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Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk
I fully understand that frustration and emotion is running high right now. The policy update was the result after having discussions and feedback with the support department, who got dozens of requests from participants who wanted to start loan services. A lot of the people behind the requests are ones with a shady background in the Entropia. We saw a rapid rise in fraudulent enterprise forming, which would hurt the little guy. We decided to act pre-emptevly and state that those who publicly offers loan services hereby us to be viewed upon as scammers, because that is the only real way to act. My horror scene would have been seen 50 loan sharks in Port Atlantis scamming newcomers from their first PEDs, killing all fun and all hope for them. The biggest sad thing in this is that those who manage a trusted venture gets tossed in with the rest, but at this point we cannot differentiated in a way that MA can guarantee. |
With all do respect marco isn't it up to the gamer to choose what activities to trust and invest in?
I must say I have a hard time imagening scammers running a business model like ours. We lend out up to 90% of the items value. That means a possible scammer can run off with 10% of items value while having to risk the remaining 90% he has to put up as peds as he can be locked at any time. Who would risk 90k to gain 10? In fact in the few days we have been opened we -the bankers have already been the subject of several scam attempts from players trying to get way more peds for items than they are really worth.
A lot of possible shady businesses has come and gone. Common for most are that they unlike us require the user to invest in them with no waranty. Everything from investment funds to the sale of "stocks" in their ingame businesses for quardouble their ingame businesses value. The scam potential in each of these cases are up to hundreds of thousands of peds. Every day many dozens of newcomers are scammed by people "loaning" items. Why do you
really have to shut down a business where no actualy scamming has even occured on the pure thought that it
could?
You are communication manager for a reason Marco. You are good at stocking the words so they sound convincing, but I don't think even you can manage to make this new rule look like anything but a desperate measure to protect your headline investors from competition.