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EglantinFinfleur
Northern Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence.
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Posted - 2007.03.30 10:22:00 -
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Edited by: EglantinFinfleur on 30/03/2007 10:19:05
"A new trick up WOW's sleeve. This just may bring WOWÆs business ethics into the light and out from under the mossy covered rocks. Having been involved in the gaming industry for quite some time now, you hear lots of things. I was talking to a friend who had his account permanently banned by the good folks at WOW yesterday. He forwarded me a copy of the letter he received, the letter was formatted for bulk mailing. I would get ready for another announcement from the WOW folks regarding this latest purge.
The friendly folks in the front office at WOW are no dummies sports fans. These cats are smart business poeple and while ethics may be in short supply, the bottom line is their motivating factor. Make no mistake gang, these bannings are based on a business plan and have nothing to do with ôcheatersö and everything to do with profits. No company with WOW's background does anything without considering the potential benefits and losses.
Here is the scoop. The suits in the front office of WOW have profited for years by allowing gold to be sold by many "3rd party" companies. Third party is the term used when you want to disassociate your brand (in this case WOW) from other parties or companies. WOW has partnered with a select list of companies for years. The bannings last year were nothing more than an attempt by WOW to monopolize on who can sell gold to it's customer base. They eliminated the competition plain and simple. This act, were it to take place in the "real" business world, would be tantamount to criminal business practices and prosecuted.
Part two of the genius of the WOW bandits. WOW only really succeeded in slowing the competition down between their "3rd party" front companies (for gold sales and power leveling) and their competitor companies. This forced these other companies to invest in the purchasing and maintaining of all new accounts which these companies look on as the cost of doing business. Who profited by this? Why WOW of course, you all getting the picture here?
Part three of the WOW empirical plan. More than 50% of the accounts that were permanently banned in the January 2007 bannings are private individuals. These poor gamers more than likely purchased gold or power leveling from WOW or other companies. This act gave the WOW Corporation the right to ban these accounts under the user agreements.
"They waited until these customers purchased the new expansion and then banned the accounts in question".
Now as most marketing guys at WOW know these folks are hooked on the NEW INTERNET *****. The customers who were banned will now have to replace the accounts and the expansion sets as well. Whoever termed the phrase "Business Ethics" is not employed by WOW. The genius behind this business plan is that WOW hasnÆt lost any customers. These people are going to go out and buy new accounts and expansions for those accounts. These guys are worse than drug dealers; they take the drugs back and make you pay for them again.
ItÆs days like these that I am really glad I donÆt play on line games. Have a nice day gang and beware, injustice is all around."
(Found on the Internets, totally plausible though I think)
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Meyachi
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Posted - 2007.03.30 10:36:00 -
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Greed, one mans goal, is another mans loss,
no sympathy, these people need to play a better game.
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Araxmas
Black Lance
NBSI Alliance
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Posted - 2007.03.30 10:41:00 -
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*Double layers the tin foil hat*
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Weird Alt
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.03.30 10:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Araxmas
*Double layers the tin foil hat*
lol I bet the people at WoW love peole like you, this highly probable.
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Vari
Carbide Industries
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Posted - 2007.03.30 11:34:00 -
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What is the source of this information? Just speculations of your friend?
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Jinn AsaniQui
Amarr
Svea Rike
Tre Kroner
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Posted - 2007.03.30 12:12:00 -
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Blizzard is a mean company... 
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Anatolius
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2007.03.30 12:26:00 -
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Originally by: EglantinFinfleur
HATTERY DE TINFOILE
This has been said about every MMOG ever created. 
"If God be for us, whom can be against us?" |
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