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ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- I booked a hotel room using Travelocity and when I got there they said my room was not available. The room I booked was on the 42 (out of 47 floors) and they put me in a room on the 27th floor. The hotel told me that of course, there was a price difference in the price of the room I stayed in and the room I paid for but they said I needed to contact Travelocity for the refund. After waiting for literally 59 minutes on the phone with Travelocity (I took a picture of the call duration) they told me that they could not do anything for me. Terrible experience and I will NEVER book through Travelocity ever again. I hope this review get published as a way to save other people from the terrible experience I went through.
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Travelocity sent me a 15% off coupon for being a good customer, so I used the coupon. I have used their site many times. This time I keyed in the code, within the expiration date, and the screen flipped to payment verification without my review. They charged me a non-refundable $725 fee, when I expected the discounted rate to be about $620. THEY SENT ME THE COUPON, I DIDNT ASK FOR IT OR SEARCH IT ON LINE. I called customer service and the man "called to the hotel to try to get a refund", but couldn't now honor my coupon! DONT FALL FOR IT! Those coupons can be scams! Take me off the email list Travelocity!
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Beware Of Travelocity Customer Service Its A Horror Experience
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The worst experience of my life!!!! I booked a trip through Travelocity for a vacation to Montego Bay Jamaica for August 2nd through August 9th. I read reviews on the website that stated the hotel had roaches, granted that was in 2013 but I still did not want to stay there and called to change just the hotel portion of our trip and it would have been about a 1200 dollar difference. So, they would have been getting even more money from us, well I called and of course their customer service is ALL in India and you can't understand half of the customer service reps.
I spoke to a representative and he changed my hotel portion from the RIU Montego Bay to the Sandals resort in Montego Bay and after an hour on the phone with him holding and waiting and waiting he ran my card through and charged 1795 four times and then stated it didn't work and I'd have to call back tomorrow and try again. I said you have got to be kidding me after all that!!! So, I waited and called the next morning and started all over again and this time after 2 more customer service reps and another 2 hours and two more credit cards which they charged each of them three times 1795 & 1995 they told me it didn't work for them either so they said to call back tomorrow.
I called my Capital One credit card company and they said that was completely unacceptable and they called Travelocity with me on the phone and they had to get them to authorize and take the 6 charges off of my cards and another 2 hours and still no resolution and they said they would try again Monday being a week day and that it would be resolved so my Capital One representative called me back the next day at 6:00 pm and we called Travelocity again and after speaking to 3 more customer service reps and they charged my two cards 3 times a piece again and still could not just simply change a hotel reservation from one hotel to another and we were on the phone from 6:00 pm until 11:40 pm.
I finally got angry after 5 and a half hours on the phone and said we are done here, do not charge my account anymore money and do not change anything on my reservation, I am not going to hold and wait and go through this horror any longer. You people have now kept me on the phone for 4 days for over 9 hours total and still have not resolved a simple hotel reservation change!!!! They were unresponsive and couldn't have cared less.
I think they just kept me on hold all that time trying to get me to give up. They had no intentions of ever helping me. So I am now telling every single person I know my story and posting it everywhere to try to help as many people I can to not have to go through the horror I did with Travelocity, their terrible. Worst customer service I've ever experienced!!!! BEWARE STAY AWAY FROM THEM!!!!!!
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SOUTHLAKE, ALABAMA -- I spent hours researching and planning our family vacation with part of it being for a 2 night stay in Orlando. I had enough reward points from a credit card to pay for part of this stay. One of the choices I had under the Wells Fargo Rewards Program was to use Travelocity gift cards which were administered by Travelocityincentives.com. I choose this route and proceeded to set up the hotel which you have to pick from using their specific website. Everything went smooth as far as setting up the reservation. However, the day before we were to arrive in Orlando, I called from our hotel in Key West to cancel the reservation since Tropical Storm Debby was making her way through Florida and flooding many areas along the way. This was going to put a damper (no pun intended)on our plans to visit Sea World and we were just going to drive back home early. However, when I called and tried to explain to the customer service representative why we wanted to cancel, after being placed on extended hold, she came back and said that if we did cancel, we would be charged the full price. Therefore, we decided to go ahead and stay at the hotel and hope for the best on the weather. Upon arriving at the hotel, it was raining cats and dogs so we just checked-in for the night. The next morning, it was still raining heavily and the forecast was dismal. Therefore, I called to plead my case with the weather issue to see if we could just cancel the 2nd night and was told again that we would be charged for both nights as one of their policies stated, "Cancellations or changes made after check-in are subject to a 100% penalty". I notified her that I tried to cancel the day before arrival (which she saw documented in the computer) but told we couldn't and that another of their policies stated, "All cancellations or changes will incur a $25 fee" (which we were prepared to pay) and "Cancellations or changes occurring within 24 hours on the day of check-in are subject to a one night Room & Tax charge in addition to the $25 fee". The thing is that I did try to cancel a little more than 24 hours prior to arrival and we should have only been charged one night stay and the fee according to their own policy, not for both nights. Trying to talk to her was impossible as she was from India and didn't speak English very well and although I quoted the discrepancy in their policy, she just kept repeating the same thing over and over again which I find with most people from India which is why I hate dealing with them (no I'm not racist). Also, she told me I would have to request any kind of refund from the hotel itself, but it specifically states in the policy that I printed, "Please do not call the hotel directly to make changes or cancel the reservation, as their agents will not be able to change or cancel or issue refunds for these specially negotiated rates". Unbelievable! I just learned the hard way not to deal with Travelocity ever again and hope to inform others to do the same.
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS -- Travelocity - "Perplexed and Lost"
Please, read this story and share. It is not an extraordinary story, but we lost some money because of Travelocity.
