I've been playing on cakeRO for at least four months now... Made lots of great online friends and had even made good enough friends with people who had money for cake's neat donor items. I... until this point, loved cake to pieces and wouldn't play anywhere else. Once I had gotten high enough in the "social chain" if you will, I started seeing sights of the corruption for myself, but it wasn't all that terrible really... Some gm abuse but not a whole lot... it was dealable. (if I spelled that word right?) I was good enough friends with people (not gm's) to where my entire set of equips were all donor items with donor cards. we're talking, hundreds of dollars of stuff that other people paid for so that I could compete with the higher end donors in woe and pvp. I had my new stuff for roughly two days before the owner of cake, marsh, came into pvp and revoked everyone's donors that did not have paypal reciepts.
CakeRO rules state... (this is NOT verbatim... reader's digest version) "Giving donor items as gifts is permitted. The recipient must let Marsh know who gave it to them and what they gave."
Now anyone who played cake for a long time knows, that if you talk to marsh and you're not giving him any money, you get muted for hours on end. it's impossible to let him know ANYTHING. Over time, people donate, and then people quit. Some of my items were recieved as the result of people quitting. And I know NO ONE that is going to give an online friend their paypal reciepts or even think about giving it to them. Out of the 100+ people online last night, I counted 7 people with visible donors (ie wings and hats) SEVEN... (this is a DRASTIC drop from the usual 30-50)
My original thought was benefit of the doubt. "Oh, some gm is being a tard and giving out donors to their friends." After careful consideration, while that may happen... I came to a new conclusion. Marsh is a greedy *insert whatever insulting name you wish to insert here*. All in all, he decided that he didn't want people paying for donors and giving them away. Because when that happens, only one person donates as opposed to two if they can't give their stuff away. I don't recommend donating to cake if you play on that server. As if you forget, and delete your inbox, all of your stuff will be gone forever. Whether you paid for it or it was a gift. A friend of mine lost a pair of 20$ wings he had paid for because he loaned them to a priest for ten minutes in pvp and then went out to get food.
It's been rumored that there will be an entire donor wipe. Also been rumored that if you can get whoever gave you your items to vouche for you, marsh will return them. (he supposidly put our names on a list but... I'm not sure how much I believe that at this point either.) However... be wary... because IF Marsh happens to come online... you'll more than likely just get muted for trying to speak to him without permission.
All in all, I won't continue to play on cakeRO unless my items are rightfully returned to me. And even then I doubt I'll stay for very long as I am looking for a new server.
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