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Old 09-26-2007, 12:00 PM   #436
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Re: What does "Free" Mean?


As I've pointed out previously, those things are all verifiable by simply playing the game. It may or may not be particularly time-efficient to verify them but they can certainly be verified.

What you can't verify is the non-existence of RMT. Beyond the fact that one can't prove a negative, the difficulty is that a trade in-game looks the same regardless of whether it's happening because player A is buddies out of game with player B, because there's legitimate in-game reason for the trade to happen, or because Player A paid player B out of game.

This has nothing to do with the checkboxes you proposed of course, but let's keep in mind that what the checkbox system purports to answer is not whether money affects a game or not, but what the admin policy is on admins accepting payment.

Of course, there's also no way to verify whether an admin is taking payment on the sly or not.

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