We are family of 3 and recently decided to go on vacation. Our son will have a couple of days off school in October. So, why not? My wife and my son had a credit, circa $450.00 each for unused flight with Travelocity. We though that would be a perfect way to use the credit. So, I called (if you want to use a credit you have to call, nothing can be done on line). No problem - I heard in the phone. But, I was told, Travelocity will have to split our reservation into 2 bookings. One group is me - with full price, and then my wife and son is the credit group. Ok, I said. But I am buying package for 3 persons? - I asked. Sure. The package was combination of flight and a hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have never been there. So, excitement was high. They (Travelocity) took my credit card# and all info. Is this all? Yes, it is.
Soon, I received a confirmation but only for one ticket w/hotel - for me only. After maybe one hour, I checked my credit card statement on line. Travelocity charged me extremely high price for this ticket - around $200.00 more than the package was advertised. I called again. A different person answered (she was in Venezuela as turned out). I told her my story, then was put on hold for an hour, then transferred and disconnected. I called again and again with the same result. Then I started sending e-mails to Travelocity Customer Service and tried to call again and again. Nothing. I was going to vacation myself and staying in hotel room myself. Six hours passed. It was Saturday. In Sunday I continued a mixture of calls and e-mails. I received several returning e-mails reading "expect answer within 48" or "your feedback is important for us". Then I called my credit card. I wanted to know whether I can dispute this charge. Yes, you can, they told me. They have heard similar stories. I have 3 days from posting the charge to dispute it. Sunday evening I got suggestion (via e-mail) from Travelocity Customer Service to go to United and buy 2 tickets for my wife and son. Being in desperation I did this. But my wife and my son do not have hotel. Only I do. And for Travelocity I am traveling alone - this is why they charged me $ 200.00 more for ticket and hotel. As a single person, I am in different bracket. The credit we had with Travelocity? $900.00? It is gone. The vacation package if bought without any credit would have cost us around $1,500, with credit so far almost 1,300 but my wife and son do not have hotel. After 3 days, in Tuesday afternoon, Arianne from Travelocity Customer Service called me. She said that after reading all my e-mails she is "perplexed and lost". She would not understand what I wanted. So is the Travelocity. But there was a reason why she called. Adrianne wanted to know whether I was going to dispute the charge as I warned them in my e-mails. It was all she wanted from me. After I told her that I will not do it because otherwise I will have to cancel my vacation, she never called me again. She fulfilled her role as a Customer Service Rep. The case is closed.
This is our story. We are an ordinary family leaving in Chicago area. My name is Dariusz Wisniewski. My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. Please, share this story with other families as a warning. I went on line and found out that there are hundreds of unhappy customers because of Travelocity. Now, I am not surprised. Share!
Dariusz Wisniewski
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Don't Expect Travel With Travelocity
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My letter to Travelocity-
To whom this may concern, and judging from my experience in the last six days, that is no one:
Travelocity stole $1,839.38 and has not offered to release it back to my bank card or explain why it was taken in the first place! On Friday 02/21/14 I tried booking a vacation package using your online service for the amount of $2,151.23 I made several attempts at booking, and each time was told after trying to checkout that my departing flight was unavailable. I called and spoke with a representative over the phone, and the same package was then quoted at almost $200 more than I had found online. I then tried online again with totally NEW dates, and again, the departing flight was unavailable. I made another attempt over the phone with these new dates but this time was quoted over $300 more than what I found online. I never actually booked anything with Travelocity. I was aggravated, and gave up trying to go through them. The customer service was rude and unhelpful. I wasted almost four hours with this company between trying to book over the phone and online.
I went to a different site and found a much better deal! I tried booking them them and my CARD WAS DECLINED.
I quickly checked my bank account and found that Travelocity charged my bank card TWO SEPARATE TIMES. Once for $943.82 and then an hour later for $891.56, plus four different $1.00 charges for each time I attempted to book but their site failed. After many calls to Travelocity and our bank, we have been told by Travelocity we have to wait for our bank to process the refund, and our bank says Travelocity hasn't refunded. Travelocity states they have no record of our purchase...well that's because we never actually got to purchase ANYTHING.
So now, we cannot purchase our flight package with another company because they are holding almost the entire amount we had saved up to purchase our first family vacation. Our bank says that Travelocity has THIRTY DAYS to release our funds back to us, by that time, the prices will have increased so much I highly doubt we will be able to afford it. Travelocity has taken money from my family, without anything in return, and as of now, can't even tell us WHY they took it, or WHEN we will get it back. I've never been so upset at a business. We worked hard and saved for an entire year for this trip, and now it looks as though we have to suffer for a mistake they've made and refuse to correct. Someone explain to me how this is fair.
deposited one bogus transaction back into my account yesterday, only to have it pending AGAIN today? Seriously people what is going on? 2/26/2014 67087 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 17:32:48 891.56
2/26/2014 66874 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 17:32:42 1.00
2/26/2014 66767 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 16:46:28 1.00
2/26/2014 42826 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 16:35:24 1.00
2/26/2014 38357 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 16:33:18 943.82
2/26/2014 38066 TRAVELOCITY.COM 877-270-4536 WAUS Tran Date/Time: 02/21/2014 16:33:10 1.00
ALL of these transactions originally took place on Friday 2/21/14 I didn't purchase anything with your company. NO FLIGHT, NO HOTEL, NO CAR, NO ID NUMBER, NOTHING. WHY DID YOU TAKE MY MONEY, AND WHY ARE YOU REFUSING TO RELEASE THE HOLD! How can you take an honest families savings, give nothing in return, and not even tell me why my card was charged or when it will be refunded!? I received an email from the BBB stating your company has received my complaint, and I am currently waiting on a response. This is unfair, and as far as I am concerned THEFT!! I would try to contact you myself again today, but frankly I'm SICK of being kept on hold, disconnected, lied to, and being given the run around for hours at a time.
