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As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets before this was introduced id feel somewhat ripped off.

I also wonder how this game would be doing with similar marketing but without Molyneux' name to it. Imo the golden days of the guy are long gone.

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> As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets

As someone who never pays for in-app purchases, I am quite curious why you did this. Did you feel the purchase was worth it?

To quote more fully:

"As someone who had paid money to remove cubelets before this was introduced ID feel somewhat ripped off." Note the emphasized (by me) "ID" or "I'd", aka "I would". This one word changes the entire case of the verb and implies empathizing with a hypothetical victim versus actually being one.

Ah... good catch. Still, my question remains for someone.

Except... can you use "id" instead of "I'd"? My language parser also rejected this as invalid token and I ended up interpreting that sentence the same way Xcelerate did.

I interpret your sentence as follows: in the "hypothetical" case that this comes to pass, then you, as someone who had paid money, would feel ripped off. When you say "would" here, I don't think that it makes your "as someone who..." clause hypothetical. The way that I'd say this is:

If I were someone who paid, then I'd feel ripped off.

i am not a native english speaker so i might have made a mistake there, but the other reply explains my point.

The thing being, you didn't.

The interesting question is whether the people who -did- pay movey to remove cubelets feel ripped off or not.

I have no idea who such people are, though, and suspect I wouldn't understand their motivation even if I did, so I venture no suggestions as to the answer to that question.

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