After screaming hysterically and jamming a pair of nails in my eyes, I sat down and thought about this logically, and not even from the player's perspective. From the buyer's perspective it's pretty easy. Either you're getting a discount or some jackass is charging you an arbitrary fee over some nebulously catalogued vaguely definable information.
... Which probably means you'll never buy something from them again.
Maybe they want that? I don't know, that sort of sounds like what the goal is. Still, think of it from a business perspective. How do you adjucate this? How much money do you spend adjucating this? Don't you already /have/ this?
I mean, if you play an online game on VALVE ANTI-CHEAT (VAC/TM) secured servers(TM) via your steam(TM) handle that must run in the background to play your game, you can already get banned if you act like an asshole, thus making you buy the game again (and possibly all of your other games again too) if you want to continue playing or, failing that, achieves the 'you don't play' result in my previous paragraph.
... Why do this to yourself, Gabe? Do you like pain? As much as I do? Oh god, my eyes!
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"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
-from The Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan
Last edited by PhoenixFlame; 05-15-2011 at 08:10 PM.
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