In conclusion, in my complaint to the BBB I stated one way you can resolve this issue would be to immediately release the hold on my funds. However, that was two days ago. Now it is a total nearly six days since you company first took funds without explanation. I'm not quite sure how you can so easily correct such a horrible injustice to my family, as now we are no longer able to take our vacation as planned.
My husband, myself, and my boys, ages 5 and 2 are out of a trip we spent a year saving for. I suppose my kids are just supposed to understand why we can't go to Disneyland as promised. They blame ME for that, not Travelocity. Also, my husband has taken vacation time from his job, and cannot get that back.
Fix this, do what's right by your loyal customers. We used Travelocity to book a vacation package back in 2009, it was flawless. What a travesty to have such a good experience ruined by such a horrible one. I will never use your service again. I will also make it a mission to inform as many people as I can about your company bad practices. I will make sure that NO one I care for takes a chance at being robbed of not only their money, but precious and cherished vacations with their children. Your company is rotten to the core, and you've hurt my family and I greatly.
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Overcharged $210, Rude Customer Service
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I have been using Expedia for many years, and I have always been happy with them, but the hotel I wanted to book was not available on Expedia so I decided to try Travelocity. It was my biggest mistake. When I book the hotel online everything seemed to be fine, I received a conformation with the total and breakdown of the charges. When we were checking out from the hotel we were charged a resort fee which is $210, which is a standard procedure for every resort, when we got home, we looked at the Travelocity bill and realized that they also billed us the resort fee, we called back to the hotel and talked to the manager, he explained to us that Travelocity is not allowed to charge us the resort fees, and that we should call them up and they must reimburse us.
Since then we have been in touch with them 3 times. The first time is when we called, they denied that they charged us. We told them to open our conformation, and to see that it clearly says we were overcharged $210. They admitted their mistake, and asked us to write an email to their customer support, and we will receive our credit back. That is what we did, 2 days later we did not receive any response, so we called them up and talked to a supervisor.
After being on hold for 17 minutes we finally got a hold of the supervisor, who even refused to give his last name. He only gave us his first name which was "Roy6" He was extremely rude and told us that if we want our money back, we should call our credit card and dispute the charges.
Never again will I use Travelocity or recommend them to anyone.
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This Company Will Steal Your Money. Please Avoid.
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INTERNET -- I warn you, do not use Travelocity to book your vacation! I used this service assuming that booking an all-inclusive vacation through a company that had experience with travel and primary connections with hotels, airlines, and events would save me time and money. I made a huge mistake and hope you don't do the same. They are not just incompetent but deceitful as well, and the time you spend fixing the mistakes they make will not only ruin your vacation but will cost you money. If I had just spent a little time doing my homework before I gave them my credit card I would have saved myself and my family a lot of grief.
Wow, where do I start? I booked a five-day stay in Las Vegas including flight, hotel, car and tickets for my family to see Blue Man Group and Cirque. My agent quoted me a price, which I paid before realizing that it was about $200 more than what I would have paid had I booked online. When I called them to point this out (the first of many long phone calls to India, I will add) they said they would check it out and issue a refund, which they later refused to issue, saying they could not find the cheaper price online I had mentioned. I got back online, took a screen shot of the lower price and sent it to them. They emailed back saying, sorry, case is closed. My first clue.
Once my family arrived in Vegas we discovered that all the tickets we had purchased, I mean all of them, would have been cheaper (overall by hundreds of dollars) had we purchased them directly from the companies we were dealing with. More phone calls, more time with customer service in India and more money wasted. a lot of money, I will give you one example, but there are many. Travelocity sold us tickets to Blue Man Group at the Monte Carlo hotel. When we arrived for the show we were told that our Travelocity "dummy" tickets wouldn't scan in their machines so we would have to wait in line and exchange them for real tickets. Annoying, but oh well.
While in line I discovered that the face price on our tickets was SIGNIFICANTLY higher than what the hotel was charging for them. I mean, $75 apiece higher! When I asked about this at the counter the agent explained that Travelocity buys large blocks of tickets to their shows and then can charge whatever they want for them. They are basically ticket scalpers. Mind you, this event was not the return of The Beatles, it was an ordinary performance of BMG that happens every night.
There were good tickets available at the box office right up to the time of the show. I won't bore you with the details of my lengthy conversations with customer service trying to get explanations about this because other reviewers have already covered this in detail. Let me just say that all the complaints are pretty much what I encountered as well. I wasted huge amounts of time and money because I used Travelocity. All I can say is that if you book your vacation with them after reading these reviews you are dumber than I am, and believe me I feel pretty damn stupid right now.
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Outrageous Customer Service!
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June 9th: I bought 2 flight tickets on Kayak. com (through Travelocity); the total amount (5,268.06 AUD) was displayed in my bank account's "pending transactions" under the heading "SABRE INC KE KOREAN AIR KE SAN ANTO".
June 12th: Travelocity deducted two times 2,642.71 AUD (under the heading "USD2484.40 Korean Air 18072345"), plus 79.28 USD "Foreign Currency Conversion Fee". However, the above mentioned 5,268.06 AUD remained in the pending transactions list until June 17th!!!! This meant that even though I had money on my account, I was unable to access it (since it was less than 5,268.06 AUD). My available balance was 0 AUD.
