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10-10-2011, 01:02 PM
I have to admit, when I first heard that STO was bought by PWI, I was excited. I really liked PWI's cash shop model. The more I read though makes me far less hopeful that it'll be even close.
The big stir, lately, seems to be over this dilithium business and them able to use it as a way to govern the amount of currency that a given player can make in a day. I personally don't know, nor do I really care since I've quit actively playing, at least for awhile.
I'd like to point out to Cryptic and to PWI that the ease of currency generation, while maybe not intentional, has been one of the best insurance policies against violation of the EULA. Who here remembers the opening weeks where gold sellers were spamming in chats everywhere? It lasted until about the 6'th week when people realized that it was too easy to level yourself and to generate currency to give workers at a chinese sweat shop a reason to work.
Perhaps PWI has silent interest in a few of these sweat shops, but unless they do, I think it would be a poor business decision to try to limit currency and levelling. I really hated having to spam 'ignore' and I'm sure many others will too.
The big stir, lately, seems to be over this dilithium business and them able to use it as a way to govern the amount of currency that a given player can make in a day. I personally don't know, nor do I really care since I've quit actively playing, at least for awhile.
I'd like to point out to Cryptic and to PWI that the ease of currency generation, while maybe not intentional, has been one of the best insurance policies against violation of the EULA. Who here remembers the opening weeks where gold sellers were spamming in chats everywhere? It lasted until about the 6'th week when people realized that it was too easy to level yourself and to generate currency to give workers at a chinese sweat shop a reason to work.
Perhaps PWI has silent interest in a few of these sweat shops, but unless they do, I think it would be a poor business decision to try to limit currency and levelling. I really hated having to spam 'ignore' and I'm sure many others will too.