GM Profiteering Post - Pulled from Officials. Cover up?

[Haldrik]

Posted on officials on 8/23 and pulled about 30 minutes later.

EDIT: Pulled for naming Tsverin. Thread is back up without his name.
http://forums.play.net/forums/GemSto...ts)/view/14359

Disturbing rumor about GMs "making money" by flipping items. on 08/23/2016 04:10 AM EDT
Hi,

First, there is _zero_ evidence about any GM wrong doing and I have no idea what happened at Simucon. However, Tservin was chatting about GM's making money by selling items. It's entirely possible that Tservin had no idea what he was talking, but I feel this needs to be discussed. It's out in the open now and it's leaving a bad taste in my mouth as well as a lot of others.

I really have no problem with GMs bidding on auctions or whatever, but there is always a risk of manipulation and I wonder if there is any checks in place. But seriously, I would like nothing more then for Wyrom to sweep in and say how utterly ridiculous this is.

The topic came up because Tservin/Blanks had been telling everyone he just goes to events to buy items and sell them for real $$.

[Merchant]-You: "wb tservin. i guess you werent kidding when you said you only show up for events so you can make money" (17:37:41)
[Merchant]-GSIV:Tservin: "Nope. I was quite up front about it at Simucon also." (17:38:05)
[Merchant]-GSIV:Tservin: "Oh. P.S. GMs don't care. They bid on items to make money too =)" (17:38:31)
[Merchant]-GSIV:Tservin: "You should pay closer attention to the Simucon auction list, you'll see GMs bought a few items and bidded =)" (17:39:27)


Thank you.

Is it okay for GMs to buy in-game items and sell them in order to make money? Discuss.


EDIT- TL;DR Thread

This post is perfectly rational and worth discussing. Tservin's comments were aimed at justifying his "make real life $$" by associating himself with GMs. His comments blatantly and obviously insinuated that they performed the same behavior as him. He was at Simucon, I was not. It's completely legitimate to think he learned or had internal knowledge of the subject.

Now, this could have easily been resolved with statements such as "Tservin has no idea what he's talking about" or "he's running his mouth" or "he was just talking about silvers."

INSTEAD, the 'group' decides to condone the behavior and say it's okay for GMs to "profit" off player items. Whether from Simucon or not. And attack me.

So any negative press arising from this thread is because the posters here can't have a single rational thought in their heads, and would rather lash out at the first moving target. Even if it means justifying behavior that is completely wrong. Even if there are simpler answers and alternatives. Even if it means breeding hate, animosity, distrust, and other negative emotions that everyone is clamoring will somehow infect the current GM staff.

This is on you guys.