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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5379173" data-attributes="member: 21076"><p>People support companies with their money. If a company over time does not meet your expectations in some area it seems only logical that you are going to want to stop giving them your money. There may even be parts of the product you like, but the parts you don't like out weigh the parts you do.</p><p></p><p>People abandon perfectly functional products all the time for a competitor's products because they think company x does something better than company y even though both are making functional products. Look at automobiles - they all get a person from point A to point B - but some people feel better about spending their money on one brand versus another because of their perceived value. That value may be in customer service, where the cup holders are at or how close they are to the local dealership.</p><p></p><p>As for spending money elsewhere versus just not spending. I have to disagree. Continuing the car analogy again - if I spend money with Toyota and not Honda then you are right - in both cases Honda does not receive money from me. *But* Toyota now has a little extra to keep paying those customer service people or invest in R&D or possibly even run with their margins a little lower because they are moving more product. On a single person scale, not a big difference - but if you get more people doing this then that scale suddenly starts to matter.</p><p></p><p>But really, why bother wasting time or energy worrying about how people handle this online CB release? If you are happy with the game and the optional tools provided to you - then have fun! Enjoy the game and the time you get to spend with your friends playing it. A person leaving your system of choice does not condemn your system and should not impact your enjoyment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 5379173, member: 21076"] People support companies with their money. If a company over time does not meet your expectations in some area it seems only logical that you are going to want to stop giving them your money. There may even be parts of the product you like, but the parts you don't like out weigh the parts you do. People abandon perfectly functional products all the time for a competitor's products because they think company x does something better than company y even though both are making functional products. Look at automobiles - they all get a person from point A to point B - but some people feel better about spending their money on one brand versus another because of their perceived value. That value may be in customer service, where the cup holders are at or how close they are to the local dealership. As for spending money elsewhere versus just not spending. I have to disagree. Continuing the car analogy again - if I spend money with Toyota and not Honda then you are right - in both cases Honda does not receive money from me. *But* Toyota now has a little extra to keep paying those customer service people or invest in R&D or possibly even run with their margins a little lower because they are moving more product. On a single person scale, not a big difference - but if you get more people doing this then that scale suddenly starts to matter. But really, why bother wasting time or energy worrying about how people handle this online CB release? If you are happy with the game and the optional tools provided to you - then have fun! Enjoy the game and the time you get to spend with your friends playing it. A person leaving your system of choice does not condemn your system and should not impact your enjoyment. [/QUOTE]
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