Crossing The Net As I Work

I know I’ve been posting a lot of links to games related things but its interesting

Metrics talk

I’m interested in their ideas for finding real data for designers of games.

User behavior is interesting as a topic anyway though.

Amazon opens up payments platform to all developers

Amazon launches casual games digital distribution service

Here is a post on it on amazon.

Amazon.com’s Game Downloads Store Launches With 600+ Downloadable PC Games For Less Than $10

GDC: Miyamoto’s keynote 07

Its a dumb dumb term. However the idea of creating a product keeping in mind simplicity and useability is good.

Its just a terrible idea calling it that, when it would be 100% less insulting to just think about it as new users. Its planing for someone who isn’t already an expert.

Over $150M invested in Europe into social games, VWs, casual MMOs and games

The information is for the years 2006-2008l. Looking through the list some I havent heard of and some are missing. EVE from Iceland probally doesn’t count. But the new game coming from Bulgeria will probally be in this years list.

Just of a point of interest, there is some news that EVE might be leaving Iceland due to the banking collapse there.

No news on the Irish gaming development website on how the companys in ireland are doing, but their jobs section has no new jobs up this year.

New Irish Music Chart

It would be great to help people hear new talent and buy their new music. I still remember being disappointed that the european MTV didn’t have just european artists.

http://www.askcomreg.ie/about_us/form.asp

I have asked them

We tried to cancel with eircom over 8 months ago. They are no longer our service providers and have not been so since that time.

However they are still send us bills after they said they have canceled. They have done this 3 times.

Can you help?

Do you think they will?

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=25198

 Eircom must resolve a complaint within 10 days but YOU MAY NOT COMPLAIN TO 1901 so it does not matter whether their english is crap (20% of the 1901 staff are not Irish) and IMPORTANTLY 1901 is not the Complaints department. Nor will they tell you the telephone numbers of the complaints departments.

You MUST COMPLAIN FIRST to 1800 200 481 and make sure they give you a reference number, your 10 days starts then.

However a delayed installation comes under the customer service guarantee and is not a normal complaint and they will not tell you so you must separately also complain to ‘the customer service guarantee center on 1800 400 000 in relation to complaints or claims of this nature’ ( see below) and make sure that they also give you a reference number.After the 10 days are up you may go to Comreg who are notoriously useless and consider the consumer to be an unspeakable form of vermin. email consumerline@comreg.ie while also :

a) including your 10 day old Eircom references from both complaint depatments
b) demanding a complaint reference number from Comreg lest the poor dears lose your complaint.

Thats 3 reference numbers, do not mix them up. There are no email addresses for prime complaints or this grarantee shower but you may separately complain to complaints@eircom.ie and to the MD phil.nolan@eircom.ie thus making a grand total of 4 complaints to eircom and 1 complaint to Comreg. the MD need not give you a reference number by the way. Now you MAY be gettng somewhere. Thats good.

The eircom ‘code’from www.eircom.ie / customer service /complaints

We now have a cancelation  code.

And YET we are going to get another bill.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055374672

 It looks like we need a cancellation code

Still why have they sent us 3 bills after we canceled in the first place and claim we did not cancel.

 What a terrible company.

For about the last year we have not being using eircom.

We have cancelled it 3 times now.

Every time they tell us it is cancelled and they send us another bill.

I wonder if its happening to anyone else.