tris- said:where does sense of achievement come into a virtual world?
dude, you either play it or dont. eitherway you havent achieved shit.
Ctuchik said:and have u seen that alot latly? the admins blocked those adverts a few weeks ago.......
argument sunk even before u posted it
tris- said:also isnt there a minimum age for accepting a contract? im pretty sure if you are between 13-18 you have to present the contract to a parent/guardian so they can accept it on your behalf.
in which case, im sure no one here would of done that. therfore making the contract null?
GReaper said:Regardless of the legality of any free shard, it's fair to say that threads regarding them shouldn't belong here.
This is a community for GOA's DAoC servers, not free shards. Those using free servers take away little parts of the community from everyone else. A player who might consider paying for an extra month for old times sake might end up playing a free server instead. A smaller playerbase isn't as appealing to anyone, especially if the RvR active people want to try and move all the action to other servers.
rynnor said:If you forbid something you only make it more appealing - plus these arent GOA's boards - they closed those long ago - it just happens that most folk headed over to Barrysworld/Freddys afterwards.
Its all rather silly of the fanboi's to argue this since I think an actual discussion of what freeshards are like is probably more likely to put people off - you arent doing GOA any favours.
eggy said:If you take the game as seriously as a lot of the people that play it do, then there is indeed a sense of achievement in how you play the game.
I wouldn't play a char that I didn't make myself, for example. It's a pretty clear trend; eBayers don't stick with a char...they swap hands over and over again, because if you haven't made it yourself...it just ain't the same
rynnor said:Theres a sense of achievement in your first 50 but by your 6th? If freeshards avoid that grind when you fancy trying out a different char/realm then I think Mythic could take notes although free instant 50's would screw the game.
How about 10 levels per month that you can distribute amongst your chars as you wish - would take you a while to make a 50 still but you wouldnt have to grind.
eggy said:The sort of people who play on Freeshards (in my experience) are they same sort of people who buy and sell accounts.
i.e. those people who put minimal effort into a character themselves, or take up that character after the hard work has been done. Thus getting bored with the char after a million rps or so, selling, moving on, scamming etc.
Playing on Freeshards is like eBay, but free. Very little effort, very little sense of achievement. I'll bet a nickel that a large proportion of people who have moved from paying servers to Freeshards have bought/sold accounts, scammed/been scammed etc.
At least that's my perspective.
eggy said:The sort of people who play on Freeshards (in my experience) are they same sort of people who buy and sell accounts.
i.e. those people who put minimal effort into a character themselves, or take up that character after the hard work has been done. Thus getting bored with the char after a million rps or so, selling, moving on, scamming etc.
Playing on Freeshards is like eBay, but free. Very little effort, very little sense of achievement. I'll bet a nickel that a large proportion of people who have moved from paying servers to Freeshards have bought/sold accounts, scammed/been scammed etc.
At least that's my perspective.
eggy said:The sort of people who play on Freeshards (in my experience) are they same sort of people who buy and sell accounts.
i.e. those people who put minimal effort into a character themselves, or take up that character after the hard work has been done. Thus getting bored with the char after a million rps or so, selling, moving on, scamming etc.
Playing on Freeshards is like eBay, but free. Very little effort, very little sense of achievement. I'll bet a nickel that a large proportion of people who have moved from paying servers to Freeshards have bought/sold accounts, scammed/been scammed etc.
At least that's my perspective.
Morchaoron said:so they can h4x without getting banned?
and even if they get banned, they dont have to buy a new box!
Thadius said:True, if GOA contributing funds to this forum then yes, I would expect to see threads about freeshards closed
However, as far as I know, GOA dont do this