If you donate your RL money to a friend's account that's fine, If you donate your RL money to your account that's fine. But if you have 20 Million IG dollars, and say Hey ima go play *** ****** want my money? And hand $20,000,000 over without any RP or IC reason, Then yeah we gonna smite you.
Not only for advertising.. but for inflating the economy..
New players are welcome to earn their stuff the way its meant to be done, by driving a bus (or other various jobs)/ I sure know I have plenty of hours of driving busses.. The first 5 months of Playing MTA I dealt guns and drove a bus! (not at the same time)
If you are GIVEN money and dont have to earn it, You are less likely to value it and more likely to walk away from it without any consequences.
This is why its SO HARD to get a Faction, or to become admin.. If we FREELY handed them out, They would not be valued, and it wouldn't matter to anyone anymore.
The perfect example to that is when we lowered factions IG to 2k VIP. We sold nearly 20, And only about 3 of those factions are still open. They didn't value the faction enough to care about it, and actually try to keep it. It wasn't anything to them.
Life isn't handed to you on a silver platter, You have to get off your butt and do something or you will live in your parents basement for the rest of your life. No one is going to magically knock on your door in real life and hand you a few million dollars to go live life. You have to work for and earn every red cent you make. So why is it fair to do the opposite in MTA?
Yes I get that you play MTA to have fun, and do things that you cant normally do IRL (Such as be a cop) but don't you think you should have to at least EARN it? At least then you know yourself that you worked hard for it, and you achieved your goals. Its not like some RPG Server where you walk in to a marker and just magically become a cop to go corrupt on every, Killing innocent people. Its something you have to earn, and that's the way ti should be!
To add onto this, the only way to get In-Game cash from donating is VIA F5. We added F5 so that those who cannot afford to donate to the server can still have the ability to use some of the donation perks. If you remember, we removed the ability to convert points to cash on the donation menu.
An ill thought off consequence of this was that now you could simply donate and put up a massive amount of points for sale for a massive amount of money.