June 13th: I called my bank (St. George) and they told me to talk to Travelocity and ask them to send the bank a fax authorizing the bank to delete this pending transaction. My bank said they would delete this pending transaction one hour after receiving the fax. After this I called Travelocity immediately (at around midnight US time). I was put on hold for half an hour; then finally I was put through to an operator. After I explained the situation to her she promised to send the fax within an hour. She read back to me all the details I'd dictated to her and I confirmed she had all the right details.
The next day I checked my bank account and the pending transaction was STILL THERE. I called my bank again and they said they never received a fax from Travelocity. They also said that the pending transaction would automatically be removed after one week, and that until that time there was nothing I could do about this unless Travelocity sent them an authorization fax.
After this I had no success in reaching Travelocity, but to be honest I didn't see too much point in trying to reach them since they'd failed to send the authorization fax the first time I asked them.
I had to wait until June 17th – that is, FIVE DAYS – until the pending transaction was finally deleted from my account. This meant that I HAD NO ACCESS TO MY OWN MONEY for 5 days!!!
My question to you is this: how is it possible for Travelocity to take the Liberty of locking 5,268.06 AUD on my account, after you had already deducted the price of the 2 flight tickets? Do you guys at Travelocity think that I have an extra 5,268.06 on my account AUD that you can freely lock in?? Well, since I did NOT have this much extra money, I ended up being unable to access my own money for five full days. And what about my electronic fund transfers? But I don't know why I suppose you care about this…
I have bought quite a few flight tickets (and other things too) in my life which also involved having a certain amount of money locked in on my account (in "pending transactions"). However, I have NEVER had an experience like this one, namely that the money was STILL locked even after the price of what I'd paid for had already been deducted from my account!!!! I simply cannot believe that a company would take such liberties with its customers!! Not to mention the fact that your colleague promised me she would send a fax authorization and then completely failed to do so. Shame on you, Travelocity, for outrageous customer service.
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Worst Customer Service Ever!!!
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WEB, CALIFORNIA -- I unfortunately had to cancel a hotel and airline reservation due to an unexpected medical emergency.
I had called to get a refund since this was a medical emergency. Bottom line, Travelocity has not refunded my Hotel expense.
After speaking with both the Hotel and Travelocity to verify and confirm the process that I'd have to go through to receive the refund, I ensured that every step was followed. Each time I had called Travelocity, a different representative would give me a different answer in terms of the status of my refund, and made me go through different processes to obtain my refund than originally explained. Basically, they were stone walling me.
I have spent over 7 hours on the phone (not exaggerating one bit) with Travelocity, going back and forth between, "wait a couple days for the refund", to "we do not handle the refunds, the Hotel does.", to you need to talk with our Finance dept (who transferred me right back to the original person...)
After being disconnected twice when trying to reach a supervisor (each attempt a 1/2 hour long), the third representative finally told me that they could not patch me through with the supervisor because he suddenly became unavailable. With the fourth call, after finally reaching a supervisor (after waiting another 40 miniutes), he was suddenly not able to hear me even though I was able to hear him loud and clear. This was on a land line, not a mobile phone mind you. He had threatened to hang up if I didn't respond after 10 seconds. I Somehow managed to get his attention after demanding that he call me back after leaving my number.
The supervisor was even worse than the c. s reps. He had me repeat the entire story again (for the 7th time), even though all of this has been documented in their systems. He then had me on hold for a 1/2 an hour just to tell me that Travelocity cannot refund the Hotel expense until the Hotel itself issues the refund. This is NOT true. This is also contrary to what a previous representative had told me (that my refund should post in a couple of days - another stone walling attempt). The hotel does not charge Travelocity the cost of the hotel stay since it was cancelled. The hotel payment was prepaid to Travelocity. The only charge that the hotel issues is a penalty fee to Travelocity if the reservation is cancelled late. I have called the hotel multiple times, and have been told that this fee has been waived. Travelocity would not even see a charge in their systems because of this. This leaves Travelocity to issue my refund for the un-used Hotel stay that I paid directly to them! This has been going on for almost two weeks. No refund is on the horizon since Travelocity refuses to pay up and blames the hotel.
My word of advice to all hotels, (Venetian, Las Vegas, in my case); DO NOT PAIR UP WITH TRAVELOCITY FOR ANY VACATION PACKAGES.
I will be filing a claim with my credit card company and a complaint to the BBB.
I have dealt with many travel sites before, and Travelocity is the only one I would NEVER use again.
I am sorry for the rambling since it is very difficult and time consuming to put eloquently put together the chain of events that occurred. I think you'd understand if you also just got off of a 2 1/2 hour call, speaking to a person that was following a script to stonewall you, and with a terrible understanding of the English language.
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Spirit Tales Overview
Spirit Tales is a fantasy MMORPG by KoramGame where players embody a variety of chibi-style characters from different nations (and races). Each race has its own set of classes, and each class has its own "spirit transformation" power which transforms them into their associated animal (Fox, Dragon, Kirin), while giving a variety of bonuses. One of the game's selling points is its chibi, casual style, and it shows. Spirit Tales offers players a well polished product, a lot of pretty things to look at, and a variety of interesting features on the side, including achievements and pets. On the other hand, the gameplay will not please everyone as it includes a great deal of repetition, and is ultimately similar to many other games out there. The classes are;
Fighter – The fighter is Spirit Tales' close range damage dealer, wield a variety of elemental powers, while lacking the Warrior's armor. A solid balanced class.
Shaman – This is the main support class, focusing on healing and buffing, though nonetheless having some minor combat abilities.
Archer – The archer is a long range, lightly armored damage dealer, playing a role similar to the sorcerer.
Warrior – The close-combat defensive class, meant for tanking damage and then dishing it back out. They wear the heaviest armor obtainable.
