Amazon Mayhem Promotion and Path of Exile

What is Amazon Mayhem? Is it a CIA program?
i use a secret account because i am a politician that doesnt want the NSA to know i play poe.
Still only available to USA with no alternate promotion for none USA based playerbase?

<----puts money back in pocket again......
for a digital product, this is pretty backwards.
My Shop: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1338089
Yep.
I've tried to make the payment – just for sure. The transactions is still available only for "US customers".



Pity :(
The darker the eye, the more diligent the watched.
Last edited by zi0 on Jun 1, 2014, 6:50:06 PM
I'm a proud New Zealander who has been watching the development of this game for years, got two invites to play closed beta (but didn't have decent broadband at the time) but started playing open beta the moment I did.

Since then I've noticed the directions and general vocabulary in the game become increasingly Ameri-centric ("Bring the xxx to yyy" instead of 'take' for example) and the whole game loose what attracted me to it in the first place - it's NZ identity.

And now (partly because I'm an invalid living in poverty) I've just been enticed to commit fraud. I now have an Amazon account and apparently live in New Hampshire (no sales tax).

I'm not impressed GGG.
~DemiDemon~

Playing almost every day since Beta version 0.9.1 in 2011.
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DemiDemon wrote:
I'm a proud New Zealander who has been watching the development of this game for years, got two invites to play closed beta (but didn't have decent broadband at the time) but started playing open beta the moment I did.

Since then I've noticed the directions and general vocabulary in the game become increasingly Ameri-centric ("Bring the xxx to yyy" instead of 'take' for example) and the whole game loose what attracted me to it in the first place - it's NZ identity.

And now (partly because I'm an invalid living in poverty) I've just been enticed to commit fraud. I now have an Amazon account and apparently live in New Hampshire (no sales tax).

I'm not impressed GGG.


If you're living in poverty, spending money on a game is a silly decision. And if the language is not appropriate for NZ English (I'm American, so I don't notice these issues), report it in this thread, GGG has always seemed to be committed to keeping everything NZ-specific for language usage.
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sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
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Archwizard wrote:
If you're living in poverty, spending money on a game is a silly decision.


Seriously? It's my only hobby / vice / elective spending! I don't smoke, drink, socialise, fornicate, eat pleasant-tasting food... I'm essentially a shut-in largely due to my financial situation. As such the money I pass GGG's way is an appreciation of the value I've got and hope to continue to get from many, many hours playing.

Not silly at all. Spending it on tobacco, alcohol, etc.? That would be silly.

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Archwizard wrote:
And if the language is not appropriate for NZ English (I'm American, so I don't notice these issues), report it in this thread, GGG has always seemed to be committed to keeping everything NZ-specific for language usage.


I'll check it out - although I can't help but wonder why these American phrases got through in the first place if GGG are trying to keep the game's NZ flavour.

BTW I'm not talking about "NZ English", rather non-American English.

As for being a NZ game this Amazon thing is just one recent insult to us NZers. The two week race starting at 8am on a Sunday (NZ time)? This one-hour sale thing starting at midnight PST? It seems that GGG are following the (new) money and us NZers are back in the same situation as with every other popular game - they all seem to bow down to the mighty greenback.
~DemiDemon~

Playing almost every day since Beta version 0.9.1 in 2011.
For some bizarre reason GGG seems to do a lot based on PDT, it makes no sense to me but what do I know. I would fully expect everything to be based on NZT, it's not like it's hard to ask Google to convert the time for you!

As to non-American/NZ English, I really have no idea if NZ vs. UK vs. AUS vs. Whoever have variations, after all even inside the US there are regional differences in terminology. That's why I said GGG seems to be committed to NZ English (I think they've even said that explicitly).

Definitely check the thread out, consistency is good within the game and we need folks that know where the mess ups are to help get them fixed.

As to Amazon, I wouldn't read that as an insult to NZ (or really any non-US folks). That really is a simple business decision made by GGG to get funding via a very large internet presence to a very large potential audience. As to why Amazon won't sell digital items to folks outside the US, I cannot imagine. There must be some legal stupidity involved, because it makes no business sense at all.
Support a free Hong Kong.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
Thanks for the reply Archwizard. The biggest language thing that bugs me is the "Bring xxx to yyy" instructions in-game (such as Tolmans bracelet to Clarissa). In England and here in NZ we'd say "Take xxx to yyy". However I've noticed in US movies and TV programmes that they say 'bring' where we'd say 'take' pretty much all of the time.

It started creeping in towards the end of Beta so I'd say GGG hired an American to write the dialogue and the Kiwis in the company either haven't noticed or don't care. Going by this other thread I'd say and hope it's the former.

Best wishes,
~DemiDemon~

Playing almost every day since Beta version 0.9.1 in 2011.
Currently unavailable? :(

Oh derp, it was only for 2 weeks, I cried.
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