I unironically believe the scammers behind that shit should be imprisoned for life, in that place where they put the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. I guess they would have to expand the place, to house all the people involved with it.
EDIT: before anyone asks: yes, am including Mark Hamill in that list. He really didn’t have enough fucking money, already? He HAD to take the filthy pile of dirty cash, from this shit? Does he smoke platinum infused crack, or what?
Wanting people to be punished for horrible things they did? That’s psychopathy, now?
You realize that there are poor souls out there who have spent their life savings on that piece of shit, right? Now, here comes the best part: the part where YOU tell me that those people don’t deserve sympathy. They chose to get scammed, they’re suckers, they deserve what they got for speculating on fake starships, etc.
Which one of us has empathy? Which one of us is pointing the finger at the actual criminals?
Care to give me a list of other criminals and villains who you think shouldn’t be punished?
I’m fascinated by this through-the-looking-glass mentality you have, where wanting vicious and destructive criminals to be punished is evidence of psychopathy.
I just see this as you continuing to defend the actual psychopaths, in the situation. Let me try to make this clearer, for you:
The scammers who sell pretend starships have been happily doing so for YEARS, by now. They know about the stories of people compulsively spending thousands of dollars on their bullshit. They know there are people out there, who have had to break down and tell their spouses “I spent the kids’ college fund on a bunch of in-game starships…BUT HONEY, WE’LL BE ABLE TO FLIP THEM FOR TEN TIMES WHAT I INVESTED! WHY ARE YOU CRYING?”
That shit has happened. To real people. And the asshole scammers absolutely know about it. And they DO NOT CARE, AT ALL. That’s what psychopathy is. They calmly and happily continue to spend those people’s hard-earned dollars. Not on the game. Not investing it back into the game. Oh, no. If they had been using all that fucking money to develop the game, it would have come out years and years ago.
They’re funding their own investments, their own lavish lifestyles, their own egomaniacal satisfaction. They will never feel any guilt about what they’re doing, because they don’t feel guilt. Again: they are actual psychopaths.
The only way to make them feel anything negative about what they’ve done would be to imprison them, in that horrible place in the desert, where they can only see a tiny rectangle of sunlight, and barely have enough space to stretch to their full height. They won’t ever feel bad about the pain they caused other people. They can’t. They would only ever feel sorry for themselves. But I want them to feel that pain.
I don’t see how you can disagree, knowing that most of their victims will NEVER be financially okay again, and the perpetrators of the scam are just freely living the good life. What passes for a concept of justice, inside your head?
Dude, I get your frustration, but you should really consider the difference between a scam and an unjust product made to vacuum cash out of gullible people.
A scam is them promising a product, gathering cash for it, and then fucking off into nirvana with nothing but the website left. That’d be a scam.
Them delivering a shitty half-arsed game with even more shitty overpriced in-game assets is no scam at all. It sucks, it’s shit, it should be punished by public flogging, but it ain’t. They did nothing illegal.
If you order a “mystery pizza” and you’ll receive a cold pizza with no ingredients, is that a scam? Nope. It’s on you. Does it suck? YES. Is it unfair? YES! Should it be punished? YES. But is it a scam? NO.
If we agree that these people should be punished, why are we arguing about the terminology? Terminology doesn’t mean anything. I’m happy to admit that, by your definition, this specific evil shit is not a “scam.” That’s absolutely fine with me.
The important thing is how THESE PIECES OF SHIT SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR WHAT THEY’VE DONE.
As long as you agree with that statement, we’re cool.
If you design a game with psychologists to maximize serotonin hits instead of gameplay and then charge money to keep getting a hit is, by definition, a deceptive act, and ergo – scam.
I unironically believe the scammers behind that shit should be imprisoned for life, in that place where they put the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. I guess they would have to expand the place, to house all the people involved with it.
EDIT: before anyone asks: yes, am including Mark Hamill in that list. He really didn’t have enough fucking money, already? He HAD to take the filthy pile of dirty cash, from this shit? Does he smoke platinum infused crack, or what?
Is your name ironic?
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Nah.
But but but… Your username!
Yeah, it was a mistake. Or, like, aspirational.
