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Not really the point what OTHER games do, i would think. THis is your business model and your responsibility to inform customers, surely. However WoW and warcraft 3 mention it.

Only if you assume that the original user intends to keep playing the game. Not everyone is a theif and a pirate thanks very much and i most certainly am not. YOu keep avoiding the issue as regard the lack of information on your packaging. For that, you only have yourselves to blame.

ANd yet it still doesn't explain the large oversight that is not putting this information on the packaging. That just shows contempt for retailers and customers as it is NOT illegal to sell games second hand. If you take that argument then the single mother struggling to make ends meet whouses hand me downs, maybe even from her own, older, children, instead of buying new clothes is just as 'guilty'. What a fundamentally ludicrous position to take.

IT's quite simple: if you want to do business this way, make it clear at the point of sale. I am well aware that used games make no money for the manufacturers, but taking it out on the customer is a very poor way of encouraging sales and is nothing short of hostile. Do you think I want to do business with you knowing this is how you treat me for the simple crime of buying a game second hand? Get a life!

Frogboy's point was that if you bought the game 2nd hand, ie from your neighbor, dog walker, teacher, whoever, then you did not buy the game off Stardock. How you get "pirate" out of that i'm not sure. I woudl be very careful in how you respond to this or deal with customers unless you regard the UK sale of goods act as trivially Again is this another threat? What would he or anyone else have to be careful ab

Are you accusing me of dealing in pirate software, I would hope for you sake you are not. It is perfectly legal to buy and sell video games in the UK. If you wish people to buy only brand nw vesions then i suggest you sell those version in shops and that you make it perfectly clear on the packaging what the terms of purchase actually are. You are NOT exempt from the law and the retailer is not breaking the law by selling the game used any more than i am in purchasing it. I woud

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I'm getting a new PC in a few weeks and getting rid of this one. Question is: what do I need to do about installing on my new PC? I'm obviously a registered user, and have a Galciv2 CD, but can I download the 1.3 patch to my new PC? Sorry for the obviously noob query - we all have to start somewhere! <img id="ImageResize_Image_1" onload="ImageResizer.createOn(this);" src="http://imag

This is the most disgusting and ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I brought this game yesterday second hand amd now the company want to treat me like a criminal because they work on the default assumption that anyone who legally purchases a used copy of the game is participating in illegal activity. It is not illegal to sell video games second hand. If the company doesn't want me to purchase it used then they should have amde sure it wasn't available to me second hand. How on

It's bad enough that i didn't get any instructions with the game having just brought it second hand, that's the hazard of such purchases. But to have to jump through all these hoops in order to get the damn patch for the game is utterly unaccpetable. Where is the damn thing? I click on the link, it tells me to register. I register, it then asks for my serial number. I type that in, it then shunts me to a link to download some 'dread lords' bonus pack and two other ite