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Illinois has passed a new law recently that requires all game sites to let subscribers cancel the game account online. It must be an exceptional and wonderful example to show us the miraculous power of inconvenienced consumer in canceling one’s MMO subscription.
Most folks would grind their teeth into pulp after the experience, vow never to let their kid sign up for another MMO -- Massively Multiplayer Online -- game, and leave it at that. But unfortunately for Square Enix, who makes Final Fantasy, Frank Edwards is an alderman in Springfield, Illinois and a good friend of his local State Rep. Raymond Poe. So this week Illinois has passed a law that requires all game sites to let subscribers cancel online. Here's the relevant passage from HB4178:
The new law is as below:
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/
Most folks would grind their teeth into pulp after the experience, vow never to let their kid sign up for another MMO -- Massively Multiplayer Online -- game, and leave it at that. But unfortunately for Square Enix, who makes Final Fantasy, Frank Edwards is an alderman in Springfield, Illinois and a good friend of his local State Rep. Raymond Poe. So this week Illinois has passed a law that requires all game sites to let subscribers cancel online. Here's the relevant passage from HB4178:
The new law is as below:
An Internet gaming service provider must give a consumer who is an Illinois resident the following: (1) a secure method at the Internet gaming service provider's web site that the consumer may use to cancel the service, which method shall not require the consumer to make a telephone call or send U.S. Postal Service mail to effectuate the cancellation; and (2) instructions that the consumer may follow to cancel the service at the Internet gaming service provider's web site.
link:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/
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