This is exactly the reason that Verant doesn't want people selling items in the RealWorld(tm)*, and it's a valid reason. Here's the logic:
customers buy into the persistant virtual world and develop unique characters
people who are leaving start to sell thier items and characters
newbies and "naturally" powerful players can stockpile items and in-game cash that they would have to work years for by design
Opportunists cash in on this trend, further upsetting GameBalance(tm)*
The society of the game breaks down, resulting in a dead game
If this would actually happen or not is really uncertain, but it's what the corporations that spend the money to develop these games think. This should get interesting if it actually gets into court. I've played many MUDs (none come close to the scale of EQ) where there have been "player uprisings" and have yet to see one I considered effective... I've always wanted to see some of them tested by a court.
* I just know someone has this trademarked, and don't want to make them mad
well, will a promise card work, or is that an i386 only thing? It's already got two ethernet ports after all. I'm quite happy with the (admittedly low end of the scale) performance of my ata66 drives when it comes to webserving.
don't know if anyone has posted this (I'm fairly positive they have but I'm not going to look)
but....
I've been told that if you can view the website comfortably in lynx, web readers for the blind will be able to easily decypher it. Anything that's more info than flash that I'm involved in is completely lynx friendly.
it's a neccesary thing. I'm a webmaster at an ISP and my job would be VERY frustrating if I didn't have the WHOIS database to check. Think about how many people understand how the DNS works. Discard them. Now think about how many of the remaining people actually know who is hosting their domain. Discard them. Those that are left seem to entrust me with their domains.
Without WHOIS, I would have to dig for a domain of a name server, then search the web to find this ISP. Upon locating the phone number, then and only then can I start my search for the elusive and wiley hostmaster.
With WHOIS I issue one command and usually have not only the email address of the hostmaster, but his/her phone number too. The clueful even seem to put a phone number down that has a decent chance of intelligence on the other end.
Close WHOIS to the public and you'd better give me a subscription!
South Park is an area in colorado. Some of the larger towns include Salida and Alamosa. Really nice place, too bad there's no high-speed access to speak of, or I'd get the hell outta this damned city!
Here here! If you don't have the rescources or ability to make your CC data "safe".... throw it away! Make the transaction, store the last five digits for accounting purposes, and THROW THE REST AWAY! So your customers have to type a CC number in every time they want to make a purchase. Oh well. I have mine memorised it's..... oh wait.... I shouldn't post that here.
You know, in a way, you're correct. I don't think I've ever come out well against one, seeing as IANAL either. But really, lets leave the worlds oldest profession (the real one) out of it, and just let the disclaimer stand, whaddya say?;)
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Here's the logic:
- customers buy into the persistant virtual world and develop unique characters
- people who are leaving start to sell thier items and characters
- newbies and "naturally" powerful players can stockpile items and in-game cash that they would have to work years for by design
- Opportunists cash in on this trend, further upsetting GameBalance(tm)*
- The society of the game breaks down, resulting in a dead game
If this would actually happen or not is really uncertain, but it's what the corporations that spend the money to develop these games think.This should get interesting if it actually gets into court. I've played many MUDs (none come close to the scale of EQ) where there have been "player uprisings" and have yet to see one I considered effective... I've always wanted to see some of them tested by a court.
* I just know someone has this trademarked, and don't want to make them mad
well, will a promise card work, or is that an i386 only thing? It's already got two ethernet ports after all. I'm quite happy with the (admittedly low end of the scale) performance of my ata66 drives when it comes to webserving.
hehe... fake story, but that's why I don't use amazon.com
don't know if anyone has posted this (I'm fairly positive they have but I'm not going to look)
but....
I've been told that if you can view the website comfortably in lynx, web readers for the blind will be able to easily decypher it. Anything that's more info than flash that I'm involved in is completely lynx friendly.
it's a neccesary thing. I'm a webmaster at an ISP and my job would be VERY frustrating if I didn't have the WHOIS database to check. Think about how many people understand how the DNS works. Discard them. Now think about how many of the remaining people actually know who is hosting their domain. Discard them. Those that are left seem to entrust me with their domains.
Without WHOIS, I would have to dig for a domain of a name server, then search the web to find this ISP. Upon locating the phone number, then and only then can I start my search for the elusive and wiley hostmaster.
With WHOIS I issue one command and usually have not only the email address of the hostmaster, but his/her phone number too. The clueful even seem to put a phone number down that has a decent chance of intelligence on the other end.
Close WHOIS to the public and you'd better give me a subscription!
South Park is an area in colorado. Some of the larger towns include Salida and Alamosa. Really nice place, too bad there's no high-speed access to speak of, or I'd get the hell outta this damned city!
Here here! If you don't have the rescources or ability to make your CC data "safe" .... throw it away! Make the transaction, store the last five digits for accounting purposes, and THROW THE REST AWAY! So your customers have to type a CC number in every time they want to make a purchase. Oh well. I have mine memorised it's ..... oh wait .... I shouldn't post that here.
>Currently this means sites that display nicely at 800X600
>at 256 colors and Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x.
That's what we do too. (but alt="" attribs are always there)
You know, in a way, you're correct. I don't think I've ever come out well against one, seeing as IANAL either. But really, lets leave the worlds oldest profession (the real one) out of it, and just let the disclaimer stand, whaddya say? ;)
heh - some ppl with a two-digit IQ would probobally be able to figure that one out too.