Since I'm so free, I've decided to tell you guys about a simplified ("short" or maybe not so short) version of a very long mother goose story...
Years ago, when MA first introduced CLDs, there were yea-sayers and nay-sayers about it.
I read all of their comments...from both sides...and decided not to touch them...way back when there were still tons of em listed on auction at 1k peds each.
Then one day, some "mysterious" buyer bought a whole lot of them...a whole lot...from MA...and the amount of CLDs listed on auction got drastically reduced.
Their prices slowly climbed...but
I still didn't touch them.
One year later (or was it?), MA did a "buyback" stunt (from that "mysterious" buyer?) and re-released them manually and also via auction. There was a frenzy to snap up those "excess" that got re-released...but it also caused a momentary drop in the price of the CLDs at that time.
Some people bitched about it while others were happy to be given another opportunity to get some cheap CLDs.
If my memory didn't fail me...the CLD prices were around 1.3k prior to that "buyback" stunt from MA and MA were reintroducing them at 1150 peds each?
It was also at that time there was a famous incident that some MA official accidentally "sold off" a stack of 200 CLDs for the price of one to a player in a PVP trade.
(Well...we all know the story of that huh? The gods had their accidentally sold CLDs back. Hahaha.)
But anyway, given the results of 1 year or so of payout data (and perhaps in support of the game?),
I decided that it might not be such a bad buy after all...and so also joined in with that frenzy.
But as I was too slow in buying them off auction (somehow those CLDs got snapped up as soon as they were listed...wonder who clicks THAAAAT fast), I resorted to buying them from street vendors...at an "inflated" price of 1160 PEDs each.
(Inflated...get that? Inflated....hahahaha.)
-- Fast-forward to AUD's introduction time --
News of Arkadia releasing AUDs at the AU TP NPC broke throughout PCF. And again, there were yeas and nays. People from both sides took their stands, offered their opinions and even compared them to CLDs.
After reading them,
I (again) decided that it might be an interesting proposition...and so flew to Arkadia Underground and waited there to compete with a swarm of others to snatch some of those AUDs.
(And boy...was it difficult to grab some.)
However, after a while, it turned out to be a "bad buy" (back then anyway) since the payouts were pretty random and on some days...even zero.
(People back then said CLDs were giving out way better ROI...and that we were stupid to have bought into AUDs.)
Nonetheless,
I still didn't complain...because it was
MY decision after all. (Although I did make a thread about the very first 0 payout back when it first happened. For fun of course.)
The price of AUDs dropped slowly but steadily...until it was about around 45 PEDs? So I took that chance to grab some more of them for keeps.
-- Fast forward to June last year (2015) --
Had some "spare cash" (or rather PEDs)...that I was thinking of maybe spending on grabbing some more CLDs or AUDs.
(CLD's price was around 1.3k still I believe...and AUDs were around 52?)
But after reading on the annual report that MA posted on their website,
I decided not to go ahead with it and ended up withdrawing them from the game instead.
Well...you know what happened eventually right?
CLD's price sky-rocketed to 1.9k...then dropped to 1.6k now...while AUDs got completely sold out and is up to 60-70 PEDs now.
(Missed the boat, perhaps? Maybe...maybe not.)
Bottom line is...all of those were
MY own decisions. No one else had a part to play in it.
(The number of AUDs and CLDs that I've acquired are based upon my own risk appetite/tolerance.)
And most importantly...
REMEMBER!
We're not playing just a mere game. Not Entropia Universe...Hell NO.
Its not just an MMO game or another virtual social interaction environment.
We are also playing a massive "war", mind you.
A people versus people battle of intelligence, wits and knowledge.
A
MIND GAME.
Information control, lies and half-truths are VERY REAL in this game.
It is
EXTREMELY important that you learn how to
THINK for your own self.