I don't mean to sound callous but you're coming in here to somehow clear the air and your response is to double down on the very thing people are saying you're being ridiculous for?
You can say "I overreacted" until you're blue in the face, but "I don't want to hold any sort of responsibility in enabling what could very well be bad financial decisions because they didn't want anyone other than themselves getting the dragon(s) they wanted" is still you making assumptions about an internet stranger's financial situation based on minimal evidence and being moralist about it like you're somehow protecting them from themself due to unrelated experiences with a completely different person.
"While yes, Toxxitone COULD pay that amount in cash, a) it sounded like they needed the months-long hold in order to buy all the gems needed, and b) they were acting that the dragon had to be theirs no matter the cost."
Flight Rising caps gem expenditure at $3k USD/month. If someone is buying enough pure they have no choice but to wait several months unless they have treasure hoarded. Gem whales in this game often don't keep a lot of liquid treasure because it takes more effort to play G&G every day than to hit the Paypal button repeatedly.
"All of this is to say that I guess the "real" reason I backed out is that I don't want to be the one enabling this person to make these financial decisions. They can spend that $5k on their own time on different "fun bad ideas", but I don't want to be the one validating that it's what they need to do to get anything they desire."
Again, there you are trying to act like the sensible, responsible one despite not actually knowing this person beyond the single thread exchange.
"So I no longer play such games, and I no longer try to encourage anyone to spend large amounts of money on any game."
Then you shouldn't be participating in high-value auctions at all, if it brings you back to such terrible memories. You could have stopped bidding at any point if you were getting uncomfortable.
I really hate that I am defending someone who used the word "lesser" like that because I'm not trying to argue that Toxx isn't a prick. They are. You're just also being condescending, just in a more socially palatable way.
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(frozen comment) Re: 100x777 argument
(Anonymous) 2025-01-08 04:51 am (UTC)(link)You can say "I overreacted" until you're blue in the face, but "I don't want to hold any sort of responsibility in enabling what could very well be bad financial decisions because they didn't want anyone other than themselves getting the dragon(s) they wanted" is still you making assumptions about an internet stranger's financial situation based on minimal evidence and being moralist about it like you're somehow protecting them from themself due to unrelated experiences with a completely different person.
"While yes, Toxxitone COULD pay that amount in cash, a) it sounded like they needed the months-long hold in order to buy all the gems needed, and b) they were acting that the dragon had to be theirs no matter the cost."
Flight Rising caps gem expenditure at $3k USD/month. If someone is buying enough pure they have no choice but to wait several months unless they have treasure hoarded. Gem whales in this game often don't keep a lot of liquid treasure because it takes more effort to play G&G every day than to hit the Paypal button repeatedly.
"All of this is to say that I guess the "real" reason I backed out is that I don't want to be the one enabling this person to make these financial decisions. They can spend that $5k on their own time on different "fun bad ideas", but I don't want to be the one validating that it's what they need to do to get anything they desire."
Again, there you are trying to act like the sensible, responsible one despite not actually knowing this person beyond the single thread exchange.
"So I no longer play such games, and I no longer try to encourage anyone to spend large amounts of money on any game."
Then you shouldn't be participating in high-value auctions at all, if it brings you back to such terrible memories. You could have stopped bidding at any point if you were getting uncomfortable.
I really hate that I am defending someone who used the word "lesser" like that because I'm not trying to argue that Toxx isn't a prick. They are. You're just also being condescending, just in a more socially palatable way.