IndianScout wrote:
you know personally I dont care if you like the rules or not, if you cant live by them, go play checkers..
end of story..
The problem here, is that the "rules" are changing electronically, and do not reflect those agreed to at install time. I purchased a game that was sold for its online play benefits including ranking. Should the "rules" interfere with the benefits as advertised, this present a bit of a legal problem.
Now, Steve, I've been with you until this post.
Checkers = Free.
BF2 = $50 usd.
No corporation can say to its customers, "screw you" and get away with it.
Sure, EA has managed to do it this long. But it WILL catch up with them.
But then, I'm not concerned with your "personal" feelings, but what you state in an "official capacity".
Is your, and I'm paraphrasing your statement above, "screw you" personal or official?
Regarding legal matters, did anyone else have an agreement that listed "bf2rankedservers.com" as the "offically recognized source for agreement changes"?
This is like having the lender call and say "I'm sorry sir, but you are having sex in the laundry room. While we didnt state in your mortgage paperwork that the laundry room was to be used for laundry only, you might be offending geeks who cant a piece in ANY room of their house, so from now on, you must have sex in the bedroom, and only in the missionary position, because not everyone is as physically fit as you, and it wouldnt be fair".
Might be a bad analogy, but it was fun to come up with.
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To the details:
1.2 Needs to be clarified as commercial solicitation. I get more server spam from the "trusted partners" then
1.4 This requires specifics. The specifics settings and or variences for ranked servers needs to laid out here.
1.6 Cant say that in 200+ hours I'v ever seen this.
1.7 How does this apply to the new packs being released this month? If every ranked server runs EuroForces, then its FORCES all users to upgrade or not be able to play on ranked servers.
1.10 has this been a problem? If so, you need to vet your admins a little better.
2.1 Um, heads up, its the morality police. Got to be PC in the chats and in voice! "Offensive" is such an easily abused criteria.
2.2 Hrm, see notes about 2.1
2.3 To prevent TKing, the engine needs to determine incidental and intentional TKs. Since that wont be happening, I'd suggest that 1.4 include the requirement that ranked servers NOT have voting turned off.
Regarding the Clan Servers:
1. A Clan server admin should be considered abusive if he Kicks or bans a player for an infringment NOT specified on the login/information/loading screens. I'm in the game, loading your server. It is at THIS time I should be notified of additional restrictions on game play. NOT refered to your clan web server.
2. C4 on Jeeps/vodnicks, tough. It can be done in game, it occurs in real life, move along, and no reason to stop it. It only makes armor whores angry. It is a STRATEGY that is neither a glitch nor a hack.
3. Uncapables: I can't believe, that in a WAR game, this even comes up.
If a clan server is overly restrictive, so be it. Most of the current ones like this are already sitting empty. At $100+ a month, they wont be around long to complain about.
Lastly, dont wear your ancestry on your sleeve. It makes it much too easy for everyone else to generalize us other natives as idiots. I haven't acheived what I have now by playing the 52 deck race/discrimination/poor me cards. And I don't want to be wrongly categorized that way either.
Last edited by 72Wolf- (2006-02-09 15:36:37)