Zam.com Q&AFollow

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I don't like Marlboros, but I still buy oreos. I would never buy a Ford, but would definitely buy a Jaguar. Not big on Taco Bell, but like KFC. Many products you use are owned by people who own other products you may not like. It's the way of the world. As long as the companies are run separately, most people are fine with that. If your oreo cookie wrapper had a marlboro ad on it, maybe that would be a problem. It is important to keep in mind that we are a completely separate company within a large holding company that just happens to own other companies as well.

I realize some people are not going to be happy with this, but the fact is that we are now able to do things we just were never able to do before. This gives us the financial backing and stability to really do a great deal for everyone. Before the financial backing for the site was just me. Now it is a well financed corporation. I want our network to always be the first to have new game information. I want to be the destination of choice for anything having to do with any game we cover. There have been many cool things we have discussed doing over the years that we have just not had the ability to do without stretching ourselves too thin. Now we can do all that and more. I have loads of exciting new plans for making your experience even better than before. By adding these new sites to our network, we are gaining resources and flexibility that we have never had before.

We are purchasing eight new servers to run the site. Expect the speed issues to go away. We are also working on a way for people to personalize their view of the site and add blogging and other individual features. Our programmers will be able to put significantly more time into the site too, so there can be more searches and more features for every game. The benefits of this far outweigh the negatives. Given all of that, frankly this was a no brainer. The plan is to make Allakhazam.com and The Zam.com Network the ultimate online destination for all the latest information about your game.





I have never posted on these forums before, but i am a long time user of Alla's, since back in the EQ days. I find this pretty bad actually.. yes i buy oreos, but dont like marboros, but those who choose to buy marlboros dont cause the price of my oreos to go up 500%. I am pretty sure this will cause you to loose alot of your premium members, i know mine will be canceled

Who knew that one is exclusionary of the other?

Am I allowed to be worried only about genocides but not environmental disasters? Or does that just makes me a whiney moron as well? What if I'm worried about genocides and the environment but not Asian bird flu? Can I be worried about groundwater mercury poisoning if I failed to attend the last PTA meeting to discuss the district curriculum? And how many hours per week must I spend actively railing against deep, weighty issues before I'm allowed to mention to someone that I'm pissed that the store stopped carrying those ice cream sandwiches I like? Should they call me on it, I'd like to be able to present a timecard proving that I spent 40 hours that week worrying about tensions between China and Taiwan.

I really, really need to know the answers to this because I'd hate to one day have my righteous anger over child labor in Asian sweatshops be invalidated by my failing to think about Amazon deforestation for the Peruvian natural gasline project that day.

Who knew that being upset over something was so much work!?

Yes, Satan DID by us, but it's ok, being as we HATE Satan, we made him promise not to interact with us....

You're reasoning/explanation is LAME, thanks for selling out!

Yay! I cancelled the credit card I used to get premium a few months ago. I don't have to worry about seedy companies getting my financial info! /dance

(And in case you're wondering, I'm moving this month, so they won't even have my home address anymore! Complete anonymity = kickass)

As this will be my final post and it will be buried by everyone else's posts... Sorry to go, but I really think this site is on the slow decline into oblivion. I always thought the keyword for this site was Online Community and from the looks of it, the community part is being removed. The members of the community are not cryptic in any way about their standpoint on the RMT issue. Argue with people all you want (I can't expect you will need to argue very long) but the fact remains that not a small percentage of your member base is on the way out the door. They've made their decision on the matter. Not everyone can make the right choices in the business world, and it looks like you're stuck with yours. Goodbye.

I've never posted here before but used the site a lot and ALMOST got a premium accout. Glad I didn't. Oh, and like 3 mins ago already got an ad for powerleveling/goldselling. GJ.

What concerns me is that new players will see the RMT ads on alla(what was a reputable site) and get the idea that gilbuying is a perfectly okay thing to do.

Please, oh please, post a link to anything on any of these topics where you have devoted this much effort. Gold selling is not some moral wrong. It's just not. Is it annoying? yes. Does it violate terms of service of most games? yes. It's not even in the ballpark of anything you listed. If anything, it's a testimate to free markets and as a resulting currency exchange.

If anything, blame the game companies. They can solve the problem by regulating the economies better. They can stop direct transfer of money. Only allow tranfer of money for items; require AH or COD mail, place caps on trival items, etc. It's not hard to either come up with a scheme or implement one programatically. But go ahead and continue being holier-than-thou. It's actually entertaining to watch.

Edited, Fri May 5 01:03:08 2006 by Huxli

And by *you* I mean the entirety of the moral high horse crowd. Not, Jophiel, specifically, because it is quite possible that there are some that devote their attention everywhere.

(BTW, Jophiel, there are ways of communicating differing opinions without playing some morality card. That is what I object to. Not the opinions themselves.)

Edited, Fri May 5 01:17:14 2006 by Huxli

Yes. I bet only about 50% of the moral high ground crowd have any idea what's going on in Dafur.

Edited, Fri May 5 01:28:20 2006 by Huxli

Well, your standards are much lower than mine.

Yet, strangely, I'm less likely to get all twisted because I see other people upset about things I've decided are trivial

That's it..

Allakhazam, this is an ultimatum.

I'm turning my autorenew off within the next 36 hours, if you don't stop the genocide in darfur!

Get this back on topic or else close it this is getting nowhere.
I personnaly stands for the moneyselling/buying sites but simply for the reason that if i played a game for a long time and can get money back for it i will do it.
And if other people decide to buy gold/gil then it is their decision.