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When it comes to paying to be online, i think we're once again behind the Americans for getting a fair deal.
I know we only pay local phone call rate, but if I'm right, then over in the U.S, people are paying nothing ! I'm sure most of you know that Americans get free local calls.
Local call rate doesn't sound much, but believe me, when you get a good game that can be played online, you obviously want to play it a lot - and the bill increases to stupid proportions ! I'm sure you understand, afterall - most of you already get high phonebills for being on here ;-))
It doesn't seem very fair that we have to keep one eye on the clock while other countries can play to their hearts content.
Maybe Sega should look into this - especially as far as parents go. I'm sure they'll be REAL happy when their kids spend hours on online games and it very much shows on the bill.
At most, perhaps they could even look into a reasonable yearly membership or something ? We'd still be paying, but it'd be a lot more fair than paying what we have to now.
Afterall, with online RPG's surfacing soon (Phantasy Star Online), we all know how time consuming they are and you can't help but feel we've got the bum deal again.
Oh well, maybe something will happen soon :-) Er, probably not.
;-)
I know we only pay local phone call rate, but if I'm right, then over in the U.S, people are paying nothing ! I'm sure most of you know that Americans get free local calls.
Local call rate doesn't sound much, but believe me, when you get a good game that can be played online, you obviously want to play it a lot - and the bill increases to stupid proportions ! I'm sure you understand, afterall - most of you already get high phonebills for being on here ;-))
It doesn't seem very fair that we have to keep one eye on the clock while other countries can play to their hearts content.
Maybe Sega should look into this - especially as far as parents go. I'm sure they'll be REAL happy when their kids spend hours on online games and it very much shows on the bill.
At most, perhaps they could even look into a reasonable yearly membership or something ? We'd still be paying, but it'd be a lot more fair than paying what we have to now.
Afterall, with online RPG's surfacing soon (Phantasy Star Online), we all know how time consuming they are and you can't help but feel we've got the bum deal again.
Oh well, maybe something will happen soon :-) Er, probably not.
;-)
When it comes to paying to be online, i think we're once again behind the Americans for getting a fair deal.
I know we only pay local phone call rate, but if I'm right, then over in the U.S, people are paying nothing ! I'm sure most of you know that Americans get free local calls.
Local call rate doesn't sound much, but believe me, when you get a good game that can be played online, you obviously want to play it a lot - and the bill increases to stupid proportions ! I'm sure you understand, afterall - most of you already get high phonebills for being on here ;-))
It doesn't seem very fair that we have to keep one eye on the clock while other countries can play to their hearts content.
Maybe Sega should look into this - especially as far as parents go. I'm sure they'll be REAL happy when their kids spend hours on online games and it very much shows on the bill.
At most, perhaps they could even look into a reasonable yearly membership or something ? We'd still be paying, but it'd be a lot more fair than paying what we have to now.
Afterall, with online RPG's surfacing soon (Phantasy Star Online), we all know how time consuming they are and you can't help but feel we've got the bum deal again.
Oh well, maybe something will happen soon :-) Er, probably not.
;-)
I know we only pay local phone call rate, but if I'm right, then over in the U.S, people are paying nothing ! I'm sure most of you know that Americans get free local calls.
Local call rate doesn't sound much, but believe me, when you get a good game that can be played online, you obviously want to play it a lot - and the bill increases to stupid proportions ! I'm sure you understand, afterall - most of you already get high phonebills for being on here ;-))
It doesn't seem very fair that we have to keep one eye on the clock while other countries can play to their hearts content.
Maybe Sega should look into this - especially as far as parents go. I'm sure they'll be REAL happy when their kids spend hours on online games and it very much shows on the bill.
At most, perhaps they could even look into a reasonable yearly membership or something ? We'd still be paying, but it'd be a lot more fair than paying what we have to now.
Afterall, with online RPG's surfacing soon (Phantasy Star Online), we all know how time consuming they are and you can't help but feel we've got the bum deal again.
Oh well, maybe something will happen soon :-) Er, probably not.
;-)
the new jimmy wrote:
> How much are you paying for local calls right now to play the
> Superb Quake III online???
Not a single penny! Cause' I own the US version which allows me to pop in me free-time ISP.
Bleed(ers)
> How much are you paying for local calls right now to play the
> Superb Quake III online???
Not a single penny! Cause' I own the US version which allows me to pop in me free-time ISP.
Bleed(ers)
Wish i had a free time ISP lol
Been doing well so far :-) Played a couple of capture the flag games before going to work today and i managed to beat 2 people on my own ;-))
As for prices jimmy - i think its 1p a min on weekends - not sure about weekdays though, probably something like 3p a min
Been doing well so far :-) Played a couple of capture the flag games before going to work today and i managed to beat 2 people on my own ;-))
As for prices jimmy - i think its 1p a min on weekends - not sure about weekdays though, probably something like 3p a min
Hey I use the US version of Quake 3 and get free calls! does neone else?
My names Rippin Time on there!
My names Rippin Time on there!