Real Money Trading

I will add to the ppl talking ant attitude in the suggestions threads, I was quickly put off by the amount of sarcasm or general rudeness a lot of suggestions got and havnt rly gone there since because of that as well. I jaunt talked abt it bc well, let's me honest here, it's generally a bad idea to potentially upset the ppl who run a site you play on, amd that's from experience, even if that wouldn't happen, I think thay has effected a lot if people willingness to try and work with staff to figure out how to better the site. but thats just my veiw on it

yes happy birthday!

Oh yeah I also wanted to comment on this, you're willing to punish the user base because you don't want to get punished? Have you ever considered now that you've banned RTM changing the price of ZC you'd probably sell more because people will have to buy from you and would be more willing because the prices aren't garbage? I'd be more willing to put some money into this site if I wasn't paying so much for your ZC, for price adjustments I don't think you're going to even come down to what people would consider fair

thank you @InsaneMandii (: and @Thunderjaw i'll steal a few imaginary chips, hope you dont mind lol. sometimes you just gotta sit back and enjoy the heat from the burning site edit: and thank you @Leafstar15 ! youre all sweet (:

hope you stay warm and enjoy the show for your special day!

people never really made suggestions on price changes because we just traded with each other. i used to be super active in the trade forums (edit: i'm not as active in trading now, but i still very often look at the forums to see what the general prices have changed to. spoiler, they're either mostly the same or a million times worse) and community, and it was pretty common knowledge that you didn't buy items straight from the site. why would you actively waste zc on boxboxes when you could just trade within the community? maybe it wasn't as obvious to everyone else as it seemed for me, but no one i knew ever even considered buying things like that directly from the site. it was always a trading thing, and a part of trading was rmt, which helped out a TON, especially with users who were leaving. who would spend 5+ usd to buy zc for ONE boxbox when you could use that money and buy five boxboxes from the community? at some point i feel like buying certain items from the site didn't even feel like a reasonable option given the ridiculous prices of everything

I guarantee that if the ZC prices dropped to what the standard for users is, the site would make absolute bank. The amount of ZC that is bought from other players is insane, and I know no one would complain about increased sales.

So, in the Many months this was being discussed internally (original side mention cited was from August 2020), and in particular, the recent months when it was (clearly to those in the know) becoming a definite likelihood - I have the following inquiries/asks... Who was involved in these discussions/likely knew it was coming/fought against it? (3 categories, possibly overlapping) Did even a single one of those persons conduct an RMT during that time? Particularly, did they Sell a PFQ 'product' for real money? If so, you now have a much bigger, Real problem than 'possible' illegal tax implications (which are on the individual making the income, Not the producer of the good or service) - that being Insider Trading. Which under certain conditions can carry criminal, not just civil legal implications. I am asking that all staff - and anyone else involved in, or informed of the discussions (who plays this game) - who engaged in potential insider profiting on site make such declarations openly, and they, and those with knowlegde of it/allowed it to happen to take public ownership of such behavior. To allow the userbase to make their descions from there. As there are definitely informed decisions to be made. ...

Even if it's not technically 'insider trading' as a legal term, Trebor does ask a good question... especially if this has been up for debate FOR A YEAR as it was pointed out earlier.

So that I'm understanding this right.. -This will not affect buying Zophan Canisters (or by extension, GP or credits) from the game itself and then using those Zophan Canisters to buy pokemon, right? This might be a dumb question, but I feel like there's no harm in asking. I have difficulty understanding some things. Cos if it doesn't affect that, this won't affect me personally much at all, but I know and understand that others are upset by it.