Sorcerer – Spirit Tales' only dedicated magical damage, long range class with a focus on the elements.
Assassin – While it lacks the general capabilities of the Fighter, the Assassin excels at focused close combat damage dealing, but is restricted to light armor.
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Spirit Tales Full Review
After browser titles such as Three Kingdoms Online and Dragon Born, KoramGame brings you at long last its first client game: Spirit Tales, a title boasting charming graphics, adorable characters, and a generally high production and artistic value. There is no doubt about it; Spirit Tales is a game that's pleasing to the eye. This isn't anything you haven't seen before though, it's a MMORPG with a set of classes, skill trees, leveling, quests, and it settles for doing this well. Despite some solid points however, you might want to read through this before deciding if this is the next game you want to spend your time and bandwidth on.
Chibi Galore
Spirit Tales definitely starts out with a bang; immediately off the login screen, the game looks very clean, polished and charming. With a warm color palette almost omnipresent, the whole experience couldn't possibly make you anything else than warm in fuzzy. The character creator does a good job of showcasing the stylishness of each race and class, and gives a solid variety of options as far as customization goes. While there are quite a few races in-game, ranging from rabbit to insect people, it only lets you choose from a pool of three (Kirin, dragon, fox people), each which have their own selection of two classes, for a total of 8 overall. The differences aren't all aesthetic, as each class is distinct, and has a feel of its own, though roles often blur. Each race has a sort of spirit form, essentially a sort of special transformation that enables you to not only do your job better, but also gain additional rewards for it. At this point, you can also check out the various emotes you can do in-game, to get an idea of your character in action (try them, they're adorable). So far, so good!
Familiar Ground
Once you've created your character, you're shown a cinematic that explains the storyline, before being plunged straight into the… Well, the action I guess. Okay, it's probably worth saying right away that once you get past the neat art, this plays exactly like a dozen other free-to-play games out there. There isn't much in the way of a tutorial (barring some quick information screens), but it's not at all complicated unless you're entirely new to the genre. You start out along with all other races in a single starting town from which you grab a handful of quests, head out, bust a few heads, turn in your quests, level and eventually move on to the next town. There are no multiple starting zones here, just straightforward progression as far as the eye can see. Add to that the fact that the difficulty is quite low, and you've got a title that practically screams casual. The progression works itself in through items and a skill tree. Each combat ability you have is unlocked through a very limited skill tree, and by the end of the game, you'll have barely enough of them to fill the handful of slots on your skill bar. You can specialize by adding more points in one skill than in another, and that's about it.
Flying Jellyfishes + Pet Mushrooms
Items do little to deviate from the monotony of questing gameplay, and though it is a neat trick to turn into a giant animal for some hefty bonuses, it's only briefly entertaining before it becomes just another ability. There is very little in the way of PvP as of the writing of this, and many features concerning it or instances in general seem to be either absent, or very buggy. Spirit Tales does have some very interesting additional features, such as the pet system that lets you hatch eggs of various wandering critters. The resulting pet can then fight for you, level up and gain new abilities. This is an especially interesting feature when you consider the kind of critters you'll be crossing throughout your adventures. There's also the costume feature which lets you wear aesthetic items over your stat items, letting you looks exactly the way you want as you whack bad guys across the face. Unfortunately, due to the money store most likely intending to sell quite a few of these, they all have expiration timers, and they're notoriously hard to find through in-game means. Not only that, but the money store, as of the writing of this, is somewhat lacking in items, though this will most likely be solved in a matter of months.
Final Verdict: Good
Spirit Tales does a few things extremely well, but on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired. This doesn't mean that it's a bad game however, and it's certainly not trying to pretend to be something it's not. It's an experience that is meant to be casual and social. As such, players who enjoy the cuteness, the costumes and the pets will find here everything their heart desires, while gamers looking for challenge or a complex progression system will most likely be disappointed. All in all it's a cute, adorable, light hearted game with a truckload of potential. Give this one a try!
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Spirit Tales System Requirements
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OS: Windows XP / Vista
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3000 MHz / AMD Athlon 64 3000+
HDD: 3 GB Free
Graphics Card: GeForce 6200 / ATI Radeon Х1050
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Graphics Card: GeForce 6600/ ATI Radeon X 1300 or better
Spirit Tales Articles
- Spirit Tales: New Protector Class Available on February 26th - Posted on February 25, 2014
A brand-new class "Protector" will join the Lunar Fox tribe for KORAMGAME's Spirit Tales on the 26th of February 2014.
- Spirit Tales; Mystical New Lands & Increased Level Caps - Posted on July 30, 2013
This week Koramgame will be releasing a new update for the ever popular Spirit Tales known for its fun game play and seemingly limitless character customization possibilities.
- Spirit Tales Celebrates First Anniversary - Posted on May 8, 2013
As one wonderful year of Spirit Tales approaches, KoramGame has some surprises ready and are excitedly awaiting the celebrations!


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August 23rd, 2006, 08:38 AM #796
Who's the publisher? If you don't mind me asking.
August 23rd, 2006, 08:43 AM #797
Sigel Press is an academic publishing house, and my contract is with them although their fiction imprint is Kedzie Press.
August 23rd, 2006, 08:50 AM #798
Cool. Good luck with that. Is it just shorts you write?
August 23rd, 2006, 08:52 AM #799
No, I have two novel projects, both Fantasy. One needs some major editing and one needs completing!
I am planning to have a sample chapter of one of the novels in the anthology.
August 23rd, 2006, 09:10 AM #800
That's a good idea - a kind of showcase for the longer work. I've done a similar thing in the paperback version of my new novel Jaarfindor Remade, where there's a couple of thousand word excerpt from the next novel, just to whet the appetite.
