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He's laughting all the way to the bank.

It's been a blast, but we should have known for enough money we'd be sold out. Please change the "Defender of Justice" label to something more practical and monetary.

And Czae, thanks you for putting your comments on the EQ site because I hadn't paid attention to the sticky yet. Gah, I'm slow.

Oh, and when we find a new home for our EQ posting, will someone tell me, because I have been known to miss the obvious from time to time.

Edited, Wed May 3 21:01:52 2006 by Kelti

Got a question here. I apologize if I missed this somewhere along the line, I read the entire thread but never found this piece of info...

You keep referring to "the company that owns a lot of stuff, including IGE." I'm curious what the name of this mystery-company is? I guess it doesn't make a huge difference, but I can't help but wonder why nobody has come out and said the name of the company yet.


Because smoking advertisements NEVER target young people :P

Sorry, lol couldn't help myself, just playing with ya Farl XD

Theo~

You're such a ********* <3.

Fact: smoking reduces hunger

Fact: people who aren't hungry don't eat as many snacks

Conclusion: cigarettes hurt snack food companys

Conclusion #2: snack food companys would not want to sell cigarettes, as it would hurt their bussiness


Fact: many smokers like to smoke after eating

Supposition: it would help a cigarette company to get people to eat more snacks

I used to post a lot back in the FFXI days, now I post maybe once every 30 days or so, if even that much. I kept premium active simply because I use the site and wanted to help keep it around. Like you stated yourself, you now have the financial backing to do what you want.

I canceled my renewal, not because you don't need my money, but because you've turned your back on the very people that helped build this site into the powerhouse that it is, the community.

I'll still use the site for my own purposes, but I'm certainly not going to contribute anymore.

So alla/IGE are owned by the same guy now? How can you sleep at night? j/k but still a foul move that I disapprove of =(

IGE can have forum=6969....

I've been around, like many, since the EQ days. At the time, this was THE site to get information. It was fairly fast, free and wasn't covered with advertising. Eventually some features of the site were cut off and limited to premium users; I assume that this was because the site was suffering financially or because it wanted to progress further. That's great.

Not too long after they added multiple games though, the advertising on this site became unbearable. Funnily enough, premium removed this. Killing two birds with one stone? Not only did they get money from advertisements on their site, but if you wanted to get rid of them, you had to pay them anyway. Still, good source of information.

With the release of World of Warcraft, Allakhazam had intense competition, Thottbot. Thottbot is essentially what Allakhazam used to be, without the community. (Which I personally don't care much for, I get my fix of morons in real life.)

At the moment, I use Thottbot almost exclusively. The only time I don't use it is when there are 'unlinked' quests and I have to find the beginning of the chain. The sad thing is that I now dread going to what used to be such a great site, I even have to go into my browser options and make sure that javascript isn't enabled before going to it.

I don't really know the point I'm trying to make, except that this is sad.

I work for a small development company. 6 years ago during the big web boom we were purchased by AutoDesk's web division. For those who don't know, they make AutoCAD, and are one of the bigger software companies in the world.

Everything was cool for a few months. We had big celebration dinners, stock, etc. Everything from the "parent" went through my boss, the original owner and creator of my company at first. He was a stand up guy and we didn't put up with too much bull.

Then suddenly I was tasked to write a server to offload our emailing to. Not only did that not make much sense in our product, but then I was told I had to use this really odd third party networking package. So, I had to go back to the drawing board and completely re-write a piece of our system that already worked. It ended up being slower and making no sense.

Shortly after that, the web went south, and all hell broke loose. I had people from San Francisco calling me directly telling me what I could and couldn't do, and eventually there was a mass lay-off.

Long story short. **** will be rosy and pink for a while, but eventually the devil comes to collect his dues.

Lotan

My question has not been answered.

Can you or can you not back out and maintain ownership of allakhazam.com if your parent company tells you to do something that you don't like?

Now if I'm blind, someone please point me in the right direction where this was answered previously.

As a casual member off and on due to real life getting in the way, I'm not sure how I feel about this. I have been playing EQ and EQ2 and thus visiting Alla's off and on for about 2 yrs now. I like Alla's for both the game info/content (for EQ at least) but more so for the community. I have met some wonderful peeps here whose opinions and personalities I adore. I guess the bottom line is that I'll wait to give my final opinion on the "sellout" until after I see what changes are made and how this impacts us all...

Allakhazam, answer me one question, straight up. If I keep my premium membership, and keep paying you money, will it in any way help support IGE or any other RMT group?

What I mean is this. Will any profits from your division support or prop up the division supporting RMT. Will any penny I give you be, in any way whatsoever, used to support the growing business of companies like IGE. Can you give me a 100% guarantee that my dollar will not support these scum that prey on the players of these games. Can you say to me, without reservation, that I will not be doing anything to support their business.

I will tell you bluntly, if you cannot guarantee me this, my premium membership will be cancelled. The reason I make this site my home is its strong anti-RMT stance, like many other posters. If you have even a slight doubt in your mind about this, let me know, so I can ensure my dollars are not supporting that.