It is obviously not an exploit because EA does nothing about it? ....Is duping gold checks an exploit??? I dont see EA doing much about companies that dupe and sell billions in gold every weekend but no one would deny it is effecting the game...so that argument doesnt hold up.
Allow me to re phrase: EA currently has set the 90 days as the time period. They must then approve of it. EA doesn't like nor condone duping.
My comment about bloody lowlifes.. was a wise crack about people who pull wings off flies...it was a smart ass joke ( talk about overreacting much???)
For the record I have 2 keeps on two different shards...and I can have a castle any day I want. I have owned them before and literally given them away. I dont see this as "just an Alt issue"
Perhaps I did overreact. I have an 18x18 in malas. That's it. Use to have two but I shut down the account.
I see this as people exploiting a system, not designed to be used by them, so that they can have 4 different houses on 4 different accounts and pay the equivalent of 1 annual account subscription fee. It is stealing and cheating and it is wrong....period. And just because some people think they are entitled to exploit a system cause "the rules dont apply to them".. they are wrong...and eventually this exploit will get changed if enough people complain about it.
I completely understand your sentiment. If this 90 day rule helps people legitimately isn't it wise to keep it in place? Mind you it's not like EA is collecting nothing as far as payment goes. Perhaps even more than what they would without it.
And trust me I was somone that spent most of the 90's deployed all over the world....in the 90's people didnt typically connect their credit card for a monthly fee. Most bought game time codes through services like paypal because it was seen as safer to do it that way. And it use to take well over a month to add money to your paypal account from your bank at times. I also know it would often take 90 days to get snail mail rerouted from North America. Now deployed service members have cell phones and global internet providers and secure email accounts etc. but back in the 90's and the beginning of this millennium we werent so connected.
1995-96 for example 500 American, Canadian, and Bangladeshi soldiers shared 1 email address in Haiti. Family wanting to send you an email had to put your name and serial number in the subject line. Each day some poor Private would print and sort out every email and then deliver those to each unit commander. Then each service member would wait in line to send an email reply from the one computer that was allowed to be connected to the net for general use. Why am I telling you all this???
Because when a company like EA stepped up and changed a billing system as an expression of appreciation for our service members it was a big deal. It was greatly appreciated. And yes it makes me sick to see people exploiting a system 12 years later that wasnt designed for them because they feel entitled to do it!
First and foremost thank you. That is never said enough. With that said, while deployment was a major factor in their decision to add the 90 days it was not the only reason. There are reasons I'm sure, that the 90 day rule helped in a legitimate way IE: death in family and forgets to pay. Should those people now lose out because others are, in your view, taking advantage of the situation?
Ya Ya I know it is a game...it is pixel crack and it doesnt really matter. But what does mater is the fact that for some of us....if you exploit a system designed for service members serving overseas then you are exploiting them....
Again thank you.
