[Kagetora]

. If you order a computer game and get a computer game.... The comparison doesn't fly.

You bought the game based on the fact that it might get TCP/IP sometime in the future, it hasn't yet but it might one day so you are SOL for the moment. You can be patient and wait, or forget the whole thing, sell the game on e-bay, take Shrapnel offered game, if you push it enough maybe get your money back etc. Not un-reasonable options.

How many hours have you played SE4? I don't believe you didn't enjoy playing at least one game vs the AI at the start. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be posting. I guess you received some value for that original $40 - $10 or $20 at least.

Personally I could spend $40 on sushi and beer in an hour. <<<<

Well, I would argue that a disk that has a game on it that I can't participate in, in any manner that I wished to when I bought it or that any other game company would even consider appropriate, I didn't get a computer game I got a coaster for my 45 bucks.

I am not sure Richard was offering the game to me. If he says he was that would satisfy me. He hasn't responded yet. Look you are obviously young so lacking in experience about such things. But, if you watch the ads for all that crap on TV late at night I can assure you 90 percent of that stuff doesn't work at all the way they say it does. They even give a money back guarantee which this company didn't even do. They make their money because they know 99.9 percent of the people who get it and find out it doesn't work aren't going to bother to rebox it and send it back. Nor are any of them going to sue for a lousy 20 bucks. However, that does not make selling a faulty product suddenly ethical. It only takes one person to get mad enough to do something about it.

No I think the kitchen analogy was quite apt. I would even stretch it further. If I am promised the kitchen by the contractor and he leaves off the hardware he could do as this company is and say. "Well I never promised you hardware for the cabinets" A judge would rule that an assumption that a finished kitchen would have hardware was implied in the contract whether or not they actually said it or not. Regardless of what was actually specifically promised for this game is irrelevant actually. The point is, is this game a finished computer game? Did the company do the finishing? I would say no.