There's been a rash of posts popping up of late. "This bug/servercrash/feature cost me my items, I deserve them back". I, and at least some others, have been openly critical of this sense of entitlement that permeates posts of this kind. Rather than repeat myself, or get frustrated when it pops up yet again, I wanted to write up a little post on why older members of the community will likely react badly to the whole thing:
This is an open world, PvP, permadeath game. SeaTribe has had some extremely bad experiences with refunding people items/lives in the past. It opens a huge can of worms and is incredibly possible to be abused. I personally don't even want SeaTribe to start wading into that muck because they are a small team and simply cannot afford the manpower that would be required to deal with those issues.
We are living in a no holds barred world. People will grief, steal and kill. Boston will be littered with corpses. People are complaining about a couple dropped items? What's going to happen when someone bashes your home open, tries their very best to kill you, and takes everything of value that they can? I will bend over backwards to help new people along in the world, teach them how to be paranoid so that they have a chance of surviving when a raider wanders nearby. But entitlement has no place in the world of Salem. People with that attitude are only bound to meet disappointment in this game.
This warning goes out particularly to people who are thinking of paying into the game. Caveat Emptor to anyone buying silver. If you're paying into this game be aware that anything you take out of the bank can easily be taken from you in any number of ways. All caution, including minimizing the value ferried per run to your claim, should be exercized.