Tuesday, April 12, 2005

oGame or the FBI?

oGame is one of these realtime Games with it's own Universe. To make things short: it is all about ressources.
Friends and I played it from September 2004 until 3 weeks ago. Then our accounts were disabled due "multi user". Which means we got the same IP Address from Time to Time and so we are one Person in real.. or that's what the Administrators of oGame decided.

The real Version is: we are different people which often meet at my place to hang out, play some multiplayer games, look dvd or do something crazy. I happen to have a router to use one Internet Access for multiple computers.

But the real Problem is, you are not allowed to know the password of another user and you definetly are not allowed to check the account of others while they are at work, or in the university or somewhere else.

I only do not understand why? What's the big Idea? (quotation from singin in the rain)
I mean it is only a game.. there is nothing depending on it... we have not used our accounts to push us... you may think it's like an Federal Bureo and if you use not the one IP where you created your account, policemen will swarm at your place and get you arrested...

ok, that's a little excessive.. but i really do not understand the Problem.
That's why i wrote an email to the administrators to ask if they can enable our accounts.. but at first they did not give us any chance and relayed us further to a toplevel administrator.. (what a bureaucracy) .. and he told us he will look over it... on Monday .. that was about three weeks ago..

Now we are patient people.. but three weeks??? Ney, whatever these administrator decides, the game is done for us.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So you never got a reply?

Anonymous said...

They are jerks with a craze por Power, there is no other explanation. I have several problems with them as well as friends of mine. First the same happened to me, a couple of friends of mine would come over to my room at the University Halls and since they dont have internet they would use mine while we were studing and things like that. I showed the game and they would play from there. We all three got banned. I had to talk to them like a zillion times and they finally gave me back my account.

And then after that a friend of mine babysat my account but then after she babysat for another guy without waiting the exact time limit they have imposed (which is stupid by the way)so they actually banned all three of us and it was for eternity until we managed to convince them of what had happened, and the girl who had babysat had to assume all the guilt even though she said she had not realized about the time and they never gave her back her account, and she had a rea,ly good and high one where she had put loads of time so she just quit playing. I find that abbusive and just not fair. Thats what happenes when people want to feel like they have power over the rest. *disgusted*

Anonymous said...

Hi there,
First there are rules, no others accounts at same universe.
Second, that's only a game, bored as hell and take social life of users. You can't sleep at night with you fleet on the ground. You can't go out if you are attacking or doing something, cuz otherside the fleet will arrive and you'll be offline.

So, is the game so important? Should users give up from them lifes just to play this stupid game?

And more, no one of Gameforge give a damn to the users or team members. Just see the officiers (don't sure about how to write it), almost all users and team members agaist it... what did GF? Approved it.
Should we, players, give a damn to them if they don't give a damn to us?

Think about it... and retire of that game.