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fenderputy the Shady wrote:

TheBlix wrote:

fenderputy the Shady wrote:

TheBlix wrote:

fenderputy the Shady wrote:

You have 45 posts to your name and, you dont' pay for premium. Your opinion mean what now?

Just the fact that you care about his post count is weak.

You know some people have been here as long as you, and much longer, I'm sure, with a post count still in the tens or hundreds?

~Blix

BLAH BLAH BLAH. If he's posted that much in over two years, I wouldn't consider him to be a valued part of the community. Has he given anything back? Nope. He wouldn't be considered much help to the community either. Not even a premium membership has been given. In other words, if he's been around that lond he's a free loader.

Jesus Cristo you're a moran.

[sm]I pay money but, it's not for the use of this site. I don't have to pay money to use this site. I pay for the support of something I use so much and, for the avatars. I no longer support his business practices and, avatars aren't that important.

Besides the fact that him just being here for a long time supports the site, even if he's never bought premium?

You think you're better because you have more posts, because you're premium, which is stupid. But if you like feeling like you're more of a man, more of a human, by all means...

~Blix

Ehhh? What the hell are you talking about? I don't think I'm better. I just don't think his opinion means richard. Ask any business owner which customers he treats well. It isn't going to be someone he hardly sees and, it surely isn't someone who hasn't ever payed them.

Exactly, you're implying that the more posts you have the more your opinion matters. Sense you have more posts than he does you're implying you're better.

Maybe you didn't mean to, but you did.

~Blix

Edited, Thu May 4 00:45:36 2006 by TheBlix

Edited, Thu May 4 00:40:35 2006 by TheBlix

Great for as long as that lasts. I see no "privacy statement" anywhere on the site, so we only have your good intentions to go by. How long before the parent company decides that the membership database can be traded within the company? And then how long before the membership database is sold to the highest bidder by one of Allakhazam's associated companies?

Like others I bought a premium membership to support Allakhazam. Good to know that membership fees will now be used to support IGE's parent company. I have cancelled my renewal like a lot of the others posting here. And I really want a refund on the balance of what I paid for my 1 year membership. I will most likely have to take that up with my credit card company though won't I.

Well, to put it bluntly, I'm disappointed. Yes, there may not be any direct connection between Allakhazam and IGE, however Allakhazam is now recieving funds from a company who, obviously, got a very hefty chunk of that from.... thats right, selling gold/gil/plat. In turn, Allakhazam might as well just be playing the farmers who MPK you and sell in-game currency for $$$. Wonder how long until we see IGE adds on allakhazam... my guess is prolly within a year, tops. See ya guys later. Allakhazam, **** you.

And buying Gil, don't forget buying Gil.

This makes me really sad. Why would you do this Alla? Why? You... you big... you big ****...

I'm going to take a slightly different angle at this, call it more of a bit of speculation.

I'm betting early on this new project will be bankrolled and rolled out well. Alla will be at the helm. The database will be expanded, organized, complied, pages reworked, searches expanded, underrepresented sections fleshed out. All will eventually, and I expect faster than any of us would guess, be rolled into the finest MMO spoiler/info site of the lot for content, useability and healthy forums.

The amount of premium users will shrink substantially as subscriptions expire due to the link to RMT in the corporate chain making people think twice about renewing. I think that in this same time the actual amount of registered (non-premium) users will at least double.

You mentioned that as long as the site shows profitability, the "parent" company will take a hands off approach to this new company. I think all of us know that the perception and definition of profitability can change at the whim of the stockholders. With less premium users, but more actual users, you will have a successfully busy site that isn't as profitable as it's other ventures. It will be really tough to defend somthing that isn't showing a solid profit to the stockholders, even if this turns out to be a killer site.

I think that IGE and it's self formed parent company is banking on this. This new site would be the ultimate ad space for the primary product of the parent company's largest other interest: RMT.

I'm of the opinion that Alla just signed his own termination papers and doesn't even realise it. Alla and Illia will build it and it will be well executed. People will come, but they won't pay for it. The second it has been built to the point that an outsource or lower paid staff can update it and somewhat keep up, the parent company will deem it not profitable. Illia and Alla will likely be replaced, then the "Buy Our Plat, Gold, Gil" embedded banners will appear.

People will still come for the info and RMT will foot the bill. This is exactly how I think the parent company and IGE want it.

I think this is a pretty likely to happen in the next 12 to 18 months.

I hope you guys put some nice early termination packages in these contracts.

...oh, and Alla, if you are being completely sincere, you really need to take off the rose colored glasses. The potential for a site with all this data combined and organized in one place is huge, but this corporation will have no hesitations about sticking the knife in your back as soon as it is finished.

You did what was best for your wallet, you greedy selfish fuck.

I always KNEW you assholes were crooked. Thanks for proving me right, and I REALLY hope this site goes under, you're fired, and you're thrown into the poorhouse because you wouldn't dance to the tunes IGE plays.

AS with many others I am very disappointed. I have been a premium member for so many years now but I will also be turning off my renewal. I donated because I though you deserved the money for running a great site. I will still continue to use the site for my own purposes but I will no longer donate as you are obviously no longer in need nor will I be contributing any information.

In regards to your staff being overjoyed, why wouldn't they be? They all just got full time jobs and raises too likely. It's good for you guys but it definately leaves a bad taste in most of our mouths. I think most here would agree that it would have been better just to sell out.

Think there have already been probably 5 threads related to this in some way, shape or form on the ffxi forums that I have seen in my (sparse) checking of them. One was locked by Alla and was posted earlier in this thread...

I bet there is pretty much a thread on each forum about this. I also would immagine that this is spreading like wildfire through many guilds on the games right now, since a ton of people visit this site each day.

From what I've read and the pics I have seen, IGE is in this boat.

I'm sure it has spread to hundreds of other forums now; be it large community forums, or simply meager linkshell forums. I heard about this from my linkshell site, and I've been following this thread for a few hours now.

I expect that within a few days, almost the entire community of all of Alla's games will know about this.

And I don't think the general concensus of "SELLOUT" will change.

Whiners... every last one of ya...

I really do not understand your obvious WANT for alla to be the bad guy here. You are going crazy over some piddly little thing.

I look at your avvys you are obviously putting much use into until they go away. I look at your cursing and swearing in the forums. I look at your obvious sheep mentality. I look at you removing guides and posts that help other gamers.

And I lose all the respect I had for you.

The community is not made by Alla. The database is gathered by the people who play the games. The tons of help and advice I have found here is a product of all of the people who have gathered here at Alla. I will gladly pay every cent of my subscription fee for the priviliges(sp?) I enjoy from that subscription. For one reason:

I pay for what I gain from. I pay the man who made all this possible what he deserve.

Now go to the Official Forums and whine. We who still retain even a hint of common sense don't need you whining and bleating sheep.

Yeah, but that's over the course of six years on this site!