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Dealthagar · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject: Warhemmer is dead.

This would kill any game. unbelievable.

Imagine UO charging you 30 times in a day for your account. Even if you're on a 6 month billing cycle.
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Ceinwyn ab'Arawn · Transcendent Spammer Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 5017

Holy.. wow batman

Kaelthir · Certifiable Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 1932

Hahah, holy rubbish.

Ariana Lenoir · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:48 pm Post subject:

Yes. Thank goodness EA uses a separate vendor to manage UO subscriptions. *whew*

TayM'real · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:55 pm Post subject:

that's some stuff - hopefully they compensate those folks appropriately
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Edda · Certifiable Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 1586 Location: US

WOW.
MAJOR FAIL.

Tari · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:04 pm Post subject:

They did it to get extra money to fix the Atlantic server Wink

Willow Smythe · Certifiable Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 1713

Wow.... I would be pissed!! They should offer like a free month or something to these people.... Or really a free year..
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Kaelthir · Certifiable Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 1932

Yeah, no doubt. We give credit info to these companies with the expectation that we will be charged accordingly. But also, you'd think there'd be something in place at the banks to prevent something from charging redundant charges over and over.

Willow Smythe · Certifiable Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 1713

There might be, but it sounds like this was all at once and the charges are instant so it takes the banks a bit to catch up.
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Kaelthir · Certifiable Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 1932

I mean from an automated standpoint, you'd think whatever software banks use to deal with electronic purchases would have some sort of safeguard against the same purchase being charged several times in a row in the span of under a second. Sucks for the people who were hit by it, there should be safeguards in place in case of terrible billing software. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we don't really think about and just take for granted, I'm glad there aren't more huge problems.

But then, the Internet is still fairly new, I'm sure a lot of this has only really come up over the last 10 years. Over time, it will probably improve a lot.