This story starts with a young boy and a subscription to the MMO Final Fantasy XI. After a few months with the game, he grows tired of it and decides he's going to cancel. Great, so how do you do that? What seems like should be a simple task ends up an exercise in frustration. Little did Square Enix know - they just messed with the wrong guy.
It's a very rare occurence if you can find a politician that is not willing to abuse their power.
The story as I read it was some alderman got his nickers in a twist when his son couldn't /quit FFXI. State government got involved and before you knew it, something "got done."
But I can't say that I am that comfortable with the government stepping in on this sort of thing. Sure, quitting a game is considered perhaps a simple business transaction, but intereference in the gaming world can only increase - especially when politicians find out how much money there is to be made on virtual goods.
Maybe I'm being an alarmist. I am glad that these /quit run-arounds are getting the pimp hand.
This story is awesome just because of Ricky Gervais.
If he looked in the account management section of the POL Viewer he would have found a the section where you cancel your subs. And it is very easy! So i dont know wtf this guy is on.
thats funny because I had canceled my final fantasy acoount twice when I was playing it and it took me no more then a few minutes to do so