Tuesday, September 23, 2008

60 Day Market Purge Is Ridiculous

This is one of the few things that really irks me about CoX. If one of your characters doesn't access the market server for 60 days, your belongings are summarily deleted.

This really works against the "encourage alts" ethic of the game's design. And if this is aimed at improving performance on the market server, then they clearly are employing a server that isn't up to the task at hand and need a better one. To delete your items is silly and unnecessary. There's not one good argument in favor of it that holds any water.

The things on the market, the things you've earned through your play time, are just dumped. All this does is create ill-will in NCNC's customers. For those who lose something really valuable, it may downright anger them. I wouldn't be surprised if they've lost a sub or two over it.

It's a bad policy and it needs to go. Surely there must be a better solution than simply deleting player's belongings.

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