I mean like
Scamming is definitely not supposed to be legal, anyone who attempts it should be punished (And it being legal would mean no scammer would get the punishment they deserve)
Can’t people already do that while scamming is illegal? And about the email part it’s kind of apart of their job to deal with scammers right?
As seen in
If you have been SCAMMED in any way, we cannot give you new items. We will ban scammers if there is enough proof.
Well take for example games with complete anarchy, for example the hit indie game “Minecraft” has a server called “2B2T”, and there are no rules within it. This inturn makes everyone suspect the other all the time and therefore less people get scammed. This effect is called “The Cobra Effect”. Here’s a part from Wikipedia about it: “The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobrras, offered a bounty reward for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased”. So less people might get scammed and therefore less work with emails about people getting scammed. In the start a large number of people will get scammed but after awhille the rates will be lower than ever.
I guess the pros of it is less work for the mods and maybe less scamming, since people will know its legal and will protect their items, or maybe it backfires and is the complete opposite.
Scamming is one of the lowest and most inhumane things you can do in this game. You trick people into giving you items or straight up steal them. If someone isn’t able to read social cues as much, or someone is new to the game and doesn’t know all the tips and tricks, they have even higher chances of falling victim to this. I definitely disagree that it should be allowed. It only brings out the worst in people and encourages that type of behaviour, which should not happen in the game, and also outside of it, for that matter.
Continuing the discussion from Should scamming be legal?:
Yeah new players are gonna be prone to scamming no matter what and making it legal will make this more common. But lowest and inhumane things you can do in this game? Stealing a bunch of items is way less worse than bullying someone for example, and at the end of the day it’s just a game, not that I encourage any of these behaviors. And yeah it brings out the worst out of people, but that’s because when there are no rules and no consequences, people wear off their masks and show who they really are. Lol this got deep real quick.
My concern with making scamming legal is the same thing what happen when p2p was legal. When that was made legal p2p was everywhere. Basically this could making scamming more common than it is now since you can do it without any consequences. Which will make this game turn into Growtopia even more, as in that game there are so many scammers. Pixel worlds is already heading in the direction Growtopia is.
even then that’s been up for a long time. Almost 12 years! Players who play that game know what they’re doing, because almost all the players are 25 years or older. Pixel Worlds has kids that are 12 and younger and if scamming is allowed, well the children will think it’s allowed in the real world, and use their scamming skills there.