[QUOTE="Viennoiserie"]But there's also the problem of credit cards - some parents wouldn't allow their kids to use their credit card for a GS subscription, and some users like I simply suffer because none of the few credit cards I have are accepted. :xVersus_XIII

Do have a debit card? Also, my credit cards tend to be accepted everywhere. If it's a Visa or Mastercard you should be fine. I'm guessing you're from another country. If you don't have that. Well. The kids have (don't want to be rude) a set limit on their credit cards. Knowing from experience, you used that for emergencies. Plus it does depend on the parents if they are mature for a credit card. : ?

Note: this was posted initially on the blog of a certain admin. I am reposting this so I could get heard better. Here's the message:

"I don't know what's your opinion on this but I would really like to see the admins spending less time with enhancements and more time with fixing glitches and hang out with the community. Seeing admins more often discussing on the forums would be (at least for me and several other folks) better than almost any enhancement. The only admin that was more involved in the community was Dkittels, and it seems you guys fired him because he was "counterproductive" - meaning that, even though he made several wonderful enhancements like the new posts tracker, he was discussing way too much on the forums, and you guys thought it was counterproductive! Pretty bad, since he ran hundreds of miles to LA to work at GameSpot and that's how are you guys repaying his efforts?...

But my post isn't about Dkittels, but about the fact the staff members are more and more different from the rest of the community. Sometimes I feel like I'm in some medieval society where only privileged users can get to talk with the staff. I'm not saying any lies, the Ask GameSpot board, the chat room, the far more open communication between mods and admins are living proofs of the fact they're tring to limit interaction with the rest of the "noobs" on GS. I agree that Ask GameSpot would have been far more filled with spam if it was open to humble Basic users like me but Burning Questions is now gone and all I can do now is send a PM to a staff member and pray to God that the respective staff member will reply to my message.

It's not like I don't respect the staff. I admire their work and I am very aware of the fact they're all busy people, but there are other gaming sites with busy employees - and yet they interact far more often with the community than GameSpot. Why?... I know, I know, the staff interacted more often with the community when GameSpot wasn't so well-known around the world, but this motivation simply could not justify the cliff that was made between the staff and the regular GS users. Staff members are also normal people, why create the impression that they're some gods that don't talk with us mortals because we're mortals, not gods?... As I've said, I have nothing to complain about the work of staff members, but I (and not only) would feel a lot better if they would interact more with us. After all, a king cannot be the ruler of people he doesn't know, right?"

To please gods, you must sacrifice virgins.yian

That could be a good idea to help point the leader in the right direction as to what the recruits want out of the union.Sentinelrv

Ooh. I used to be like you. However, when I upgraded it made navagating the site easier. Also, it shouldn't be that bad paying a few dollars a month. C'mon. If you can afford a game why can't you afford a subscription.Versus_XIII

Non-paying subscribers used to get 700k stream. But they removed it,and now we're limited to 300k. While a 300k stream looks better than a 100k stream,the 700k stream was still taken away from basic users. It wasn't a feature that was added later and just given to paid subscribers. I can understand paid subscribers getting HD videos,but a 700k stream is not HD.dog64

Box art so bad it's good!

Every rare once in a while, IGN Is useful... :P

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http://www.gamefront.de/

Tetsuya Nomura : "New Disney Project is not Kingdom Hearts 3".

Tetsuya Nomura of Square Enix reveals to Famitsu that the new Disney Project will soon be announced. However, it is not Kingdom Hearts 3. -cnc-