Yes you can keep the same password unless you sell when you need to input a new id and password for each game if you sell each of your former games. Is PP against the exposure they might get through such resells too? In fact if I was ever to try the game a 10 dollar resold version is the only way I would ever consent to considering trying a V-Mate game.
I cannot say G-Collections is not working behind the scenes but if they are, they are not being open about it and that too is a major concern of many people on this board lack of open communication. Yet even when a statement is made by G-Collections it is vague enough to mean anything they want it to mean and is vague enough to have the meaning altered at their whim such as end of sales could mean when they raise the price (if they do), or when the game is no longer being sold or when the game is no longer being made but the last of the stock is still being sold, or when they go out of business, or countless other possibilities.
If that statement of almost promise had come from them I would be pissed. Almost promise is like almost pregnant it is does not exist, a promise is either one or it is not and I know Peter cannot make a promise for another company, which is why G-Collections themselves needs to come out and give everyone something far more fixed then they have in the past and do so very soon in my opinion.
You know if a company needs to do this restriction of customers various controls over their own system in order to survive I really don’t think they will survive granted that is perhaps a very personal opinion. Yes yes I know as of now no plans for PP to have this or anything like it in place yet at the same time Peter seems more and more interested if not eager for this or something like this system which concerns me greatly as I think it will only encourage piracy among the less scruplous that don’t like this system and would have bought without it in place. Actually have studies been done on this? All the studies seem to have been how much it could decrease piracy, has anyone done a comparative study about how much it could increase piracy? Or are they so convinced their infallible system is truly unbreachable and infallible that the need for such a study was never seen?
Also does anyone within PP know as an indisputable fact if this V-Mate has already increased G-Collections b-games sales so far as sales have gone with this game? If no one does know if it has or has not, then it is a very dangerous assumption to continually figure it will increase sales as in the American market I see it being the end of some sales and the start of far more pirating since I still say a bulk of the former pirates were underage and could not buy it legally if it was buy it legally or be shot.
Additionally, I am curious if the statement about ‘people being passionate about having control over things on their system’ means you feel we should not have control over things on our own systems and eventually turn things over to the companies who act as mini Big Brothers telling us to a point, when, how, and if we can play the games we legally bought from them? Perhaps that last comment is a bit extreme about the mini-Big Brothers but at least in my eyes that is what V-Mate is either in practice or the start of if PP also grabs on to this idea.
Apologies for the slight rant but the fact PP is showing some more or at least implict interest in this system as me very worried that Little My Maid might be the last game I ever get from them or this entire industry, should such a system be put into action for games after that one.
[This message has been edited by SCDawg (edited 11-03-2004).]
