Friday, February 19, 2010

Evil exists when good men do nothing



As a former gamer, I take pity in my brothers and sisters in the gaming world.

Here's the latest bit of information highlighting the failure of Level Up! Games Philippines administration in Philippine Ragnarok Online.

My brother relayed to me this story about how his girlfriend was banned after six years of being loyal to LUG PRO.

All because she got CAUGHT in an in-game BUG obviously brought about by LUG's lack of sense of duty.

If you ask me, loyalty reaps no rewards in the opinion of LUG admins.

Mind you, folks, this is a LEGITIMATE post, but is being repeatedly deleted by Ragnaboards forum moderators in an attempt to cover up their mistakes.

This is an attempt to inform the Filipino community, especially avid fans of Ragnarok Online, of the inability of Level Up Games Philippines to render proper service to their gamers.

Hopefully, Blogger.com admins and moderators will be kind enough to understand the plight of the author of the quoted statement, unlike the moderators in Ragnaboards who are obviously covering up their own mistakes by disobeying THEIR own forum rules on content and decency.

The Ragnaboard thread goes:

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"This is the 12TH attempt to post this LEGITIMATE and LEGAL THREAD TOPIC.
Whoever is deleting this post, please be courteous and DECENT enough to post a proper reason otherwise you are only dignifying this thread as it increases its repost count.
Let me begin by saying that I am not one of those who were banned because of this occurrence in the game. The truth of the matter is that the bug of the Geffen Daily Quest became an obvious glitch for a number of players because the daily cooldown time of 20 hours for every character DID NOT WORK for ALL CHARACTERS in all accounts. Meaning, most players, did have the cooldown restriction of 20 hours while some/few did not. During my encounter with one of these characters, he relayed to me that there is no cooldown time for his character even after finishing the quest. And so, he continued doing it. Can anyone blame him? Think about it, it's like botting. They say that it's evil, but most people who are against it are in fact those who do not know how they work or have no access to do it. It can be resolved but nothing is done. For this situation, they didn't even need any type of 3rd party program, it was just pure "luck" on their part that when they did the quest there was NO COOLDOWN. LU could have done something about this before releasing ithis quest, but they continued with their type of "work" which has plagued this game forevermore. Furthermore, they have gotten used to the system of waiting for something to go wrong before doing something to prevent it, and then they punish and make the players suffer, and even put the blame on them.
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Now, can you answer these questions truthfully?

A. Pag alam mo ba na click lang sa NPC e makakuha ka na ng rare item, hindi mo tuloy tuloy na ikiclick?

B. Noong nagka "bug" ang Church Donation quest, isa ka ba sa mga sumubok pumunta sa gitna ng Prontera para maclick lang yung NPC na nagbibigay exp kahit nagsummon na ng sandamakmak na thorns at sinabihan ka ng huwag?

C. Noong nagsummon ng sandamakmak na thorns sa basagan ng gamit, sinubukan mo na bang mag steel body o todo pneuma o ano pa man para lang makalapit sa NPC at makapag 10 ng items kahit isang beses?

D. Nagbbot ka ba, o ni isang beses man lang sa paglalaro mo ng RO nasubukan mo na to? It is illegal, but everyone is doing it. Will you stick to your idealism of "fairness" when everyone around you is improving their in-game status while you're still stuck with your novice training items?

E. Sa lindol sa Haiti kung saan wala ng pagkain. At dahil sa hindi maayos na sistema ng pamimigay ng pagkain, nagkagulo at nagkalat na ang mga pagkain at libre na halos lahat pumulot. Tatanggihan mo ba ang pagkaing nasa harap mo na para mapakain sa anak mo?

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That's the thing in this game, pag nalamangan ka galit ka. Pag ikaw ang nakakalamang wala kang pakialam. Dahil sa kapabayaan ng iba, nakagawa ng milagro ang iba pa. Hindi mo nagawa kaya galit ka sa kanila. Kung pwede namang solusyunan bago pa mangyari bakit hindi gawan ng paraan?

As Vanguard •Aeon™• proudly soaks in all the congratulatory greetings for her Hall of Shame, most players neglect to assess the true situation wherein the disservice for a just game is, now more than ever, apparent. Let's not forget the saying that "When there's smoke, there's fire." The FIRE here is the mediocre work continuously "performed" by the IT staff of LU. The Wall of Shame is just the SMOKE. We have all encountered these "bugs" countless times already - the never-ending EXP from the Church Donation Quest, Swab the Deck mishap, Auction Hall catastrophe, and many more. Yet, they still continue with the type of review they do for these NPCs. Kumabaga, paulit-ulit na! After maintenance may NPC tapos may bug nanaman, unlimited EXP, saka mag aannounce ng Emergency Maintenance, at habang hinahanapan nila ng paraan para maayos ang kabulukang maiiwasan sana, masisisi mo ba ang mga players na susubukang lumapit dito at maulanan man lang ng biyaya? They could have THOROUGHLY reviewed it! Hindi sana eto mangyayari kung maayos ang pag check nyo sa iimplement nyo na game feature. Kung ganyang ang inatasan nyo gumawa nyan halatang palpak siya, kaya palitan nyo na! Once is a mistake, twice is irresponsibility, thrice is just "pissing us off!" = Once is enough, twice is "too many" and Thrice is just too much. And again this did not happen just 3x!

