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Nexus 2 - Jupiter incident Sequel! - needs you
chemical_art:
the other big benefit to using paypal is that you put your card info once, then you don't have to again, minimizing security problem.
Nalgas:
--- Quote from: BobTheJanitor on February 09, 2012, 08:58:35 PM ---I've spent a lot more time being impressed by pictures of other people's work in Minecraft or watching videos set in Minecraft than I have ever spent actually playing it.
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By far the most fun thing to do is to look at things other people have made. It's far too tedious and time consuming to do anything yourself, and then it just blows up anyway. The "game" parts of it aren't actually fun or terribly interesting, or at least weren't last time I checked them out, and the sandbox construction stuff is too much work. But it's still neat seeing what other people do sometimes...
--- Quote from: chemical_art on February 10, 2012, 09:57:05 AM ---the other big benefit to using paypal is that you put your card info once, then you don't have to again, minimizing security problem.
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You're funny. PayPal? Minimize security problems? PayPal is a nightmare. It tries to act like a bank without any of the restrictions or responsibilities a bank has to follow. It seems great until you run into a problem, and then it's the worst thing ever. Good luck if you verified your PayPal account by linking it to a bank account that you actually use for anything else or did that so you could transfer money out of PayPal and then someone disputes a transaction because they were feeling like a dick that day. Your life will potentially be hell for months while trying to sort it out as PayPal is completely uncooperative, unhelpful, and unresponsive. Even if you only use it to make payments, that still means someone else is putting themself at risk in that position to be able to accept them. The whole company should've died years ago with the way they treat people and the sheer number of horror stories there are about them.
keith.lamothe:
Yea, everything I've seen publicly about taking money through paypal screams "DO NOT DO!". Of course, I'm not sure I'm being responsible in saying that, as I'm just echoing stuff I've heard second- or third- hand. Has paypal offered any defense for what looks like underhanded skulduggery? To be specific: without warning, freezing a payment-receiver's account and not letting them pull the money out, nor explaining to them why they froze it, nor being willing to speak with them at all about the issue, and (in some cases) never unfreezing the account.
BobTheJanitor:
--- Quote from: eRe4s3r on February 10, 2012, 05:29:40 AM ---So it all goes into this point and click game, and not Psychonauts 2.. lmao ;) I wonder what makes people pledge money for a game like that as it says specifically POINT and CLICK.
I am confused?
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If the words 'Tim Schafer' and 'Point and Click adventure' don't make you sit up and beg, you are either ill-informed, or possibly dead. Check your pulse, just in case. ;)
--- Quote from: keith.lamothe on February 10, 2012, 11:23:20 AM ---Yea, everything I've seen publicly about taking money through paypal screams "DO NOT DO!". Of course, I'm not sure I'm being responsible in saying that, as I'm just echoing stuff I've heard second- or third- hand. Has paypal offered any defense for what looks like underhanded skulduggery? To be specific: without warning, freezing a payment-receiver's account and not letting them pull the money out, nor explaining to them why they froze it, nor being willing to speak with them at all about the issue, and (in some cases) never unfreezing the account.
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My limited experience with Paypal has been fine, but I only ever use it for the few payments that require it, and it only pulls that exact amount of money from my bank account. I wouldn't ever leave any money just hanging out on Paypal. I, too, have heard the many horror stories about them.
eRe4s3r:
Paypal is the only way to send money semi-anonymously with instant currency conversion with only the email address visible, for some people *hint* freelancers *hint* this is incredible useful and in fact, a service that with any other service would cost money.
But yes i know about Full Throttle and the like, but just because he made good games in eons past makes him no expert on good modern adventure games now. Though I'd be happy if something decent comes out of it.. but with no theme and style detailed this is gonna be a laugh if it fails to live up to the hype. This is the worst kind of hype imo, you have what, 50000 customers before you even started developing, without design documents, nothing. Theres a 100% chance at least half of these "pre-order" customers are gonna be raving flame-masters of doom on release day. "This is not what i gave money for" and so on...
Only thing i care about is Psychonauts 2 and Nexus 2 (Nexus should definitely retry on Kickstarter, but if its only via amazon payments I won't pledge.. just support)
Ps.: @ x4000
In Germany EC cards are linked to a Giro Bank Account so technically they are a debit card and credit card in one. Its just that with EC cards payment is instant. But more importantly, I'd never pay online with my EC Card or by giving away my bank account details (exceptions like the specific amazon.de system for EC/Giro account prove the rule) ;)
Paypal acts as an intermediary between my Giro bank account and whoever gets my money. Something of vital important when dealing in non € but also something of a safety feature. Nobody who got money from me via paypal knows my bank account details. And this is why I would never forgo paying via paypal if at all possible. I can't even think of a single online purchase I didn't make via paypal.
EC means electronic cash and thats what it is. You don't pay with "future" money, you pay directly with real (virtual) money and its directly subtracted from your bank account. Its literally, a "credits chit" ;) Like you see it in many sci-fi games ,p
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