Hi i've been reading through secondary forum posts and could not inquire there and so i decided to go to the source.
Finding no compareable postings i chose this as the most applicable.
The forum posting was over the use of after sale restrictions on serial based updating and the quote was as follows "I'm not a lawyer either, but part of getting a bachelors degree and now a masters degree requires me to take business law courses...yes the evil courses with textbooks that range from 3,000 pages all the way up to 12,000 sometimes. Having a license in which lasts forever and has no escape clause is something I clearly remember as being something you just don't do. Stardock is effectively acting like the RIAA and MPAA when it comes to handling sales of their used products. Congress acted on more penalties for counterfeiters, but did not budge on limitations for used music and movie sales.
Ultimately though, my understanding/interpretation will normally not match Stardock's/someone else's interpretation/understanding (although it may be similar), which is why there's so many legal battles today even over trivial things. Government ultimately determines what is and isn't legal. If people really want to make a difference, we all just have to contact our attorney generals and consumer protection bureaus to bring this matter to their attention.
Annatar11
The fact is, there is no single game which uses a cd key registration that allows you to simply transfer your registration to someone else. Once the key is locked to an account, it's locked to an account. And for good reason.
"I've done this with Sim City 4 Deluxe, RCT3, NFS Most Wanted, NFS Hot Pursuit 2, Doom 3, ROE, Battlefield 2, Rise of Legends, and UT2004...probably a couple others. The only game I ever had a problem getting updates and using online features with was Sim City 4 Deluxe, in which EA was actually helpful for once (yeah, it does happen) after I sent my receipt and a picture verifying I owned the product. The system wouldn't let me product register because someone else already had the cd-key, but EA fixed the problem (probably by disabling the other account's product registration status)."
What part of that did not make sense to you? I listed several games. I would love to go out and buy Mass Effect used to show you how wrong you are, but it's not low enough in price yet.
Zoomba
No, we are simply refusing access to an enhanced service beyond the original retail copy.
As far as I see it, access to that enhanced service is a component of the original box contents, otherwise you would never get access to that enhanced service to begin with."
I am a legal customer who has purchased the game and actually have a serial, but do not agree with having my multiplayer experience restricted (due to patched vs non patched copies not playing nicely together) based on me not wanting to subscribe to impulse which if i remember rightly was not specifically sold to me as part of the package.
Following the advice on one of your forums (i know it is because i only used the secondary forum to sign into and it's allowing me to use that exact same sign in to gain access to reply here) i would like to contact the australian attorney general and consumer protection beaurau.
Would anyone, obviously not stardock staff as they have no obligation to help me, know exactly how an australian citizen goes about this.
I'm assuming it's the ACC i have to write to, but do we contact an attorney general or are we suppose to send such things to our representatives in state government? If so, whom for NSW?
