afraid. And yes, I'm sure you hate CCP. I don't. I'm sure you'll be ranting about the unfairness of player skill soon...
Rod's right.
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.31 21:14:00 -
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Gratz, there does the player skill rant.
And once you've reported the macrominers, going off on rants against them is going to lead to harrass some legitimate players. There is a lesson to learn there.
Jusr because you think neo-prohibition works dosn't mean that people should not actually look at what happens and realise that it simply drives people to the really shady operators rather than clearing up the actual issues.
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.31 21:54:00 -
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Nah, I'm just arround less :P
Sitting arround bored waiting for things to break. Or not, so I can go hooome...
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.31 22:02:00 -
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Nero Scuro, not everyone has a credit card. Universal coverage of cards is, in Europe, rare outside England. CCP's refusal to take debit cards means even a lot of people in the UK can't pay their subscriptions directly.
You really need to research this before you sound off.
If you can't leaverage your experience in-game, that's your issue. Stop blaming gametime codes for your skill woes.
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.01.31 23:43:00 -
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"they're rampant in the UK. Literally everywhere"
Where? Never seen a single one. Pay-by-cash is quite litteraly blocked by my bank, and other UK ones, because of its poor record. And there is no reason to pay 20-25% extra because you don't happen to have the right super sekrit magic card. Mastro STILL isn't supported, ffs.
Your assumption that Eve can be paid for in the same way as internet access is just that. I don't see the first party direct debit options, myself.
"That's just obvious"
Only if you make the base assumption that player skill should count for nothing and time invested everything. And no, people with lots of time and little cash can sell to people with little time and lots of cash. Both get what they want. Gee, sounds like it *gasp* works. Trying to claim unique snowflake status, heh.
He didn't reason that. Only if you're again using your time invested > all assumption can that be true. And some of us think player skill should actually count. I'm..no, I'm not sorry you can't compete. Time invested is not a magic bullet, and that's GOOD.
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.02.01 00:49:00 -
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So now Yantis has a market advantage for his tactics, it's a win for Eve? Heh.
He's a hundred times the threat Ebay was. One of his standard tactics, for example, is to get corp leaders to sell him the corp wallet. And abuse exploits on a massive scale, and and.
Funny, I'd of thought you'd of disliked that over a few individual sales on Ebay. (Further, there is zero proof from the games which have allways had auctions pulled off ebay that it does ANYTHING to reduce RMT volume - the number of people banned for RMT *stays steady*).
All neo-prohibition serves is to annoy people.
//Maya |
Maya Rkell
Forsaken Empire
The Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.02.01 01:18:00 -
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Yggdrassil,
Ebay was one market. There are other auction sites. There are other FAR less savourary sites. For there to be "progress", you'd have to change the fundermental nature of Humans. This is a step back.
//Maya |
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