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Posted by Cliff on Friday February 13, @03:30PM
from the dept.
I bought the Sunflowers' 1503AD game practically as soon as it came out, since my wife and
I loved to play the old 1602AD together via LAN. 1503AD's expanded multiplayer feature was
touted all over the internet (see here, here, and here), yet when I bought the game for
the costly $52 I was very unpleasantly surprised that the game had none. Despite the
continuous claims that the company is working on the MP patch, we're now 7 months away
from the initial release, the game sells now for a measly $15, and I am yet to play a
single second of it, as I have no interest in the single player experience. My attempts at
communication with the company led to nothing but dead-ends and unprovoked mistreatment.
Unfortunately, this is not a unique occurrence in today's entertainment software industry,
where atrocious lack of support is growing rampant and is increasingly coupled with
ridiculous EULA's. Therefore I decided to finally exercise my end-user rights and pursue a
class-action lawsuit against the company. Hereby I am asking you, fellow Slashdotters, for
help in seeking answers to the following questions as well assistance in assembling
signatures for the class-action lawsuit... 1) I need to expose this iniquity so that the
software consumers become aware of this atrocious lack of support that is running rampant
among the today's entertainment software producers (obviously having this posted on
Slashdot will be exposure in itself to be reckoned with). 2) I would greatly appreciate
your advice on how to locate a reputable and internationally active law firm that could
handle this case. 3) I would like to know what is the required number of the participants
for the class-action lawsuit to be instantiated. 4) Do you think that this course of
action will yield any results? 5) If you have this game and feel the same like I do, I
would like to urge you to please join the class-action lawsuit as only together can we
fight the corporate giants. Also, if you feel that you can and are willing to help out in
any other shape or form (i.e. website maintenance etc.), please do not hesitate to contact
me and/or visit the website stated below. 6) I believe that the class-action lawsuit, if
successful, will let the entertainment software companies know that we, as investors in
their product(s) are not to be trifled with. As such, this can be used to leverage further
attempts at forcing the other entertainment software companies support their product(s) as
they ought to, as well as hopefully abolishing the obfuscated EULA's that relinquish them
of any responsibility towards consumers. 1503AD is by no means an exception, but rather it
is part of an unfortunate growing trend among the entertainment software companies! I am
urging you to please help out with this issue as this could just be the greatest thing
that happened to the end-user rights in a long time! For more details regarding this issue
please visit: http://home.fuse.net/slipstreamscapes/
shame on us / for all we have done / and all we ever were / just zeroes and ones
this probably isn't the first post...but I play games on a mac laptop that cost half as much!
Buy me one O_o
Even tried to get first post, but was denied.
Sorry, GNAA.
Well of course it's Offtopic, where else can I post it ;) Just thought it odd.
Carry on.
shame on us / for all we have done / and all we ever were / just zeroes and ones
I'll get you a tissue.
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
Join the fun!!!
Hrm, you really don't have much security allowing employees to use their own Memory Keys... Watch one person get a virus and let it into your system and BLAMO, your fizucked.
How to Speak Leet
I wanna drink.. I wanna drink your first sperm, dude...
I printed it out:
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Posted by Cliff on Friday Febuary 13, @ 03:30pm form the dept.
I bought the Sunflowers' 1503 AD game practically as soon as it came out, since my wife and I loved to play the old 1602AD together via LAN. 1503AD's expanded multiplayer feature was touted all over the internet(see here, here, and here), yet when I bought the game for the costly $52 I was very unpleasently suprised that teh agme had none. Despite the continuous claims that the company is working on the MP patch, we're now 7 months away from the initial release, the game sells now for a measly $15, and I am yet to play a single second of it, as I have no interest in the single player experinece. My attempts at communication with the company led to nothing but dead-ends and unproved mistreatment. Unfortunately, this is not a unique occurance in today's entertainment software industry, where atrocious lack of of support is growing rampant and is increasingly coupled with ridiculous EULA's. Therefore I decided to finally exercise my end-user rights and pursue a class-action lawsuit agianst the company. Hereby I am asking you, felllow Slashdotters, for help in seeking answers to the following questions as well as assistance in assembling signitures for the class-action lawsuit... 1)I need to expose the iniquity so that the software consulers become aware of this atrocious lack of support that is running rampant among the today's entetainment software producers (obviously having this posted on Slashdot will be exposure in itslef to be reckoned with). 2)I would greatly appreciate your advice on how to locate a reputable and internationally active law firm that could handle this case. 3)I would like to know what is the required number of the participants for the class-action lawsuit to be instantiated. 4)Do you think that this course of action will yield any results? 5)If you have this game and feel the same like I do, I would like to urge you to please join the class-action lawsuit as only together can we fight the corporate giants. Also, if you feel that you can and are willing to help out in any other shape or form(i.e. website maintance etc.), please do not hesitate to contact me and/or visit the website stated below. 6)I believe that the class-action lawsuit, if sucessful, will let the entertainment software companies know that we, as investors in their product(s) are not to be trifled with. As such this can be used to leverage further atttempts at forcing the other entertainment software companies support their product(s) as they ought to, as well as hopefully abolishing the obfuscated EULA's taht relinquish them of any responsibility towards consumers. 1503AD is by no means and exception, but rather it is part of an unfortunate growing trend among the entertainment software companies! I am urging you to please help out with this issue as this could be the greatest thing that happened to the end-user rights in a long time! For more details regarding this issue please visit: http://home.fuse.net/slipstreamscapes/
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Personally, my reponse would be: sucks to be you. We've all been burned by software companies who release unfinished porducts that never get completed. You should consider yourself lucky the game even works. I bought a copy of divine divinity about three months after it was out and it was till full of game crashing bugs (in fact it was impossible to beat becuase of them.) I'll think twice about ever buying a product from that company again. What probably happened with yours was they released to judge response on whether the game was going to be a worthwile investment before they dropped the cash in further developement. Maybe it never made it through bata, didn't make enough money to warrant compeletion, unexpected bug, etc. Either that or the MP was never completed due to lack of funds (co. going out of business, advertisers pulling features out of their asses, etc.) As for EULA's, I don't know anyone who actually reads them anymore anyway. Comapnies taht make bad products don't make money for long. That is the way things go. Cheaper to just accept the loss then to try to wage a lenghty court battle.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
The bold was of course just what i thought of the issue before the mods pulled the test. Never submitted it cause the story went away before i could post to it.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
WUXGA+ screen, which is 1920x1200 pixels.
What I want to know is, why is it you can buy a laptop with that flat panel installed, but you can't buy an LCD monitor for your desktop PC that can do that?
Actually, you can, for about $2500. My 24" Samsung does 1920x1200 and works beautifully under Linux with my ATI Radeon 9100, using the xfree DRI drivers.
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