Up until a few days ago I played ogame. This is a browser based online game where thousounds of people interact to steal and trade resources. It was the sort of game that you could spend 10-20 minutes on throughout the course of a day and provided a welcome respite from work.
My finacee also played it for similar reasons. She played for almost a year and I did for 2 and a half years.
That is, until the other day. Because I was helping out my financee (which is within the rules) and because she was on the same IP address (also within the rules) when the resources arrived (against the rules) we both got banned until 2036. Now, I'm not disputing the ban. We both violated one small part of the terms and conditions. The penalities for that are a permanent ban which seems a little draconian but that's how it is.
So, Ban in place I decided to ask for my money back as I've got 8 months left to run on the account only to be told to go away.
So, bewary of online games especially of places like gameforge who will happily take your money and then ban you for an infraction.
This to me is theft - a bought for service is not being provided, they won't transfer the subscription to another account and they won't refund me.
So, thanks to Gameforge I'll not be trusting any MMO ever again.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Company Takeover
The company where I work has just been taken over by a much larger organisation. I'm not going to say where I work for now as enough has been plastered over the technical press but I'll have a few things to say on the matter much later on.
It's an interesting time for both good and bad reasons. Obviously the economic problems have hit both companies hard so the usual bans on travel and overtime have come into force. This presents a problem for us IT Department types who have been given a lot of work to do around the integration and are going to have to take time off in lieu for it. At the end of the year I think they will have many staff out as they will have leave that they will have to take. Hell, they will probably buy it off us!!
The current plan is to re-ip all the devices as the company that has taken us over use the same IP range as we do and this is right on the back of recently relocating them all to new data centres do yet more out of hours work and then fixing things that break.
The Chinese have a curse "May you live in interesting times" and for the next few months those times sure will be interesting....
It's an interesting time for both good and bad reasons. Obviously the economic problems have hit both companies hard so the usual bans on travel and overtime have come into force. This presents a problem for us IT Department types who have been given a lot of work to do around the integration and are going to have to take time off in lieu for it. At the end of the year I think they will have many staff out as they will have leave that they will have to take. Hell, they will probably buy it off us!!
The current plan is to re-ip all the devices as the company that has taken us over use the same IP range as we do and this is right on the back of recently relocating them all to new data centres do yet more out of hours work and then fixing things that break.
The Chinese have a curse "May you live in interesting times" and for the next few months those times sure will be interesting....
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