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Old 08-30-2007, 04:26 PM   #274
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Re: What does "Free" Mean?

Because you can't wiggle out of these options:

[ ] Money accepted in some form (payment, donations, sale of merchandise).

[ ] No money accepted in any form.

Either money changes hands or it doesn't. If someone wants to cheat the system, they aren't going to be able to defend themselves by arguing semantics. They'll be caught in an outright lie.

I still think differentiating between "rewarded in game" and "not rewarded in game" is not only impossible, but a road to absolute horror for these forums. There is no way in a million years we could reach any sort of consensus on what "rewarded in game" really means, and that just means countless threads with people getting angry about it.

Also, players themselves will have different definitions for it, and it is not helpful to give them a checkbox for "not rewarded in game" when we know in advance that is a term with many different meanings.

Creating explicit checkboxes we know are extremely unreliable is irresponsible at best and deceptive at worst.

Last edited by Threshold : 08-30-2007 at 04:32 PM.
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