An aside, did you hear about your grades for your thesis?
August 23rd, 2006, 09:18 AM #801
Yes, I got a distinction and an element of it has been re-worked into an essay and will appear in an academic journal in October, the essay is called 'Genre Readers are Revolting'!
So I am pretty pleased... it's also how I met my publisher, indirectly.
August 23rd, 2006, 09:20 AM #802
Excellent! You never know what's around the corner. Who knows what your antho may lead you to next.
August 23rd, 2006, 09:46 AM #803
Yea, thanks - fingers crossed!
August 23rd, 2006, 10:12 AM #804
All revisions are finished on Rose|Thorn, a basic query letter has been whipped into shape, and all that's needed to start sending out agent queries is to condense 157,000 words into a two-page synopsis. And that, it seems, may be the hardest single task.
August 23rd, 2006, 10:38 AM #805Originally Posted by BrianC
What's your story about? The plot? Overview, not tedious details. (Think blurbs on the back of books).
Who are the main characters?
Ask yourself: why should I read the sample chapters? (Agent's perspective)
Work VERY hard on the first chapter.
Send the first chapter to me, if you like. I'll be blunt but charming. And remember: it's all about folk's opinion. Good luck with it, Brian.
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Good luck Brian. I agree the synopsis is the hardest part.
Only tip I can give is condense the story down as much as you can, say four pages, then condense again, and again. Look at it from another angle and do the same. It's the one page ones that are killers lol...
Oh thanks for the encouraging words about HofG
Also Sean, Misti and Robert, thanks very muchly!
The only thing out of this batch of critiques I am tempted to heed is to expand the detail round the freeing of the main character. I am not going to put dialogue tags on the first bit unless forced to with a red hot poker.
Good going there Misti. Outlining to that depth is something I envy.
Sean; congrats on the nomination.
Have I read that story, either I have or seen your thoughts/ outline glad to see it has seen the light of day and that the book is forging ahead....
You are going to finish DB,FH then??? I do hope so......
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August 23rd, 2006, 01:33 PM #810Originally Posted by Holbrook
One of my novel ideas already has the synopsis written, but because it's going need a very fine balance so the story works (the outcast character must be fully responsible and not a mere victim, among other things), I'm having some trouble writing it.
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And 'grats to all with the publishing contracts. If I don't have anything in three years when I graduate, I'll be envying you.


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From the airport it could not be easier to find us. Every 20 minutes there is a bus to the Centre of town for R$2.95. The journey is for about 20 minutes along one street (Avenida das Cataratas) and we are the final (request) stop before the end of that long road. We are the second stop just past the Iguassu Boulevard (a large leisure complex which you cannot miss) on the left. You need to cross the road and head uphill for about 25 meters and Rua Major Raul de Mattos is the first street on your right. We are 70 metres up on the left (number 78 – look out for the big wooden sign).
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Last edited by mnplastic; 28-01-2012 at 16:59.
Gameplay AARs:
- The Return of Ancient Gods: Lithuanian Kingdom (first and only vanilla CK2 pagan AAR) - Completed;
- Lithuania - Fight for Survival or World Dominion ('36, Normal Lv, SF 2.04d) - On hold;
- Luxembourgs War Against the World (SF 2.04d, Normal Level) - On hold.
- Numbers Arent Everything (Germany, 1936, SF 2.03 Beta) - On hold;
- Nie poddamy sie! (We Won't Surrender!) (Poland, 1936, 1.3v, normal lv.) - Completed;
- Live to Fight Another Day (USSR '41) 1.3 - Unfinished.
well like i said i took them off the wow wiki page i believe it was based on SF. It was just to give people reference info to compare. I doubt that anyones numbers are ever correct anyway. A census is a pretty innacurate thing. The thing that struck me as interesting is the game has a variety of elements that modify manpower, so how come raw manpower totals dont simply represent just manpower. What else is included? Anyone know for a fact anything else? or simply have opinions? I would think you wouldnt have to modify it at all if it included these additional elements. hmmm
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- The Return of Ancient Gods: Lithuanian Kingdom (first and only vanilla CK2 pagan AAR) - Completed;
- Lithuania - Fight for Survival or World Dominion ('36, Normal Lv, SF 2.04d) - On hold;
- Luxembourgs War Against the World (SF 2.04d, Normal Level) - On hold.
- Numbers Arent Everything (Germany, 1936, SF 2.03 Beta) - On hold;
- Nie poddamy sie! (We Won't Surrender!) (Poland, 1936, 1.3v, normal lv.) - Completed;
- Live to Fight Another Day (USSR '41) 1.3 - Unfinished.
sure, it would be more "historical" but then you have to give france a far bigger and better equipped army then germany in 1939. manpower is just a value used for balancing like leadership, resources... it isn't "historical" and it can't be and it doesn't try to be.
try it. just remove the manpower added via event and start a hands off game. germany would lose against france or even poland. the values might be better but the outcome would be worse.
Last edited by comsubpac; 28-01-2012 at 17:22.
Nobodys saying that.....just instead of "Germany gets 500 manpower from the Anschluss of Austria" make it "Germany gets 500 manpower from citizens who have repatrioted back home", at least that would have a small chance to be factual, the former doesnt.
Why give them 500? Why not make it 5000? I mean if were going to be incorrect lets go all the way. What exactly is manpower then. We know it has nothing to do with Govt or laws or training or anything like that because those elements are in the game to adjust the manpower. So what exactly is it?
