Columbia House / Verant Selling E-mail

aychamo_aycono · 01-10-2003, 05:02 PM

Hello everyone

I was curious if anyone else got a Columbia House: Get Your DVD's Now e-mail today?

I got one, sent to my EVERQUEST NAME. I can't think of any other company who would have my name registered it anything.. ??

Just wondering

Iannis · 01-10-2003, 05:33 PM

sorry, no, only get porn email spam here. But I filtered The Station garbage through hotmail or some other fake addy.

Also blocked email from The Station. heh.

Kaylum · 01-11-2003, 06:28 AM

sony owns columbia house. so while its still annoying to get spam; they didnt actually sell your email to anyone. they just shared it with another part of their own company.

aychamo_aycono · 01-11-2003, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kaylum
sony owns columbia house. so while its still annoying to get spam; they didnt actually sell your email to anyone. they just shared it with another part of their own company.

Ouch... I can't belive they do that though.. Well actually I can, that just shows how low and lame they are

aychamo_aycono · 01-11-2003, 08:24 AM

LOL I'm going to forward my spam to eqmail@verant.com

Karae · 01-11-2003, 03:45 PM

There is no Verant. It's Sony Online Entertainment.

shinju · 01-11-2003, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by aychamo_aycono
LOL I'm going to forward my spam to eqmail@verant.com

So now all the actual emails will take even longer for thier trained monkeys to sort through

Kaylum · 01-11-2003, 10:12 PM

the company names involved in EQ have always been a convoluted mess. but the paychecks have been signed by sony online entertainment for several years now.

EQs development which was first purchased by 989 studios; sonys than largest game publishing arm (and the influence for the original $9.89 a month price) was broken apart into smaller studios most notably 989 sports taking over the sports games for PS2 and the verant interactive dev team (or what would have been if 99% hadnt already left) was moved under the direct control of sony online entertainment which was reformed under the parent company sony digital entertainment (and the company behind EQs CS from the start) which is in turn a sub division of sony computer entertainment of america and so on trailing back to the ownership of a dozen other "sony whatever" companys; you can read more about that mess here:
http://www.sony.com/SCA/outline.shtml

sony online entertainment also spawned its own seperate divisions under it, with SWG, PS, SV, EQ2, etc all having their own teams. brad while he remained with sony after verants purchase was moved up to over see these sub divisions.

it was brad mcquaid that tried to hold onto the verant interactive name for as long as possible. keeping it as the name for EQs ongoing dev team (now EQ-live or whatever their calling themselves this time). with his leaving to create sigil games online (and using microsoft for their publisher) sony removed the verant name from everything.

SOE will continue to provide the CS, tech-support, and server hosting for all of its upcoming online games from the former verant interactive offices in san diego (well, they added a second building and were considering a third last i heard - but its still the same office complex). while the actual dev teams are seperate, the hosting, CS, etc are centralized as one team.

bleh, why am i rambling.

Iannis · 01-12-2003, 12:16 AM

Nah, filter your spam mail to the dark age of camelot emails. If they get enough pr0n maybe they wouldn't pay attention to the dumbfuck EQ rejects who whine until X class or X realm gets nerfed with an even bigger dildo than the EQ nerfs used.

Doobie doo...i wish a good game would get released. Cmon Master of Orion 3

01-10-2003, 05:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
aychamo_aycono King Poster Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,404	Columbia House / Verant Selling E-mail Hello everyone I was curious if anyone else got a Columbia House: Get Your DVD's Now e-mail today? I got one, sent to my EVERQUEST NAME. I can't think of any other company who would have my name registered it anything.. ?? Just wondering __________________ I run a small forum for discussion of medical topics.

01-11-2003, 08:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
aychamo_aycono King Poster Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,404	LOL I'm going to forward my spam to eqmail@verant.com __________________ I run a small forum for discussion of medical topics.

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01-10-2003, 05:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
Iannis Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Butt Hugging Moose Jockey Posts: 4,968 +0 Internets	sorry, no, only get porn email spam here. But I filtered The Station garbage through hotmail or some other fake addy. Also blocked email from The Station. heh.

01-11-2003, 06:28 AM	#3 (permalink)
Kaylum <>X<> Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: FL Posts: 193 -1 Internets	sony owns columbia house. so while its still annoying to get spam; they didnt actually sell your email to anyone. they just shared it with another part of their own company.

01-11-2003, 03:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
Karae Banned Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: California Posts: 83 +0 Internets	There is no Verant. It's Sony Online Entertainment.

01-11-2003, 10:12 PM	#8 (permalink)
Kaylum <>X<> Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: FL Posts: 193 -1 Internets	the company names involved in EQ have always been a convoluted mess. but the paychecks have been signed by sony online entertainment for several years now. EQs development which was first purchased by 989 studios; sonys than largest game publishing arm (and the influence for the original $9.89 a month price) was broken apart into smaller studios most notably 989 sports taking over the sports games for PS2 and the verant interactive dev team (or what would have been if 99% hadnt already left) was moved under the direct control of sony online entertainment which was reformed under the parent company sony digital entertainment (and the company behind EQs CS from the start) which is in turn a sub division of sony computer entertainment of america and so on trailing back to the ownership of a dozen other "sony whatever" companys; you can read more about that mess here: http://www.sony.com/SCA/outline.shtml sony online entertainment also spawned its own seperate divisions under it, with SWG, PS, SV, EQ2, etc all having their own teams. brad while he remained with sony after verants purchase was moved up to over see these sub divisions. it was brad mcquaid that tried to hold onto the verant interactive name for as long as possible. keeping it as the name for EQs ongoing dev team (now EQ-live or whatever their calling themselves this time). with his leaving to create sigil games online (and using microsoft for their publisher) sony removed the verant name from everything. SOE will continue to provide the CS, tech-support, and server hosting for all of its upcoming online games from the former verant interactive offices in san diego (well, they added a second building and were considering a third last i heard - but its still the same office complex). while the actual dev teams are seperate, the hosting, CS, etc are centralized as one team. bleh, why am i rambling.

01-12-2003, 12:16 AM	#9 (permalink)
Iannis Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Butt Hugging Moose Jockey Posts: 4,968 +0 Internets	Nah, filter your spam mail to the dark age of camelot emails. If they get enough pr0n maybe they wouldn't pay attention to the dumbfuck EQ rejects who whine until X class or X realm gets nerfed with an even bigger dildo than the EQ nerfs used. Doobie doo...i wish a good game would get released. Cmon Master of Orion 3