P99 Staff Doing God's Work (400 accounts Banned)

[thefloydian]

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

When you buy a fungi or plat for a fungi, you're allowing some loser and his friends to quit their jobs at Taco Bell, sit at home playing EQ 24-7 monopolizing content, and still be able to maintain their steady diet of taco bell. You're contributing to part of the reason you can't get that fungi, trak BP, or epic drop to begin with.

Also, you're spitting in the face of the staff who donate countless hours... You're paying someone money and allowing them to make money off staff's donated time. A considerable amount of time.

When you're donating money to Pantheon in exchange for no-drop items, you're not doing either of those. And it's not like staff-sponsored events like the Pantheon pledge drive are regularly happening over the last 5 years.

No one is making a living farming in P1999. Maybe if they had some dupe exploit or a big time buying/selling operation going, but just camping items isn't gonna pay the bills.

[webrunner5]

Well it looks like the RMT money worked out for these guys. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[Kayso]

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

No one is making a living farming in P1999. Maybe if they had some dupe exploit or a big time buying/selling operation going, but just camping items isn't gonna pay the bills.

The people who play 20 hours a day and are on call the other four aren't doing anything to make a living. Yet, they're alive.

RMT is another incentive for a small group to monopolize more game resources than they might otherwise do. It's certainly not the only incentive, but it's an incentive.

The rest was hyperbole.

[chief]

i make so much $$ irl , i cant spend it on my model gf all the time

[tizznyres]

Let the sinners be purged! Amen brothers.

[baalzy]

Entrapment is when an officer coerces a person into doing something that they would not normally do and is actually really difficult to prove in court.

If an officer held a gun to a kitten and said they'd pull the trigger if you didn't go buy some cocaine, that would be entrapment (for most people).

If an officer says 'I'm not a police officer, want to buy some cocaine?" and you then bought cocaine from the officer, that is not entrapment.

Purposely letting an illegal activity continue in order to catch more perpetrators/get evidence to take down the people at the top is also not entrapment.

[Sarajo]

So much rationalization-of-the-banned in these threads. So let me rationalize, for a moment, how toxic RMT is in any MMO:
MMOs take place in another world. The point of them (and the draw of them) is to progress, somehow. For some people that means grinding XP/gold and getting best-in-slot items along the way. For some people, that means hunting rats and fishing to buy more beer, then logging out. For others, it means playing the market, buying shit for 10g and selling it for 11g until you've gotten your first 1000 platinum. For some people, it's about dominating all of the raiding scene, not letting anyone else get their hands on stuff.
But the thing all of those have in common is equality = both a level playing field and equal opportunity. You choose your class, your starting stats, your race, and your playstyle. It's not something you're born with.
So when you runts decide to RMT, you're saying "WELL IM RICH IN REAL LIFE I AM BASICALLY BETTER THAN EVERYONE AND DESERVE TO BE PRIVILEGED IN GAME HA HA HAHAHA", and that means you're getting an unfair advantage of some kind over others who play a game in which we compete for limited resources. Bought 15k for $349.00 and now you've got a fungi? Now you can fight without breaks for the first 30 levels or so, and you're going to level up faster and acquire loot faster. You might even be able to get to more named than anyone else because you can just kill with no breaks. Bought 30k for $849.00? Now you can pay some asshole in Chardok(who will probably turn around and sell the plat you gave them again) to powerlevel you through the "hell levels", again letting you race to higher-level loot and enemies and abilities.
Don't ever say RMT is not harming anyone. Don't ever think that it only affects you and the seller.
And finally, don't ever do it again.

[JHTheisen]

Do what you must but be willing to pay the price for it.

[JPMorgan]

RMTers: even in a pixilated world, you're the least liked kids in school.

[Red_Psyphon]

Applause for Sarajo, that guy gets it.