ALL YOU WILL GET:
<removed> let me say this:
Case 1:
It will be nearly IMPOSSIBLE for MA to catch anyone that used
old alt or friends accounts and traded them points to cash in. A normal IP has no more than 2-3 users generally, but even if someones "x-girlfriend" logged in and got the bonus it will be impossible for MA to prove it wasn't the x-girlfriend.
Most of the players would have only used 1-3 accounts they would have access too. MA won't be able to do anything in these situations...UNLESS a player have 5-10-15-20 alts ALREADY created on that IP AND was trading points to all of them...and not just 1 or 2...once it reaches that level, and they were all getting traded points, it will be easy to determine their guilt.
But these people will be very rare...there just weren't enough stars to go around for 10k points to
every one of an auction sellers alt list. And if it was only 1-2 alts on an IP, MA can't prove it wasn't other family members or friends.
So there is a major dilemna here, and very little will be able to be recovered in this case.
Case 2:
Those people that A) made a new account on their IP AFTER event had started AND B) Traded that account MM stars...it can be presumed these people are guilty as hell. How many of these there were, we do not know. If a person only did it once or twice, MA probably will even ignore that, or at worst get a soft temp ban.
That leaves those that made 3-5-10 or more accounts AFTER the event started, AND traded them points. If they stopped when MA announced this was a no-no, it will likely be a tougher temp ban. Little recourse will be available to CLD holders here because of this too.
However, anyone who CONTINUED to make alts AFTER MA released the statement AND traded them points, these people are guilty without a doubt, and should have their accounts wiped. This will ONLY be less than a dozen of the hard-core scammers, and there will not be shit on those accounts anyways.
In any event, the amount they can try to get back in Case 2 is peanuts compared to what they will never get back in Case 1.
So in conclusion, you CLD holders will NEVER get shit back, and if you do, it will be very small.
It is simply impossible for MA to accurately accuse players of exploiting, because if the x-gf really does exist, even ONE time, then they will themselves by losing the trust of ALL the other depositors (once the shit hits the forum-fan). And the ones they WILL be able to catch won't amount to pennies on the dollar.
So in the end CLD owners will have to suck it up and realize it was just a mistake by MA, and their little virtual pieces of paper don't give them any rights and certainly never guaranteed them payouts in situations like these.
AT BEST, MA is figuring out a way to pay the remaining bonuses without affecting the CLD's too much when they do, thereby pacifying the CLD holders a little bit. It is all anyone can hope for. Loot sucked balls for 7 days now...maybe that IS what is happening