- RighteousTyrant
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Hi I'm RT and I like to argue!
Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: RighteousTyrant
Posted by: Hylebos
If you expect fairness, act in a fair and reasonable manner.There's absolutely nothing unfair or unreasonable in acquiring a good for the price advertised and demanded by the retailer. As you yourself said, it was flagrantly unintentional, that much is evident by the apparent fact that you need to access the marketplace in a very specific way in order to download the content for free. Any other attempt would require you to pay out of pocket.
Just because Microsoft is letting you get away with it doesn't morally justify your actions, no more so than people looting stores in a wake of a disaster are justified because there is too much chaos to actually prosecute people.
Perhaps that last example was a tad hyperbole, I mean, on the scale of rehensibillity, downloading a $10 map pack for free is in the shallow side of the kiddie pool, it just frustrates me that people take advantage of things like this and then go "Oh, I'd better not get banned for this! I totally didn't know what I was doing was wrong!" as they are winking, grinning, and high fiving all of their friends.It was hyperbole because it was actual theft, and what's going on with Crimson is not theft at all, in a criminal sense.
I disagree that anything is wrong with this, per se. MS, whether by accident or design, is telling consumers to take the maps for free. No one is in the wrong for doing so. MS, the merchant, is responsible for the error, not the customers, and so MS rightly should bear the blame and take the consequences (which, to their credit, they seem to be doing).
For comparison's sake, this is different than the Halo: Reach beta when lots of people signed up for MS' retailer rewards program to get into the Reach beta early -- that definitely was wrong on the users part.