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Allakhazam isn't REQUIRED to answer anyones questions and a few of the questions that people have been asking I am sure he can't answer yet do to the contract he signed.

It's done, end of story. Those of you who are jumping on the hate banwagon have every right to leave. The rest of us who are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt will stick around until things actually start to change.



What proof? I have seen alot of stories and writeups from different message boards but I have yet to see any legal documentation stating that IGE now owns Allakhazam's.

Believe what you want. If your leaving, then good luck and goodbye.

Come on Allakhazam, stop with the spin, even Smedley is telling the world that you sold out to IGE. You may want to rationalize your sale all you want, but the fact remains that you went back on your word because someone flashed enough money in front of your nose. I am truely disappointed.

Smedley's Blog

Edited, Wed May 10 19:49:40 2006 by fadelman

Allakzam can answer my question i dont see why not i just wanted to know what changed his mind in the past year when he wrote he would never do what he has done. I dont care if you want me here it's a public board and i have the right to post my opinion on the subject at hand weither you think i'm right or not.

Then what are you doing here?

You really think i'm going to listen to you. what gives you the right to tell me to leave this site. sad you think you can make me leave XD. i stay because i want others to know the truth that is all.

I haven't posted too much... I've mainly posted just in the FFXI boards, but I wanted to say good bye to those I've chatted with a few times here, in case they may see this. If anyone knows a way to permanently delete a forum account, please let me know.

Take care all.

You people do realize E3 is going on right now and it is highly likely that Alla is there don't you?

Or could it be the fact that alot of the recent questions have to do with his moral and/or business ethics. I seriously doubt that anyone here is so squeeky clean that they have a right to question his moral ethics, especially since THEIR IS NO PROOF THAT HE SIGNED WITH IGE!!! As far as his business ethics are concerned, unless you know the exact details of what happened, you have no room to talk.

Everyone here has 3 options:

1: Take what has happened with a grain of salt and wait to find out more details and see if anything changes.

2: Get upset over it and leave.

3: Refuse to ever come here again but continue to stick around and whine. (Wait a second. You refuse to use this site but your still here. So you lied. Isn't that what you are screaming at Alla for doing?)

I may sound quite naive, but in defense of what has been an exceptional site and contained countless amounts of insight and shared information, I ask that you consider one thing.

This may be way out there to conceive, but since we do not know the true background on this merger/purchase, could it quite possibly be that this purchase/aquisition is completly different than many speculations? I would hope that the RMT industry does not effect these sites on alla, and in my own utopia, I hope that Alla is purchased by a company with the integrity that he has brought here. Hopefully, we will be able to see the site improved but with out a sacrafice to many true gamers standards/morals/beliefs that prohibit the undefined cheating methods.

I also hope that Alla and staff have worked out the agreement to allow all creative rights to be unchanged and no hidden pressures to provoke an onslaught of negative advertising and publicity. I feel Alla will stand by his beliefs of the gaming industry and provide all of us with the proper avenue to communicate with each other and research games/materials/forums for the answers we would like.

Unfortunately, Alla and IGE, by many statements appear to be owned by the same parent company. Do we know for sure that this parent co. is not actually looking at keeping them seperate corporations for both sides? Hopefully the new owners (parent company) will respect the visitors/members of this site, and understand what this web site community is in favor for on a grand scale.

I truely believe that Alla's decisions were made with the best intentions in mind to provide "us" with the best possible site "we" deserve, free of charge and commited to the same standards that he has set forth for years. By boycotting this site, it will not make the problem go away, but by making your own decisions to not participate in RMT is what will keep the MMORPG world the best that it can be.

To go way out there on a limb, how do we not know that Alla will now have some sort of say on the decisions of IGE? Maybe he will influence this new ownership on the root of MMORPG problems destroyed by RMT and will make a valuable change for us all. I doubt it, but what is wrong with good hope.

In all honesty we do not know all the details of the deal. So until I see signs that will deter me from using this site, as I am deterred from others, due to RMT and the sort, I will enjoy the content that is contained here. I do not contribute financially, as you may notice by my posts, but I try to contribute creatively.

It is a shame to me that this process has taken away the innocence that Alla has always maintained, but before I start beating the dead horse, and before I rampage through these forums about another mans decisions, I will take in all the evidence and make an educated decision based on that. I will not base it on partial information and partial truths, nor will I follow the leader because he feals Alla has sold out. Alla controls the business and can do as he pleases. The time that I have spent here throughout the past year, would not be beneficial if it were not for the content it contains. Change that and I have no need for these sites, but if it will all be the same, why should there be such an uproar about a business venture.

Why can we not now reap the benefits of the RMT industry. Let these fools who buy their way into the elite on-line class, pay for our research. Let those RMT fools pay for our bandwidth. The RMT industry has screwed us on many games and made our in-game cost soar so let us now get some of that money back. These RMT fools can pay for our faster servers, pay for my words of disgust, and pay to keep this site cleaner. If you have to think about this site being in any way realted to IGE, at least think of the benefits we will reap from the possible extra fund in the background.

This is not a request to support RMT on Alla, but to use up all those funds to pay for a better site for the true player. RMT you have screwed me over on my gear, but please stay clear of this site!

Alla and staff, I hope that your business decisions will be with the best intentions for your members and the community.

I've not been very active posting in the community but this is too much for me. Autorenew off and so long alla. I think it was a bad move but make your money it's what i would do. Thanks for the Good EQ info in the years past.

Deadlydoc, that's the exact same argument Feba came up with.





Coincidence?

Edited, Sat May 13 00:26:37 2006 by Erawyn

well..not much to say, i was thinking of getting premium account but i have decided against it, after using this site and haveing free account for nearly a year. I'll not be in anyway resposible for helping sites/people/companys no matter what, you are owned by the company that owns IGN. There is no getting around that, just how things go i give it by the end of the year before gold/gil/plat selling starts on this site. It was fun, bye

Technically they implemented their own RMT system to combat IGE etc (plus they saw the profit SOE loves money). So they created 1 or 2 "Exchange Servers" for EQ2 in which RMT is the norm. Thus giving those players that are for paying real money for plat a place to go do it.

Now the people that play on PvE and PvP servers dont have RMT ravaging their economies.

So SoE's 'exchange server' policy has actually been one of the more effective measures implemented to combat shady economy ruining RMT.