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Company opens selling tokens to buy items from company.
Company offers people to join and make items to sell for tokens.
Company states they will pay people real cash for access tokens earned from sale of those items.
Company sees to many tokens made and closes without paying anyone a dime.
There have been a number of people in this game that have spent considerable time and money to deliver what EA asked for.
Many of these people did so because they were promised a return in real life earnings for their efforts.
At no time did EA say that it may not happen, or they would only attempt to do so, it was always stated that they will do so.
These people were mislead so EA could attempt to achieve what they wanted.
At no time did EA tell these people there was even the smallest chance of cash out not being implemented, in fact they did completely the opposite.
I am not one of those people, but they are the ones I feel have the most to complain about.
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The whole thing is about greed, on both sides. My question is this. These people you're talking about came back because they had dollar signs for pupils. Why is EA's greed any worse than these people's greed? And yes, every single one of us here has known since that first post of Luc's last March that we were on thin ice with the suits and still could be given the 90 day notice. At no point did EA make an announcement "Hey guys! We're beyond the deadline and the game is profitable, we're safe and secure until the new decade or beyond!" so because they never made a statement to that affect, I operated under the assumption that the original statement of the game being in jeopardy still held. Anybody who didn't was operating on a false sense of security, but it is one that they created in their own mind because that is what they wanted to believe. In probably one thread a day, or at least one thread a week one of us here, no matter who it was, always reiterated that the game was in jeopardy, and I know for a fact that I made mention of it in direct reference to investing in the ATMs, that people should be mindful that the future of the game was uncertain, whether it be the 90 day notice or the need for wipes since we never did get out of beta with EA Land, so nobody should have bought more in the ATM than they could spend. Had I bought any simoleans in an ATM, you can be damn certain that I would not have bought more than $5 at a time unless I had plans for the whole chunk at once.
This might be the first taste of this lesson for alot of people, and it is a really crappy way to learn that lesson but everybody learns a lesson or two from the School of Hard Knocks, and those are the mistakes that usually aren't made twice, so maybe this taught some people exactly what the expression "Buyer Beware" means. It totally escapes my comprehension though why some people don't have more self respect than to create the illusion that they are so naive and/or lacking in common sense that they really can say they were totally gobsmacked. I can understand young teenagers not having this kind of common sense but some of the main ones placing themselves in the wounded victim roles are people that I credited with more savvy than this. Either I was way off base or my initial reaction of the whole thing being a pile of bollocks is bullseye accurate.
