Ok, I feel I must voice my opinion on this matter.
Firstly, I have previously worked with Akoz and trust him 100%, Teilk although my communication with you is extremely limited your posts suggest you are a perfectionist and very intelligent, CindyWood - never had any comms with you but you are a member of a highly respected society and a friend of Akoz. All 3 people I would trust.
Now, as far as im concerned MA have made a terrible mistake by making these 3 people's business
outlawed. And it so easily could have
been avoided. As things are MA have adjusted the goal posts to suit the biggest investers and all this says to me is that
"you give us the money, we will make darn sure that the playing community has to spend extra to you". Correct me if im wrong but where else is the cash coming from to pay back the initial cost of the licenses....
its you and me, the paying public.
How I would have done it if I was MA.....
When they introduce the bank VU also add a
feature of unsecure loan, ie when you right click an avatar and scroll down the list you will find Private trade and under that unsecure loan...this will open a trade window as before but
with big red warning signs of the risk involved, hell the licenced bank rates could also be advertised in the warning messages aswell as a secure alternative
This way if there is ANY conflict then MA can simply say "well you did click numerous warning messages before taking the agreement". Problem solved.
Is that really so hard to impliment?
instead we are in the situation of MA basically
making rules up as they go along. The winners of the bank auctions didnt have this quote outlawing non approved loans when they bought the things so
why now, they paid a price for what they saw at the time. Now it seems they may have paid too much...
Poor form on your part bank owners - you simply paid too much and now ingame
laws are being changed to help you (the minority) and will surely cost us the players (the majority) more. It stinks to the core.
I understand MA want to help protect peoples investment which is a good thing but to go as far as
changing rules after the event has happened,
ending free-trade and
threatening players offering rival services with perm ban is way out of order.
Also it makes a farce out of some trades doesnt it....hell am I going to hire a fapper as surely im "loaning" their services or hell will I ever borrow or lend an item to/from a friend.
Ofc, Akoz and co could just operate as resellers, ie ok ill buy this off you and sell it back to you in a month time at such
*a higher price*...Now MA, please tell us how that breaks the EULA, even with your new stance? as people called
"resellers" have been enjoying the profits of this since the start
Too many
Grey areas and a mess has been created by late rule changes and the shock of possible competition to MA and the bank buyers....time to sort it out in the next VU I think MA, I suggest you look at the option I have listed above.
