Zam.com Q&AFollow

Just gonna comment on 1 thing:

I have seen somepage mentioned several times. Over the past year or 2 I have been using alla & somepage both. People want to jump ship to somepage....yet they have IGE ads advertising RMT all over their site. Dont jump from the pot into the fire.

(no I'm not supporting the merger, but I'm not going to post anything other then the above on the issue)

AGREED!

This does not bode well.

How can I get a refund of my recent Premium renewal?

If anyone creates the cure for cancer it will be a doctor, scientist, or chemist. They may work for Merck, but if they don't they'll work for someone else. They'll still do their work; regardless.

Let's imagine a more likely scenario. Let's imagine a bio-tech operation that's working on the cure for cancer and new bio-warfare, and another bio-tech operation that is totally opposed to bio-warfare. I'm putting my money in the latter operation, and if the former have to let their bio-techs go due to lack of support, those techs are likely to move to the latter operation, where they will continue to work on the cure for cancer unhindered by demand for bio-weapons. They will be MORE likely to find the cure for cancer when they're not being pushed to create weapons instead. You're damn right I'm going to be against the company creating bio-weapons regardless of their efforts to cure cancer.


And Kraft?.. There are other snack food/cheese manufacturers. If they go out of bussiness it's not like we're going to be without snacks and cheese. Their products are nasty anyways. I've always preferred real cheese. I buy my snacks and cheese from local delis and bakerys, where the quality is 1000% better than the processed crap that Kraft produces.

QFT. This is one of the more level-headed posts I have seen in the entire 15 pages. I would hate to have you all as friends who are so quick to stab one in his back.



Actually, they have. The "select few" of the people who are behind Alla on his decision are probably much more than all you protestors would want. 80 percent of the people on this site are likely to not give a damn. The other 20 percent probably are completely for or completely against. That is just common bell curve statistics. I am not trying to shame anyone when I say I am behind him 100 percent, I am saying it because he is a human being dealing with his own business, and hearing my loyal customers stab me in the back would suck for me. Remember the golden rule. Put in his position most of you would be singing a different tune. This business is not yours, despite the fact that because you pay for it you think it is. Voice your opinion here if you want, but don't think your all-mighty cause is worth it to most of the premium members who are paying. They may just like the site because it's a damn good website.

I debated editing my response because it was somewhat offensive -- and misdirected. I don't think everyone that's against this decision is a moron. But anyway -- the problem is with a very particular type of person who thinks this is some moral issue hand down to them through divine inspiration. The issue is not black and white. It's calling someone immoral because they shop at a store that's owned by another company that ones another property where they do a poor job with cleanup up their trash.

Telling them you think they shouldn't because they are indirectly supporint littering (even though the store takes exta care with their garbage) is fine. Calling them immoral is going way overboard. This is what I responded to.

At the same time, if RMT is that morally wrong, really do something about it. Stop playing MMOs. They are the biggest supported of the RMT business. If the mmo's lose enough revenue because of this maybe they will institute better in game mechanics to make gold selling not profitable. (My suggestion is not allow direct transfer of money and placing caps on trivial items.)

"Select few" refers to the vocal "Why aren't you protesting XYZ you stupid whiner?" minority within the probable majority who'll conduct business here as usual.I haven't seen anyone make that argument yet. However, as paying customers who I'd assume Alla wants to remain paying customers, our opinions on his business still have merit.

As for the backstabbing bit, I already told Alla what I thought. What he thinks (if anything) about my opinion is completely up to him.

The one thing i have never understood about people on these forum's is the fact that they read what they want too read, and blatantly ignore the 80~90% of what has been stated by the admin.
Then run about like headless chicken's, screaming and crying about a bunch of half truth's and misinterpretated facts.

Also the other thing that i find is pretty funny is at least 50% of you people crying and being a baby about the fact that Alla has been bought by the Parent company of IGE.
Is that you are the gil/gold/plat buyers keeping them in business.

How contradicting are you?

"OMG i hate you Alla!
*Cough. Awesome i can get discount gold with my prem account /cheer .Cough*
I hope you all die, my Prem has been deactivated"

Sure it has.

Now please.. go ahead and start crying about this post, just too prove my point ^.^;

Careful, if you ask that question, you probably aren't going to like the answer.....

Actually, in my experience, people who regularly purchase accounts/gil/gold/plat/hamsters are not interested in giving anything back to the community. Hence, they will not be on a community oriented website such as this.

I do, however, think people are letting themselves be controlled by their emotions, and thus are overreacting to the situation. I trust Mr. Allakhazam to do what is best for his business, and for his customers.

If, in the future, the worst of the doom-and-gloom predictions come to pass, then it will be time for me to move on. For now, the most appropriate action is to wait and see how things pan out.

Bye

I supported you as you stated you hated 'Gold Sellers'

I will not be renewing my subscription.

I have deleted all my info.

I will not be back.

does this mean that they are not going to do "gamers get a date night?"

at least ige probably has lots of good chicks. they have the cash and cash=chicks.

Honestly, I don't think it's morally wrong in and of itself either. It's just another commodity. The problem is that IGE is like the mob. They are extorting us, and "attacking" us in game with MPK tactics. It's not the RMT itself I have a problem with.. it's IGE; the CGFs; MPKers.

I'm also torn on how it should be dealt with, particularly because of my position on illigal drugs.


I believe there was a lesson to be learned from the prohibition that most people didn't learn. Prohibition simply boosted organized crime to astronomical proportions by providing them with a new product. The lesson is that prohibiting the sale of certain goods and services only creates and inflates the black market economy.

I believe that the black market today consists of two main products, with maybe a few high end stolen artifacts thrown in the middle. Those two things are guns and drugs. However, I firmly believe that the gun trade only exists because of the black markets need to protect itself, since they can't go to the police when they're robbed, they must protect their own product, and for that they need guns.

If we were to allow the sale of narcotics on the open market big drug companys like Phiser and Merck might immediately dominate the market. The street corner thugs would be out of a product to sell, and without the drug trade they wouldn't need guns anymore either. Organized crime would be squashed like a bug.


How does this relate to RMT. Easy.. it's basically a black market. Seedy bastards dominate the market because noone legitimate is allowed to. Legitimize RMT and IGE dies.



However, there is another way, and it's easier with games than it is with the real life drug trade. Destroy the product entirely. (pretty much impossible with drugs; we've been trying for decades and it's not working.. we're just wasting money trying)

Game money and rare items sell for real money because they're hard to get. Making every rare drop rare/ex wouldn't do it, because they'd still keep selling characters. The only thing left is to destroy rarity. Flood the market with every rare item till we're literally dropping them because they're worthless. If they're worthless they won't sell for real money.

But that would destroy the "fun" of having gear that's hard to get, and makes you stand out from everyone else. Yea, it would, but honestly I think there are more people that don't care about that than there are elitists that do. If everyone cared about the work involved in obtaining rare items there wouldn't be RMT, but they don't. They just want the item. Game makers can fix this one, at the expense of a few elitists, but they can fix it.


I see it as a choice between having elite gear and having RMT or having neither. You just can't get rid of one without losing the other; you just can't.

I can live without elite gear. I don't mind if everyone has the same armor as long as we can still have fun with it.

Edited, Fri May 5 13:22:25 2006 by ThePalace