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cardbourdbox May 16, 2020 @ 2:02pm
paradox account
I've started making a paradox account and it wants me to tick something saying I agree to the terms and conditions but there dousn't seem to be a link to it in the box so I googled it. There conditions seem fair enough. I also talked to somthing on there website form the repetition I think it was a bot but it/she woudn't give me any help without by first and last name.
I had /have trouble with the game being slow and I think that might have been what made me anxios.
Am I being paranoid?

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There's a company selling virtual assistance basically it seems like an AI there to be a secratery. There also called paradox. So I went to them with an issue I was having with the paradox company and freaked out when they wanted my name to get back to me. There virtual assistist is a bot and if I'd read the first message properly I'd have known that better rather than suspecting it. Asking a strange question probably didn't help.
Last edited by cardbourdbox; May 17, 2020 @ 3:41am
Originally posted by ThunderOrigin:
Originally posted by cardbourdbox:
it seems to be make an account and go for an earlier version (it happened to a couple of people about two days ago (more than normal).
Yeah recent update to 2.7.1
Some, people have found that going to the beta 2.7.2 has been an improvement, select the test branch in steam's beta version options.

Originally posted by cardbourdbox:
paradox don't have the terms and conditions right there and then.
Should be there really for convenience, really bad if it's not.

"Sign here" says paradox
looks at blank stack of paper
"But its blank" consumer replies
"No, its just invisible ink, don't worry, it's all above board" paradox assures.
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ThunderOrigin May 16, 2020 @ 2:05pm 
Perhaps...

As for slow, do you mean game lag?
There is lag for most people on the largest setting once game gets later and there are lots of heavily populated planets.
cardbourdbox May 17, 2020 @ 2:08am 
Thanks it is lag I've gone through the comments looking for an answer in terms of lag and it seems to be make an account and go for an earlier version (it happened to a couple of people about two days ago (more than normal).

Maybe i should have stripped my comment don't this question on why paradox don't have the terms and conditions right there and then.
The author of this thread has indicated that this post answers the original topic.
ThunderOrigin May 17, 2020 @ 2:17am 
Originally posted by cardbourdbox:
it seems to be make an account and go for an earlier version (it happened to a couple of people about two days ago (more than normal).
Yeah recent update to 2.7.1
Some, people have found that going to the beta 2.7.2 has been an improvement, select the test branch in steam's beta version options.

Originally posted by cardbourdbox:
paradox don't have the terms and conditions right there and then.
Should be there really for convenience, really bad if it's not.

"Sign here" says paradox
looks at blank stack of paper
"But its blank" consumer replies
"No, its just invisible ink, don't worry, it's all above board" paradox assures.
cardbourdbox May 17, 2020 @ 3:37am 
I think it is kind of better on the later version but my computers I've found the beta version.https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/how-to-revert-stellaris-to-a-previous-version.954474/

I have abit of a confession there's a company what sells virtual assistance. Since they where also called paradox I went to them about my gaming issue and the AI wanted my name.
cardbourdbox May 17, 2020 @ 4:00am 
I've also found The paradox if you go through them directly you do get the terms and conditions to hand so now I'm thinking it's a screw up and not a ruse to get you to click without reading.https://www.paradoxplaza.com/register
tomasoltis (Banned) May 17, 2020 @ 5:11am 
why would you make an account with them ? For better pilfering of personal data from your computer or something ? Terms and conditions that they give are a friendly reminder that they are boss and you the thrall that has no options other than to not buy even 1 thing, or buy everything, In between you are treated like a rabbit with marketing everywhere and friendly reminders that your experience would be better if only you paid them the huge amounts of money.

For the amount of beta testing folks have done, for them ! They dont give a thing. They as a giver of generally lacking product upon release in a test state, you are forced into testing it. You are only friendly reminded that your possibly newly product isnt working, and that you may opt out of the betatest to an earlier stage of the game that does not have the carrot that you paid for early.

Why is ther eno free DLC ? 'Free' patches are only fixing problems on their end, not something you should be really thankful for, because of beta-stage releases in most cases.

How do you fight such an outwardly hostile relation from the game maker toward the consumer ?

1. Do not buy the latest carrot to keep you locked int the beta like a prisoner
2. Revert to previous 'finished' version. Their datastealing is then of little use, because they need it for the current, ongoing beta.

3. Possible 'fix' without reverting, is taking your internet cable out, so unless the data they steal are going nowhere, unless they are stored and ready for transport the next time, but I would guess, they want your exact behavior on the screen every moment for making money behind your back from you. Or whatever they please. Not being clear about what they do, the inability from your end to put a check on such behaviors all set in part to make you pay when you dont want to, because they want to coerce you into paying, is a hostile action.

I worked in a bit of marketing and I was disgusted that I was forced into breaking peoples will to resist step by step until they agreed to what I knew they didnt want. Companies are now using sophisticated technology to do exactly this. All for their money and all on your account if you either do not resist or think that they need that much money. In the company I worked, which was telecommunications, I was also ordered by a small gay superior that looked at me in wrong ways lol, almost inviting fist through the face, that we were to mislead customers and make it look like 'we' (the company, not I) had great expenses so it all justified the huge costs of maintaining the service etc. They were already in a largely non-competitive environment, but still, would you like, this service, it will honestly help you, just for a huge price you are told is the best one, or that competition lacks this and that, so we get to exploit the numbskulls whos wages are 1/5th of western europe with prices to pay even higher than western europeans, because we, as a greedy immoral organization, we do not look for the customer, we look for ways to increase our profits. And we will make ourselves look like we are actually saving people. By charging what the ignorant masses do not know is something of a joke. We get to make a lot of money (not really, just the superior and the chiefs way above and folks in France in this case) This immoral behavior is well hidden behind a facade of goodwill.

When I did trading, I really got exhausted from both the activity, and rom the underhanded manipulative tactics I was to employ. Sure, many people find this an opportunity to get a bit more than standard pay. And they were like its all great lol. Uh-huh. These people treated both the customer as expendable stupid herd, withheld information from their employees in order to hype them how they lag and burn out later. When I left that place, that former 165 or less cm high boss was threatening to call police when I went after him to get my papers. This stupid gay thought that me leaving was a great loss to his money making, because he viewed me only in terms of squeezing out for the least in return. This is how inhuman corporate culture looks.

They do anything unless they get stopped by something, like law, but then again, they like to bribe even politicians, so the blood they squeeze out of people is also used for more wrongs.

I do know some others like a CEO who also got to abuse people, even though not as much and did squeeze something from the company profits back into even the lowly worker. So I guess they arent all the same, but no marketing is going to tell me that I need to pay 20€ for something that could easily be sold for 2€. I'm not joking, rich shareholders would cry and demand compensation for their 'right' amount of profits, there would be hordes of lawyers because they are entitled to huge profit margins. And the company leadership was promising said margins, so we are not dealing with an unorganized bunch of people who dont know what they are talking about. They about many things but their interest is milking you through falsehoods of how expensive the development is, and so on.

Online espionage is also slapping you. And folks are like, oh these days its the standard.... what that means, you are inviting even more slapping, until you say youge got enough. Do you people understand that they will only go as far as you, or the law allows them ? The people Im talking about do not care what they cause you, they want you to not defend your self or your rights as a consumer, because that threatens their projected increases in profit 'margins'.
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Date Posted: May 16, 2020 @ 2:02pm
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