WTF is that about
I thought Diamond VIP was supposed to be one of the better ones.
I also wonder why Morriyen Investments are involved, as Rome always advertises itself as "Rome Partners", and their rep does his best to distance the operation from the rogue end of the market.
If Morriyen are REALLY the ones in charge, it appears that Rome Partners is merely a "corporate disguise" being used in much the same way Virtual group subdivide their empire to make it hard for players to avoid playing at a known rogue.
If Morriyen dictate a certain rogue way of doing business in general, why would Rome be any safer a place to play than one of their other properties already found out and dumped into the pit.
This seems to suggest that this recent fiasco is not a simple case of bully & victim, but two businesses, both of whom do business in an equally rogue manner, coming to blows over a running dispute between them. Recourse to the law was NOT their first option, instead they went for the internet equivalent of a "hitman", with one getting their "hit" in first, leaving the other to squeal "unfair".
Maybe Rome partners, at the behest of their Merriyen bosses, WERE doing something along the lines of what Affactive accused them of, so Affactive got their "hit" in first, giving Rome and Top Game something more important to do than poach players and staff.
The staff disagreement may have stemmed from Rome getting inside secrets from the staff poached from competitor brands, and using this information (player lists even) to further their own business.
The fact that both parties seemed to view the law as the LAST resort suggests that they had both KNOWINGLY placed themselves beyond the reach of any EFFECTIVE law enforcement in order to conduct business the way they wanted, without having to worry about any interference from regulators, governments, and players taking legal action when screwed.
This meant THEY had no proper access to any legal recourse when THEY got screwed by a like minded competitor, and knowing this, decided that using the law would not work, so went for the "extra judicial" option of "taking the law into their own hands", and using DDos, blackmail, bullying, etc to get their way. This INCLUDED a campaign of propaganda conducted on the better known internet forums, where each side claims the other is lying, both sides say "they started it" and are "reluctantly" having to "finish it" by taking similar extra judicial measures.
Rather than trying to figure out who is the victim, and who is the rogue, BOTH should be avoided by both players and affiliates until this whole thing is over, and BOTH sides open up to an indepentent investigation of who did what & when, and sign a peace deal that promises this will not happen again.
This unfortunately leaves US players with RTG and 3 Dice, so it is asking US players to take a disproportionate share of the "pain", as they may have to quit altogether, rather than move their play to other operations.
), and I stumble upon a "baby" website still "under construction" for Morriyen Investments with a grand total of 4 pages, and one "error - under construction" link (which oddly, was the most interesting one to have been able to look at).
