Originally by: ISKSUCKER

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Originally by: Estherenza

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Originally by: Drund Thurison

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I'm sorry to inform you that these situations are not identical. Allow me to elaborate.

Firstly when a person becomes employed by a place of business often times they are the ones to have to sign the terms, not the employer. This is diametrically opposite of the client/service, since the receiver of the money has to do the signing. The employer has not signed a form that allows the provider of the work to change the deadline as they need. If the employee fails at meeting deadline it is within the employer's right to terminate employment, as you are free to stop paying CCP for their service.

When a construction company takes on a job they sign a contract setting a legally reinforced completion date. If it is not completed the company is dropped from the contract without being paid. Again here the receiver of the money is the primary signer of the agreement, with the hiring body signing merely to say the company will be paid upon completion.

As for your third example, since it both is a feeble attempt at a personal attack and not a cash for service situation, I do not feel obligated to explain it to you.

What we have with an EVE Online account has a very distinct difference with the above situations: You are both the one to sign the agreement and the one supplying money. If you do not like the results you are free to move on to a different game, as the boss would hire a new employee or the hiring body would hire a new construction company. What you have not seemed to grasp is that you do not have control of CCP at all. You are the one that agreed to their terms, not the other way around. As such, you can be as angry as you feel justified, but it will not make a single difference because you are bound to that agreement whether to read it or not. You scrolled to the bottom and clicked accept. Therefore, you can either accept the delay or move on to another game.

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+1 because this a well thought out argument, and every word of it is true...
-1 because this is part f what is wrong with the free market economy, corporations are no longer held accountable for shoddy craftsmanship, failed deadlines and poor customer service because now we have no choice, it's either their way or you can get your skittles somewhere else...

CCP can help change the world for the better if they hold themselves accountable over giving us the finger and telling us to shove off... Which they have have done neither in this case, it's just sucks that they're having a hard time and everyone is frustrated. But you still get the -1 for not wanting some kind of compensation and just accepting that because it's in your EULA that "That's just the way it is..."

Companies should respect their customer and be willing to provide some compensation for a full day of downtime, no matter how small it is just so that we know that they have a respect for us and want us to continue to playing Eve and not move to Vendetta, because in the end, WE'RE paying THEIR paychecks and they AREN'T paying MY or YOUR paychecks, right...?

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I agree 100% with you

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