2010-12-01, 05:07 AM
rayhovite Wrote:Why does it look so much like insider trading? They know in advance SP resets may be worthless come BB if they give full resets. Giving a 'sale' to try to get as many virtual goods purchased right before the good will be considered worthless echoes the concerns of insider trading. Been a while since I briefed up on the relevant laws. Fiel says they can technically get away with it. I'm assuming he's not referring to the terms of service since a contract could be voided by a court.
I do not think it falls under insider trading, and sadly I doubt what they did is even remotely illegal. We can all agree that is macabre business practise though, and had I been prone to optimism I would have guessed it to be just a bad misstake caused by uninformed employees. Wait, thats not really any better now is it? A company managed by such oblivious apes would almost be as bad as one run by shady crooks. We can't win playing this particular game.