Our gravity could change? Huh? I'd really like to know how that would be possible. The Earth's mass (or the laws of physics) would have to change for that. Unless, maybe, the asteroid takes a chunk of the Earth as payment.
There are people starving to death all over the world, and some of our greatest minds are worried about will happen a billion years from now...
WTF?
Get things together now, people, or we won't be around in a thousand years...let alone a billion.
Yeah... What most people don't realize is that companies like Sony are actually being so much more loose on these issues than they could/should be.
In all actuality, Sony's just looking out for the "good guys", so to speak. If Sony does decide to let the sale of items and accounts go, and you get screwed over, it sure as hell shouldn't be their fault. However, there are a bunch of babies out there who think the exact opposite.
The character you create in EverQuest cannot stand alone. It requires the game to "exist". Any program you create with an MS product, or an image in Photoshop becomes independent of that software. Meaning, once created, you no longer require the parent product in order to continue using the created item (proprietary file types aside).
As for a person "owning" a character because they created it...? That's pushing it. Look at it this way... You own the CD that game is on, sure, but...the ability to play with others is a service. You pay the monthly fee to use the bytes and bandwidth that make up your character. You're leasing this stuff for as long as you play the game. When you quit playing EverQuest, you don't get to keep your character and all the items he/she/it has...do you?
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In all actuality, Sony's just looking out for the "good guys", so to speak. If Sony does decide to let the sale of items and accounts go, and you get screwed over, it sure as hell shouldn't be their fault. However, there are a bunch of babies out there who think the exact opposite.
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