Minerva Vulcan
Caldari
The Nexus Foundation
Endless Horizon
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Posted - 2008.01.23 02:25:00 -
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 Originally by: Mtberalt
Astonishing that this ipo ever got off the ground really
Maybe, but if nothing else it was a learning experience for me, at least. It was one of the first ventures I invested in on this forum, myself being relatively new here, and had some loose ISK. I originally invested because he seemed like a very personable... well, person... and everyone else seemed to be responding well to him as well. This, coupled with the fact that it was open and hadn't been just up and bought out by one or two people, made me jump in it. This was my mistake, of course. Since then, I've had a healthy bit of caution for any investment opportunity that comes along. I do my own research on it, think for myself whether it's worth me investing in or not, and go from there. With the recent flux of 1-2b ISK requests, I've been researching those characters and sometimes posting about the ones that I don't see them as legit,(pretty much all of them aren't, though sometimes I just can't be arsed to post and others seem to do the same I do anyway) and all that.
Most people don't like him or flat out hate him. Some people do more than others as he does like to rub them the wrong way intentionally as I've seen it. While I didn't like what he did and originally losing my ISK of course, the fact is he played everyone who invested and did it well enough to set up probably the rest of his EVE playing career fairly well. Social engineering like he did I can respect at it's base, as reading the Nightfreeze and GHSC stories is what originally brought me to EVE in the first place. Just the fact that the game allowed that without intervention from GMs and that freedom made me want to check it out. It was interesting, at least. At the end of the day, I was responsible for what I do with my ISK, and I made a bad decision with it. I accepted that and moved on.
Other people still hold a big grudge, and feel betrayed on a personal level, but that's their call. I myself just saw it as business that went bad. (And, well, considerably less bad for me, some time after the fact.)
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