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Old 10-29-2008, 03:49 PM   #8848
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by GrantDawg View Post
If Hitler created a good Football sim, I'd buy it. Why the hell would anybody care the political persuasion of a game designer?

Having BTDT, I think I can comment.

It's about not being comfortable directly putting money into the pocket of the enemy ... or alternately just a general asshat. This is just one of the personal things that can color your feelings about a transaction - same as with getting unwarranted attitude from a sales clerk or annoying telemarketing calls from a company,etc.

Unfortunate reality is that it's easier to tolerate pyschologically when there's more degrees of separation between your dollar & the end recipient so it's tougher for the small developer's, but that runs both ways since a lot of us can probably identify cases where we've spent more with someone we liked than we might have otherwise.

edit to add: I think I must have largely skipped over some drama here, as I'm only vaguely following what this has to do with this thread (I think I got it now, I didn't until the last page or so), so consider my answer to be entirely general in nature.
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