are you guys crazy If I said No, would I be in denial? Do crazy people really know thier crazy? Oh god, my head hurts.. So many questions and not an answer in sight... *sighs* Catch 22
Dunno about MS. Like I said, dreamscene actually directs you here for more content, which is how I found the place. Thanks for the FUD explanation. Normally you can figure it out from the context, but I just couldn't come up with that one.
PS, what is FUD?
What bait and switch? Even I saw the dream site had a very very clear place for premium content. WinCustomize has been talking about master skins for months. That's why I put the word seeming between italic tags. Seeming... as in it seemed like there was one, but there isn't. My whole point is that I was upset because of the way things were presented as opposed to the way that they are. I'm also not blaming the people here, or the artists.
For the HL2 analogy, I think Frogboy is a little off. When you pay for HL2 via steam, you expect multiplayer, CS:S, etc to be free if you shell out for the game... and they are. Those are add ons to the program that took time and money and artistic talent that are simply given away. HL2 Ep 1 is different in that it is considered a different game. To the people saying that the majority of art is free, I'm curious as to how you mean? If you mean it's free to go into a museum to look
It's not wrong to make people pay for high quality work. If you could charge $100 per and get away with it, yay for you. The problem here is (as someone started to mention above) timing. Vista gets released, Dreams come out, and people start looking for all of this "awesome" content that they were promised. A few semi-cool ones are released and then the first one that's supposed to live up to the hype carries a charge with it. If you can't see why that would upset some people, then you need
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