2011-07-04, 07:41 PM
GreyorGray Wrote:Rick is right on this one Eos, accounts may be infinite but the specific character is not. Once it's permed you cannot have the same sentimental value with another acc. The ign is gone, the time the effort and the bond with your pixelated character is broken as well. Now it may sound corny and nerdy but look around you people obviously care very much for there maplestory characters and take pride in them so the comparison of a life sentence and a ban are level in this matter, you get one.
Same applies to real life settings, a bum on the street doesn't have to think twice like a multi millionaire does.
You may share his perspective but I still disagree.
You're still just emphasizing the point that if you care about your character as much as you say, you shouldn't be doing things that you know have the potential to cost you your life.
Your second statement however counters your own first, because what sentimental attachment do you have to a bum? You're willing to risk your bum to make it to being a millionaire you shouldn't be too attached to it, and since you're taking short cuts to power you can't really claim to have spent much time on it either.
Rick Wrote:I still don't quite think you're grasping the concept of victimless crime. In your example, you take from someone. In this situation, who is having something stolen from them? No one. Who is having their gameplay restricted? No one.
It's not a victimless crime, the victim is everyone who's unwilling to cheat to try to stay ahead. Everyone who's having their legitimate value devalued by the illegitimate inflation. Everyone who gets wrongly banned because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and went down with you, or innocently bought your illegal crap and got punished for it. There is no such thing as a victimless crime, just criminals who refuse to acknowledge their collateral damage. Of course who would expect a criminal to have any concept of self responsibility, that's rather the whole point isn't it?
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.

