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Iamadam when they bought us, they bought assets and liabilities and assumed all contracts. One of the contracts we have is our privacy policy which specifically states that we will not sell your information. Thus, they can't violate that policy.

I wasn't going to post anything to this. But, I geel that I need to add my 21 cp.

As a player that has close to my 3 score and ten years of life under my belt I feel that his is the end of Alla as we have known it. The family atmosphere of this site is what has held me for close to 5 years. This was the first EQ site that I ever came to, and the only one that I have ever posted to. I will wait and see what happens - but I feel like most of you that IGE will be in controll - and at the first sign of that I will be gone.

For now, I'm turning off the item collector - it can possibly be used to collect more that items on my toon.

I guess this post will probably lose me my sage rating also. It's been a geat 5 years - oh welll

For everyone who hates this, our feelings are simple.

Let's compare this to, say...a Dirty Businessman, a small even dirtier weed seller, and a church.

You go to a Church (Allakhazam).
You hate Weed Sellers (Gilsellers).

Suddenly, you learn that your Church... in order to expand its facilities and offer you "better worship", they accept money/aid/etc from "A Dirty Businessman". This Dirty Businessman also owns the Weed Sellers, and also aids them.

Would you not be angry at your Pastor for accepting aid from the very same people who help sell drugs to the community? Same damn thing.

We go to Allakhazam.
We Hate IGE and their BS in FFXI.
Allakhazam, the same person we used to look up to, sells himself out to the same guys who own that BS going on in FFXI, the same guys who own chinese sweatshops.

--Xylia

Is that link stating that the deal was made back in November true?

This does not answer the question that I believe it all comes down to for many people here.

Once again,

Don't try to fix something that aint broken. Everybody has their price tho i guess. You are just adding to the games demise imo.

Nice find MorvenDee, I only breezed throught it but I'll read it in full in a moment. ^^


Okay Alla I see the common sense in combining Thottbot and Allakhazam as you have stated it. (since I've never used Thottbot myself) I guess what I don't understand and you may not be able to answer this, is why? It's a given that the parent company will make money off the premium accounts of both sites but they will make more money if they slap gilseller ad's over every inch of the place. Which you say you won't let happen but when a company has an option to make money and more money well it's obvious.. So why buy companies that cannot advertise off each other?



Edited, Wed May 3 21:18:31 2006 by GryphonStalker

Wow. Lots of negativity in here. I really think that most of it is a lack of common knowledge about corporate structures and holding companies. I assume that Alla retained "control" of his business as a separate corporation. He's as much separated from IGE as he was before, insomuch as both businesses *already* profited as a result of online games. Think about it.

What I find really interesting is the number of posts saying (or threatening depending on how you look at it) that it's the posters and their knowledge, submissions, and guides that make this site work. Um... You're right. And that's not going to change either. Well. Unless you get into a tizzy, pick up your toys, and leave. Then this site will turn into another generic site with substandard information designed to get players hooked and sell them plat/gil/whatever.


Take a second people. Breathe. Breathe some more. Look at the big picture. This site has always been about the people who post and contribute to it. That's *why* it's a success. You make it so. You all have the voice here as well. You post the guides. You post the information. You post in the forums. You ultimately have the control over what those things say. You have the power to decide to condemn playing styles that you don't agree with. And all the corporate connections involved don't change that one bit. You have that power now. And you'll have that power in the future. Alla just puts a nifty format together for *us* to share information within. That's it. The content is ours. It always has. And it always will be.

Please consider that when thinking about this issue. Is it possible that some "evil" corporate contract may result in the corruption of this site? Sure. It's possible. But if all the folks who don't like plat selling leave, then who's going to condemn it? And if they all stop submitting information, where will Alla get it (from the farmers and sellers I'd guess!)? And if they all cancel their premium's where do you think that leaves the site in terms of revenue?

If I know corporate contracts at all, there's usually a profitability clause in there somewhere. As long as Alla's retains a level of profitability, he retains control of this site as its own separate corporate entity. But if he doesn't maintain that level, the parent corporation may be able to legally take control. In other words, all your threats and cancelled subscriptions may very well be the one thing that *will* allow the "bad guys" to win.

How about we not let that happen? We control what's said on this site. We control the message. This change gives us an even larger audience so to speak. When new games come along, where will they go for guides? If this works, here. And who'll be instructing those new players in those new games in the ethical and "correct" approach to online gaming? That'll be us. As long as we stick around and continue to do it. We leave, and it'll be the gilsellers who'll be controlling those new games and new players.



The power is completely in your hands guys. Heh. We've got the power and the edge here. Karma control if nothing else. Let's use that power for good, shall we?

I don't care about the value of the information on this site. What I care about, is that Allakhazam agreed to this, knowing that the same guys who are now owning Allakhazam own IGE and its low, underhanded, filthy methods. The guy who bought us is the same guy who bought IGE. This guy obviously knows nothing (or cares nothing) about morals. If he did, he would clean it the heck up, but he won't. Why? Becuase of Money.

Allakhazam sold to this guy. Why? Money. And yes, I know, in the corporate world, nobody cares about Ethics and Morals anymore. Gee, I wonder if that's why the bigwigs at Enron wound up in Court? I wonder if that's how Martha Stewart ended up in Jail? Just becuase you are a corporation, or some type of large legal entity does not mean that you cannot have ethics and morals. Its sad to see people throw all of those out the window just because of those little green pieces of paper. *rolls eyes*

--Xylia

How long till there is only "Gil Selling" Ads on allakhazam? ... thats basically the end of the world in a nutshell

Not to be a prick, but I personally think that unless you have premium you shouldn't be ******** in the slightest because this does not affect you. Myself and the others though, yeah, f[black][/black]uck.

Then why are you still here as well as myself?