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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Typical...

While I'm glad the BS in a EULA got overridden, I think this is a stupid case.

Personally, I think the balance is swung all the way over to companies, and it needs to be reset so that consumers have more recourse.

However, having said that, this of course is an undeserving and stupid case. "The game was so addictive it ruined my life...."

OK, whatever. You had no life and continue to have no life and now you want to be paid for it. Yes games are fun but you're the one who chooses how, when, etc to play it.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
Necronomikro

join:2005-09-01

Re: Typical...

To be fair, many MMORPG makers seem to create their games to tailor to the addicted and use tricks to help their gamers to become addicted.

KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Re: Typical...

Kinda like text messaging? A psychological addition only to the social aspect. It's not like they are injecting you with drugs or anything.....

Plus I'm not sure they use "tricks to make gamers addicted" as much as they try and make their games interesting and fun and engrossing to play.

Which of course is deliberate.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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Mullica Hill, NJ

Commerce Sec. Bought and Paid For

Seems to me this is the case at least and the RIAA was the higher bidder.

These Idiots(Lawmakers and the MAFIAA) will never learn that all their efforts will never end file sharing and their efforts only pump more cost on to the consumer causing more incentive to "Stick it to the man" and download that song from something not legit.
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davidca96

join:2010-08-21

Hypocrisy in the Name of "Public Interest"

What is a "minority neighborhood"? This article seems racist to me, anyone else get that vibe?

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