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Originally Posted by Dargone
Are we getting e-mailed a link for download on Thursday or will it just be a matter of it being up for everyone to download but just our licenses working that day?
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It will be posted only on the forums so people who check just once every few months won't even know it's available. But then again, those aren't the people who preordered, so it doesn't really matter. I think that everyone who orders this game should receive a $7 discount, no matter when they purchase, how many versions they purchased in the past, or if they even have internet access. Those that purchased a CD copy of Season Ticket Baseball in 2002 should receive a free upgrade of OOTP 2007, in CD form, delivered in person by Marc Duffy. THAT'S called good marketing and customer service, folks, and it's something any software company who wanted to be taken seriously should do automatically. Why alienate even one possible buyer simply to make hundreds of others happy by giving a generous offer? There's really no excuse for sloppiness and I might just consider giving up text baseball games as a result. However, I will not cancel my preorder (for which I received about ten email offers, each giving increasing discount percentages - I eventually purchased and took advantage of the 120% discount); I will simply sell the two licenses for $100 apiece to unsuspecting old men who don't check their email and think that they're buying the rights to download the 2008 version bundled with Sean Lahman's database and his credit card numbers. Then, I'll take the $200, send $7 via PayPal to 28 dissatisfied purchasers of prior versions who mistakenly deleted their email discount offers, use the remaining $4 to buy a pint of Guinness at that one guy's virtual bar who keeps advertising on these boards (how DOES that guy make any money?), and with that mild buzz will post non-stop until the first patch is released for download.
p.s. Thanks for making the early download option available!