DarkGob

Yes it does and no we're not. The EULA makes explicit mentions of botting, hacks, cheats and pay services like those used by RMTers. Maybe you ought to try actually reading the thing before making your own judgments.

Well there's not just "bad things" as a monolithic group of things. There's criticizing the game, which by itself is not a bannable offense, then there's some of the stuff I've seen on Unleashed, which definitely would be bannable or at least moddable (will somebody please call the OED and have them make some of these into real words? my spellcheck hates me).

Not to mention all the nerfs to accuracy.

Well let's go ahead and take a look at those sections:

Well look at that, they explicitly specified "cheats" right there, along with "bots" and "hacks". Nothing vague about that. Although I do find it interesting that they also specify mods, I wonder where that leaves the VidiotMaps pack and other such graphical mods. I doubt they would enforce any of this as those mods are pretty harmless, but that's still interesting. Was that in the previous EULA?

Obviously it doesn't matter if they have no malicious intent now, as clearly the company could turn evil at any time. I mean, think about it, a year ago they introduced a new side-switching mechanic, and suddenly we're supposed to trust that they'll always be good? I don't think so.

That's right Fonzie, they're doing everything they can to entice VIPs to pack up and move over to Exalted. Discounted transfer tokens, special Exalted-only events. This may be all that's needed to start a mass exodus off the smaller servers (Freedom and Virtue will, undoubtedly, be "fine", such as they are). And face it Potsie, there's just not as much incentive to entice free players as there is to entice paying players. Want to get access to the exclusive dev events, free player? Better sub up so you can get onto Exalted. There's literally no financial reason to care whether or not free players are happy.

No, Ralph Malph, I don't have "background info", and yes, I certainly am guessing based on the available facts, and yes I may be wrong. I definitely hope I'm wrong, but I've lost quite a bit of confidence in this game in the past year or two, so I reserve the right to be more than a little worried.

Still doesn't mean he did it on purpose or was careless. He made a mistake. It happens, even if you are 900+ years old (hmm...or maybe 1200+ by now? there's some unaccounted-for time between A Good Man Goes To War and Let's Kill Hitler).

They can already do this and would be doing it if they cared at all about AE anymore, which they don't. They don't need a clause in the EULA to give them permission to alter or remove player-created content in their own game.

Well MY uncle works for Nintendo!

So he should have known that Amy would push the wrong button and be stuck alone for 36 years? It's as much Rory's fault as his, Rory was the one who didn't specify which button (and the Doctor probably just wasn't listening).

Well with all the running they do, there usually isn't.

You probably already do this more often than you think, fyi. Do you run NoScript on Firefox? If you do, which sites do you have fully unblocked? (If not, why the hell not???) Do you have antivirus software? (This question is entirely rhetorical; of course you do.) You pretty much have to give that free rein in order for it to be effective. Why do you trust AVG/Avast/or god forbid, Norton?

Ever read a credit card contract? Lots of similar legalese in there also (although it's not as bad since the reform act of...2010 I want to say?). In this world you agree to a lot of stuff that, if the person truly wanted to take advantage of you through the agreement, they could and you would have little-to-no legal recourse.

The irony is that by the time it gets locked (Monday), the 11th will have come and gone.

Maybe that's not quite irony but I'm not sure what else to call it. Alanis-irony?

I had the exact same thought.

Completely ignoring the fact that Elder Amy looks (and sounds) nothing like Eyepatch Woman, sure. Also the fact that Elder Amy never existed, but that's always a wibbly-wobbly sort of thing.

What's your position on inf-lation?

Facilitating is one thing, encouraging is quite another. Discounted transfers are fine, but the new Exalted-only dev-hosted events, several of which are Incarnate-level and thus would require a transferred character on I21's launch, makes it worse. Clearly the devs will be paying less attention to the other servers going forward. Leave those servers to the freebies and the plebes, the elites on Exalted are the only ones that matter.

I certainly think it's telling that J_D, one of Pinnacle's mainstays, is leaving. This is the sort of thing I was worried about as soon as I heard about I21/Freedom (god, why couldn't they just pick a name that didn't match a server name? idiots).