Don Peyote
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Posted - 2017.03.17 01:26:00 -
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Messenger Of Truth wrote:SIEGE RED wrote: Also, I'd wager that most Aurum under the 1k units falls firmly into the gift category still - particularly with old / inactive accounts. I've converted a Plex to Aurum. I've got Aurum left over because of their typical annoying microtransaction prices where none of the prices are divisors of the quantities you can buy currency in. This Aurum was not a free gift, and confiscating it is unacceptable.
Capqu wrote:convert everything, saying you wont convert under 1k for some bullshit reason is straight up pathetic especially when you STILL OFFER 900 points for 4.99Gé¼ in your store. you are scamming people plain and simple
the amount being low per individual is not relevant.
you [CCP] are taking/have taken money for an in-game currency
now you are deciding to defunct that currency and not refund players. there is no justification for this
i don't know much about law and i wont pretend to, but to me this is grounds for a class action. every single eve online account with a small amount of currency is being stolen from.
being conservative and saying 30k players with 150 average AUR being stolen, you are stealing 0.83c from each player - which results in over 24,000Gé¼ stolen.
and that is with VERY conservative numbers on my part
i don't know what world you live in where you think you can get away with scamming that kind of money in broad daylight and brush it under the rug as a game-play decision.
this isn't an in game currency you invented. this is money you took from people in return for a currency to use your store
Agreed on all counts, there's no justification whatsoever for arbitrarily invalidating the purchases of thousands of paying customers. There's no technical limitation reason they can't just convert all aurum regardless of the amount. In fact I suspect it'd be easier to implement.
The product has already been sold, they aren't losing out on custom. It's a cynical cashgrab - if a person with 790 aurum now misses on the conversion for whatever reason but in the future wants to buy a SKIN, I guess it's tough **** and they'll have to buy the full balance again! Good practice if you're hustling somebody once, but not something to do if you want repeat custom.
Maybe it's my fault, but I expect CCP to at least have the decency to at least give people the product they pay for. It's especially egregious when, as the two posts I've quoted point out, they have employed and continue to employ the classic microtransaction peddler shtick of selling the good in amounts incompatible with the use of it, necessitating further purchases or 'wasted money' - a 'fallacy' that stops being fallacious when that 'spare change' is exempted from this upcoming conversion because of an arbitrary cutoff imposed.
This sort of business practice makes Wargaming look scrupulous. |