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Old March 2nd, 2005, 11:11 PM
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You read it right, I want my money for this game! No where is it written in the manual or does it say that it would be an addictive life altering diVersion from reality.

There were no warning lables telling me that I would be helplessly sucked into the game for hours, sometimes days on in.

Where on the CD or in the game manual does it list the side effects of playing the game? I did not see anything telling me that I would suffor from "just one more turn" syndrom, forum addiction, and other 4x game illurgic reactions!

I want my money back because I need it to pre-order SE V!

Also where was no warning lable advising me that SE IV would suck up my free time like a super massive black hole? I often wonder how many poeple have lost their jobs because of this game and the JOMT (Just One More Turn) syndrom?

Oh ya, one other side effect of playing this game aside from Forum Addiction, is that it compels me to write stories and make ship sets. It is spooky!

Not to mention the dreams, the endless desire to promote it, the wanting inner most craving to play it, even when I am asleep, and above all else, the cost, both in time as well as in cash, needed to satisfy my SE IV cravings.

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Old March 2nd, 2005, 11:16 PM

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Not to mention the fact that one starts refering to one's self as Grand Overlord of the Universe and begins to talk in third person.
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Old March 2nd, 2005, 11:30 PM
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His Grand Emperor Combat Wombat finds this to be far to true.
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I want my time back, the 1000+ hours I spent playing the game. I could have used the time to study and gotten a college diploma or something.
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Old March 2nd, 2005, 11:47 PM

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Well you see AT, there's only one flaw with your logic. You see, when you bought the game, there had been no human testing of the possible effects the game may or may not have on those of us unfortunate enough to become addicted.

You, and others like you unwittingly served as guinea pigs. You were the human testing. I say you request that Malfador sends you a free copy of SEV when it's out, as a 'payment' for your services rendered as a human guinea pig.
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Hey i should get one too....for all the demo hours i put in:-D. All my wealth and power over the ai's and than once i am mega evil thinking how to deal with the weaklings until you realise you are surrended and are pounded 24/7. Than you have nightmares at night when you see your ESCORT OF DOOM being destroyed. OH NOOOOOOOO
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Well you see AT, there's only one flaw with your logic. You see, when you bought the game, there had been no human testing of the possible effects the game may or may not have on those of us unfortunate enough to become addicted.
I think Shrapnel knew about it all along and they have evidence to that buried somewhere in some 5 year old memo archived in someone's email. I think that might be grounds for a 'class action' suit.
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I remembered when I was playing the SE3 demo on my brand new computer back in 2001. I never won a game, was losing every combat, my research was all over the place. Yet every night, I came home, fired it up, and spent all night playing. Then the SE4 demo was released, same thing, I never survived to the 100 turn limit, but I kept coming back. I bought the full version, never knowing if I'd ever actually win.

I knew what was coming and I went for it anyway. I deserve no sympathy.
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I don't want my time back...I have little better to do most of the time anyways. At least until I go to university
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I don't want my time back...I have little better to do most of the time anyways. At least until I go to university
Rest assured; you will have just as much free time most of the time in university as well. Until finals week, of course.
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