Sunday, February 10, 2008

Our Ozzies and Kiwi Brothers Have Fallen, Too

Fellow Malaysian and Singaporean RFO players. All of you might be aware of Codemaster's (CM) tyrannical regionalist campaign against RMT (Real Money Traderism) and have banned all Asian IP addresses, leaving us with few choices of:

A) Wait it out and hopefully CM will unblock us
B) Forget about it and move on
C) Wait for the dedicated server
D) Uninstall the 4GB game and find something else

E) Leave death threats and flames in RF Forums
F) Forget about it and find a wife


And apparently our brothers in Australia and New Zealand were also banned just recently. And even more lately players from Canada, Europe and some parts in USA were affected. Let us have a moment of silence to respect their pain of undergoing the "mourning" stage for their losses (taken away from RF for 48 hours is pure torment, we've been there). Most of us has felt the pain along with South American and other Asian players last month. And even if we are in the "acceptance" stage by now, I guess most of us will still want to have a taste of RF grinding if we were given the chance. I'm not the type to post flaming threads, but I support all fellow Malaysian and Singaporean attacks on RF Forums, flame on brothers!

Threads links from our brothers fighting for our rights:
Malaysia
Singapore

Apparently CM came out with some sort of appeal where players can fill in in order to get unbanned. But mostly the replies are as interesting as watching snails copulate and were redirected here instead. Their reply:

Thank you for submitting your recent request to Codemasters Customer Services concerning RF Online.


After reviewing your account, we are unable to lift your ban unfortunately. This is due to the following reason...

You are attempting to play the game from a territory we are not licensed to operate the game in.


Just nice. That was really helpful considering I've poured hundreds of hours and loyalty into RF Online. Thanks a lot. You guys could've at least sent me an decent non-automated e-mail informing me properly beforehand instead of ma fanning myself trying to get unbanned. This is no different from racial profiling, except in this case it's IP address profiling.

R.I.P. 5!Я!/|\ (2007-'08)
Anyways, my condolences to RF players of other Asian, Brazilian and every banned countries; XVIII, WindowsXP, HelloMoto, Elranzer et. al. hundreds of other banned players.

P/S: CM (yeah in case you Google and stumble upon this post), not all of us Asians are involved in RMT. Most of us are honest players. Now I guess after banning us Asians, RMT was still rampant then you guys banned Oz and NZ in hopes of eliminating RMT for good (but RMT still there right? Most likely). Soon you'll ban the rest of the world. You've opened the Pandora's Box. You've doomed us all. Oh and I've boycotted your other games too. Cheerios :)

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