Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11784273-20130902154747/@comment-10214922-20130903143605

Ranoake wrote: Masu:

" When is saving money cheating and when is it a smart consumer choice?"

It is really quite simple. If you buy from a legitimate source then it is smart consumer choice, shopping around your legal options is smart.

When you buy stuff off the back of a truck though, you might not *know* it is stolen, but really, what legitimate business deals off the back of a truck?

Also, it makes no sense for Mobage to authorize sale of a proprietary currency that can only be purchased in game.

The credit card thing makes total sense. Mobage would never see any strangeness with the Mobacoins since they are all done via legal means from their perspective, and that would require a login to use the stolen cards. That said, the cards would be stolen cards and so you are complicit for sure in that case, and that would be cheating. It is no different than if you had stolen the money yourself and used it to buy coins legally from Mobage.

And Mobage won't care that the cards are stolen, they still get their money, when stolen cards are used, the card companies absorb the loss, not the vendors. I get what you are saying Ran, however I was trying to illustrate the dichotomy here being that dealing with illegitimate business may be unethical, but it is not cheating in the context of the game itself.