🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jan 23, 1:56 pm, dogatemycompu...@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just purchased a copy of Sin 2 at my local Frys Electronics.  The box
> is simply, well, a box with a couple of pieces of tape over the top and
> bottom to keep the lid closed.  The system requirements for the game
> are listed on the box as being:
>
> Developer(s)    Ritual Entertainment
> Publisher(s)    Activision
> Engine  Quake II engine (enhanced)
> Latest version  1.12 (Steam Version)
> Release date(s)         October 31, 1998
> Worldwide April 5, 2006 (Steam)
> Genre(s)        First-person shooter
> Mode(s)         Single player, multiplayer
> Rating(s)       ESRB: Mature (M)
> Platform(s)     PC (Windows / Linux), PowerPC (Mac OS / Linux)
> Media   CD-ROM
> System requirements     166 MHz Processor, 32 MB RAM, 2 MB video card
>

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> Of course Steam has offered to let me mail them a 2 page form full of
> my personal information, a check for ANOTHER $10 (in addition to the
> $40 I paid for the game) along with the original game that I bought.
> Then..  if they feel like good Samaritans (or the post office doesn't
> loose something in the mail) they'll be nice enough to send me a CD key
> so I can activate the game on my PC.  Of course they reserve the right
> to keep my $10 and not send me anything.

You paid $40 for a used copy of a game that was released in 1998?  I 
find that hard to believe.  Is this just another of those anti-Steam 
rants?

-Alan