Planet Calypso News: Enigma Keys Results

The only fierce competition I saw was between the number of bugs in this event, and the loss of MindArk's credibility. I still don't know which of the two increase faster.

 

Last time I checked, I lived in a free country.

 

I predict that the very first time MindArk bans an avatar because of something the owner of said Avatar posted on a public forum, they will find themselves in court. In a modern world, where free speech thankfully is (still, for the time being) a thing, a company should not, and most likely cannot unilaterally force you to accept their brand new rules, without offering you an easy way to cut your ties with it.

If MindArk offered me (and most likely at least 50% of all other avatars as well) market price for all me items, I'd be out of failtropia in record time.

And let's face it. It's not as if EU has a large enough player base to keep the lights on forever. I am having trouble imagining that making headlines due to effectively smacking down the ban-hammer over something said on a non-MA controlled forum is going to lead to thousands of people to start creating accounts to find out what the freakshow is all about. And considering MA is in the middle of attempting to raise more funds with Derptokens, I highly doubt they'd want to get their asses published by major game news channels.

 

What is this about? (I try to avoid sites operated by scammers).

 

New terms of service:

I certainly hope that none of the MA employees are vegans, because this is certain to cause some distress:



We cannot host any content that's sexually explicit, but does that include porn movie posters used by MindArk itself before, and uploaded prior to the change of the terms? Which they then attempted to brush off as prudeness in the eye of the users?

Have you ever been so aware of your own ineptitude and incompetence that you didn't see any other way out than threatening people with legal mumbo jumbo that wouldn't hold up in any self-respecting court?

Oh, and I actually have two avatars. Flerin neomaven Flerinson and Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs.

 

Interesting. But is this new? I'm sure I can remember that there was something like "you cannot spread false claims" rule for a long time already.

Well, censorship is for losers.

But let's imagine the scenario. Someone spreads "inaccurate information", MindArk terminates account. Someone has nothing to lose anymore, spreads more information, incl. the information why the account has been terminated, the negativity about MindArk multiplies in any possible direction, a variant of Streisand effect can be observed.

Not saying that it won't happen, because MindArk...

A bunch of their Swedish fellows already claimed during the PE early alpha that making enemies is good

 

So for possibly any other company, you'd be absolutely right. But MA holds assets that belong to us (the PEDs on our PED card and whatever resides in our inventory). They love comparing themselves with a bank. Imagine your bank suddenly imposes a new set of rules that prevent you from getting in, but you still have funds in your account. There ought to be a reasonable opportunity for someone to liquidate their assets if they disagree with the new terms unilaterally imposed on them without prior warning.

I would love if they'd follow through with this and get their asses handed to them in court, though. Not only that, but anyone who'd then keep anything of value in EU would be an idiot, because MA would just have shown that they can make up arbitrary new rules and essentially steal your money. I have a hard time imagining how MindArk would ever possibly come out with an advantage, as the only options I see all end up with them worse off than before.

 

That's the UK. Freedom of speech in the UK was lost a long time ago, unfortunately.

 

I don't think those advertisement companies would not give you the opportunity to pull out the money you put in, or forbid you from coming in. They also do not deal in goods where the money you put in is invested in goods with markup. The whole TT reimbursement is just a cop-out, considering most of the stuff you end up "investing" in has some form of markup attached to it. I am not sure that simple reimbursing for TT Vlaue would fly in court either (remember when MA banned a few botters (Hieronyme and his buddies), and ended up tossing their goods in the global auction? I bet they tried getting away with reimbursing those guys for TT value, too, and yet somehow ended up having to change course).

If MA'd ever go so far, they'd immediately lose all opportunity to label their platform as "investment opportunities". Imagine Buzz Lightyear being banned, and getting reimbursed 1 PED for his CP deed.