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Originally Posted by kaev
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All of that is true (except the "nasty" bit), and none of it contradicts my comment. This community has long been well salted with jerks, and you've been around plenty long enough to know that. (And a far few of the jerks are quite friendly and companionable if they happen to consider you a friend/ally, it's a rare personality who is 100% sociopath, even here.)
Resellers were using, and RMTers were abusing, the EC bazaar long before p99auctions was even a vague notion in its programmer's mind. The assholery in EC and in the raid game was well established in EC and throughout the community when I started playing here in the fall of 2011, and by all reports then it was not a recent development.
Your rude comments about p99auctions in this and other threads are completely unwarranted.
Thou protesteth overmuch, m'lady.
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Not sure how I missed his until now, but now that I have found it, I will address it ^^ I do not hold p99auctions or it's creators accountable for the abuses it suffered alongside EC goers. No, that blame rests entirely with those who knowingly subjected the site and their fellow players to their own nefarious ambitions.
I apologize if my words slandered too directly p99auctions or it's benevolent creators. That was not my intent. But though a tool may be crafted with noblest of intents, it is not immune to misuse. And though neither it nor it's creators may in good conscience be held to account for such misuse, the abuse of others still, simply cannot be ignored. It is for that reason that I felt strongly the passing of this creation was a boon to our community.
I should have more clearly leveled blame at the source (the exploiters) while addressing clearly the unintended role played by p99auctions. Thank you for keeping me in line ^^