[Arkcon]

I gotta admit, I felt like I had to buy SE4 Gold. I didn't want to be left out of the new upgrades and mods. If you have a bunch of friends who wanted to play Classic, then you didn't need to get Gold.

I gave away my Classic CD to a friend who I know would never buy a game. So it's fair all around.

Classic and Gold were separated by at least a year. They were the only games I bought in that time period. So, financially, I wasn't hurt by this. These were my games of the year. I don't have an NES and an Xbox, for example. Just the same 5 year old computer. People who buy a dozen games a year may have a different opinion on what they want from a game release.

I wanted to support Malfador, so I never went for the rebate. Wouldn't have been fair, friend with the game and all. I preordered, and got a rebate from that, and MM and Shrapnel got to cash the credit card and keep themselves a little more in the black for a little while. It was win-win as I saw it. Some people missed the rebate. Don't know what to say about that.

I'm grateful Shrapnel was here to provide marketing support, this forum, etc. Marketing and sales, credit card processing, shipping, handling -- that stuff just seems to happen magically, but it's not so. I may not add to the pure enjoyment of the game, but it's part of life that some costs don't seem as important to us unless we step back and try to understand them.

[ August 21, 2003, 23:35: Message edited by: Arkcon ]