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[Tremor]

I am all about MC gifting, but no c-bills please. This is just opening the gates for c-bill farming services. No thank you.

[Sky walker]

Flapdrol, on 13 December 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:

anyway, purchasing MC for somebody should be possible, and will most probably lead to more income, so it'll probably be implemented at some point.

Hope so. Especially because it basically doesn't mean much work for PGI, while surely will bring some profits. Even I don't plan to buy any MCs for myself for some time, but buying some for a friend? That's a different topic

[Mordin Ashe]

Sorry but no, I am against it. It would make hackers steal accounts and sell MC and c-bills.
The best thing you can donate to your friends is fun when playing together. Do that and you will have plenty of c-bills and fun.

Edited by Mordin Ashe, 15 December 2012 - 07:05 AM.

[Elder Thorn]

it will open all doors and gates for Chinafarmers

[Sky walker]

Flapdrol, on 13 December 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:

Gifting Cbills would start chinese suicide grinders.

We don't have these already?! Cause last time I checked - we had.

Mordin Ashe, on 15 December 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

Sorry but no, I am against it. It would make hackers steal accounts and sell MC and c-bills.

If hackers can steal the accounts then something should be done to prevent it, including the option to revoke any transfers of MCs and Cbills and returning the account to righteous owner (it can be easily checked - just make person claiming the account thief provide some details about his last payment).
Account hacking needs to be resolved anyway, and it needs to be done regardless if MC/Cbills transfers exist or not.

Edited by Sky walker, 15 December 2012 - 11:49 AM.

[Deadoon]

Sky walker, on 15 December 2012 - 11:46 AM, said:

We don't have these already?! Cause last time I checked - we had.
Majority of those guys were normal players which weremerely farming cbills with a public script. Most are gone now.


If hackers can steal the accounts then something should be done to prevent it, including the option to revoke any transfers of MCs and Cbills and returning the account to righteous owner (it can be easily checked - just make person claiming the account thief provide some details about his last payment).
Account hacking needs to be resolved anyway, and it needs to be done regardless if MC/Cbills transfers exist or not.

You cannot, I repeat, CANNOT prevent people from doing stupid ****, like inputting their login details into a"free cbills/mc/mechs" phishing scam, using the same password for everything or even downloading a keylogger. Most account hacking is not done via database dumping, it is mostly people being phished or downloading a keylogger, neither of which pgi can prevent.

By implementing a cbill transfer mechanism, you invite effectively the same thing every mmo has, gold farmers, but in this case cbills. They will farm cbills one way or another, even legitimate tactics like ylw zombie farming with premium, to make ther profits maximised and run around for hours and hours a day for selling 10mil cbills for a buck, thus bypassing the profitablity of the mc purchases. Howevern, allowing transfer of mc will be ok, why? That mc is required to have been purchased from pgi, so even if these guys are reselling it, it is still profiting pgi for their original purchase.