disulfiram: I was talking to Reaver, referring to his post a while ago, where he said he really didn't like bioware points but intended to buy some more. I even quoted his post. You must have missed it.
Ah, I saw the quote but it was under what I said. Might need to work on your quote-fu. :) I was trying to figure out how/why what I do could be the reason companies exploit us, when I myself feel that what I do is _because_ companies exploit us. :)
I had very bad experiences in 2006-2007 with EA and Ubisoft DRM on hundreds of dollars of games that I bought legit to be able to do multiplayer without hassles and Ubisoft had flagged all of my game codes and a few friends as well as "INVALID CD KEY" I was so fucking pissed, and Ubisoft support wouldn't budge. They didn't say it - but they were basically accusing all customers of being pirates, when in fact pirates had reverse engineered their CDKEY mechanism and created key generators that collided with legitimate keys of paying customers. The more I googled for each game, the more I found a common thread of this happening to thousands of people who bought pretty much any Ubisoft games. That was the last Ubisoft game I ever bought and I wont buy any ever again unless they are right here DRM-free on GOG.com. It's the only way they can redeem themselves to me now. I don't care how awesome Farcry 3+ or Call of Duty or any of that shit is or how much I'm "missing out" etc., I drew a line that wont be crossed with them. More or less the same results with EA also, and with both companies putting out games then patching them maybe 1-2 times and abandoning them full of bugs and not caring any more, as well as them taking multi-player servers offline with no viable alternative multiplayer modes.
So at the end of the day, I think many of both of their games look interesting and would love to play them or try them out, but never will I give them even $1 of my money to do so knowingly. The only way they'll see my money would be if I saw a bundle or something and forgot to check the publisher on some games absent mindedly, but in that case they'd make like 50 cents or so, not $80. :)
Everyone can do what they want that suits their own agendas of course, and I sure wont try to convince people to do what I do as I do it for myself, but when these companies put all this crazy ass ridiculous draconian DRM in their games, fill them with microtransactions, endless "crap" DLC to milk people dry etc., I'm just not going to buy into it and support that. The shitty thing is, I know people who complain about it like I do or worse, and they go and buy every game the company puts out one after the other to complain some more and then wonder why they keep getting screwed with DLC etc. Never ceases to amaze me.
So now I try to recover the money I lost by buying their games a decade ago by getting free legitimate copies of their games just to spite them in my own little way. It's more for personal satisfaction than being any viable threat to them or their business model mind you, but it works for me. :) I've scored a few hundred dollars worth of EA and Ubi games in the last 3 years whether they gave them away for free or someone gifted a code that came with their video card or whatnot. They can take their DLC etc. on a long walk off a short dock though. hehehe :)
sherringon456: You didn't say that anywhere, I was talking to disulfram with that, should have made it more clear.
Looks like both of you need to work on your "How to quote messages online so people interpret who you're talking to correctly." skills then. :)
