Would you still play Salem?

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Playing Salem (any Violent game) you were billed more each month for Internet could you afford it?

Poll ended at Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:38 am

Yes
27
61%
No
17
39%
 
Total votes : 44

Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby grapefruitv » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:21 pm

Such thing requires too much effort to implement and follow through, so that is just something crazy people would fantasize about or socialists would use to get attention of some housewives concerned about their kids.
Just a few questions/issues popping up on top of that:

Who and how would create a list of violent games?
How would one prevent you from playing such a game if you didn't pay?
Who would collect the extra money? Where would they go?
Why game developers would be okay with so much money going who knows where and not to them?
Why would game developers be okay with this at all, since violence is the basis of a good share of genres?
How would you monitor underground and small games?
What about browser and flash games located on the same site? How would you block access to ones without blocking the others? And even if you could block some smaller sites for even having 1 violent game, you can't pull this trick on facebook and such.
How would you qualify games with optional violence, such as salem? Implying that every person will use it's violent side if given an opportunity contradicts presumption of innocence.
Why bother with online gaming at all if people can keep playing games as and much more violent offline?
What does provider have to do with this? Why not just oblidge devs charge extra to skip a good bunch of extra steps?
Playerbase of most online games consists of people from all continents and dozens of different countries, how would that work out if, let's say, a good share of americans suddenly disappeared?


I realize there are some answers to those, but all the solutions I can think of seem either insanely complicated and not worthy of anyones time or easily avoidable.


As for internet costs, I'm paying 5,5$ total for ~100 channels cable + this:
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So no, I wouldn't pay 25 more, there are plenty of other things to fill the void.
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Kandarim » Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:26 pm

... darn that's cheap.
I pay €70 euro/month for tv/internet/phone. Probably about 30-40 of that goes to internet, I guess.
That ostensibly gets me 100 Mbps - typically in the 20-30 range though.

Right now I'm at work and we have *slightly* better :)
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Judaism » Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:42 pm

This thread is ****.
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Hose » Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:07 pm

Judaism wrote:This thread is ****.

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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Forungi » Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:10 pm

Hose wrote:
Judaism wrote:This thread is ****.

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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Hose » Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:12 pm

Forungi wrote:
Hose wrote:
Judaism wrote:This thread is ****.

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My boy simon always posting ****.

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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Icon » Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:15 pm

Thread makes me want to play Manhunt, badly
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Forungi » Thu Feb 18, 2016 2:17 pm

Hose wrote:uwot you filthy customer


But I gave it all to Daopa :roll:
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby Argentis » Thu Feb 18, 2016 3:39 pm

In France a bundle with internet/phone/TV roughly costs 30 euros or less pretty much no matter what type of connection you have (1Mbps through ADSL to 100Mbps through fiber). Your connection will pretty much depend on where you are located and how upgraded your area is (needless to say my internet is **** and I don't have enough bandwidth to get the TV anw).

For cellphones it's pretty standard to have all unlimited (Texts, Voice, Internet 4G+ capped at 5Go to 50go depending on your carrier) for less than 20 euros.

But yeah for the US no way Sanders is gonna get elected anyway and no way he could implement such a law.

Edit: Isn't it Clinton's law actually? I'm confused. Can someone give a link to where that law is decribed?
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Re: Would you still play Salem?

Postby HolyLight » Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:29 pm

Top end home entertainment packages in the UK cost upto £100/150 per month, but that will include a 200mb net connection (upto 30mb/s download rates) and several hundred to a thousand channels of TV.

I personally pay £30pm for a 200mb connection,(can get nice 30~40mb/s download rates if im lucky, normally around 15mb/s) no other charges, Get "free" Digital TV some 100 channels, just by paying my UK TV license fee (£120 per year)
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