CharlieMopps
Terracotta Army
Posts: 837
|
http://www.kwedit.com/They LOAN children virtual dollars to buy online stuff. If you fail to pay, you can send out emails asking other people to pay for you. You get a Kwedit score... wtf... I can't seem to find a list of games that accept their dollars... so it might just all be hype. kwedit where kwedit is due... saw this on the Colbert report.
|
|
|
|
|
Nightblade
Terracotta Army
Posts: 800
|
http://www.kwedit.com/They LOAN children virtual dollars to buy online stuff. If you fail to pay, you can send out emails asking other people to pay for you. You get a Kwedit score... wtf... I can't seem to find a list of games that accept their dollars... so it might just all be hype. kwedit where kwedit is due... saw this on the Colbert report. ... I... ... ............................................. I'll just pretend I didn't click that link. |
|
|
|
|
schild
Administrator
Posts: 60350
|
http://www.kwedit.com/products/promisePuzzle Pirates is shown there. Daniel James must be off his fucking rocker. including: * Greenpatch * Champions Online * Tetris Friends * Barn Buddy * Island Paradise ... *Champions Online *Champions Online*Champions Online*Champions Online
|
|
|
|
|
LK
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4268
|
Wow.
Good branding, though.
|
"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
|
|
|
|
|
CharlieMopps
Terracotta Army
Posts: 837
|
I can just see Jay and silent bob outside a 7-11 selling pot for kwedit or something... the inevitable congressional hearings this is going to generate are going to be epic.
|
|
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12007
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
http://www.kwedit.com/products/promisePuzzle Pirates is shown there. Daniel James must be off his fucking rocker. including: * Greenpatch * Champions Online * Tetris Friends * Barn Buddy * Island Paradise ... *Champions Online *Champions Online*Champions Online*Champions Online Holy shit...  |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
JWIV
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2392
|
I can just see Jay and silent bob outside a 7-11 selling pot for kwedit or something... the inevitable congressional hearings this is going to generate are going to be epic.
Oh yes. There is no way this ends well. |
|
|
|
|
Yoru
Moderator
Posts: 4615
the y master, king of bourbon
|
What. The. Fuck. An internet loan shark: For Kids!  |
|
|
|
|
jakonovski
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4388
|
I dread the inevitable Kwedit Kwisis and Gweat Depwession.
|
|
|
|
|
Nebu
Terracotta Army
Posts: 17613
|
Why would anyone pay them? You can't prosecute children. It's like giving away free stuff and relying only on the good nature of people to collect any money. I'm guessing the largest majority of games involved are going along for the ride because it can only help with marketing.
|
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
|
|
|
CharlieMopps
Terracotta Army
Posts: 837
|
Why would anyone pay them? You can't prosecute children. It's like giving away free stuff and relying only on the good nature of people to collect any money. I'm guessing the largest majority of games involved are going along for the ride because it can only help with marketing.
1. Child has no way to pay for game 2. Kwedit! 3. Child has no money this week, takes out loan for $3 4. Child has no money next week. Can't log into his game. 5. Child starts spamming everyone he/she knows with requests to pay for him/her. 6. Kwedit builds database of other children to sell to the game developers. 7. Profit! |
|
|
|
|
Aez
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1369
|
Not to mention the abuse you could do with a list of family trees, gmail and ebay...
|
|
|
|
|
Sky
Terracotta Army
Posts: 32117
I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
|
I used to work in an accordian school. Database of kids = $$$.
|
|
|
|
|
JWIV
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2392
|
Oh for the love of god. http://kwedit.com/publishersFor the minority of consumers not near a 7-Eleven, Kwedit offers a pay-by-mail option where your users send cash to us in a prepaid, business reply mailerSending cash through the mail, what could possibly go wrong? |
|
|
|
|
UnSub
Contributor
Posts: 8064
|
I dread the inevitable Kwedit Kwisis and Gweat Depwession.
