And this was all I said... nothing more.
Please try to be a little clearer in the future.
At this point you are just putting words in my... posts... I have never indicated otherwise. The misinformation is is the speculating and saying this or that will happen with no basis (see below). Again you jump to a conclusion because I do not share the same urgency over it, and here you stoop to insults... Hey if that's what it takes to make you think you won an argument, be my guest.
I get the impression that you don't even know what you're arguing. I'm not sure. Maybe we're just miscommunicating, I don't know the deal. But, I'm trying to step back and refocus the point of this thread, as I have had to do several times. Public forums have a tendency to get derailed rather easily, and this thread has demonstrated that tendency amply.
This is the misinformation I am talking about. Surely you can't be as dim as to misunderstand the meaning of this post. If you need an explanation:
I fully understand the meaning of the post - that N3V does not consider users of some (if not all) legacy versions to be customers, and, therefore, has little reason to fear remotely disabling their installations of Trainz, assuming a phone-home DRM system was in place. Put another way, let's just say, for the sake of argument, that a phone-home DRM/product activation scheme was in place when TRS2004. Given N3V current attitudes toward these "non-customers", they might shut off activations of this product. Given the aforementioned attitude expressed by Windwalkr (and backed by yourself in your post above), there is little reason to fear any kind of customer backlash (or 'corporate suicide', as another poster put it) since N3V has written off those users anyway. While I realize that N3V can't go back in time and add DRM to TRS2004, then certainly can add it to the next version of Trainz or even the next patch of TS12.
I realize this post is pretty complicated for your level of understanding, and I can try to break it down to be simpler, if needed. Feel free to PM me if needed.