Play65 had recently added two more deposit methods for its real money players: instant banking and paysafecard. 

Instant banking is a new online payment method, in which, similar to the old wire transfer, the player contacts his/her bank to transfer a certain sum of money; yet dissimilar to wire transfer, when using instant banking as an online payment method, the transmission of money is made instantaneously. Instant banking works in Europe, Canada and Australia. 

Paysafecard is a pre-paid card sold in kiosks and retail stores, similar to the CashU card, already in use by Play65 members, except that CashU is only available in the Middle East, while Paysafecard is available all around Europe including Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, Great Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, Portugal, Czech Republic and Slovakia. 

So now, with Play65 new payment methods, online backgammon players can choose from a selection of 11 different deposit options.

Play65 Old Deposit Options

Credit Cards

 At the moment, Play65 accepts deposits from Visa, Diners and Mastercard. Play65 credit cards system is extremely safe, using the same SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology commonly used in banks. 

E-Wallets

The popular electronic commerce system, which allows users to make fast and secure money payments online, is available on Play65 in several ways: PayPal (available worldwide; accepts Visa and wire transfer), MoneyBookers (worldwide; accepts Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Diners as well as many local payment systems), NETeller (available worldwide except the US, Turkey and Israel; accepts various credit cards and local bank transfers), Webmoney (specializes in the East European market) and Clickandbuy (popular mainly in Germany). 

Pre-Paid Cards

Cards such as CashU and the newly added Paysafecard are purchased by the user in advance for a certain sum of money and used for any online purchases using the private PIN appears on the card.

A very common payment method online and offline, where the customer has to visit the nearest post office, pay the desirable sum in cash, and then send Play65 cashier the receipt and the reference, and after these get to Play65 offices, the player’s balance is updated. 

Wire Transfer

(See above for the differences between standard Wire Transfer and the new Instant Banking payment method).

Online Games Sales Drop…Guess Who’s to Blame…

According to the (former) head of the user research division in Microsoft, Bill Fulton, the average online gamer is responsible to drop in the sales of online games. In his, (and it is safe to say "his" in this case) "frequently barbaric" behavior, which in the worse case includes sexist and racist insults and cheats, team-killing, dropping in the worsen case, the online gamer sends away potential buyers.

To solve this problem and to increase the sales of Microsoft online games, Fulton suggests game designers to design a more sociable social design in games, such as a "swear words filter for text chat", or a different rating system that rewards players for not killing their teammates. 

Luckily, backgammon is a two-players game, therefore team killing is not an issue for Play65. However, problems such as swearing and dropping do raise their ugly heads once in a while. 

So How Play65 Handles Online Gamers’ Unfriendly Behavior? 

When a player disconnects in the middle of the backgammon game played in a real money mode, the player will pay a penalty. The size of the penalty is determined by the win/lose percentages of the disconnected player. If a player disconnects constantly, he/she will be traced by Play65 system and their online account can be deleted and they will be banned from the software for good. 

Additionally, players who have joined Play65 backgammon community can, in a mouse click, to block opponents who drop, disconnect, use foul language or otherwise pollute the online backgammon environment. 

Suggested reading:

• Backgammon cheating outside the cyber space - a dice crook got caught at a live backgammon tournament…
• Types of online backgammon cheats plus tips on how to detect and castrate them…

Do you think that playing backgammon is a geeky hobby? What about carrying a backpack filled with collectable card games throughout the fourth decade of one’s existence (while still sharing a dining room with the procreators)? If your ideal of a romantic date includes watching the unabridged version of all three Lord or Rings movies (there are just three right?) in a row, there’s more from where it came from; stay tuned for even brighter ideas for your second date.

Online Role Playing Games

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Live Role Playing Games

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Furry Conventions

Do you still think that playing online backgammon is a waste of time? Trust me, it can’t be alot worse… 

Despite all the shortcuts it offers, the World Wide Web contains maybe the largest selections of free, easy and accessible ways to waste your time without doing anything useful, acquiring any valuable knowledge or even spending your hard earned money. Still, when you come to think the pre "cut and paste" era, about the times where you had to drag your weary feet from one distant store to another to find out the price of a hair dryer, you begin to appreciate the amount of time left to waste. 

The term "time wasters" derives from the well rooted assumption that our entire days should be efficiently planned, so we will be productive even in our spare time. However, if haven’t committed any other deadly sin yet and you still care about your afterlife, stay away from this list of the top ten time wasters on the internet.                        

Computers may have saved us some of the hassles of bureaucracy, but not with the aggravation of tolerating intolerable persons.

Playing online shooting games is a civilized way to let loose some aggressions and waste your time at the same opportunity. Shooting games come in variety of themes and designs: if your childhood hero was Harry Callahan, you can aim at those cardboard targets; if you are a vegetarian, you might feel uncomfortable playing Chicken Invaders, and so on. 

Wait! Correction: Tetris is not a time waster. Researches show that playing Tetris improves the brain’s functioning. 

"The latest Internet Phenomenon" allow you to experience extreme sports without risking the wholeness of your limbs. All you are required is to use a basic drawing tool and to challenge your virtual sledder with ramps, barriers and other obstacles and to locate it with any imaginable scenery. And if it wasn’t enough time waste, you can watch the movies created by other line riders.  

Though even in pre-internet times you could’ve opened a Cosmo and figure out which fun fearless fiction read is right for you? The internet has increased the number of quizzes and personality tests and made it more easily reached, and who can resist knowing which Spears family member he/she is? 

Speaking of Spears family, the lives of all the self destructive celeb are documented 24/7 on the internet top gossip sites, and you can easily find yourself hooked up on the latest Britney/Lindsay/Amy public disasters.