 I can sort of see this as a way for a child to get their parents to pay for a MMO without having to give them a credit card number, but yeah, dodgy. |
|
|
|
Sky
Terracotta Army
Posts: 32117
I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
|
minority of consumers not near a 7-Eleven
Heh. |
|
|
|
|
Lantyssa
Terracotta Army
Posts: 20848
|
* Champions Online
Thank you. You just validated all my hate for what Cryptic has become. I've even tried not to bad mouth them too much of late. Time to take the kid gloves off. Fuckers deserve every bit of it now. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12007
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
That website needs a cake is a lie reference somewhere in there, just for the lulz.
|
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
Hoax
Terracotta Army
Posts: 8110
l33t kiddie
|
Some kids already spend $100's of dollars a week buying cash shop items, many of which they give away to other players so that those players will be their friend. Kids are fucking crazy.
|
A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
-William Gibson
|
|
|
Nebu
Terracotta Army
Posts: 17613
|
Some kids men already spend $100's of dollars a week buying cash shop items jewelry, many of which they give away to other players women so that those players women will be their friend sleep with them. Kids Men are fucking crazy.
I see where they got their ideas from! |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
|
|
|
Salamok
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2803
|
This needs to be a Southpark episode, it has Evil Cartman Corporation written all over it.
|
|
|
|
|
CmdrSlack
Contributor
Posts: 4390
|
minority of consumers not near a 7-Eleven
Heh.That was the worst thing about living in the Deep South -- the utter lack of 7-11. I do love how that map indicates that about 40% of the U.S. doesn't have one. On topic, this is likely going to be the funniest crap ever. As Nebu accurately points out, you can't sue kids, heck they can't even legally enter into contracts. But I'm sure they've thought that angle through . . .  |
I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
|
|
|
01101010
Terracotta Army
Posts: 12007
You call it an accident. I call it justice.
|
That was the worst thing about living in the Deep South -- the utter lack of 7-11. I do love how that map indicates that about 40% of the U.S. doesn't have one. On topic, this is likely going to be the funniest crap ever. As Nebu accurately points out, you can't sue kids, heck they can't even legally enter into contracts. But I'm sure they've thought that angle through . . . I am sure there is a deal in teh works for those Circle K stores. |
Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
|
|
|
Signe
Terracotta Army
Posts: 18942
Muse.
|
This is brilliant. I would invest in this if I were an investy type.
|
My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
|
|
|
Musashi
Terracotta Army
Posts: 1692
|
I am sort of confused by the outrage. What with all the 'web games are the way of the future' bullshit floating around here. This is a way for tweens to stop by 7-11 and pay in between vampire movies. There's no Kwedit enforcers knocking on your door. There's no effect on your real credit. You have to be over 13. It's sort of like, here try this. If you actually pay, you can keep using it. If you don't, well okay, never-mind. I'm pretty sure, if your kid decided to abuse it, that he'd get away with it once, and then he'd get his account closed. I don't think you're on the hook. Article. Article. |
AKA Gyoza
|
|
|
Sky
Terracotta Army
Posts: 32117
I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
|
That was the worst thing about living in the Deep South -- the utter lack of 7-11.
I can't remember the time I was in a convenience store. I'm terribly inconvenient. |
|
|
|
|
Murgos
Terracotta Army
Posts: 7474
|
I thought it was illegal to enter into a contract with a minor. Am I wrong?
|
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
|
|
|
schild
Administrator
Posts: 60350
|
It's also probably illegal to sign a contract where the end result is you getting kneecapped.
|
|
|
|
|
Rasix
Moderator
Posts: 15024
I am the harbinger of your doom!
|
There's a lot of photoshop potential with that duck.
|
-Rasix
|
|
|
HaemishM
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 42666
the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
|
Holy mother of crap. That has got to be one of the worst fucking ideas I've ever heard. |
|
|
|
|
Stormwaltz
Terracotta Army
Posts: 2918
|
Kwill me now.
Shit, someone had to say it.
|
Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.
"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
"Sci-Fi writers don't invent the future, they market it."
- Henry Cobb
|
|
|
|
tmp
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4257
POW! Right in the Kisser!
|
There's no Kwedit enforcers knocking on your door. I don't think it's a question whether there is any, but if they work dressed as ducks. |
|
|
|
|
Signe
Terracotta Army
Posts: 18942
Muse.
|
Holy mother of crap. That has got to be one of the worst fucking ideas I've ever heard. No, no. This will work. I'm sure of it. It has a duck!!! |
My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
|
|
|
Soln
Terracotta Army
Posts: 4737
the opportunity for evil is just delicious
|
someone page Obama with the upcoming CPA bill fight
words fail me
|
|
|
|
|
|
Author
