by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday September 27, 2012 @03:37PM (#41481427)
If you or anybody else wants to buy Torchlight because of their issues with D3, send a message to Activision/Blizzard by emailing or sending them your receipt for your purchase of Torchlight (or whatever else you spent your money on).
Not buying their product is one thing (they might just attribute it as a loss to piracy). Showing them that you had the money *and* inclination to buy something but instead bought a competitors product is a whole other thing.
If you or anybody else wants to buy Torchlight because of their issues with D3, send a message to Activision/Blizzard by emailing or sending them your receipt for your purchase of Torchlight (or whatever else you spent your money on).
Not buying their product is one thing (they might just attribute it as a loss to piracy). Showing them that you had the money *and* inclination to buy something but instead bought a competitors product is a whole other thing.
Too bad you posted that anonymously... I will do this when I get home tonight because it will also indicate that not only did I have the money for their game, I got *four* copies of their competitor's game for the same price as their own. Bonus points for "their competitor" being developers that were originally a part of Blizzard [wikipedia.org].
I've just downloaded the pirate version to check it out. Fell in love with it after 5 mins (and i'm not such a fan of ARPG games), but I'll be definitely buying a 4 pack of licences very soon to cover me and the kids, they deserve my money. Great work Runic!
Why would anyone even download the pirate version when there's a demo that simply unlocks to the full version? o_O;
Yeah, it's really odd that someone needs to play the entire full version of a game before deciding if it's any good and then, of course, buying it after they've already got it for free. Really odd indeed.
My guess is so they can claim to be an example of a "good pirate" and support that image in a public place to the publishing companies. I'm not quite sure if it's misguided propaganda or helpful activism - or a bit of both. Still, more examples like this (even if this one doesn't make much sense) can probably only help the cause.
Or just because a) I didn't even consider there may be a demo version, b) that getting licenses would unlock the demo to full, c) getting the pirate version is probably easier than getting the demo version (don't know.... maybe you have to register for the demo?), and d) I can play as much as i want until payday when i can actually pay for the licenses, which is still a couple of weeks away.
And i've done it a few times before, paying for things after downloading the pirate version. I do it because for some
Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Since Diablo 3 is a DRM'd monstrosity, I'll give this a try, just to help show blizzard why they aren't getting money.
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If you or anybody else wants to buy Torchlight because of their issues with D3, send a message to Activision/Blizzard by emailing or sending them your receipt for your purchase of Torchlight (or whatever else you spent your money on).
Not buying their product is one thing (they might just attribute it as a loss to piracy). Showing them that you had the money *and* inclination to buy something but instead bought a competitors product is a whole other thing.
Re:Good (Score:5, Informative)
If you or anybody else wants to buy Torchlight because of their issues with D3, send a message to Activision/Blizzard by emailing or sending them your receipt for your purchase of Torchlight (or whatever else you spent your money on).
Not buying their product is one thing (they might just attribute it as a loss to piracy). Showing them that you had the money *and* inclination to buy something but instead bought a competitors product is a whole other thing.
Too bad you posted that anonymously... I will do this when I get home tonight because it will also indicate that not only did I have the money for their game, I got *four* copies of their competitor's game for the same price as their own. Bonus points for "their competitor" being developers that were originally a part of Blizzard [wikipedia.org].
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That's a good move i think.
I've just downloaded the pirate version to check it out. Fell in love with it after 5 mins (and i'm not such a fan of ARPG games), but I'll be definitely buying a 4 pack of licences very soon to cover me and the kids, they deserve my money. Great work Runic!
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Why would anyone even download the pirate version when there's a demo that simply unlocks to the full version? o_O;
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Why would anyone even download the pirate version when there's a demo that simply unlocks to the full version? o_O;
Yeah, it's really odd that someone needs to play the entire full version of a game before deciding if it's any good and then, of course, buying it after they've already got it for free. Really odd indeed.
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Or just because a) I didn't even consider there may be a demo version, b) that getting licenses would unlock the demo to full, c) getting the pirate version is probably easier than getting the demo version (don't know.... maybe you have to register for the demo?), and d) I can play as much as i want until payday when i can actually pay for the licenses, which is still a couple of weeks away.
And i've done it a few times before, paying for things after downloading the pirate version. I do it because for some