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Old November 4th, 2003, 07:08 AM

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Default Re: Is the price of Dominions II a deterrent?

I fail to understand what is so difficult to grasp about my position. My complaint is simple. I want this game, but I feel like the company's business practice's are unethical. This forces me to pass the product by even though I'd really like to play it. I won't because I refuse to patronize a company that uses cdkeys and charges so much for a 2nd rate product.

Let me explain. I want to play this game. But not as much as I want to play, say, age of wonders shadow magic. From there the math and logic are simple.

Shadow magic works just fine on my lan without any cdkey nonsense so I can play it with my girlfriend. It cost less than 35 dollars.

More use, more fun, less cost. Shadow magic wins. So even though Dom is cool, they lost me with their business ethics.

I do not feel like they should make a profit based on individual solely. Over the internet, sure. But in one's own home with one's family?

Do you really think that is just? To treat a family like it's some corporation with multiple licenses of say, office for word processing?

See, company's make money, so do universities and governments. These are profit based organizations, (please, don't make me argue that point I've seen plenty of examples of both of the later institutions ledgers) they make money.

They make money using another company's software. Since they are profiting from another's company's software there is justice in the idea that the company should pay for multiple licenses.

My household makes no profit. Simply put, although I enjoy games they are a leisure activity. I don't make any money from them. Therefore, to suggest that using multiple instances to get the maximum enjoyment from my game is worth purchasing multiple licenses, NO!

BTW, hot seat sucks. Most company's have mothballed this feature. Waste of time.
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