Quit Ruining The General Discussions

[Sigma-Astra]

It wasn't one random person saying it. It's the entire industry these cash shops are originating. This is why you shouldn't be sticking your neck out for a business. Just because the guy they put out front seems friendly enough doesn't mean the people in back see you as anything more than a source of revenue.

It doesn't matter who offers the higher amount of revenue or not, if you have to label a good portion of the playerbase with an unsavory term to describe them in a negative light in order to make your argument, you're insulting them. The same can be said for labeling every single Savage player as an "elitist". It's name-calling, nothing more than that. Not every person who uses the cash shop is a "whale" which is the same that not every Savage player is an "elitist". You have your bad and good portions of people in both categories.

If I come across a person spending insane amounts of money within the cash shop, I don't call them a whale. It's their money, their right to spend it as they see freely. Do I agree with their spending habits? No, absolutely not. Should I try to butt in? Probably not, they won't listen to me either way. People spend their money as they see fit. If I come across a person in Savage that's being a jerk, I don't call them an elitist. I simply say they're being overly hostile and rude. I also don't look at every Savage raider and cash shop buyer as some evil portion of the playerbase because of the labels that people like to use.

As for sticking my neck out for a business? I'm not. It's a business, they stand to make a profit, of course they're going to look at me as a source of revenue. Any company, does that. My electric company doesn't care if I can't pay the bill on time, they'll shut my electricity off. They don't care if I have a cancer patient to take care of. They're providing a service, I can either pay for it or say goodbye to turning on the lights. That's how a profit business operates. You are a source of revenue for them, it's how they stay in business period. They're not here to make friends or play nice, they're there to get paid so that they can pay the people working for them. It's how the world rolls. This isn't new news. Literally, if you think just because you're a paying customer that you deserve some kind of super, duper, awesome friendly service....eh, I'd say you're in for a rude awakening. However, we should always hope that they offer friendly customer service to keep their customers satisfied and less likely to leave. But, this isn't a perfect world. When SE does something that actually offends me, I'll more than likely leave as well like everyone else does, you know?

A business operates to make money, not friends. It's just capitalism unfortunately.

I know my fair share of dealing with companies of that nature that you speak of, trust me. I spent $10,000 on a bathroom remodel through Lowe's only for the remodel to start falling apart within a year after learning that the contractors Lowe's hired were shoddy at their jobs (i.e. not doing things that they are required by law to do, etc) and I'm still in the process of getting Lowe's to own up towards the mistakes as per our contract when I first went to them for this project. They were the ones that hired those contractors so, they have partial responsibility towards why I've spent $10,000 on something that shouldn't be falling apart within the first year. Trust me, I know what you're talking about here. I'm living it.