A Word of Warning to the New (and Naive)

[August]

Originally Posted by Systolic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

ALERT: Tin foil hat ON



This is one of the responses to my petition. I wont mention the GM who said this to me but I thought that the bolded portion was important. The guides/GMs obviously see the accounts as having value of some sort, so for them to have the idea that accounts have value but at the same time don't condone the sale of them logically implies that they have a direct bearing in the values of said accounts.

I don't have any hard evidence to prove that guides/gms might potentially involved in RMT themselves, but sentences like that can only make one wonder. It would also make sense for them to be opposed to account selling in this case because then any money potentially made (or platinum) would be filtered through the community.

This is all just a theory, but since I am quitting the server due to the attitudes of the leaders of the community, I figured I would at least share my thoughts...

One last little idea: What better way to make money than to monopolize it? If a currency has an real world exchange rate, if one (like an admin of some kind) could create their own currency, then not only could that person control the exchange rate, they could also have an unlimited real-world cash flow.

You're really stretching an argument thin here. Because the GM said that the account had value you are going on to say that the GMs are behind a RMT conspiracy to monopolize accounts and turn that into real life dough? I would gladly say my account has 'value' - it's a 60 enc missing 3 spells. It has sentimental value, it has in-game value, it has platinum value, hell it has a more intangible value called prestige - but that doesn't mean that to me it has real money value.