I own over 1000 CLD. I'm taking this fuck up rather seriously.
Magyar, if you bought your CLDs years ago, then I want to say: Congratulations on a fantastic investment, your CLDs are worth much more now then what you paid for them and you made great ROI on them all the while, well done!
Please correct me if I'm wrong but the reason you created this thread and the reason you continue to post is an effort to put some pressure on MA so that they see that if they make stupid mistakes like this there will be consequences (players won't stand idly by anymore) and also so that any serious exploit doesn't go unpunished, am I right?
I feel very much the same way. I don't own as many CLDs that you do but I have over 100 and so I feel somewhat screwed out of about $100 USD this Christmas. But please let me share my story with you and why perhaps I'm taking a slightly different approach:
2011 was a good year for me and I decided to invest. I wanted to diversify and not put all my money in the same place so I made some unusual investments that year: I bought 100 Teak trees in Costa Rica with a friend for $9,000 USD, I bought about $30,000 CDN worth of stocks and I also deposited $11,000 USD in Entropia and bought 100 CLDs. Approximately 5 years later, here's where we stand:
1. The Teak tree growing farm in Costa Rica went belly up and I never saw a dime of that money.
2. The high-risk stocks that I bought for $30,000 are now worth less than $5,000
3. My 100 CLDs generated me about $7,000 in "dividends" over the years and are now worth ~160% of what I paid for them initially.
While I do agree with you that it is very frustrating to see MA squander a perfectly good Christmas season worth of revenue for Calypso Land Deed holders, I think you are forgetting the big picture (or maybe you aren't, but I've read every word of every post in this thread thus far and it sure sounds like it). The big picture is this:
Despite the fact that these CLDs originally came without any promises:
1. The ROI has been good
2. The CLDs themselves have increased tremendously in value
3. You can still sell them and get your money + profits out
I really don't think MA is going to necessarily act based on what a few people are saying in the forums, it is more likely that they would do something based on actions from the player base as opposed to words, like if there was an increase in withdrawals for example due to many investors selling and cashing out.
I for one am not there yet, I really want to see these land plots developed. In the meantime, I have submitted a support case asking for more information on what just happened and if you haven't done so yet, I strongly recommend that you do the same.
As for exploiters, I think most of us realize by now that the most we can hope for is that MA will investigate those that created several alts during the MM and "take back" the Universal Ammo in those alts or delete the alts altogether.
Best of luck,
Inherent M. Legend
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Full disclosure: I did not take part in the Merry Mayhem, I did not buy/trade any points or "stars". I did not profit from it in any way nor do I have any alts. But knowing what I know now, I kind of wish that I had because it sounds like the Universal Ammo was a great reward and I sure could have used the 500 PED saving, even if only 1 time.