NO sure can't. Again another reason to loathe Facebook. You have to be a member to win... Which will mean I will never win. I will NEVER subscribe to facebook or twitter. Two things that have cost 100's of thousands of jobs... are Satanistic.... and in my opinion are FAR too popular. That's fine if you want them making profit off everything you do on the internet... and selling you to every bidder.... but me... I don't want them selling me.
Just irks me that this sort of thing is accepted and promoted. Force players to participate in yet another outside program to "win" stuff otherwise never win stuff. I play UO... I don't do twitter or facebook ..... and I never will... yet it angers me that more and more often companies use twitter and facebook to give rewards and prizes to their players without any regard to promoting something so vile.
You never saw folk trying to make you win something by making you join ICQ...... or Ventrilo..... I pay to play UO.... that should be enough. I shouldn't have to sell my soul to Satan and join Facebook to win something in UO.
Totally get it, MalagAste but we also do lots of contests in game and on the forums. This is another avenue that Stratics has focused on to build its brand because we realize that marketing has gone outside of forums for recognition. To build that audience you go where they are and that happens to include social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+. You can view almost all of these without participating but you'll notice even with the hangout last night, to comment anymore you need to have a G+ account.
I like that UO has been updating their Facebook page because they are reaching a community of over 24k followers that have liked their page. That's a pretty big community to highlight that your brand (UO) is still kicking.
I didn't want you to feel as if you weren't heard. We'll be doing more forum and in game contests in the near future to keep those weary of social media in mind as still a very important part of UO and Stratics.
