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Posted - 2013.03.21 10:38:00 -
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DudE Just Die wrote:Mithridates VI wrote:If DUST 514 ever came to PC and MAC address was used as a unique identifier, I could vote hundreds of times.
It's historically been possible to spoof a MAC address from a PS3, too. I can't speak as to whether it's currently viable because I haven't had cause to do so (some quick searching suggests it might be). You cant spoof a Credit card. I say you buy AUR you get the right to vote!
If you making having a voice in the future of the game require spending money on the game then the game loses the ability to solidly claim that it's both free to play and not pay to win.
That aside not everyone (even among those who are buying AUR) have or use credit cards, and not everyone who has a CC ever links it to their PSN (likely fewer do now that did before that mass security breach awhile back  ).
Doing it this way is at minimum a marking nightmare and that's not even touching on the idea of Sony sharing account and billing information with CCP on that scale and across so many national lines. I don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't want to be the lawyer(s) in charge of sorting out that tangled mess even assuming it never hit any snags along the way.
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ps ~ There are also people who share the same address, both IP and physical, as well as the same CC/banking info who are not in fact the same person. Spouses and siblings rank highly within this demographic, followed (in much more rare cases) by certain roommates. Making any major part of D514 bottle necked to "one account per household" is a huge encumbrance especially for a free to play game model (F2P thrives on open access, removing that asset is therefore a heavy detriment to any F2P game). |
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Posted - 2013.03.30 20:33:00 -
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THE GREY CARDINAL wrote:Captain-Awesome wrote:I think it'll be up to the War Council to make it as interesting a position as possible :) great position for meta game :) Perhaps one could say...it's ideal position for creative and slightly eccentric visionaries who have a keen (O.C.D) eye for detail, great analytical prowess and unrestrained imagination...Where...where can such people be found...?
Not in New Eden certainly |
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Posted - 2013.04.07 17:55:00 -
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Virex Staz wrote:Furrow33 wrote:I haven't seen the name mentioned but i would think that one obviouse merc that should be considered is Zion Shad. I mean the guy regularly talks about dust on podside and runs a respectable corp that i was once a part of. He's interviewed ccp dev's numerous times. He was considering running for csm. Seems to me he would make a good fit. If not now im sure he'll be voted in down the road. There's a bunch of people with a real hate-on for Shad, so every time he speaks or is mentioned now there's a wave of crap posted that people don't want to have to deal with. This has reached the level that I think it will stop him being successful as a representative for Dust players, and he doesn't seem to have found a counter to it. Its not fair, but that's politics.
Assuming it's "not fair" is assuming that the reputation and backlash is unearned, even just with what has been done publicly on these forums it's clearly not 'just a mistake'. Read what happened with Kain and the event he was organizing, granted it came out right in the end but only after a public kitten storm. Putting the cookie back after you've been caught with your hand in the jar doesn't negate your original actions which created the situation. Many of the individuals who have a "real hate-on" for Shad have very specific and legitimate reasons for the outlook, being a podcast 'celebrity' does not wipe away the consequences of how you treat people, nor should it.
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ps ~ I'm not going to drag this thread off topic by rehashing the above, if you want details ask the parties involved in each specific instance and/or simply use the forums search command. |
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