Oh the "Victims" of the world

SO, I play this on-line horse genetics simulation game. I really like it. It is as close to ever getting to my dream of owning a huge major friggin' horse ranch that I will get.

With all games, there are rules. Well, DUH! There have to be rules. Wouldn't be much of a challenge if there were no rules.

Over the years that I have played this game, we have seen consistantly cheaters in the game.

There is a little Headline stating a conviction has been handed down, and you can go look at the case. All emails sent are made public, as the owner of the game does do full disclosure.

A husband and wife team were just recently caught. Started with the Wifey (bluepony or something on blogspot) asking the same exact question in the post board as she had just asked in the chat. She got the exact same answers, almost word for word. SHe didn't thank the person in the chat, but thanked the person in the Post board. Now.. that seems pretty petty don't you think?

Well. another player on closer review, notice suspicious activity on the Wifey's account, where there was transactions like:

She bought a horse from someone who turned out to be Hubby for $45000. Next day she sold it back to Hubby for $5000. Apparently he went whining to Wifey about his account being low on the funds side. So they set up this transaction. Umm.. Idiots. THat is blantant cheating. Said so in the rules not to do that. THat is a BIIIIIIG NO NO NO. Bad kiddies.

They did several transactions like this, one benefitting the other. So they were busted. Started off under House Arrest, for breaking the rules. Then they started to threaten, demand money back blah blah blah...

Terms of Service: They clicked the little box that says they agree to the TOS. Guess they thought the rules didn't apply to them.

Wifey had been playing for 7 months "while my husband was over seas". 7 Months and you didn't learn the rules? Dense City, got room for one more? My thing is, to me, 'over seas' implies Military. I don't want to know if Hubby is in my military. WHiners like this? Guys who threatened because they broke the rule? Do I really want people like this defending my country? Negatory, C'pn. I don't.

His cheating, if indeed he is military, just rubs me the wrong way. It would be like Hubby didn't want to finish doing his Push-Ups, and asking a buddy to finish them for him. I can tell you now, if his DI (Drill Instructor) had seen that, Hubby and partner would have had to run the obstacle course till they puked, clean up the puke, and do the obstacle course again! I am sure the CO would love to see the threats he made to the game owner. I know my LEOs found them very interesting, saying the emails he sent bordered threatening and harassment.

TO make matters more interesting, these whiners went and found websites devoted to the trashing of this game, becuase they were "victims of the owner's wrath" bullshit. It boils down to this: a bunch of people who were caught cheating have devoted their time to websites trashing the game. I can only shake my head. Really? You guys are that upset you devote your entire online time to trashing a game? You are still obviously obsessed with the game still, as you can't seem to let it go! Get over it. You were caught. You were banned. We don't run a day-care game, where you can do what you want. This is a game that requires maturity to play. Deal with it.

The owner. I don't always agree with her. I think in a different way than her. Do I like ALL the changes made recently? No. Am I going to throw a hissy fit because I don't like them? No. It isn't my game. I pay to play with perks, but I always have the option of leaving the game. It is my choice to leave. But the owner had devoted a lot of time to this game, fore going things she should be doing to help herself. She has put off working with her one dog who will help with some conditions the owner has. The owner has spent more time with bullshit like these two cheaters instead of working on the coding so I can play my game. So really, they are stealing from me, and all the other players who know how to play nicely. When the cheaters are demanding their money back, I want to demand my money from them, as they are causing delays in the game I pay to play.

Fuckers. Grow a set (or borrow your husband's set, Bluepony) and get on with your miserable lives. You are not the victim in my book. You the scam artist who needs to be to jail in a nice lil pink prison suit with a nice bulls' eye on your ass.