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Originally Posted by Derubael
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You accepted platinum from an account that was not only a known RMT mule, but also had the RMT'er logged into the account at the time you accepted the platinum. This is not someone who plays the game. The only thing they do is sell platinum.
In your specific situation, since you decided to call out my methods, you claim you powerleveld someone for a couple hours, and then they gave you platinum for it. Platinum you did not request, but was instead given to you out of the kindness of their heart.
In this scenario, I find it very unlikely someone purchased platinum with RL cash to give to you when they didn't need to.
We don't just ban people who get platinum for nothing. Stop misleading people.
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This justification actually has some of us very concerned. Some further elaboration is required.
You say that platinum was accepted from a
known RMT mule. Known to whom, exactly? The players who do not engage in this activity would certainly never know. I for one, would not.
That said, what actions such as these have created is a blanket distrust of transactions in general... buying and selling in EC, giving away items to newbies (or accepting them), helping people with item transfers... the list goes on.
Hop into any guild channel and read to what people are saying. There is now some very real concern based on how this was handled.
I'm pretty sure I speak for a larger portion of the playerbase when I say that we are all for banning people who knowingly engage in this activity, but it is the ones who have been seemingly innocently affected that has created a new, perhaps unforeseen problem:
misplaced distrust.
To us, it sounds like the situation you are replying to may have been one where someone was innocently affected. It is not unusual for a player to have a seller character in EC where most of their platinum is amassed. People help friends transfer between their mains, alts, and sell toons in EC all the time. It would seem perfectly logical to many people that when handling large, heavy volumes of plat (in the thousands), one is either going to have to visit a bank, or a storage alt.
What Derubel has outlined, however, is that because this "mule" was
known, then they are guilty by association. My question is, where is the post that lists these "known" characters so we know who to avoid, and who we can once again trust?