Recent content by Adjudicator

When you sell an item on TF2, an item that you yourself approved and created, Valve still takes a cut. And that's an item you CREATED.

Jesus, ever heard of hacking? A problem that at one point a WoW account was more valuable to a hacker than credit card theft? The reason logging into a WoW account uses more security than logging into my bank? Black market item sales are both a huge vector for hacking and a huge incentive...

"Incentivizing" (through legalizing and taxing and regulating) tobacco selling directly 'fucks' with our economy too. In a positive way. Would that they did the same with drugs. By the way, Blizzard wants people to buy and sell items. But it is not giving you any incentive to buy and sell...

I guess I don't understand why that's relevant. Companies almost never act out of those motivations alone! Bottom line is 99.9% of the time a consideration!

They care about it being safer and easier for the consumer BECAUSE it makes them more money. That's why ANY company cares about their customers. Nintendo doesn't care about you personally, neither does Valve, or EA, or Blizzard. How is that a bad thing for me as a consumer again?

Are you joking yourself? Have you heard of CS costs? That 90% of Blizzard employees are CS for WoW? What do you think the single biggest source for CS problems is in WoW? Jesus Christ. Safer and easier IS making them more money. By itself. RMT isn't a problem either, any more than...

Multiplayer: 1) World of Warcraft. (~2500 hours) 2) Starcraft: Brood War. (~1000 hours) 3) League of Legends. (~400 hours) Singleplayer: 1) Baldur's Gate 2 (~300 hours) 2) Civilization 4 (~250 hours) 3) Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (~150 hours)

If you bought a mobile game for EA you are a sucker.

Because making drugs illegal has done so much to make the problem go away. The situation is in fact analogous. Any activity like this, whether drugs or prostitution or RMT, is MUCH better off out in the open and directly regulated, instead of left to the shadows and black market. That is...

How is this different from what Eve Online does? Or even what TF2 does? Valve actually sells items directly, in their always online game, which I paid $20 for so don't tell me it was F2P. But I guess if Valve does it it's OK.