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Postby Lodgecrest » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:24 pm

I might bank some credits too.... for later.


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Postby static » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:39 pm

thats great that its dropped, although i agree with the majority of the people here in wondering why there is any charge at all. The puzzle was enough to pay and there was never any mention of passwords when i bought mine. Agreed it does make it fairer for people who dont live as close to the pyramids, but still a free guess every 3.5 days will stop brute forcing. Its just putting alot of people off.
I was really looking forward to the future puzzles and the "quests" that came with them. But if theres going to be a separate charge every step of the way im starting to think i might not bother buying anymore puzzles.
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Postby Karen_G » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:34 pm

The pyramid password scheme is a great idea as it does make it fairer for people who do not live so close to the pyramids :)

Initially the only way that you could check your password was to travel to the actual pyramid. Because of this, many people began asking SW for a way to check the password without the traveling. As they always do, SW listened, and they came up with the online password checker :)

I'm sure this service took a while for SW to implement, and it needs to be maintained and updated, so it's not suprising that SW charge for this service, and as Bluesign2k said,
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Postby bluesign2k » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:42 pm

Karen_G wrote:...The password checker was put in place to help us, we are not forced to use it, it's just there if we want to. If we want to guess for free, we can still take part in the adventure, and visit the real pyramid :)

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Karen, I think you've hit the nail on the head there to be honest! :wink:
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Postby rusty13 » Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:04 am

hmmm i tend to disagree slightly. I know we arent forced to use it, but if you ask me, SW saw an opportunity to increase cash flow with little effort so hence they implemented the password checker. You cant blame them, it is a business after all.

Once a system like that has been implemented, there are very little maintenance costs apart from adding a password from time to time. Once the initial cost of the system had been paid for, the charge should have been removed in my opinion....! :D
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Postby static » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:54 pm

end of the day .... a fiver is way tooooo steep. its like when a bank charge ya
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Postby Sue » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:17 am

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Postby ChadH » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:28 am

How about introducing a system similar to the virtual pyramid? One free guess every 30 days, followed by additional guesses at
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Postby rusty13 » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:46 am

ChadH wrote:How about introducing a system similar to the virtual pyramid? One free guess every 30 days, followed by additional guesses at
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Postby Lodgecrest » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:24 pm

Yea I like this idea also.
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Postby Sue » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:27 pm

ChadH wrote:How about introducing a system similar to the virtual pyramid? One free guess every 30 days, followed by additional guesses at
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Postby mrphil10 » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:40 pm

Haha UK people. Imagine us in the USA...

Up until the "new york" pyramid the closest one to me was about 2000 miles away! Even the new york pyramid is a good 600 miles one way.

I thought everything in the UK was in walking distance...I mean how big is the UK??? 10 square miles? HAHA
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Postby erin-rae » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:01 pm

blimey, it feels like it when compared to the BigUSA.
a 1200 mile round trip to a pyramid would be a sin here!
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Postby smartybones » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:00 pm

but with them getting the benifit of cheep fuel, it would be much cheeper....

based on the price of fuel and how many mpg i got on my last visit to the usa, a 1200 mile round trip, inc. tolls would cost maybe 100 USD or near enough 50 quid....

here at home, a 1200 mile round trip would cost approx 250 quid.... near enough 500 USD....
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Postby rusty13 » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:45 pm

mrphil10 wrote:Haha UK people. Imagine us in the USA...

Up until the "new york" pyramid the closest one to me was about 2000 miles away! Even the new york pyramid is a good 600 miles one way.

I thought everything in the UK was in walking distance...I mean how big is the UK??? 10 square miles? HAHA


sadly we have country lanes instead of interstates so its probably about the size of africa in comparison lol...
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