Anyway as i said you really cannot change the figure without changing most of the game, but you can change how its presented. Again if you favor historical accuracy youd prefer it to be more abstract, like the events that pop up to add flavor and randomness to the game, where it cant really 100% be disputed as opposed to in a place where it is obviously out of place. If you dont care about historical accuracy then none of this thread matters to you at all.
If Germany would lose to France or Poland why exactly is that. Are their MP numbers correct at the start and Germany's is low so it needs a boost? And if so then why? Statistics show that Germany had 69 mil and added 10 mil incl Austria and Czech, so they only added one per 7. The same period at least the reference i have at hand shows Poland at about 35 mil or roughly half of what Germany has prior to gaining Austria and Czech. Why would or could Germany ever lose to Poland, especially with all the buffs its leadership will provide, its Officers and twice the population. If Germany loses to Poland without those manpower increases then the game has some bigger things wrong with it....
if germany would need 5000 manpwer instrad of 500 to beat france it would and should get them. does leadership represent anything realistic? does energy do so? money? here is more a misunderstanding how games work and what those numbers represent or actually do. i find it funny how we can have a thread over six pages discussing something that has absolutely no meaning for the game anyway.
I dont disagree with you on the manpower, i think Paradox has no definition of it, like many games dont, they use it as a means to get to an end, and its different for every nation. However we can apply it in game terms as a tangible vital resource. We know that historically nor in game is it in any way shape possible to for Germany to get 500 manpower out of a nation that in game can only raise 100+ after much effort, regardless of the actual tangible value of whatever manpower is. It is almost insulting to an intelligent person to have anyone argue the opposite.
Now that being done, if Germany needs the manpower and we have no choice under the circumstances due to how the game has been formed, all i said was why not make it more abstract like the other events. If you dont care, which you have stated you dont, then it doesnt really concern you. Those who do care about historical accuracy, at least to some degree have discussed alternatives, and some others have chosen to ignore the facts and tried to justify it.
The beauty of a forum such as this is that we dont have to get involved with nor continue in any posts/threads we have little interest in.
I am surprised though Com i recall on more then a few occasions you were against proposed issues because they werent historical. In fact you even promote your own pack of historical events. Are they accurate or simply made up? Did you try and be factual and historical or didnt you care?
Germany adds 250, 500 and 300 manpower from 3 events (rhine, Anschluss and treaty of munich)that they have no business getting it from, thats roughly 100 divisions of manpower. Why not just give them spaceships while we are at it?
As so many have referred to how easy it would be to mod this and fix it, my question is why was it done in the first place, that way. All this info is available all over. Just give Germany the freakin manpower, no need to insult amateur historians along the way.
answer the following and lets see...
1) Do you prefer HOI3 whenever possible to be MORE historical or LESS historical or you dont care?
2) Do you believe yes or no that Germany by way of (remilitarizing, not re-occupying the rhineland / Anschluss of Austria and the Treaty of munich, not including the First Vienna award) gained roughly 100 fighting divisions?
If you want a more historical game and you agree that Germany did not gain that many divisions from those events then why would you be opposed to a change in the event(s) that they gain their manpower in game so long as nothing else changes?
If you dont want a more historical game or really dont care, then why would you even bother to respond and why would you create an event pack that you advertise as historical. Why not just make some fun interesting non historical events.
Or perhaps its simply because i made the post you continuosly reach for ways to try and oppose my views no matter how it sounds?
When i used to discuss various issues concerning minor nations you were often quick to point out how it wouldnt be historical in your view and now you suddenly do not seem interested in whether the events are historical or not and yet you have taken much time and effort to create a historical events pack. So confusing....
2) have ingame divisions and division manpower anything to to with history? no.
conclusion: the value can never be historical so discussing it is useless anyway,...
my events are historical because they did happen (as far as it can be represented in the game). a manpower value isn't...
as i already said. remove 1000 manpower from germany and see what happens in a hands of game. that is all that matters.
as always you deftly avoid the true questions and answers and with each post here you validate my position. Thank you Com.
The Imperial Might of the Holy Corugian Empire agrees with Oliver.
That means he must be right.
This 500 manpower thingy does not make sense. Neither historically, or for that matter, according to any internal sense of game logic.
actually i did answer your questions but i make it clearer for you:
1) yes, the game should be historical were it is possible. since manpower is not and cannot be historical it doesn't matter.
2) no, germany most likely could not have gained 10 divisions most likely they did get more.
1933 germany had 6500000 people. 1939 they had 80000000. so they gained 15000000. that is roughly 1/5 of the germans gained through annexation. germany did field over 300 divisions. since you like numbers so much do the math yourself... so did get far more then 10 divisions from austria alone... (the manpower for around 60 divisions would be more accurate) but then again manpower ingame has nothing to do with real life numbers.
Last edited by comsubpac; 28-01-2012 at 21:00.
<Bows to the wisdom of the Imperial Holy Corugian Empire>.
I think when you make your posts you take the previous posts and rip them all up like a puzzle and then throw bits and pieces together, so ill do it for you.
1) IF and i say IF you like the game to be historical IF possible.....
2) and IF you acknowledge that the information available world wide anywhere that Germany did not gain 100 divisions worth of manpower from the 3 events in question
3) Then you agree that it would be better to add them via an alternative IF available then to say they got it from the Anschluss (Rhine remilitarized and Treaty of munich)
any disagreeing to that means you cant add 1+1+1 and get 3.
