Buy & Download Questions

[Jinix the Elder]

The limitations of only being able to re-install three times makes it too frustrating to buy on-line when, like me, I am forever reformatting or changing hard drives not to mention buying new/different computers.

Example; I bought Oblivion on DVD when it first came out and I enjoy modding it so much I'm playing it all the time (was until King's Bounty - The Legend arrived).
I must have re-installed it over 20 times for different reasons since I first bought it.
Oblivion has an expansion add-on called Shivering Isles, that I bought on-line and downloaded from Direct2Drive.com. Because I changed computers I cannot put the expansion on again because it assumes I am some kind of crook. You cannot even add official patches to the downloaded version.

That attitude stinks especially when they have not only my money but my identity, credit card number etc., and still I can't enjoy the game my way without buying a another copy on DVD.

I'll wait until I can get the 'real thing' in a box.

Jinix the Elder

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates