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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. Nope, WoW is by SomeJoel · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Is the Zynga business model the future of internet gaming?" No sir, the unmitigated success of WoW is what everyone is going to try (almost always unsuccessfully) to copy for many years to come.

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  2. Re:They've taken it down - for now by Barny · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't trust them for a whole other reason.

    When the game first launched, I borrowed my friends account to play with (he plays in a different time zone), I made a mage class (not sure what it was at the time) and went to kill my first mob, I cast "Magic Missile" and... it missed.

    Now I know its been fixed, but anyone who could cock-up the most BASIC of DnD spell at launch that badly I just couldn't trust not to screw up other things in equally bad ways.

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  3. Re:The bottom line by MrMista_B · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank you for that post.