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Originally posted by Rune
No. It's a sad day because SoE (and Blizzard) are too fucking lazy to get in there and cut this shit out at the source. They're not willing to take the initiative to hire people to look at logs in increments of 100's of platinum, or your currency of choice, and have corresponding bannings. They're too content to let it 'extend the life of their game' or whatever the fuck the current MMO management 101 philosophy is.
Instead they fold up and pretend that it's impossible to avoid this kind of corruption, and it's part and parcel of the system. It's not.
No one in big business is willing to take a stand and set an example, to be the shining light in the darkness. There are no ethics anymore, just bottom lines. This is yet another sign of this, as though we needed it.
That is why it is a sad day.
You stupid fuck. |
Oh my so much rage. Did some ebayer rip you off?
The simple fact is, there's no way they can police the gargantuan amounts of transactions that happen on a day to day basis, and there's no guaranteed way to find people doing it. They'd have to significantly harm their profits(most likely resulting in a rate hike) and they might get a small fraction of the people who do this, in addition to legit people who simply mule and arrange loans or some shit.
So they took the route that they should have all along and are providing a place where people who want to trade and play in that kind of environment can do so. It's not like they're shoving this down the throats of players who don't want this going on.