I wish a site I knew of was still around, it has images from a bootleg version of Pokemon Emerald that was just bad.
I own a copy. :D
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but not as bad as this though http://i50.tinypic.com/15x5svs.jpg
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Meh, I stopped playing anything by NC Soft when they discontinued Exteel. I fucking loved that game. :(
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Of course dude, it happened to an employee who gets payed for his job by huge company and they actually approved it even without reviewing it whether it is correct or not.
Aaand the fact that it stayed there for such a long time without anyone noticing the mistake.
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Most people just don't care about spelling any more. Pretty soon, reading anything online will likely be as difficult as trying to read the will of Mary I or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original spelling. :/
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"Pretty soon?" The day has already arrived. You have only to search the blogosphere.
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If you want to know why, you'll need to ask NCSoft.
When they went Free to Play with City of Heroes, they changed the EULA to match several of their other games such as Lineage II. Clause 11(a)(iv) reads that "You warrant and represent that you have no history, or patterns of behavior, that would lead to use of the game in an addictive or compulsive manner." Translation: Anybody who has been diagnosed with OCD who clicks accept on that EULA can be sued for fraud.
Rather odd when you think about it, since compulsives are the people most likely to pay them $15 a month to rent a game.
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That's bullshit.
They are doing that to protect themselves against game abuse from said people. And it does not say that it forbids people with certain illinesses, but that they won't lead you to a misuse of the game.
Demagogery much.
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It says that by clicking accept you certify that you don't have that problem.
I have OCD (formally diagnosed). I have filed a discrimination complaint against NCsoft.
Demagogue? I think not. Look it up. I don't want power. I want fair value for my money spent.
A clause like you suggest would have been worded that an individual is responsible for their own actions and that NCsoft disclaimed responsibility for medical treatment caused by such actions. Such clauses have appeared in many game licenses and I have no problems with such. This is worded quite a bit differently.
Prevent abuse of the game? In what way? If I have paid for service without any contractual limitations on how much that service may be used in a given time period, how can I abuse that?
I wanted to be able to play the game that I paid for access to, not be subject to fraud claims for saying that I don't have a condition that I have been diagnosed with.
Since you're such an expert on contract law, please explain to me how I can certify that I do not have a history of compulsive behavior when I have been diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome?
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You are drowning in a glass of water.
I would explain further but, hey, good luck with your discrimination complaints.
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I'll believe that when RIAA and the MPAA (and their UK equivalents) stop treating the people who purchase their content as guilty until proven innocent. I remember hearing about a case from a few years back where a little old lady in the UK was convicted of copyright infringement because she forgot to terminate her internet and unplug her AP when she sold her computer and somebody else came along and started file sharing on the unsecured WiFi.
RIAA and the MPAA are spending more than ten times what they recover on infringement actions, sometimes suing people who don't even own a computer, other times seizing websites of individuals who are providing properly licensed downloads (shorty after Obama decreed that ACTA should be enforced without submitting it to Congress), and you expect me to believe that if I lie to a company and agree to a contract that says I don't have a disability which I clearly have that they'll never come after me?
Or to put this another way, they get to cover their backsides in a way that requires me to not be able to use their product after having paid for it, by way of covering my own?
I should not have to lie in a legally binding document in order to play a game that I've already paid for. Especially when that lie could be used to terminate my sole source of income were it to come to light.
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What RIAA and MPAA have been doing has nothing to do with this. I would not advise lying or agreeing to a contract fraudulently, but I do not see them suing you over this. Lawsuits are not cheap, and in most cases they do not return much. In the case of piracy, prosecutions are meant as deterrents as much as means of gaining money. In this case of games, game makers have no reason to want to deter OCD players. Ipso facto, little to no chance of a lawsuit.
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And yet, everybody who tells me I should have just clicked accept and ignored the wording IS saying that I SHOULD do just that . . . lie about my mental health and fraudulently enter into a contract in order to play a game that I've already paid for, when no such clause existed in previous versions of the EULA.
I agree that game makers have no reason to want to deter OCD players, but I see no difference between outright saying that OCD is not welcome (clearly illegal in the country in which this occurred and in which the division of the company making and hosting the game was located) and saying that somebody has to certify that they don't have the symptoms of that condition before they can play.
EDIT: And while I agree that the RIAA and MPAA are not directly related, I consider their actions just as indicative of how ludicrous the current US legal system is as jbwyatt1's post below about Bob and Bill in Barney's lumber yard.
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Then that's on my head, not theirs. This clause, however, doesn't say that I have to be responsible for my own actions. It says that I can't participate without certifying that I do not have a condition with which I have been formally diagnosed.
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but it's NOT on your head - this is the world we live in:
Bob trips over a 2 x 4 and Bill laughs at him
Bob picks up the 2 x 4 and cracks Bill over the head with it
it's not Bill's fault - it's not Bob's fault
it's Barney's fault - because Barney owns the lumber yard that cut the 2 x 4 and sold it to Bob, or Bill
and that stupid shit is why companies try to cover they ass with ridiculous disclaimers like that - because some fucking window licker is going to play the game for 14 hours straight and go do some stupid shit imitating the game and everybody starts crying for bans on video games and pop-sicles and battery powered fly swatters and not once ask the dumbass what his fucking problem is
(ummmm - sorry 'bout all that)
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I understand the frustration with reaction to recent events, and think that the reaction is just as ridiculous as you do. Let's see - they blame a sci-fi RTS for causing this, when a country where the same game is a top spectator sport (S. Korea) has never once had a similar incident. Does not compute.
However, in this case I talking about a four-color, super-hero MMO, not GTA or D&D.
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Oh my god there's a word misspelled, they're the worst company on the face of the planet.
Also, there is no E in the word okay.
There's also only 1 K and 1 Y on okay.
And there's only 1 U in the word but.
And only 2 E's in the word please.
And there's an apostrophe in the word won't.
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Also the 'really?' after the ellipsis should be capitalized. 'Really?'
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Sometimes one letter makes a BIG difference.
http://i50.tinypic.com/15x5svs.jpg
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No, if they were using the wrong your,you're,there,their etc then they would be.
Oh, ok slashes don't work in comments.
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You're complaining that a south korean dev has spelling/grammar/punctuation mistakes? As a m-m-m-mega fail? I clicked this thread expecting to find a screencap of a field of dead NPCs because they forgot to add protection to them not something even american developers regularly screw up.
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They shoud hire me to grammor cheek them guys games.
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Hillary! Hillary! He's our man! If he can't do it...! Oh, wait...
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While your statement is generally true, in the case of MMOs, the developer and the publisher often are identical.
Example: Let's look at a retail box for Guild Wars, Factions, Platinum Edition (the only retail box for an MMO that I have near at hand). Different game, same developer (NCsoft). The only corporate logos on the box are NCsoft and Arenanet, with a small ATI logo on the back of the box. Arenanet is a subsidiary of NCsoft, so they do appear to be both the publisher and developer of their games, [sarcasm] unless ATI is moving from hardware design and manufacturing into game publishing [/sarcasm]. And I seriously doubt that any publisher would be willing to refrain from printing their logo on the box without a fee so ridiculously high that it would make news.
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Could be worse. Aren't NC Soft Korean? OP has more spelling/grammar errors in about the same volume of wording and - taking a guess here - isn't Korean.
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Okkkeyyyy, I am not sure what kind of guy they hired, buuut... ehm, lol.
Check this:
http://imageshack.us/f/23/shot00001vb.png/
NC Soft... really?
Pleeease, why wont they hire someone with education?:D
Hell, same spelling mistake is on EVERY advanced class of this race.
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