Interview with Affinity Media VP
According to him, although staying in the Korean player to player auction game, the former owners of IGE really are out of the RMT business:
Oh, just everyone has been so interested in the IGE thing, because IGE is a controversial business. Very controversial, and we’d always kept this incredible differences between the businesses.
If you go to any of our sites, you’ll never see a gold-selling ad. The guys who founded our business, guys like Jeff Moyer and Bill Diaz, they’ve got absolutely nothing to do with that other side of the business.
So for us, it was a positive, in that we thought, for the people who cared, that’s no longer an issue. Since it’s a private company, a private transaction, we’re not releasing actual news on terms. But we’re no longer in that business.
Of course, they’re still the kind of people who will happily exploit moral and legal grey areas for cash, which still makes me a touch leery about visiting their websites.
Although come to think of it, that’s how I feel about Sony, too.
Or any other corporation, really?
Meh, other corporations haven’t tried to install rootkits on my system lately.
Or to expand on that last – corporations, like people, can be trustworthy or untrustworthy. The ones that find creative ways to screw me over stay on my untrustworthy list for quite a while. The ones that offer decent products and services, treat their customers well, and make money doing it are the ones I prefer to deal with.