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DDO's Turbine Partners With Notorious SuperRewards

Posted by Soulskill on from the fill-out-this-survey-to-become-two-percent-stronger dept.

Zarrot writes "In the next step for their Free 2 Play model, Turbine Entertainment, publisher of Dungeon and Dragons: Online, Lord of the Rings: Online, and Asheron's Call, has partnered with notorious 'lead generation company' SuperRewards. Initial testing by forum users shows that just accessing the page without clicking on any offers sends the user's email and game login in clear text to SuperRewards. Reports of new spam and fresh malware infections on test systems are already being reported on the company's forums. Is the Zynga business model the future of Internet gaming?"

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  1. Spam? by ExploHD · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet it will be great with their new Viking MMO

    1. Re:Spam? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

      I've had to deal with much less of that since I put in a spamberserker appliance.

      The hardware warranty on those things is really short; but the vendor promises a Valkyrie on site within two hours, so long as the appliance dies while battling spam.

      If it fails to wake up after scheduled downtime, I have to dispose of it myself.

  2. The bottom line by Myji+Humoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    So what you're trying to say is, Turbine chose to get double the gold reward from the quest by gaining 3 evil alignment points? Who wouldn't do that in their shoes?

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    Signatures are the new names.
    1. Re:The bottom line by Ocker3 · · Score: 1, Funny

      damn. I blew out the last 4 gig of my qouta d/ling that client so my gf would stop whinging about only having FPS games on my pc, and they're about to pull This kind of shite on me. Now I have to go find my old Guild Wars key! Congrats on finding a way to piss off a Whole bunch of people at once Turbine.

  3. Re:Prefetching? by bmo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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    BMO

  4. Re:just dont play for a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pfft, who are you trying to kid?
    Assassins Creed 2 sold, and it has probably the worst DRM ever.
    What makes you think people will give a monkeys flying shit about some website collecting information?
    People do that crap all the time on Facebook, Myspace and Bebo. (perhaps not so much the 3rd if it doesn't get a buyer)
    People simply don't give a damn about their privacy online, they'd happily comply with posting all their personal information just to get a free bloody iPod for crying out loud...

    All the more reason for Computer Licences IMO.
    Idiots being let on computers has ruined Computing for all of us. It is going to take decades to fix all this awful mess we are in now.

  5. Re:Not necessarily by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    diming and quartering

    Boy, talk about inflation...

    (I think the phrase is "to nickel and dime.") :)

  6. Re:Not necessarily by Minwee · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the phrase is "to nickel and dime."

    Being nickelled wasn't all that bad, but the threat of being quartered is really starting to drive people away.