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• • General: KingsIsle Reveals Self, Announces MMOs

  • I think the ship on their web site is just their trademark personally, but who knows.    I noticed they were hiring.  I wonder how many emails they have received with questions sense the announcement went out  LOL.I feel a twinge of that Vanguard era feeling.  

    I hope this works out better.   I hope they are basing their ideas on real experience in gaming too.  So many of the newer games the last few years are buying into the accepted ideas of what gamers want and so many of those ideas are off base and please only a small portion of the audience.

    Here's to you Kingsisle. [raises an energy drink can]   Winds at your back.       

  • Posted: 4/30/08 9:11 AM
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• • General: The Great EULA Debate

  • The problem with the EULA agreement is this:  Its complicated but in the end it says we ( the company) have all the rights and you ( the player) have none.  You click yes and say you agree to that because if you do not you cant log in and play even though you have already paid for the service and committed months or even years of in game work to developing your characters.   The EULA and other click to sign contracts that guard the gateway to virtual worlds are subject to change at the whim of the company and that is something you also agreed to in the EULA. 

    If there were laws ( and there should be) that were made to control unreasonable agreements and contracts, then this would be a prime example of consumer abuse.   We have become used to it but that does not mean that its ok.    It is like this because there is little if any legal president to determine if consumer rights have been violated by said contracts, or even if the consumer has any rights at all. 

    Perhaps some of our more cerebral gamer brothers and sisters should consider putting some explanation and complaints together in a way that those who have influence on laws could understand.   This isn't something that companies will offer of good will.   They exist for profit and nothing more.   Believing in some kind of benevolence from an entity that has its birth in profit is the worst and most foolish kind of mythology.

  • Posted: 4/07/08 12:40 AM
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• • General: SOE Founds Scholarship For Female Dev

  • Its true , things have not changed that much sense the 1950s.   As a matter of fact women have lost some ground sense the male backlash of the 1990s.    The kind of hate women remarks all along this thread shows it.    

    It is not uncommon for scholarships to be given to young potentials where there is a deficit in a field.    White males traditionally are first pick for companies because they will likely get along well with the current team because they are also male.   

    What SOE is doing is simply taking advantage of the growing awareness that women are playing more and more.   I have been in entire guilds consisting of women and met other women all the time in eq, eq2, wow , lotr.   What SOE has become aware of is that more and more of their female players are speaking out in objection to forum trolls insisting that women do not play.  

    Its simply a legitimate PR ploy and its only one candidate who is already in school for the gaming industry and will just get a leg up on her student loans that will cost at least twice as much.

    On another note it does not make the male player population or gaming industry look good with such a negative attitude toward women.   Especially after the EA Mythic survey scandal last year where anyone filling out their survey who was not male and below a certain age was bumped from it saying they didn't need anymore information from them.

  • Posted: 2/26/08 10:29 PM
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