City of Ripoffs

Most of the contents of this post are from an email I sent to Penny Arcade.

Until a couple of months ago I never had a PC powerful enough to handle any of the MMORPG games. I like comic books and City of Heroes sounded cool from descriptions on Penny Arcade and from my friends. My friend sent me a 14 day Valentine's Day free trial thing, so I figured I would try it out. Hey, it was free, right? No, no it wasn't free, but I'll get to that.

First of all, I have broadband Internet, 1.5mps according to the login page. It took me about 5 days to download City of Heroes. Yeah, almost half of my free trial was downloading. I emailed support and they basically told me to fuck myself. They said once an account was created there was nothing they could do about it. Great. So I automatically lost out on all that time. So I tried playing the game, and it was okay for a while, but the best part was the chargen. Not enough to keep me with a paying subscription. So, I was just going to let my subscription run out, and I would stop playing. Sounds fine, right? No. Because NCSoft doesn't give a shit what you want.

Now, it says on the email I got when I started that the trial ended on the 15th. Fine. So I figured I play and delete it on the end of the 15th. Sounds reasonable, right? No, no it's not. Instead they charge you on midnight of the 14th. And since I was playing at that time, that also means that my account is "ineligible for refund". That's code for I'm fucked. So they refuse to refund my fucking money. I don't want to play their fucking game and I already deleted it, but I'm stuck with a one month subscription.

If someone out there wants to like, Paypal me 12 bucks they can have my fucking login. Better yet would be a solution where those assholes at NC give me my fucking money back. But two long distance phone calls and an assload of emails later, I only got to play the game for a few days and now I'm out $15 when I'm pretty close to fucking broke and need that money to buy goddamn food with. This is what I was gonna ask for for my birthday present? What the fuck was I thinking?

NCSoft sucks.

Fuck, cunt, bugger, poof, bastard, cunt, wanker, cock, jesus christ almighty, arse, feck, bugger, cunt.

That should take care of some of the stuff I haven't said in my couple months absence. Now as some of you can tell, I, the mighty, mighty Ian, king of cool and all that jazz am back from my couple months absence, so people rejoice! Your saviour has returned to spew vile filfth and useless and pointless rantings on this here blog. Yes, I'm glad to be back people, but please don't send me any e-mails declaring your undying love to me and how you contemplated killing yourself since I left.

Anyway, so I'm back, maybe now I'll actually get something done for MFO (Hah!) who knows, or cares. Peace out!

- Ian