Think about it, who knows, baka after maintenance bukas may NPC na after 1 month na gawin ang quest makaka SGH[1] ka naman. Pero pag click mo wala palang cooldown? Itutuloy mo ba? Pano kung ikaw naman ang naban?

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Four Final Points:

1. The "process of banning" accounts because of this incident should also raise concern. A friend of mine named *joliken* from the New Chaos server who has been with me since the Fenrir days of the P2P servers and has been a loyal player of this game was banned. I can say with all confidence that he has been one of the most noble person I've met in this game. And with his account banned, he will now quit this game after almost 5 years.

Last Friday, a merchant suddenly vended items with shop title "Quitting Sainyo Na" in Juno and he was there. He was selling a lot of stuffs like Combat Knife, Soulless Wing and many others, and so he bought most of the items. He tried to log into his account this afternoon but it has been banned until 2012. Is this the justice that everyone is celebrating under the discussion thread of the Hall of Shame post?

2. Another thing about this is that they do not even take a second. Walang kunsidirasyon kumbaga. Ngayon nga, tumigil ka ng isang minuto man lang. Bigyan mo man lang sila ng 60 segundo. Isipin mo yung mga nag-iiyakan na mga players na yan na na-ban na tila ba pumatay ng isang tao. Yung panahon - TAON, pera - LIBO LIBO, dedikasyon - PAG OONLINE NG MADALING ARAW at iba pang paghihirap para lamang dito at tatanggalin mo ng isang iglap lang? They act like GODS with a click of a button. Talo pa nga e, kung ang Diyos may paraan para magpatawad, kayo wala? Natrace nyo yung mga usernames diba? So hindi rin imposible na pwede nyo namang i-delete nlang yung mga Soulless Wings na yan at bigyan sila ng mas magaang parusa hindi ba? Lalo na yung mga taga New Chaos na halos limang taon na ang ginugol para lamang sa account nilang iyon. Sa isang pindot nyo, tapos na sila.

PINAPARUSAHAN NYO ANG MGA PLAYERS SA KADAHILANAN NG SARILI NYONG KAPABAYAAN. Nagtataka pa kayo bakit kayo nauubusan ng players?

3. Naaawa ako sa:

A. NADAMAY - Mga inosenteng bumili, nabigyan o nalipatan ng nasabing item. Sa mababaw na kadahilanan ng isang item na hindi imposibleng nasa scroll na sa mga darating na araw at nakavend na lamang, wala na ang mga accounts nila. Resulta ng paraan ng pag baban na hindi man lang nagbibigay konsiderasyon sa totoong pangyayari, wala na sila. Maaari nyo naman ituon yung pansin nyo sa mga CHARACTERS na mismong nagclick at kumuha ng item na iyon sa NPC, saka ninyo icheck yung kasama na account noon sa MYLU. Hindi yung kung saan na lang nadaan yung item banned na!

B. SANGKOT - Maaring pagkatapos ng isang linggo limot na sila para sa atin na mga naglalaro pa, samantalang sila naman ay HABANG BUHAY na wala. Paano kung ikaw eto? Dahil lang sa Soulless Wing na yan? Sa kadahilanan ng ISANG pagkakamali, ang lahat ng paghihirap nila para sa account nilang iyon ay naglaho na rin. Investment ang lahat ng account e, pinaggagastusan mo ng tuloy tuloy. Isn't it a bit extreme to permanently ban them for such a silly thing which the management itself caused? You are not robots, if you truly take a while maaawa ka sa mga umiiyak na mga players na to ngayon. Kumbaga sa isang maliit na aso, natapakan mo kaya kinagat ka. Ginawa mo e dinakma mo siya sa leeg at sinakal, at kahit umiiyak at umuungol ungol na siya wala kang pakialam. Pagkatapos ay sinaksak saksak mo pa siya. Sadista kumbaga. Oo na, nahuli nyo na e. Pero bigyan nyo naman ng konsiderasyong makatao para sa kamaliang sinimulan nyo rin. Habang proud na proud na bino-broadcast nyo pa ang pagpatay sa mga taong eto, hindi man lang nadaan sa isip o puso nyo ang nararamdaman ng mga eto. Mag-isip naman kayo kahit kaonti na sana sa pagpindot nyo ng button na yan para magban e ikonsidera nyo ang lahat. BAGO KA MAGPAKADIYOS, MATUTO KA SANA MUNANG MAGPAKATAO. Ang kamalian dito ay hindi lamang sa mga players na eto kundi sainyo rin. MISTAKE MISTAKE = VERY GOOD! Yun na ba ngayon?

