And what about the ice and freezing rain genius?

Cows for the Cow God?

That whooshing sound you hear is the sarcasm of his post over your head...miles and miles over your head.

See, proof that observing the event changes the outcome!

Of course this will lead to a snuke in the snizz

Winner

Sounds to me like what initial purchaser is getting is more like a mini-expansion pack as an incentive to buy the game brand new. The game works without the bonus content. Without getting that content you still get the core game - full dialog, full character selection, full levels, full quests. Yeah, that sure sounds 'crippled' to me. Maybe if you'd have read the article to begin with you'd have read the part about the DLC in question was developed in parallel with the core game, not striped out of it.

Could you please explain how this 'cripples' the game? 'Crippling' a piece of software means you cannot use it, not that you don't get a shiny toy with it. You can still play the base game, the DLC isn't required to play and enjoy the game -unless it's a patch to fix bugs, but that isn't really "DLC". If your enjoyment of the game is solely based on the special edition candy apple red dresser for Sims 7, the jet black BFG in Quake 30, or the golden widget in whatever - don't buy the game, but don't bitch about it being crippled.

You have sex with Ron Jeremy? Ewwww

Survey says.... "Because they can!!" Hell, if I could, I'd never have to leave the house.

*hangs head and sadly says* Okay, my bad...I'll go... :(

And after reading the linked article, there's another 40% :-p

Franklin screws up electrical charge convention and no one cares, Armstrong takes a wiz on Moon and everyone makes a fuss.

You're an AC, of course he doesn't ;-)

As long as SOE is decommissioning the servers, I think it would be great if SWG Emu could offer to buy one or two off of'em. Would be a GREAT help to their reverse engineering of the game. And since SOE hasn't tried to shut SWG Emu down yet, they might even be willing to sell one of the boxes. Long live Valcyn! :-p