RMT and the responsibility.

[xCry0x]

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

Yeah that's kind of what baffles me as well... With population topping out around 1k at peek I have a hard time believing there's that many RMT buyers...

Well I think two things are at play,

1) controlling the value of rare items by hoarding rare, no longer dropping items. If someone wants a manastone they can RMT it or they can pay an inflated plat price. It also makes it so if he needed plat (which apparently he was pretty good on) it would be somewhat easy to liquidate since he had the majority of the available rare items.

2) The game is about pixels, so who wouldn't want to have a bag full of rare shit? I would imagine hoarding items becomes kind of an addiction (Stabby said as much himself).

The real question is who buys all this shit? I have a good job and if I wanted to I could drop $200 on plat but geeze, it is a god damn emu! I can understand a new player RMTing a few thousand plat to get started but who the heck is driving the market for items worth hundreds of thousands of plat. My only guess is the major business was moving plat and the items were all considered investments.

[Lopretni]

Originally Posted by xCry0x [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The real question is who buys all this shit? I have a good job and if I wanted to I could drop $200 on plat but geeze, it is a god damn emu! I can understand a new player RMTing a few thousand plat to get started but who the heck is driving the market for items worth hundreds of thousands of plat. My only guess is the major business was moving plat and the items were all considered investments.

If there IS fishy shit going on, I can only see it playing out in two ways.

1) Platlord and the server are part of some kind of money laundering scheme, whether the server staff is aware of it or not

OR

2) Account buys plat/items. Account gets banned. Player is more than welcome to make a new account, however. Account buys plat/items. Account gets banned. etc. If people doing the banning are benefiting financially from such a cycle...

[xCry0x]

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

If there IS fishy shit going on, I can only see it playing out in two ways.

1) Platlord and the server are part of some kind of money laundering scheme, whether the server staff is aware of it or not

Imagining Tony Soprano & Nilbog meeting at Bada Bing discussing how he can pay off his gambling debts through laundering money through his emulator server.

My nephew Christopher will be on your staff as the main GM to keep an eye on everything

OOOOH!