Kensamaofmari wrote: »Momma_Sophie wrote: »Momma_Sophie wrote: »Momma_Sophie wrote: »
My thinking is, that if there was no pattern to it, then Nexon's actions would be better argued as negligent rather than malicious.
It's possible that it was a matter of incompetence. But, the sudden restriction of my access to the page is making me doubt that to be the case.
Hm? Maybe, but either way it's embarrassing for them. Being able to say, "No, no, no, we're not evil, we're just stupid." Is, at best, small comfort.
Ah, I can't say what's worse, honestly.
I'm tolerant of stupidity until criticism is banned or shut out, which it generally is via Nexon's ToS (in the context where it supposedly causes some sort of reputational damage or financial inhibition to Nexon). Criticism is how people provide solution to the stupidity, so closing it all out signifies a willful ignorance. Even that is forgivable to me, until the action turns into shutting up everyone else's mouths. At that point, you're evil. That's my guideline.
I'm suspicious as to whether this censorious action imposed upon that webpage link in the OP (on basis of "administrative review") is due to some pressure from Nexon. I know how authoritarian this company can be, so I'm not writing it off as impossibility.
Most Korean corporations (or E Asian corps in general) are very authoritarian.
As regards to the article no longer being accessible, there are 2 options. One pressure from the company on Business KR forced them to remove it, and Two the allegations are completely false, and it has been removed. In the era of fake news, one little thing that is rumored to be true can spread like wildfire, and people who are fed off of them act on impulse, and thus we have groups acting with dissent on their discontent. And this is what's been happening over the past 5+ years, from top to bottom throughout the world people are being manipulated with info that is difficult to discern true or false.
One of best Mabinogi gold sinks keep on getting removed by Master Plan Events. This last year alone probably had like 6 months of free weapon repairs. Makes me think this is the main issue why inflation skyrocket.
Inflation will happen even if everyone is an honest actor. People make more over time; even playing the game honestly, so the money supply will ALWAYS increase. Therefore controlling inflation means more effective gold sinks. A very good way to do this is to have more of the things valued by players purchased via NPC's. That kills the private market and it's a gold sink; two birds one NPC.
Kensamaofmari wrote: »One of the continuing problems one created by gold farmers is the never ending demand for gold, and thus the never ending cycle of gold inflation. The farmers created a market they could exploit and get real money from. There needs to be more methods to manage supply and demand of gold and possibly get that inflation under control. I think price caps under personal shops is effective (a shop license can only hold X max amount of gold), and this may not be a popular opinion, I think price caps should be applied to auction house too. A cap for a player's total sale slots on how much gold they can actually hold.
Well it's no secret that kraken hearts pay rent. Least that's what I heard. Perhaps increase the drop rate and that ~might~ curve that market. lol.
I saw that they said this only will apply to people who "knowingly" do something like this. Alright. Now, the question becomes: "How do you know who knows?" Nobody with a brain thinks Nexon somehow will acquire evidence to proof that someone knows what's going on when these transactions occur, so the only logical conclusion left is that they'll throw a dart and whomever it hits is just screwed.So basically, what I got from this:
If you engage in any sort of commerce whatsoever with another player, you might be sanctioned. You may have been interacting with a RMTer, and didn't notice it.
Also, hot take:
RMT helps Mabi's economy more than it hurts it at this point. Mabi's economy has the upper eschelons earning SO MUCH GOLD, that the redistribution of currency to non high end players, helps the game more than the downsides from the farming bots (which mostly use instanced areas, so they don't directly encroach on others farming, like happens in other MMOs)