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Posted - 2007.06.12 23:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Karlemgne
Welcome to global capitalism. It is a very odd state of affairs where we privlidged Westerners can "work hard" and play EvE for fun, while those "others" who don't speak English (and thus don't respond to you in game in English) provide a service for some of us(lets face it odds are SOMEONE who has posted here has bought isk in the past,) "work hard" playing EvE barely making a living...
But we're from the West, we don't care if others in the world suffer so a friggen' video game is more enjoyable for some of us. Regardless, I digress.
-Karl
So how about you quit your account and donate the money you pay for this game to some organization that helps our poor people in 3rd world countries? And what are you doing spending time posting on this game forum - travel there yourself and instead spend time helping these people if you think we should all care. Now how about it?
Not all of us here are westerners. Not all of us here are well off financially. Some people playing EVE are unemployed, some people have low paying jobs that in the West puts them on the border or poverty, some people are students with financial debt, I've even met people online who were homeless. They pay for their accounts with ISK that they grind. Some people playing EVE Online are from Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa. They come to play in this fantasy world to relax after hard day's work, to entertain themselves in this cheap way that doesn't even require you to pay real money, to forget about troubles in real life for an hour or two. I don't quite understand why you think these people should give a damn about teenagers in China who engage in ISK farming as the best job alternative because their own corrupt government cannot provide them with anything better to do. As a result they are destroying the game that someone else worked hard to create for all of us to enjoy.
You know there are alternative much better ways of helping them out than letting them mess with a computer game that CCP worked to create. For one thing those players living in Western countries pay taxes some portion of which goes towards foregn aid. For another some of these people donate money directly to organization that engage in humanitarian work. Allowing them to farm roids and rats in EVE for the entire day is definitely not going to improve the lives of these teens.
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