SOE Licenses 3rd Party RMT Company for In Game Virtual Property Sales - Page 49

EQDrinal80 · 01-03-2008, 07:03 PM

"Hahaha! Tough shit motherfucker! That's just not the way it works. You will forever be tainted by this site you have spewed forth onto our boards. These posts will follow you like a little lost puppy dog as you vainly attempt to app to one guild after another until you finally stop trying. Now is the time to make that server move and never ever ! post here again, because if we ever find out what server you have moved to, we will post a link to this forum and these threads on that servers message board. Welcome to the joys of karma bitch! Fun ain't it?"

This was a post from a board moderator where I used to play. He published my IP addresses and personal info. I sent John an email about it and he never replied. The board was run by several GMs or contact s of Gms. SOE Legal coordinator (under assumed name) toasted me. the post strangely enough was called LFG?
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Illuminator · 01-03-2008, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by EQDrinal80

I will say this is in my defense that SOE is a powerful organization with alot of weight in this community.

Weight in the community? They're on borrowed time. Plenty of us have sworn never to touch another SOE game again when this runs its course and friends go their separate ways. For all the interesting concepts I've been introduced to here, I've seen and actually had to fight enough stupid fucking meathead shit to last me two lifetimes. Get EverQuest 3 out of your heads, everyone, it's DOA.

So an SOE guy promises you a facility tour if you should visit and acts like he doesn't know you when you take him up on it. You're handicapped/disabled, you have the time and lack of commitments to be able to do this (and the added inclination to become bitter when abused). No offense to anyone but I can't see putting that down and going to Fan Faire as being in line with one another.

You say a GM insider slandered you and stalked you across accounts using information not available to players. Is this beyond the realm of possibility to anyone when devs are in live contested raiding guilds and coders are forced to transfer toons from Test to Unrest as personal favors?

EQDrinal80 · 01-03-2008, 07:27 PM

Soe squashed the "mystere" post years ago.

EQDrinal80 · 01-03-2008, 07:28 PM

but they allow Loral to write about his adventures.....Btw Loral is a great guy in rl.

Manic · 01-03-2008, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Smed

I've been a regular lurker on this site for a while but I wanted to step in here and dispel something that's just plain not true - I don't have my name highlighted here, but anyone that doubts it's me can email me at jsmedley@soe.sony.com and I'll happily reply.

We aren't going to be allowing RMT in any way, shape or form on the non-exchange enabled EQ II servers. Period. End of statement. If we catch people, we ban them and have been for a long time now. The truth of the matter is it's very difficult to combat them, but we have people at SOE who fight the good fight each and every day. In the near future you're going to see us becoming a lot more public about this then we ever have been. I think we've done a bad job at communicating just how seriously we take this fight.

We're interested in working with LiveGamer because they are unique in the RMT world due to the fact that they are pledging (and are putting technology behind it) to not buy from farmers. Farmers are the bane of our existence at SOE. They cause us endless amounts of grief and do real financial damage in a meaningful way.

What do I mean by that?

Many of them use stolen credit cards, obtained by unsuspecting users who give them credit card #'s to purchase in-game gold. I'm not saying all of the RMT shops out there use stolen credit cards, but a LOT of them do. Your credit card is absolutely not safe in their hands.

In addition we recieve large scale (over $500k so far) fines for chargebacks that these scumbag farmers routinely do. They purchase a new account.. use it for a month and then call the credit card company to say "I never paid for this". Over time, as the # of these incidents rise we get fined by the credit card companies. And it's not just us, other large MMO companies are seeing exactly the same problem.

In any event, I wanted to stop in and at least set the record straight - you aren't going to be seeing RMT allowed on the non-exchange enabled servers.

John Smedley
President, Sony Online Entertainment

let me just say way to fucking go comeing to eq2flames and being direct and telling us whats going on. Thank you.

I hope we see more of this in the future.

LFG · 01-03-2008, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by EQDrinal80

I dont expect all the GMs to break their necks in servicing my every whim. But when I do get my turn, I would think that someone privacy in Game would be important . If someone published your phone number over and over would you expect them to be ban since privacy is the up most concern to Sony in their mission statement. I could understand one time as a feebie but they did it for 2 weeks over and over. I would get tired as a GM in changing all the time. Proceeded to followed me across 5 servers now. Now whos the stalker?

You can travel from east coast to west coast on greyhound for $125 to $200 per trip depending on when you get your tickets.

Just because you are different or unique does not give a right for someone to harrass you.

Shawn Woolley never hurt anyone.....

I'm very sorry, and I rarely do this, but I think you are a very creepy and obsessive scarey person, and I must ban you from this site for your own best interests, as well as the best interests and safety of other users, and especially our SOE visitors.

Seriously man, you take a Greyhound bus across the United States, and show up at the reception desk at SOE headquarters, probably not having showered in a week on that bus, and you wonder why nobody wants to talk to you.

Good God, get psychiatric help.

P.S. Shawn Woolley was a mentally disturbed EQ player who committed suicide after someone stole his items in game. Of course he hurt someone dumbass, he blew his brains out.

mania · 01-03-2008, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by aduros

Actually if you read my previous post, you'd be considered the one sensationalizing. I said I was gonna sit back and look at what he said rationally before taking it as gospel. Yet your jumping in here posting about firstborns and family being slain, while still trying to push the idea that we're claiming the sky is falling. Relax Jim.

And thats the beauty of the internet, if you feel like your going to post something stupid, you can just walk away from that "reply" button instead. So Jim, feel free to exercise that right.

When I was a boy, I saw my father murdered right in front of my eyes by someone's extremely sharp wit. From that day forward I vowed to never note sarcasm again.

Whos Jim? Im confused.

This whole thread has my head aching.

aduros · 01-03-2008, 10:44 PM

Jim is my own colloquial term, often used when addressing others.

mania · 01-03-2008, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by aduros

Jim is my own colloquial term, often used when addressing others.

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EQ!! · 01-07-2008, 07:27 PM

I am going to rant for a min. Take it with a grain of salt.

The fact of the matter is that Smed is untouchable in the forum because of the weight of SOE behind him.

First of all, I dont own a gun and I would also like to say that I dont speak clearly sometimes. I am misunderstood alot because of it.

Yes, I did travel across the country to visit SOE. I also have a aunt in orange county who works for a law firm. I am not a violent man. As I said before, SOE does grant tours to people from time to time. The way George explained it to me was OUr Gms are busting their ass all the time trying to do the right thing if you dont believe me come out and see for yourself. So I did. He never asked back. I never went to SOE during all of that time. When I did talk to them it was on the phone.

I feel you have violated my first ammendment rights here. I have proof that SOE is not being truthful when talking about involvement with third parties sites. Thats why you banned me.