Daraclore Arisan
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Posted - 2013.06.06 20:39:00 -
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Jin Robot wrote:Wow, you are right. I dont know what ever gave me the impression that video game players can try and exploit, abuse, and....dare i say it, Scam the system in trying for an advantage. There were people who took advantage of this. That is a fact. This fix was a get out of jail card in a world I thought had none of those. Even if people didnt intentionally "scam", their non-willingness to except their rush spending/donating and use free fits to recover is not much better, imo. This fix seems like a corruption of the vision, I am sorry i feel that way. I still have faith CCP can create a great game. I am sure this error will definitely not be easy to get through for them, but their fix has confused me about some core things.
You do realize that they don't care if players scam each other in EVE, right? It's all part of New Eden's charm. You get scammed by someone in game, and lose billions of ISK because of it? Well that's your fault for trusting the wrong person, because that's one of the roles some people play in EVE. Hell, you can join a corporation and work your way up with the sole intent of stealing everything not nailed down and CCP won't care. After all, someone had to screw up and promote you to that kind of access. (They had a trailer promoting that 'feature' in case you missed it.)
Makes you sound naive complaining about 'scammers,' when all the real scam artists are in EVE and the majority of people who overspent in DUST just play this game as a game for fun, not some extension of real life bound by the same laws, where you have to watch every ISK you spend just in case the 'bank' makes a mistake. The people who did overspend on purpose exploited a mistake CCP made. Scamming the money from them would have involved someone tricking a programmer on the team into adding the ISK into their account then not giving him/her what was promised in return. (and that wouldn't have poured money into this many accounts.)
Oh, and in case you have forgotten, games are an entertainment medium, similar to but more interactive than film, that is used as an entertaining (ie "fun") diversion from real life. Not a carbon copy of reality with different textures.
One last note, after I pay them the 5.6 million ISK owed I will have no more assets than I would have had, had this mistake of theirs never happened. Just quit trying to over complicate entertainment. |