But like I said above - Store trades are far more unfair than having an alt :') If you look at the facts of it - I get that the store trades help the server, but the point was, they're more unfair than someone having an alt - so why be okay with one and not the other?
I think it is important to mention on my last post while writing I made a paragraph ish long "postscript" that I eventually cut entirely which essentially said that I was anti store trade and that while I wouldn't ban it if I was in control, I would institute a public store trade npc (though obviously that would never happen in the real world because it would cut server revenue) and that generally I don't like the exchange of IRL money for in game currency. I cut out the postscript because I just didn't want to argue about store trades (they are not leaving the server ANYTIME soon so it wouldn't be productive) and I knew that you occasionally did them meaning you likely had a pretty strong opposing view
. The reason I defended store trades was because I wanted to work in the framing of the question.
how is it unfair if someone has paid money and purchased it?
and before the argument of because some people can't pay that - people do store trades daily on PW
The question was asked where the implied base claim is "Store Trades are good and fair" and the only way to correctly answer it was to differentiate between store trades and alts in order to decipher why one is fair and the other is not. So in my response I focused on making a point of the difference instead of just saying what I actually thought which is that both are unfair. This is partially why I was motivated to write that "postscript" in the first place but then deleted it against my better judgement.
Though, more importantly, I agree that store trades are FAR more unfair and are FAR worse, but I must ask, how realistic is it to remove store trades? If I suggested the removal of store trades it would get shut down immediately because not only will a lot of players not be receptive to the idea because it conflicts with their interests, many staffers (some of whom will decide whether this idea is good or not to pass on to other staff in near absolute authority) will also have disdain for the idea and shut it down immediately. And even if store trades are banned, there is pretty much no way it can enforced to catch all of them meaning there will always be someone doing them. What I am proposing, yes will not be radical, and yes won't fix everything, and yes in a lot of respects will continue to have inequalities and injustices, will strive to fix SOME of them, and actually has a chance of passing (there isn't even anything to enforce also at all really, it's just giving players something only a select few had access to before).
Thanks for reading my long nonsensical ramblings about injustice on a Harry Potter Minecraft Server, and have a groovy day.