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Vote for Achaea
Come on people. I know it's easy to just ignore the in game message but we're fighting for our world right now. We need to step it up both in voting and nurturing new characters. This is more vital to the long term enjoyment of our world than anything else.
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That said, voted.
But still.
150 bound credits for $25 is $.17 per credit. Biggest credit package is $.275 per credit. Even if you got a 50% bonus elite is still a better deal (and that's ignoring the 25% XP bonus, 5 lessons a day, and 10% bonus to credit purchases).
Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
I also can't bring myself to vote or recommend Achaea to people when we have loot boxes and such expensive items for sale, Elite or otherwise. I nearly bought 1000cr today to grab a Death Cape from someone and realised what a total waste it was of £200, promo attached or otherwise.
I vote because regardless of my views on every little issue IRE has, and I wont dispute that there are issues, voting brings in newer players, which is good for the game, which after 16 years I still love. This is 2019. You can either choose to support Achaea, or you can tally yourself up as a supporter of its death.
I vote for Achaea because of the strides the admin have taken over the last year to reduce the monetary investment required to play. Survival, health cap changes, introductory quest expansion, and thousands of other unnamed changes by the team have continued to move Achaea in a healthier direction, and by voting for Achaea and contributing to its health, I feel I am showing my support for continued changes on this front.
If you all believe less income for Achaea is going to encourage the continued work of the past year, I can assure you that that isn't how business management works.
For someone to spend $0000's to collect one item and not get it shows how screwed up it is. While I have nothing buy praise for the recent changes around survival and such, talismans and loot boxes have ruined the game for me.
Edit: tagged in case you don't read this thread often. @Siduri
China, Japan and Belgium so far also have legislations against the practice currently, off the top of my head.
1. This is not a federal law, so it is not your country that has ruled this. It is your province, and any jurisdiction or enforcement of this would remain only in Quebec until the same law is voted through federally or in another province.
2. Bill C-74 was ruled by the Supreme Court of Quebec, in May, unconstitutional and attempting to bypass and subvert rights enforced by the Federal Government. This was because the edits to the Quebec Consumer Protection Act that bill C-74 was attempting to make did not actually ban online gambling (Which they defined as "a website on which a person may make wagers and bets through an interactive mechanism") but instead full control would be given to the Espacejeux, a gambling site ran by the Quebec Government. Pretty clear that the intent is just to force all gambling to be done by the provincial government for provincial profit.
3. The restrictions the bill was attempting to put on internet distributors(Block access to any and all sites deemed to be unauthorized by Loto-Quebec) also went against the Federal Telecommunications Act, which states that "A Canadian carrier shall not control the content or influence the meaning or purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public."
4. Lastly, it is unlikely that such a law would effect Achaea at all,even if the attempted appeal by the Attorney General of Quebec somehow goes through (and I guarantee it won't without further changes to federal laws first). None of the purchases made in Achaea allow for actual profit, you cannot sell anything you win through this "gambling" for cash as per the terms and conditions, which means it is doubtful that Loto-Quebec would care at all about restricting purchases, or even could.
(Going to stop there, cause I continued on this train of thought, we'd just get to the debatable area of "what is gambling" and what is defined as gambling by the law. Is buying a stocking here like playing roulette at a casino, or like buying a pokemon card pack at Walmart. Anyway.)
Guys, vote if you want to vote. Don't vote if you don't want to.
All this lecturing, preaching and moral grandstanding is just festering shitty attitudes. You are all like those people who stand outside the voting booths handing out flyers with directions on how to vote for their specific party. People going to the polls already know what side of the fence they sit on and your gloss brochures with tacky headshots aren't going to be anything more than irresponsible litter on the other side of the ballot.
Now that's done, point me in the direction of the obligatory sausage sizzle and/or bake sale.