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Holy shit you’re a psychopath.
Wanting people to be punished for horrible things they did? That’s psychopathy, now?
You realize that there are poor souls out there who have spent their life savings on that piece of shit, right? Now, here comes the best part: the part where YOU tell me that those people don’t deserve sympathy. They chose to get scammed, they’re suckers, they deserve what they got for speculating on fake starships, etc.
Which one of us has empathy? Which one of us is pointing the finger at the actual criminals?
I don’t have to tell you shit. You’re a psychopath who’s clearly beyond reason. You can’t be helped.
Care to give me a list of other criminals and villains who you think shouldn’t be punished?
I’m fascinated by this through-the-looking-glass mentality you have, where wanting vicious and destructive criminals to be punished is evidence of psychopathy.
Namaste the fuck away from you.
I just see this as you continuing to defend the actual psychopaths, in the situation. Let me try to make this clearer, for you:
The scammers who sell pretend starships have been happily doing so for YEARS, by now. They know about the stories of people compulsively spending thousands of dollars on their bullshit. They know there are people out there, who have had to break down and tell their spouses “I spent the kids’ college fund on a bunch of in-game starships…BUT HONEY, WE’LL BE ABLE TO FLIP THEM FOR TEN TIMES WHAT I INVESTED! WHY ARE YOU CRYING?”
That shit has happened. To real people. And the asshole scammers absolutely know about it. And they DO NOT CARE, AT ALL. That’s what psychopathy is. They calmly and happily continue to spend those people’s hard-earned dollars. Not on the game. Not investing it back into the game. Oh, no. If they had been using all that fucking money to develop the game, it would have come out years and years ago.
They’re funding their own investments, their own lavish lifestyles, their own egomaniacal satisfaction. They will never feel any guilt about what they’re doing, because they don’t feel guilt. Again: they are actual psychopaths.
The only way to make them feel anything negative about what they’ve done would be to imprison them, in that horrible place in the desert, where they can only see a tiny rectangle of sunlight, and barely have enough space to stretch to their full height. They won’t ever feel bad about the pain they caused other people. They can’t. They would only ever feel sorry for themselves. But I want them to feel that pain.
I don’t see how you can disagree, knowing that most of their victims will NEVER be financially okay again, and the perpetrators of the scam are just freely living the good life. What passes for a concept of justice, inside your head?
Dude, I get your frustration, but you should really consider the difference between a scam and an unjust product made to vacuum cash out of gullible people.
A scam is them promising a product, gathering cash for it, and then fucking off into nirvana with nothing but the website left. That’d be a scam. Them delivering a shitty half-arsed game with even more shitty overpriced in-game assets is no scam at all. It sucks, it’s shit, it should be punished by public flogging, but it ain’t. They did nothing illegal.
If you order a “mystery pizza” and you’ll receive a cold pizza with no ingredients, is that a scam? Nope. It’s on you. Does it suck? YES. Is it unfair? YES! Should it be punished? YES. But is it a scam? NO.
If we agree that these people should be punished, why are we arguing about the terminology? Terminology doesn’t mean anything. I’m happy to admit that, by your definition, this specific evil shit is not a “scam.” That’s absolutely fine with me.
The important thing is how THESE PIECES OF SHIT SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR WHAT THEY’VE DONE.
As long as you agree with that statement, we’re cool.
I think you misunderstood
No. I did not.
You think scammer psychopaths should be praised and rewarded. I think they should be punished endlessly. That is the cold reality of this situation.
How is it a scam?
Did I mention the fact that you can pay thousands of real-world dollars for a not-real spaceship?
Do you need any other fucking definition of a scam?
That’s what’s called a microtransaction. Sure, the prices are insane, but that doesn’t make it a scam.
Micro transactions in games are scams by default.
Not by definition, at least
If you design a game with psychologists to maximize serotonin hits instead of gameplay and then charge money to keep getting a hit is, by definition, a deceptive act, and ergo – scam.
Using that line of reasoning, any form of advertising can be considered a scam as well.
There is no real deception involved here, it’s pretty clear what people are paying for.
Oh baby now you’re getting on my wavelength and the depths I’ll go to avoid being advertised at.