🚀 go-pugleaf

Thus spake Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>, Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:22:02 -0400,
Anno Domini:

>Nostromo <nos...@forme.org> looked up from reading the entrails of the
>porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
><snip>
>>I just started TQ:IM with the Mrs recently, but we're struggling to find the
>>time given all our RL commitments at present (building a house among other
>>things such as the ski season here being upon us :). We also have another 3
>>mths of LOTRO subs on 2 new accounts & have just started a couple CoH chars
>>as well to take advantage of the 14 day free trial, which she seems to like
>>the most *sigh*, because it's mostly just killin & no gear early on makes it
>>easier to get into than most mmos.
>>
>>Mind you, NC offering a crippled trial is really bad form - there is no
>>teaming, no trade & no mission architect for trial players, which sucks
>>major mutant monkey balls if you ask me. 
>
>Since when is there no teaming?
>
>You can't start the team but you should still be able to be invited to
>one.
>
>The trials used to be less limited, but they were seriously abused by
>the gold farmers/spammers.

Oh ok, thought it may have been something like that. I may have to re-sub my
account for a month after the LOTRO one runs out & give my Mrs another
decent run at the 14 days to see if she bites & gets lockjaw or not ;)

>That's the main reason trials get very limited chat options - the
>spammers pretty much forced NC to limit them to avoid losing
>subscribers.

Isn't it always the way? Farking spammers/gold farmers. You would think it
would be easy to get rid of them wouldn't you? I mean, check the user
reports, if more than a handful, check logs, ban account. Simple ffs. Surely
the cost of each account must be prohibitive to their bottom line, if they
were losing them within hours/short days of starting to spam? *boggle*
I think it's really more a matter of they're a paying customer (whichever
way you look at it) & there's so many of them that it wouldn't pay to look
for them toooo hard or ban them toooo quickly, now would it...? ;)

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Nostromo