[Ygorl]

Archonsod, it's not that uncommon to infringe copyright and then purchase the thing whose copyright was infringed shortly thereafter: a friend or a website recommends a band, you download the album, listen to it, buy it if you like it (after a check on riaaradar.com to make sure it's safe). Or, a game comes out, looks interesting, doesn't have a demo; you download it, try it out, buy it if you like it. Or, a software tool comes out that seems like it might be useful, but you're not sure; you download it, if it does what you need, you pony up for it.

Willie Wanker sitting in his parents' basement trying to download every single piece of software that shows up on the bittorrent tracker of his choice obviously doesn't fit this category. Plenty of people do, though. I realize I'm venturing a little far afield, since Dominions has a pretty nice demo and thus it's hard to justify doing this, but it's not inconceivable that someone might download the demo, decide it looks interesting, but not be convinced that it merits $55 without seeing the endgame. Admittedly, probably a small category...

I don't have any problem with Dominions having copy protection. I do think it would make more sense if it made it clear that it was copy protection, but I don't think it's a big deal (for reasons that lots of people have already mentioned). It's obviously pretty bad if legit users are bit by it... I'm more writing this rambling response in disagreement with Archonsod's assertion that people don't buy things that they already have. I completely agree with his other statement that people tend to treat things they got for free with the respect they'd have for something that's not worth much. This is actually, at least for some, good motivation to buy something that you've already got - spending money on something is a good way to induce yourself to dedicate time to appreciating it.