If just 10% of you rioting over new RMT-associations...Follow

Personally I don't care about it being acquired by IGE. I don't have a premium account, and I acess all the stuff for free. If anything, I'm a minor blight on their bandwith :P.

Blood Diamond stuff is intresting... I actually didn;t know about that~ But I don't like diamonds anyways, so.

I understand that the people who intend to stay at Alla might feel a little defensive right now, but the anti-anti-Alla rhetoric comes off just as fanatical as some of the anti-Alla rhetoric.

The idea that this is just a game therefore ideals don't matter is a little silly. The idea that other things are more important and therefore this is completely unimportant is also a little silly. If your sense of right and wrong changes depending on size of your concerns, that not reality, it's hypocrisy.

Alla generates revenue based on the number of people who visit the site and see the ads. Coming to this site generates advertising revenue. That revenue now goes to the same place that gil-selling revenue goes to. I'm not saying you should care (I'm still not sure if I do yet), but if you *do* -- if your personal values aren't cool with that connection -- then it's appropriate to be offended.

I dont buy from the gap, or buy diamonds (Because im broke, whee!). Now, that said.

You see, people interested in one issue arent interested in EVERY wrongdoing in the world. Sure, theres sweatshop work for gap clothes. Oh well, I dont associate with them. Suddenly, a company I DO associate with becomes involved with said company.

Thing is, I havnt seen said sweatshops and while yes its a bad thing it doesnt directly affect me. Gilselling DOES effect me, everytime ive been mpkd or had a botter claim some HNM/NM as soon as it pops. Gilsellers are a parasite on all of the games and everyone in the gaming community recognizes this. Except the gil buyers.

Now, as such we are not going to like anything being involved with said gilsellers. Sure, its not the biggest issue to everyone, but its a big issue to some people.

Just because we are very strongly against RMT doesnt mean were also against other things. But IGE is a business I want nothing to do with in game or out.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "people interested in one issue aren't interested in every issue in the world".

It's easy to take the moral high ground and talk about how "righteous" your cause is when it directly affects you. I'm sorry but if RMT didn't directly affect people complaining about it, I doubt they'd complain about it at all.

Which is netiher here nor there, but these same people turn around and claim they are on some holy crusade against the evil RMT empire, when in fact they are only complaining because they are PERSONALLY BOTHERED by it. They have no higher set of morals than the average person, they don't rally around any other cause, because nothing else is annoying them enough to spur them into action.

So, that's hypocritical.

Also, if you REALLY wanted to be hardcore, you could research pretty much anything the average person does on a daily basis, and link it to something that compromises your morals on some level. It's not about The Gap, KFC, or blood diamonds specifically.

I could probably go into the house of anyone of these people crying so adamantly about how RMT is "morally wrong" and find articles of clothing linked to sweatshops, or burned CDs/DVDs, or ****, or SOMETHING that is "morally wrong".

And I guess this is the part where the next 5 people post "I buy American", "I don't eat chicken", "blah blah blah". You missed the point. You are human, so you do SOMETHING wrong, by someone's set of standards and morals.

So, if you don't agree with RMT, fine, it's understandable. But for every one person like that you have 10+ that talk about how "moral" they are for not buying gil.

As annoying as RMT is, the people against it are becoming even more annoying because most are too self-righteous for me to even care what they are talking about.

Fred.

Because chickens are people too...

I fill up my car with blood oil, wear the most expensive diamond rings, eat buffalo chicken wings, and wear clothese sewed together by little children in **********************

If you don't like it go to hell.

I don't have to patronize a company that undermines a game I play so gtfo


EDIT: also, if i can, i like to avoid putting cash in the pockets of a country of communists that would be happy to see me dead in a smoking nuclear crater.

Edited, Thu May 4 17:01:37 2006 by Foland