Can anybody - anybody at all from the admins - tell us what is going to happen to the long-term stocks on June 01? Just take any of them as an example and tell us how it is going to close if it is going to close at all.
To make it simpler:
1. They will be just abandoned - yes or no?
2. They all will close "short" - yes or no?
3. They all will close "long" - yes or no?
4. The stocks which will be going up will close "long" and the stocks going down will close "short" - yes or no?
5. The stocks which will be going up will close "long" and the stocks going down will be ignored - yes or no?
6. The stocks which will be going down will close "short" and the stocks going up will be ignored - yes or no?
7. Any other possible way I could not imagine?
But they must tell us what they are going to do.
The way they treat us is simply ... OK, I don't want to name it. But it is what I don't want to say.
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If they're ending the game, and the props don't have a reason to pay out, they will just leave them as is. They end where they end. In what fair way could you pay out stocks that haven't been resolved? Also, why chase good money after bad, or use man hours at your company on a project that you are discontinuing?
To make it simpler:
1. Yes
To Chefboiaarni:
Yes, I agree with you. However, this is just what we think. It would be good to here from them.
Sorry for typos
i think all the stocks that will not have closed at the time should pay out at there price so if a stock is at $50 it will halt on june 1st and pay out at $50
Arkadi, I'd imagine they will give you the specifics you want fairly soon, assuming that PopSci would like keep the goodwill of the players so that we will carry on with their future games. I'm not assuming too much, am I.........?
Fisher, I highly doubt that's part of the program capabilities. Otherwise, they would have done that to pay out some of the previous stocks that were mired in controversy.
This market is crashing.
Sell-off everything now, and walk away.
Or, Short everything, and cover your shorts at the last minute.
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So what? It just does not tell anything about the long terms ones. I agree with Chefboiaarni that ignoring these stocks would be the most logical thing to do. But who knows? We need a clarification. Why not?