While I agree that Xcel shouldn't have to pay transmission costs to customers who spin the meter backwards, isn't it just as wrong to charge them for transmission costs? What I mean is: if you owned a power plant and you sold the electricity to Xcel, you would be paid by the generating rate, but I don't think that you would be charged the transmission costs as well. Effectively, what Xcel would be doing if they charged the fee or charged transmission costs to those customers, would be double dipping. Because not only would they charge the source for the transmission, but they'd still be charging the consumer for transmission as well.
Another, very plausible reason for buying the CD is that the user may have a dial-up connection or a very unstable connection. Plus, installing the game from a CD is almost always faster than downloading from Steam.
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While I agree that Xcel shouldn't have to pay transmission costs to customers who spin the meter backwards, isn't it just as wrong to charge them for transmission costs? What I mean is: if you owned a power plant and you sold the electricity to Xcel, you would be paid by the generating rate, but I don't think that you would be charged the transmission costs as well. Effectively, what Xcel would be doing if they charged the fee or charged transmission costs to those customers, would be double dipping. Because not only would they charge the source for the transmission, but they'd still be charging the consumer for transmission as well.
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Another, very plausible reason for buying the CD is that the user may have a dial-up connection or a very unstable connection. Plus, installing the game from a CD is almost always faster than downloading from Steam.