I agree with Pol, (In best Rodney King voice) "Can't we all just get along?"
Much of this bickering over payment methods started with my simple inquiry about options. In many ways I'm sorry I asked it on the open board. Maybe I should have sent a private message to one of the team instead. Regardless, it's really pointless to continue trashing this method or that or villifying/mocking those who've experienced problems with systems that you have not.
I think one thing that we
can all agree on is that no system of any kind is 100% perfect for or loved by everyone. And I'm not just talking about payment for online purchases here, either. You show me 1000 people who swear by Ford vehicles and I'll show you 1,000,000 who swear
at them. And the same is true with Chrysler, GM, Toyota, Mazda, SAAB, Mercedes, Yugo (no, wait...there's probably not 1000 people who drive Yugos :costumes
. Televisions, computers, computer operating systems (Windows whatever-vs-MAC-vs-Linux)...all the same. You can't know what problems someone else has encountered and even if they told you you probably wouldn't jump up and say, "That's it!! I'll never use that again because someone I know only through a computer gaming board said he/she has had problems with it." I certainly don't need everyone in the world to share my opinion about everything to feel that mine is valid for me.
So please, let's let this end. I'm comfortable with waiting until the people who are actually handling the distribution make their position known. And let's face it,
they're the ones who get to say how we can pay for this, not the dev team and not anyone who's been posting ad nauseum here. Bottom line is that
if the
only way that they'll accept payment is through Paypal I'm sure I can pay a friend who uses it to actually make purchase it for me. I'd
much rather not have to do that and take care of everything myself, but I will find a way to get P3. And I would imagine that's true for everyone else, as well.
Aside to Gerhardt,
I kind of understand your posting, but to say, "I think Polovski asked nicely that the talk of payment method cease" and then go ahead and restate your personal case was, to say the least, contradictory. But I appreciate your commitment not to revisit the issue again. I agree that by constantly going back and forth all we do is perpetuate the argument.