You keep talking like manpower is some abstract element that cant be quantified. It surely can it turns in military divisions. The three events above give Germany roughly 100 divisions, while at peace, between 1936-1938. As i said before the more posts you get the more people i hear from. Please say more
i explained what all the resources do (manpower is just one of those) and that is balancing the game and they have nothing to do with history. ingame divisions and ingame manpower also have nothing to do with history. it is the same with national unity. you just don't understand what it does and what it represents in the game.
tell us what exact number would work for you and why and how the game would still work. apparently you can't because they are necessary the way they are at the moment. again, just try i could even write an event for you...
just replace the AnschlussOfAustria event and start a hands off game...Code:######################## # Anschluss of Austria # ######################## # Austria - Reaction event country_event = { id = 1101 is_triggered_only = yes title = "EVTNAME1101" desc = "EVTDESC1101" picture = "anchsluss" option = { name = "EVTOPTA1101" # Become a part of the Greater Reich ai_chance = { factor = 100 } GER = { country_event = 1102 } #GER = { split_troops = 1.0 } } option = { name = "EVTOPTB1101" # Join the Axis join_faction = axis military_access = GER dissent = 10 relation = { who = ITA value = 15 } head_of_state = 23050 head_of_government = 23060 foreign_minister = 23071 armament_minister = 23085 minister_of_security = 11189 minister_of_intelligence = 23096 chief_of_staff = 23106 chief_of_army = 23117 chief_of_navy = 23125 chief_of_air = 23010 GER = { country_event = 1103 } } option = { name = "EVTOPTC1101" # Austria shall remain independent dissent = 40 relation = { who = GER value = -125 } relation = { who = ITA value = 15 } relation = { who = ENG value = 5 } relation = { who = FRA value = 5 } AUS = { war = { target = GER } } GER = { country_event = 1104 } } } # Response to Germany - Annexation country_event = { id = 1102 is_triggered_only = yes title = "EVTNAME1102" desc = "EVTDESC1102" picture = "anchsluss" option = { name = "EVTOPTA1102" # Good inherit = AUS manpower = -350 } } # Response to Germany - Alliance country_event = { id = 1103 is_triggered_only = yes title = "EVTNAME1103" desc = "EVTDESC1103" picture = "Austria_Alliance" option = { name = "EVTOPTA1103" # Ok relation = { who = AUS value = 100 } military_access = AUS } } # Response to Germany - War country_event = { id = 1104 is_triggered_only = yes title = "EVTNAME1104" desc = "EVTDESC1104" picture = "anchsluss" option = { name = "EVTOPTA1104" # War it is then } }


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Thread: Reading in November 2012
November 2nd, 2012, 05:56 PM #16
Sir Terry Pratchett's A Blink of the Screen, which is a collection of his shorter works. A fair section at the back is devoted to Discworld, so I'll post it here in Fantasy.
So far? Really good. Some brilliant stories in this collection, and it's clear from the start he has some level of talent. What's also really good, I feel, is each story is introduced by Sir Terry, and he often gives a brief explanation of the inspiration or the history behind it.
November 3rd, 2012, 10:06 AM #17
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I just finished Clash of Kings by George RR Martin and I'm so hooked! It's weird because I don't normally like fantasy but so far this series is great! On to Storm of Swords!
Also just started watching the HBO adaptation. Not as good as the book but not disappointing yet either.
November 3rd, 2012, 07:49 PM #18
Just finished The Third Section by Jasper Kent, the third book in the Danilov Quintet. I love this series! It's not flashy, action-packed or over-the-top. What makes it so good is it's realism. I can almost believe that this could have taken place at this time period in Russia. Also includes one of my favorite characters, Iuda/Cain/Yudin. So evil! Waiting for Book 4.
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Pleased you're enjoying this series, Slice of G. Jasper does spend a lot of time working on the historical details of these, I know: he'd be pleased with what you've said.
Myself, currently juggling Red Knight by Miles Cameron (really good - mentioned elsewhere!) and Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith (he of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.) A version of the Nativity that's rather more gritty Fantasy than usual.Mark
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I finished two books - Emperor's Soul by Brandon sanderson was a quick read at a BN - ok and with some interesting stuff but not worth the 15$ cover price in any shape or form unless you are a true fan
Where Tigers Are at Home by JM Blas de Robles - this is a book that deserves all the accolades and prizes it got as it will be hard to find a better book next year when it is published in the US; on the other hand it is not really sff, though its collection of oddities and strangeness are more sffnal than many genre books, while its structure will not appeal to completist fans who want every t crossed and i dotted; hypnotic, mesmerizing and a masterpiece of world literature
November 6th, 2012, 05:55 PM #23
So I attempted A Discovery of Witches, but not only did it remind me of The Historian way too much (which I couldn't stand), I just couldn't go on after the witches, vampires, demons, etc. all go to yoga together.
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Just finished "Blood Song" by Anthony Ryan. Very good, among the best fantasy I've read. Reminded me a lot of Rothfuss and Hobb's work.
Tonight it seems appropriate to take a quick break from fantasy to read Buckley's "The White House Mess." After that probably "Shadow" by KJ Parker or possibly "The God King" by James West. Don't really know anything about it, but it was free for kindle so I figured what the hell.
November 7th, 2012, 04:39 AM #25
I finished up Throne of the Crescent Moon the other day. Must say I thoroughly enjoyed it and would very much like to read more stories from this setting. It's very much my sort of fantasy, and seeing as it's the only one I managed to get into my reading this year, I'm pleased I liked it so much.
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November 7th, 2012, 04:19 PM #28
It really doesn't help that every character seems to talk the same and their personalities seem... strange? I honestly feel like I've jumped into the middle of a series. That's what this book is like.
November 7th, 2012, 04:39 PM #29
Thanks Loerwyn, I felt the same way - middle of series, characters not too distinct. I thought it was just me because I saw some fairly decent praise for the book upon publication earlier this year/late last year.
November 7th, 2012, 05:14 PM #30
I think it's one of those books with good potential but doesn't really realise it.


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