Thread: Is Nutaku a Scam?

Originally Posted by Herald

I want to take the time to warn everyone about nutaku, which has just wiped my gold for not using it. The details of the circumstances are below, TL;DR they are shady

The point in wiping currency like this is so that they are not ending up with millions of dollars in "holding" that can't ever be touched because of the gold not being spent.

Say you buy 1,000 gold. Some of the money you spent on this will go towards the developers of the game the gold gets spent in. That money gets set aside for whenever this happens.
But.. what if you never spend it? That money gets stored indefinitely and is of no value to anyone. They can't just release it, because what if you come back and spend the gold later? The only way to alleviate this problem is by having the value expire. Yes, it feels real bad to lose it. But that's why you should only buy what you intend to spend right then, or within a few months. Free currency does not expire, because it is not tied to any money in a holding account.

This is a common practice among many companies. But not all of them do it for their own reasons. Nutaku may have their own reasons for doing it this way, but this is the reason I know of for it being done elsewhere.

(I sure did wait a long time to post in here)