Its the law that makes a 5 year guarantee worthless over here. Say your graphics card stops working in just under five years you can take it to the shop and they will have to offer you something equivalent. I took back a geforce 8800gs after four years and they said to me "its not covered after a year sorry there is nothing we can do" so I mentioned the sale of goods act 1979, then he disappears and a manager comes out and offered me a 570.

Also for expensive items like a TV for example if you have house insurance not only does the law cover you for breakdowns but the house insurance covers you for accidental so there is absolutely no reason to buy extended guarantees on most electrical goods in this country.

Edit: lots of horrible spelling mistakes, I think I got most of em

It's just some pseudo-legal talk to impress and intimidate customers. Any judge anywhere can overturn that BS if the terms are unreasonable or badly stated, obfuscated, modifiable, etc. You also can't agree to a condition that goes against laws and your rights, so it would be void. It would be like a store owner putting a sign stating that he's allowed to steal from customers. Yeah, no.

As more and more of these shady practices make life worse for customers, I'm actually glad that some people are just not paying and refusing to be abused. I'm too honest for that, but others can do as they please. You can't feel sorry for crooks.
I think in Canada it's "reasonable life of the item", but you have to go through the trouble of fighting it.

Yes, that spy thing wasn't even intentional, actually and was removed soon in later updates. And it came quite a way since then.
As much as EA deserves to be critisized, one should stay reasonable.
If you use Steam Client, you are hard pressed for arguments against Origin Client, technically, now.

And here is amore recent article on Origin:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/experienced-points/12029-Has-EAs-Origin-Service-Improved-Any-Over-the-Last-Two-Years

You still see the platinum? I looked when the sale started and couldn't find it for the life of me. I thought they replaced it with that Master collection thing.

The hell, if I use the DE store I see it but it's not there in the Dutch store anymore.

This has been patched out according to this:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/07/30/ubisoft-respond-to-uplay-security-drama/

The one thing you must do is not have any browser open while installing uPlay.

PS: not that some one thinks I defend uPlay or Orign or Steam, which I don't. But some issues mentioned here have moved ahead.

"Uplay used to open a backdoor"

;)

well, that obviously moved overhead of me :)

Seems to have gone the way of the dodo for me too. Anyway...

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Thanks for this. Any views on Hero's Tale (grammatically incorrect!) and/or 3 Stars of Destiny? There's very little online.

Ideally I'd like to know if either or both are casual, fun, pretty easy and of course decent.

What's grammatically incorrect about the title? It's the tale of a hero, thus Hero's Tale, right? Or am I missing something?

No idea about the game, purely a grammar question.

I thought it should be Heroes? Either way, I don't know what I was thinking.....I hate online grammar police :S

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No worries, as I said, I was curious in case there was a grammar rule I wasn't familiar with. What I recall with the possessive s is that you use 's if the previous word doesn't end in s (like hero's quest), and use ' only if it does (heroes' quest). I think there are a few cases when you use 's even if the previous word ends with an s, but mostly for names from what I recall (Ulysses's quest).
And it is quite possible that the game's tale isn't that of one hero, but multiple, thus making the game grammatically incorrect ;)

Either way, thank you for replying, and I do hope someone can answer your questions :)