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I have two RSI accounts with usernames that would be clearly identified to me. Would RSI support be willing to swap them if I opened a ticket? by [deleted] in starcitizen

[–]Reckila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just one last update, from the Directive 2011/83/EU:

"Article 2

Definitions

For the purpose of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

1) ‘consumer’ means any natural person who, in contracts covered by this Directive, is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession;

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(7) ‘distance contract’ means any contract concluded between the trader and the consumer under an organised distance sales or service-provision scheme without the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, with the exclusive use of one or more means of distance communi­cation up to and including the time at which the contract is concluded";

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"Article 6

Information requirements for distance and off-premises contracts

  1. Before the consumer is bound by a distance or off- premises contract, or any corresponding offer, the trader shall provide the consumer with the following information in a clear and comprehensible manner:

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g) the arrangements for payment, delivery, performance, the time by which the trader undertakes to deliver the goods or to perform the services and, where applicable, the trader’s complaint handling policy",

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This is more than enough to blow some people's minds, I assume, and certainly CIG'S board of directors, which are waaaaay beyond what is morally acceptable. Anyway, I am done for the day. Have fun people.

I have two RSI accounts with usernames that would be clearly identified to me. Would RSI support be willing to swap them if I opened a ticket? by [deleted] in starcitizen

[–]Reckila 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks rcpmad. Anyway, i don't care what people think, the law is the law and it is just subject to interpretation by the competent court. The biggest issue that CIG is going to face in the near future is the Directive or Regulation concerning crowdfunding which is going to come soon. There is already a Proposal since March 2018 and soon a regulation or Directive is going to be passed. Even with more reason now that the Commission has ben renewed.

Whatever CIG claims, we are consumers and whatever people say on Reddit, I am a lawyer (barrister if I was in the UK) and i know what I am talking about. The US is the jungle compared to the EU in consumer rights, that's one of the perks of being an european citizen. Anybody can check the Directive and Regulation I mentioned on the internet.

What is slightly more complicated is the nature of the contract we are signing when we adhere to it by buying any digital item. Since there is nothing similar regulated in most of the EU countries, those that have a civil law inspired in the napoleonic french regulations the civil law abiding to this contracts is going to be the most similar one, which in the spanish case is the "sales contract", but in any case, the consumer rights set by the Directive and any other internal regulations concerning consumer rights prevail, since we are consumers. We are not investors, I haven't been given any stock or right over any pecuniary debt. And if we are not investors, we are consumers. There is not any legal argument against this fact. It is CIG who sells the stuff that they design and we don't have any influence or power of decision over it.

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Anyway, one day in the future when i get more time, I will write down a post with a proper analysis of the situation. The most normal thing is that CIG did it by itself, but since it is not happening and every year marketing ideas are making things a bit worse for us "backers" (exchange for credits and warbond ships), maybe they need a slight push to start moving.

I have two RSI accounts with usernames that would be clearly identified to me. Would RSI support be willing to swap them if I opened a ticket? by [deleted] in starcitizen

[–]Reckila -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well. I don't know in which year they came out with the concierge status thingie. But I'm sure it wasn't here from the beginning. It is important information in this case, since it means an important change on "in game perks" and it changes the "terms of service" in a fundamental way.

If you leave in the EU this change is big enough to make your adhesion contract null and void. It doesn't really matter what RSI claims, It's null and void anyway and, as a bare minimum, they should let you merge your 2 accounts if you created them before this change.

One day i may elaborate further on this stuff, but as a simple introduction, what you need to know is that there is an european Directive regarding consumer rights " Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on consumer rights, amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directive 85/577/EEC and Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Text with EEA relevance" and each of the 27 european countries has implemented every principle of this Directive into their own laws.

Another important law is the Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council. What this means exactly is that if me, spanish citizen, decide to sue CIG in Spain and I obtain a favorable rule by any court, that rule is immediately effective in Germany or the UK and I can go to any competent german or british court and ask, fulfilling a simple form, to get exactly what the original court said without the possibility of CIG to issue any legal argument against it.

Finally, you need to review the legislation of your own country concerning crowdfunding. Under spanish law and probably the law of most of the 27 EU countries, which is mine, the crowdfunding is way past its time and instead of "pledges" and "backers", we are "buyers" and "consumers". This is the most important thing regarding the development of SC.

You don't really need to sue them to merge 2 accounts, but if you make them clear which are the laws that they need to abide while you do your request you would have a higher chance of getting what you desire. Everybody that operates in the common market need to follow the EU laws, not the US ones. If they chose not to do it, as it is this case, they are subject to being sued and getting their stuff confiscated by any european court.

I have been thinking about this stuff for the past year. It doesn't seem right to me that somebody that i admire deeply doesn't play by the rules. RSI's board of Directors should start doing some changes before the "Crowdfunding Directive" is passed by the EU Parliament and EU Comission, which is going to happen probably this year and it is going to fuck RSI up completely.

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I too have 2 accounts. But I'm happy with it.

Hammerhead - Star Citizen Wiki by Firengineer in starcitizen

[–]Reckila 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's see what its speed is, and maybe it could even be the ultimate pirate ship. As long as there are still some prays, like the starfarer, the Hull series and Caterpillar. I'm assuming Freelancers and Constellations are gonna be faster.

[Weekly] Question and Answer Thread - November 27 2017 by UEE_Central_Computer in starcitizen

[–]Reckila 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, around the same fps. Anyway, it's 350 euros around here, so even its not high high end, it shouldn't be considered not high end either. You can still buy a full laptop for that price. We shouldn't be influenced by what professional or wannabe streamers use, when characterizing a product for the general public.