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    My thread....

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    I just felt like posting some stuff that's going on in my head. So this is really just for me.  You can dig it like a spigot if you like however. It's groovy like a drive-in movie, baby.

     

     

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    Appropriate names for character?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Halsy

    Sir Stabalot. Lord Hackenchop, things of that nature. In FPS' I prefer titles like 'Bill from Accounting', 'Dave from Shipping'.

     

    Edit: OP get off your high horse. Appropriate is whatever the player deems it to be. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong, much less stupid. It just makes you the non-fun person with a large stick inserted firmly up their rectum.

    Got my key, but no notice/email

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

    Posted · Edited by Halsy

    Checked the backer portal just now and it showed my key, which I redeemed successfully on GoG, but received no email to indicate that my copy was now redeemable. I don't know if that's just slow emails going out or indicative of a larger problem but I thought I'd bring it to Obsidian's attention, as this may potentially cause some confusion, not to mention anger as well. If I receive a notice later on I'll update when it arrived.

    Why is there no pre-load on GOG?

    in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)

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    Steam needs to die now, or at least see some real competition to stop them from engaging in this anti-consumerist behavior.

    The massive amount of sales Steam does is anti-consumerist? There's not much anti-consumerist about Steam beyond its terrible customer support.

     

    I'd say the indefensible difference in regional pricing is just about as anti-consumerist as it gets.

    GoG does that particular one so much better, by offering you a coupon worth whatever you pay in excess, that you can redeem on your next purchase.

     

    Just think about it, some people cannot pay as much for games as most of us can. Now steam could sell them the games for the same price as to everyone else, but in those countries games would be for the elite only. So its not that we pay more, its they pay less. In my book thats very much pro consumer. Anti consumer would be abusing that and getting the games for the cheaper price and hurting the guys making the games with that.

     

    The real problem is that we cannot buy some games in germany even though we are mature and they do block the activation of those games here.

     

     

    Sophistry. I currently live in Canada. So, where's my 20% regional pricing difference? Or 25% from Europe? Or 50% if it's coming from Britain?  We do pay more for most things because we can. Clearly you're unfamiliar with entities like Pricing Boards. You know why milk is so expensive? Because they charge us based on what we can pay. Same with Maple Syrup and all manner of things. Did you know just before Al Capone got busted he actually bought a dairy farm because he realized the markup on dairy was greater than it was on booze. In fact, he famously said, 'We've been in the wrong racket all along!' and a racket it is. Did you know there's a 'strategic maple syrup reserve'? Seriously And it's legal. They hold back millions of gallons of the stuff in order to inflate prices. A few years back the mob was actually stealing the stuff to sell on the black market - Google it if you don't believe me.

     

    So, why then should we have to pay more for the exact same product? It's a virtual product. People cross border shop for better deals all the time. So why not on the internet? Actually you can, if it's coming from China. I order a lot of stuff from China directly these days because I get it for about 1/10th of the price I do here and I get it with free expedited shipping - something you don't get in Canada from the US or Europe. Yet, I'm supposed to pay $60 or $70 for a video game just because I can? That doesn't sound like any Free Market I've ever heard of. The Free Market is the best product and/or service for the lowest possible price. So where is this exactly? Why do the corporations get to benefit from this and not us? Because it cuts into their bottom line? Because then they'd only make reasonable profits instead of insane ones? GabeN is a billionaire there guy. He doesn't need our money but he sure seems to enjoy forcing us to give it to him. Take our business somewhere else then? Where? Where else? Uplay? Origin? Or any other digital delivery service that has terms DICTATED by publishers that amount the same anti-consumerist policies and practices? Show me where this magical digital distributor exists and I'll go there and buy from them

     

    Telling consumers what they may or may not do with their purchase, or worse still, how they're allowed to purchase it, is as anti-consumerist as you get.

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