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In article <mYqdnTnWfZ5_p0DeRVn-sQ@comcast.com>,
Brad Wardell <bwardell@stardock.com> wrote:
>
>The mystery I have with the angst is that here we're doing something that 
>few if any other publishers are doing -- letting you get the entire game 
>electronically -- even if you bought it at retail 3 years before. And rather 
>than people going "Hey, that's cool, I remember when I lost my Total 
>Annihilation CD, would have been nice to be able to go and redownload the 
>whole thing and burn that to a CD for backup or whatever -- for free" we get 
>"BOO! You require us to install a 5 megabyte download manager you scum! Your 
>mother was a hamster!"

I will hazard a guess as to why you perceive this response.

First, the people who don't like download managers are very vocal, so
you're definately going to hear from them. (I personally don't mind
them if they're done properly. It's product activation I can't
stomach.)

Second, the software itself (Stardock Central) really wasn't very
good. I know I had a lot of trouble with it and I understand others
did also. This would serve to mute the already traditionally quite
silent crowd of people who don't have a problem with download managers
and who might even have thought it was a neat thing.

I would add that I never really saw the attraction to having forum
software, web client, etc., inside the download manager. As others
have pointed out, people prefer to use dedicated software for these
things. You are unlikely to be able to compete with the big players
for any of those functionalities so why waste resource on it?  That
said, it surprises me a bit that people bitch about this rather than
just silently do what I did and ignore the functionality altogether.

Cheers
	Bent D
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