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Jourdelune said:
p.s. people are free to buy what they want, where they want. Only fascist culture tend to think the other way.
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Yes, people are completely free to buy the game from wherever they want. They are also quite free to suffer the consequences of their actions if they happen to purchase a pirated copy. Lack of manual means a pirated copy. If the eBay purchase was actually an instance where the seller had purchased a legal copy and was selling it onwards, then verification details for the original purchase should be available. If not, too bad, so sad, bad decision and the consequences follow from that.
Understand that there is absolutely ZERO obligation on Shrapnel's part to allow people access to the resources on these forums unless they can verify that their copy of a Shrapnel title is legal. Normally, it is assumed that people who do register here to use the forums have legal copies (i.e. presumption of innocence), but if there is cause for suspicion, it will be investigated. If things progress that far, failure to verify original purchase will result in swift, decisive application of the Ban Hammer to the problem. There is nothing fascist about that and if you think there is, you should educate yourself about the meaning of the words you are using, because you're so far off the mark it's not even funny.
Also, I have the following opinion to express and note that this particular opinion is my personal one and should not be interpreted to reflect the opinion of Shrapnel Games. I actually don't know their stance on this:
Too many people are too concerned with how they have a right to this and a right to that and behave as if they have no obligations whatsoever toward anyone or anything and how they should always be let off the hook instead of suffering the consequences of their own actions. Usually it is also a case of those whining loudest being the ones who least deserve to be given any slack. In my opinion, that sort of behavior indicates only self-centered, whiny spinelessness and immaturity and my estimation of the person's worth will be along similar lines. The concept of personal responsibility for their own decisions seems to be completely foreign to these people.
Note that since this forum is a community forum for Dominions 3 and I am a moderator of the forum, so my duties are to serve the community in the capacity assigned to me. So I am likely to keep many of my opinions to myself and I will help users with advice and other resources without letting personal feelings influence things. But that consideration does not extend into excusing their bad decisions if and when things come to a pass where investigation of irregularities is called for.