C. KUNG SINO MAN ANG DELETE NG DELETE NITONG THREAD - Wala man lang rason, e delete ng delete ka lang. As I said in one of the post I made when someone asked me why I'm defending these people - Pinatatanggol ko sila dahil karapatan ng lahat na madinig ang panig. Sa kadahilanang WALA NA NGA SILA. Why would they continue to participate in a game wherein reason is sillenced, fairness is a dream and you, without due process, is JUST killed? Kung hindi man parte ng Human Rights iyon, respeto na lamang. Gaya na lamang ng pag delete delete mo dito. Ako ang nagdedefend kasi ako yung nandito pa, at naniniwala akong maari pa etong masolusyunan at maayos. At sa kadahilanang natatakot ako hindi lamang para sa sarili ko, kundi para din sa mga maaring susunod ninyong biktima sa inyong kapabayaan.

4. Again, I am not one of those who gained any type of benefits from this quest NPC and I may have been labeled as one of the "reklamadors" of this game. I know that a player or two would again post something like "Kung ayaw mo ng sistema ng laro. E di gumawa ka ng sarili mong game o umalis ka!" like those in some of the the threads I created. I am preempting this now but again, think about this. We can equate this with the statement "Kung may reklamo ka sa Gobyerno ng Pilipinas, e di gumawa ka ng sarili mong bansa o umalis ka!" We pay, I pay, are we not entitled to ask for something that we deserved, worked hard for, paid for? In this case, a JUST and FAIR game.

Can you not give us that? Then the shame is on you Level Up Games Admins."

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This thread is being DELETED repeatedly by Ragnaboards forum admins for NO JUSTIFIABLE REASONS.

Just so you'd know, this isn't the first time Level Up Games Admin made mistakes in the game. But this time, they've gone too far by unrightfully punishing THEIR loyal customers, who pay GOOD money for their supposedly GOOD, albeit TERRIBLE service, to play 24/7.

So, it just goes to show how deserving they are to be told, SHAME ON YOU Level Up! Games. Admit your mistakes and do what's right for YOUR PAYING CUSTOMERS. Do not deprive them of their right to GOOD SERVICE just because they stepped into your WEB OF BLUNDERS.

Anyway, I hope this knocks on a few doors, especially to my fellow ex-gamers who have connections to Level Up! Games.

Remember, it's only when good men do nothing that evil triumphs.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Rock heals

Thank God for rock music. It helps soothe the pains of daily existence.

A fish in the sea

When it comes to traffic in Metro Manila, we are all fish in the sea.

Who hasn't been screwed by insane vehicular congestion on our streets?

Everyone's a victim, each and every day.

Especially in the morning. !@#$%

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Hearts Day



Happy Valentine's, honey. I love you.

Friday, February 12, 2010

God's gift




You're a year older today. That's God's gift to you, and you're God's gift to me.

You're growing more and more beautiful by each passing day, and hopefully more mature.

If you ever need anything, I'm here. I love you and always will.

Happy birthday, honey.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Thrashing up the joint




It's around 12.45pm and I'm famished. I leave my station and grab some chops at the burger joint in front of the office.

Out of the blue, this garbage truck decides to park its shit right in front of us.

Now, if this were any ordinary garbage collection day, I wouldn't have minded. But this guy just decided to stop there gawking like an idiot for no apparent reason, while a strong breeze was blowing straight at us.

Boy, did it stink.

12.51pm and my burgers are served.

I gave the driver a piercing "You inconsiderate asshole" look and miraculously, he drove off.

He must've realized his ton of metro garbage was reeking nuclear fallout over the food stand. Idiot.

It's 12.56pm.

I went back to my burger and realized I was risking getting a you-know-what from my boss. So I wolf down my burger, agonizing over the tobasco, and ordered a Pepsi.

I didn't know I could finish two jumbo burgers in under five minutes.

Arf!




This morning, I was walking from my car to work when I see this fuzzy little golden-mained puppy suddenly strolling out of an establishment's gate.

At that exact moment when it came out I was just passing through the gate when it suddenly started walking beside me as if I was its companion or something.

"What the hell?"

Now, I'm no dog hater, but the thought of rabies, health insurance and applying for my mom's health card suddenly flashed across my mind.

I then thought that even though this pooch was harmless (apparently), it still packed enough teeth to send me to the RITM, a.k.a. the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.

That's where they treat and quarantine people with deadly diseases, by the way. It's also where most of the incurable patients die, not to mention, from rabies. Great.

Snapping back to reality, I started kicking in the air to shoo the furry mutt away, but it just wouldn't budge. It didn't even mind my mid-air karate kicks, let alone even look at me. It just kept obediently walking and walking, as if I was its master.

And so I thought, "So you wanna' play dumbass, do ya.. well, you ain't gonna' follow me across the busy road." So I scanned the road for traffic and prepared to cross.

Just then, this big black feline appeared from right behind a lamp post and startled the hell out of my canine stalker. The cat was just standing there, but it made the pooch stop dead in its tracks in sheer terror.

It only managed to let out one pathetic "Arf!" before it turned and dashed off, tail between its legs.

"Nice going, tough guy." What a wimp!

I crossed the road to the office laughing, thinking whether that pup was high on drugs or something. Nah!

No offense to animal lovers.