Accounts Banned (Feb. 21)

[Epincus]

Is his name 'actually' Sage Sundi? Or was that just a title SE gave him?

Yes, I realize this may be the single stupidest question in the last couple weeks.

[Beckwin]

It wouldn't look good for a Japanese company to ban the entire country of China from using its software.

They can do whatever the fuck they want....
Access to FFXI is a priviledge, not a right.


Why do people think that everyone has a right to everything ?!?

It wouldn't be a very PC move. Still a bit of animosity between the Chinese and Japanese, and recent military related stuff isn't exactly smoothing it over. Not to say one (major) gaming developer banning China would start WWIII, but it just wouldn't look good for SE.

[Khamsin]

It wouldn't look good for a Japanese company to ban the entire country of China from using its software.

They can do whatever the fuck they want....
Access to FFXI is a priviledge, not a right.


Why do people think that everyone has a right to everything ?!?

It wouldn't be a very PC move. Still a bit of animosity between the Chinese and Japanese, and recent military related stuff isn't exactly smoothing it over. Not to say one (major) gaming developer banning China would start WWIII, but it just wouldn't look good for SE.

Yeah, they might get an F- on their BBB report.

[Skjie]

I don't see how people can say that it's gonna be an INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT for banning China. It's not like the Chinese president is going to phone the Japanese Prime Minister, "So, I hear one of your companies doesn't want people from my country to play this game that really, I don't want them playing either. You should tell your companies what you do."

[Jeryhn]

From a bigger standpoint than the whole Japan vs. China argument, banning the IPs of all of China is likely to have the same controversial effect as when Google decided to submit to Chinese requests to modify their search engine so their countrymen couldn't search certain material.

[Fng]

From a bigger standpoint than the whole Japan vs. China argument, banning the IPs of all of China is likely to have the same controversial effect as when Google decided to submit to Chinese requests to modify their search engine so their countrymen couldn't search certain material.

Exactly what I mean.

[Zeph]

Is his name 'actually' Sage Sundi? Or was that just a title SE gave him?

Yes, I realize this may be the single stupidest question in the last couple weeks.

I think that is his actaul name

[Beckwin]

I don't see how people can say that it's gonna be an INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT for banning China. It's not like the Chinese president is going to phone the Japanese Prime Minister, "So, I hear one of your companies doesn't want people from my country to play this game that really, I don't want them playing either. You should tell your companies what you do."

Not to say one (major) gaming developer banning China would start WWIII

What exactly are you arguing?

[Skjie]

I don't see how people can say that it's gonna be an INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT for banning China. It's not like the Chinese president is going to phone the Japanese Prime Minister, "So, I hear one of your companies doesn't want people from my country to play this game that really, I don't want them playing either. You should tell your companies what you do."

Not to say one (major) gaming developer banning China would start WWIII

What exactly are you arguing?

Still a bit of animosity between the Chinese and Japanese, and recent military related stuff isn't exactly smoothing it over.

I'm sorry, whut? International Incident =/= WWIII. I'm sorry, but SE IP banning China wouldn't even be a blip between the two countries.

[Mierin]

This thread has made a turn towards the stupid.

[Rocl]

A videogame will start world war 3 !

I don't know how it'll be fought, but World War 4 will be with sticks and stones, eh?

[Beckwin]

Let's make up a hypothetical situation of a large concentration of WoW goldfarmers in Mexico. Are you saying it wouldn't look bad for Blizzard to IP ban Mexico? I'm not speaking of any repercussions, just saying it'd look bad.

[Khamsin]

Let's make up a hypothetical situation of a large concentration of WoW goldfarmers in Mexico. Are you saying it wouldn't look bad for Blizzard to IP ban Mexico? I'm not speaking of any repercussions, just saying it'd look bad.

Not if:

1) The game isn't officially available in Mexico, and so the only people playing are the ones who violated import laws;

2) The vast majority of people playing from Mexico are RMT


Just #1 is enough, but #2 reduces the PR hit despite the legal acceptance.

[Beckwin]

Fair enough. However I'd say that even if your 1 and 2 were true, there would be some level of media coverage, even if primarily in gaming media.

[Khamsin]

Fair enough. However I'd say that even if your 1 and 2 were true, there would be some level of media coverage, even if primarily in gaming media.

Which would be an advantage over general media coverage, because anyone who follows gaming news will just read that tidbit and smile knowingly. If it were covered in the general media, people who don't know any better would be screaming "Discrimination!"

[Kross]

I heard Ivvy didn't get the ban...

**Edit**

The funniest part about all this is that Erza made the thread.. oh the irony :D

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6617

lool!! I created an account on these forums just to make that thread, it was well worth it :D.

touché my good sir, touché

[Fhqwghads]

A videogame will start world war 3 !

I don't know how it'll be fought, but World War 4 will be with sticks and stones, eh?

And WWIV will be started by an Atari 2600... damn you, Combat!

[Rocl]

I heard Ivvy didn't get the ban...

**Edit**

The funniest part about all this is that Erza made the thread.. oh the irony :D

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6617

lool!! I created an account on these forums just to make that thread, it was well worth it :D.

touché my good sir, touché

Jan10 =/= Nov14

[Munkey]

If World War Two had been an online Real Ttime Strategy game, the chat room traffic would have gone something like this.

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got **** to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right ***** im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun cocksocker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy ****holy****hoyl****!
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny~tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny~tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all fags
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*

[Ravenlokk]

stuff...

dude that rules. i lol'd more than once.