RE: "Upgrade" options between Dominion series.

[Archonsod]

Gooles said:
I'd also though, like to elaborate on my original statement in that my main concern was that we pay the same amount of money for a game in which many of the game's elements have been recycled from a game I already have paid for.

You're in a minority there, if EA's business is anything to go by

The thing is, you pay for the game not the code. One could ask why you should pay full price for any game based, for example, on the Unreal engine if you've already bought Unreal, despite the fact that they may be radically different games. It's not the amount of code which is changed that's important, it's the effect of those changes on the game.

=/ I'd find it morally asinine to ban me from forums (or worse if much care is truly felt necessary) for admitting I pirated (and then purchased) a game.

Well, announcing the fact on the publishers forums is rather akin to going around to a house you burgled and trying to sell the owner their possessions back. Can't blame them for being a little annoyed.