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What about fansites associated with the secondary market (Gold Sellers)?
-Sigil is strong about its stance towards the secondary market. No site will ever be listed or supported by Sigil that has Secondary Market ads or is owned by the secondary market (Zam/Ogaming Networks). If a fansite is found to be supported by the Secondary Market in any way it will immediately be removed from our program.
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James "Elrar" Nichols
Half Giant Moderator
Protector of Gnomes
Here's what I read:
Provide information or links to a 3rd party resource in the Alla network and we ban your fansite link.
Alla doesn't want to drag anyone into a pissing contest either. Sour grapes or no, it's his site, and as Pikko said, Sigil basically told him to shove his help up his @$$...
I do not agree with Alla selling a stake to IGE. However, would you rather Alla get absorbed by IGN like GameFAQs was? Alla did what he
had to. He made a tough call, paid a price, and now continues to hold true to his promises. I left before because of issues with the decision, but returned mainly because Alla kept his promise. Gold/Gil selling is still a zero tolerance ban. No ads are appearing. And the new site admins have done a fantastic job.
So since Sigil likes making broad sweeping generalizations, since Sigil is backed by SoE, and since SoE has raped games in the past, I won't buy, play or recommend their game to anyone I know.
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Also, if I am not mistaken, didn't the head designer come from SoE and left them because they raped his game in the first place, and now he "sells out" to the big evil corp again?
Edited, Apr 18th 2007 12:29pm by Pawkeshup