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THE ANTICLARKSON
I bought a game. Surely I have the right to play that game, then, as it was my purchase with my money? I don’t buy a car and twelve months down the line, the car manufacturer says – “Actually, we’re now going to make it impossible for you to drive your car.” You don’t buy a washing machine, pay a monthly subscription, and then thirteen months down the line it stops working when just out of warranty... (oh sorry, that does happen, doesn’t it?). The point is, by buying a game surely I have the right to play that game – I spent my money on it. And my children had spent over a year building up their characters and nodoubt buying Lego Uzis and Lego AK47s with which to splatter Lego blood against Lego walls. They worked hard at earning “digital currency”.
decided they weren’t going to do that, because it would somehow make the experience worse for the players, and they would rather the player remembered the joy and pleasure of this world they could no longer access, rather than play something that wasn’t continually expanding. What absolute rot. What corporate crap. How stupid do Lego think we are? Very stupid, obviously, because these are the people who make little plastic bricks and billions of dollarpounds from said little plastic bricks. Let’s be honest – they didn’t want to maintain the servers – because that cost money. But then, hadn’t we bought the games for our children?
travesty. My children were very, very disappointed and I have now banned Lego Junk from our house, and burn (with petrol) any surviving Lego I find. I despise these money-making con-men, for they conned my children, disappointed my children, and STILL continue to sell them rubbish. I urge you, too, to ban Lego from your house. And let’s be honest, in the long run it’ll be cheaper – because it’ll stop the dog eating those crappy little bricks, getting them stuck in his(her) guts, and costing you a fortune on an expensive vet’s bill. Unless he’s sick, of course – in which case that is justice served. Lego on a bed of vomit is the best end-result for this junk.
Even yesterday, April 2012, one boy cub said to me, “I wish they hadn’t
Lego Corporate Money Men – You WILL burn in LEGO HELL for your LEGO CRIMES! Now when Lego announced they were, effectively, imploding their “Universe” they stated that they could keep the game world alive, oh yes, quite easily! Only without the option to keep expanding on it and upgrading the world. So, the Lego sandpit would remain – which seems fair. After all, we paid for the privilege. But then, the Lego Gods
closed Lego Universe”. You hear that, Lego? YOU HEAR THAT? Another disappointed child, upset by YOU, Lego Corporate Money Men – You WILL burn in LEGO HELL for your LEGO CRIMES! Lego have behaved despicably, in the worst form of corporate moneymaking scandals. It is a sham. It is a
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