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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herschel" data-source="post: 5136955" data-attributes="member: 78357">1. Pirating is essentially the same thing except without the physical store. You still want some place to preview stuff. The store is the legal outlet. And pirating is bad unless you buy everything you pirate (which at least you do when you like a product. Gray area maybe, but it's a positive IMO.) 2. It's a symbiotic relationship between gaming companies, stores and gamers. The store owners compete by offering service because there's no way they can compete on price with big, online retailers. Some stores don't deliver, but many do and still get bypassed due to price alone. It's a short-term gain without looking to the long-term. And it happens elsewhere in the game market too. Under the skirmish game there were some players on the boards always talking about the next online pre-order time and the price they got for buying online instead of at the store they played tournaments at. Then, when the store didn't turn in their paperwork on time to get a reginal qualifier and ran other games the same day they complained to high heaven about how the store gave them bad service. Why should the store spend money on prizes and space when the players don't buy their product from the store? A different example: I was out-of-town for a funeral for a couple of days in a smaller town. The wake was Sunday Night. We were hungry afterwards and went to a restaurant that was closing in 15 minutes. Two of our party showed up right at (or a bit after) closing time and there were only five of us. We were the only people in the place. They stayed open, gave great service and I bumped the tip accordingly (I picked up the tab). We could have hit the drive-through and still gotten food, and much cheaper, or we could have given a standard tip, but service is something not to be taken too lightly lest it isn't offered again. I've only been to this restaurant a few times (due to the nature of my visits to the town) but each time I'm treated very well even though we rarely can get there much before closing.</blockquote>

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