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I hate funcom now...
L0C0Man
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Why did they have to do that now???
I had just enough gaming time to check the holiday stuff added to GW2, confident that I wouldn't be tempted to get into TSW as well no matter how good the whole end of the world thing looks because of not being able to pay a sub (since I'm in Venezuela, I'm legally limited to $400 a year I can spend online, already used all of it, won't be renewed until jaunary), and now they had to let me get in for end of the world gaming goodness for free!!!
Don't they realize how pissed off my wife will be when I end up spending more holiday vacation time gaming than with her??? They ruined christmas!!! (for her, that is).. 
What can men do against such reckless hate?
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Hodor!
Say what?????
Your country limit the amount you can spend????? Does that seem off only to me??????????????????????
WTF????
Just my 2 cents...
It could be to keep the money in the country as much as possible, once you have spent your online allowance you have no option but to go to a local store, thus keeping the local economy ticking over rather than constantly sending money out of the country.
It does seem a bit mad though.
No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
It's being done in Venezuela since 2003 (google CADIVI for more info). Basically they limit how much foreign currency each person can access, for example, to travel abroad you get up to $3000 a year ($2500 with credit card, $500 cash), you have to do the paperwork in the bank, with the plane tickets already bought (so you can show you're really traveling and for how long) and the credit card gets unlocked abroad the day you're supposed to travel. If you try to use it before or any other time outside of the country, it gets automatically rejected.
There are also other "providences" to get them (medical expenses, up to $1300 a month in the americas, $1800 in the rest of the world for students abroad, and so on). For online purchases we get $400 a year, renewed every january 1st, if I try to buy anything past that, the credit card is automatically rejected, and if I find a way to spend more than that, I risk getting a fine (up to 4x the amount past the allowed number), credit card suspension for a year, and lifetime ban on access to foreign currency.
Of course, there are also ways to get the currency to import goods, but needs you to be a registered importer with the government, lots of paperwork (including a certificate that whatever you're importing either isn't produced in the country, or isn't produced enough to cover demand), and it's checked against a list of priorities (food and medicine has higher priority than electronics, for example) and you never get access to the currency itself, you give to the government what you need to pay and they pay on your behalf.
Anyway, enough about that, sorry for derailing my own thread, but it's one of the big things I hate about living in Venezuela... though of course, like everything in life, there are some advantages, like 12c/gallon gasoline..
EDIT: ok, more answers while I wrote that:
Unfortunately that isn't an option in this case, nobody sells legitimate video games here. I say legitimate because just walking from my home to work I pass in front of 5 places where I could buy pirated versions of any computer, console game or movie I'd want, sometimes even before it makes it to stores in the US (and I'm not talking about dark alley - trunk of car kind of things, but full stores with neon signs advertising sales of pirated stuff), but the closest place I know of that sells some legitimate computer games is in a city 5 hours away by car... and last time I was there on vacation most of the inventory were either very old titles or of the "Barbie's my pretty pony" kind.
Yep, that was us as well. We used to have the -4:00 timezone (equivalent to EST in the US when in daylight savings mode), but since Venezuela is right in the middle of two timezones (-4:00 and -5:00) the government decided to change it to -4:30, since that meridian passes right in the geographical center of the country. The main justification they offered was to make classes start a little later so that children didn't need to leave their houses while it was still dark, but personally I still don't see why didn't they just made it so that schools started a little later instead of changing the whole timezone.
What can men do against such reckless hate?
Fuel price makes this little inconvinience up imo
Hodor!
O.o I had no idea Venezuela had laws in place like that....
Anyway, you should play TSW - your wife will understand... eventually.