Kevo Wrote:I do understand what you're saying here. And yes the things people do in this game is rather bad. But isn't it because we can hide ourselves behind a screen that we should expect people do act without any set of morals? I think it's asking for a lot for everybody to play totally fairly. Hackers, Merchants, PQ Glitchers and whatever else will always exist.
Also, have you tried merchanting for a long period of time; consider the other point of view? It's not exactly the funnest thing. From sacrificing sleep to get a good FM spot after a server check to dealing with not having anything sell for days (weeks for me f3) is quite frustrating. HT skills in Scania Ch1Fm1 haven't sold for ages despite the high demand and low supply for them...
Making excuses for poor behaviour doesn't justify it. If merchanting is hard then that is unfortunate but that's how life is. You shouldn't be ripping people off to benefit yourself just because it's HARD. Price-gouging is one thing that is morally wrong but it's acceptable because that's business, but selling stolen items because merchanting is hard/boring is inexcusable. You don't even get any real benefit out of it besides continuously available big numbers and perhaps some sort of bragging rights (but bragging about having sold a stolen item is stupid so you don't even get that) while people who lost that stuff can't train or move forward in any way, after working really hard.
It's not a lot to ask for everyone to play fair. Not at all. It's a lot to EXPECT it because of jerks like Goals who think they can do whatever they want without consequence regardless of who it effects, but those people often get theirs. It would be perfect justice for Nexon to delete all of his mesos and stock for having admitted to selling stolen goods. It's unreasonable for people like that to think they can get away with wrong-doing.
And for the record, it's absolutely impossible to argue that you didn't know that Skanda wasn't stolen. NO ONE EVER who is able to scroll a 58 att Skanda isn't going to know approximately how much it's worth, give or take a few million mesos. No one is going to screw themselves out of a billion mesos after having bought a merchant shop. It's ridiculous to think that you could use that as an example of not knowing what is or isn't stolen.