Stardock sold Impulse

[Rustayne]

Evil or not, what they did was a violation to me.  The way I see it, this is no different then a company including a free DLC with the game with purchase of the box.  Just because impulse would sell that DLC, or any other company would be as well, doesn't not grant them permission to take it out just because they are greedy and want to make more money.  All of this seems to me is greed.   What's worse is they weren't even losing any money on this, but yet they had to mettle with it.  Now lets see how much it costs them to repair the damage of removing something, that wasn't even theirs to remove.

[zebramatt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil

"Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. "

I think we have a winner.

Given that the post to which I was replying already established that evil was a subjective term amongst us, I was making an intentionally subjective statement.

As to whether wikipedia is a reliable source for definitions of religious/philosophical parlance, I'm just not going there.

Regardless, I personally refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a moral code in which all unethical acts are considered equivalent with all other unethical acts; that is, in which any and all violations are considered evil.

[Echo35]

Evil or not, what they did was a violation to me.  The way I see it, this is no different then a company including a free DLC with the game with purchase of the box.  Just because impulse would sell that DLC, or any other company would be as well, doesn't not grant them permission to take it out just because they are greedy and want to make more money.  All of this seems to me is greed.   What's worse is they weren't even losing any money on this, but yet they had to mettle with it.  Now lets see how much it costs them to repair the damage of removing something, that wasn't even theirs to remove.

Some games do contain codes or DLC in the box, and when those games are sold used (aka, the game has been opened and the code used or removed) they generally are sold for a lower price. So since Gamestop removed free content and opened the game, shouldn't they be selling them "used" for cheaper?

[eRe4s3r]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil

"Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. "

I think we have a winner.

Given that the post to which I was replying already established that evil was a subjective term amongst us, I was making an intentionally subjective statement.

As to whether wikipedia is a reliable source for definitions of religious/philosophical parlance, I'm just not going there.

Regardless, I personally refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of a moral code in which all unethical acts are considered equivalent with all other unethical acts; that is, in which any and all violations are considered evil.

Contrary to that I regard everything as evil until proven otherwise. (subjectively of course ;p)

I found your reply fairly funny by the way.

[Cyborg]

There's no need to assume some kind of verbal semantics here. Honestly, if you describe anything with an adjective, it is always subjective without quantifying. That's part of the English language. That shouldn't prevent communication.

 For example, if I say a cloth is wet, there are really varying degrees of moisture volume. What if you describe a woman as beautiful? Well, there are varying degrees of that, too.

And so it is for being evil. They can be evil by definition without being as offensive as a despot, and there is nothing about the English language that requires me to quantify.

[Rustayne]

There's no need to assume some kind of verbal semantics here. Honestly, if you describe anything with an adjective, it is always subjective without quantifying. That's part of the English language. That shouldn't prevent communication.

 For example, if I say a cloth is wet, there are really varying degrees of moisture volume. What if you describe a woman as beautiful? Well, there are varying degrees of that, too.

And so it is for being evil. They can be evil by definition without being as offensive as a despot, and there is nothing about the English language that requires me to quantify.

You do make a valid point.  That is the English language for you.  Can say something, and has 10 different meanings.

[eRe4s3r]

actually the state "wet" is binary, it can only bet wet or not, it can not be more wet. (though physically it most assuredly can) ;p But we not speaking physics we are speaking language, and a wet towel will always be wet to anyone.

Evil on the other hand is no state, its a subjective opinion which means that someones evil is someone else's good.

But i can assure you that everyone will agree that water is wet. Water can not be "not wet" ;p

Point being
Stardock sucks for seeling impulse and lying about how good a sellout it is.
Impulse sucks because its pwned by Gamestop
Gamestop sucks because its Gamestop

To bring this discussion down to a much lower less philosophical level.

[Cyborg]

actually the state "wet" is binary, it can only bet wet or not, it can not be more wet.

Sort of. But that is simplistic, because wet is an adjective, and that's why English allows adverbs. You are talking about the property of being wet, but you are ignoring the word as an adjective. Wet also allows different suffixes, such as wetter. I would agree that something either has water or it doesn't, but it's perfectly valid English. If you were to retrieve a wet towel, and I were to ask you to make it wetter, if you only allow a state machine, that has no meaning but clearly in English it does.

[zespri]

Lol: http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/preorder now stardock sells its stuff on steam, not impulse. I think impulse is officially dead for me now. It's a real, real, real shame.

[keith.lamothe]

Lol: http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/preorder now stardock sells its stuff on steam, not impulse. I think impulse is officially dead for me now. It's a real, real, real shame.

Wow.  Steam exclusive.  Brad does have an above-average capacity for eating crow.

[chemical_art]

Thankfully, the discount is given via stardock's website, so all can still get it.

[zespri]

Thankfully, the discount is given via stardock's website, so all can still get it.

It would be extremely silly otherwise.