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So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?
I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Informative) by mrcoolbp on Monday August 10 2015, @05:01PM
Hi, I recall talking to you back in October. I called up Paypal for you (again, finally) and I'm still kinda frustrated with the answer they are giving me but it boils down to this: Paypal's policy on accepting "guest checkout" payments with a credit card (and without a paypal account) is that they accept it for some countries but not others. I pleaded with the CS representitive that we will look elsewhere for another payment processor as we need to be able to accept credit card payments WITHOUT a paypal account and he said "there's nothing we can do, this is a company policy that has to do with chargebacks in specific regions". So I asked him to point me to a list of countries that could accept 'guest checkouts' and he said he'd be happy to send that to me. We ended the conversation and I awaited the email. A few minutes later I got an email with a this link: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-country-functionality-outside [paypal.com]. It is not a list of countries that accept 'guest checkouts' but instead a page with a dropdown where you can select a country and view the available payment options. However, 'guest checkout' is not one of the options it displays and I'm having trouble deciphering their language so I'm again frustrated. Of course I'm now motivated to check with the devs on how we might look into another credit card processing company but I know that's a big task. I do have your email (I went and found it in the archives) and I promise that when we do setup credit card payments (probably through someone like swipe), I will send you an email.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Monday August 10 2015, @07:53PM
Great, thank you very much! I assure you this is nonsense the PayPal is giving you because I've paid to other places without creating an account. Anyway, I don't want to be too much of a hassle. If I'm the only person with this problem and it's too much work you can leave it as it is. Maybe I should try with bitcoins but I'm not familiar with it.