Scamming Should Be Illegal

[chintan]

Scamming ruins the game and everyone already hates scammers and has lists of scammers who people should avoid.

 

Why not just make scamming illegal and ban scammers? It would save a lot of trouble.

 

If bag spamming is serious enough to be illegal, scamming, which is a worse offense should definitely be illegal.

[goatsgomoo]

Because usually in a scam, only 2 people know exactly what happened, the scammer and the scamee. This would make it almost impossible to enforce, because then it's just people's opinion on who is more honest. And that might not even be right. There's no point in having a rule you can't enforce.

[Leeloo]

Scamming ruins the game and everyone already hates scammers and has lists of scammers who people should avoid.

Are you admitting to being stupid enough to fall for a scam?

 

The reason scamming is legal is that Entropy and other developers have this idea that people should be smart enough to not fall for a scam, and if they aren't, it's their own problem.

[Grum]

Depends on the type of scam. If someone claims to be able to duplicate your weapon, and you fall for that, it's your own fault. However things like a trade scam, where items are removed just before you click accept, are impossible to prevent, and when you fall for that, you can't really be blamed. In such cases, the only thing you can do is swallow the loss, and never trade with that person again.

[Dibit]

In a role playing game the world is better if people can roll play bad as well as good characters. If we try to protect ourselves from the less pleasant events then where will it end? No P.K. ? Critters not alowed to kill players? Critters not alowed to reduce a players health level with attacks? It will lead to a boring game. Its the danger from P.K. critters and scammers that makes it interesting.

[OutThisLife]

-.- Scamming is part of the game... As of real life also which seems to be ELs goal.

[Leeloo]

Depends on the type of scam. If someone claims to be able to duplicate your weapon, and you fall for that, it's your own fault. However things like a trade scam, where items are removed just before you click accept, are impossible to prevent, and when you fall for that, you can't really be blamed. In such cases, the only thing you can do is swallow the loss, and never trade with that person again.

Correct, but I would rather that problem be fixed. Happens to bots also, if their programmers are not extremely careful to work around it.

[OutThisLife]

We would all like the items we or our { just saying } bots get scammed out of back, but if it's legal, there is nothing we can do.. It's like real life, theft.

[chintan]

In the real world theft is illegal and thieves are punished. With the current EL system, scammers can get away with whatever they want and not have to worry about getting caught. If we're trying to make this realistic, scamming should be a made illegal and scammers should be punished.

[Leeloo]

Go read the "player police force" thread.

 

If you consider real life a different MMORPG, stealing is not against any rule set by the game developer, but laws made by some of the player, those players we usually call politicians. The laws set by the developers are stuff like "law of gravity", which you immidiately get punished hard for breaking. However, breaking the laws set by the politician players only makes sure that the guild "Police" suddenly comes after you, and try to catch you.

 

You can play a bad guy in real life, and you can play a bad guy in EL. No difference here. Besides, what fun would a game without bad guys be? Imagine UT2004 without enemies... Or StarCraft without Zerg.