Using the logic I see on these forums by whingers -
1 - Lets see - if Zenimax sells a product to me at full price and later sells it at a discount or gives it away for free, then I deserve some kind of financial compensation. This is often repeated on the forums and it sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Then I think of all the times I've eaten fast food, pizza, or drank beer and those slimey companies have later put their product on sale. I deserve financial compensation for that. Heck, all my VHS tapes were at some time $29.99 a pop and now wallmart sells them DVD's for the SAME movies for $2 each. Wallmart owes me a HECK of a lot of money just for VHS, DVD and BLueray compensation. Then there's all the Casette tapes and DVD's I bought in the 80's and 90's. HOLY COW - I'M RICH!
2 - Zenimax owes people financial compensation for server down time. Then I think about the The telephone company and other monthly services. I often get terrible reception with T-mobile. It's often so terrible that I can't even hear the person on the line. I deserve financial compensation for every call, right? Never mind that my phone is a piece of crap that is incompatible with T-mobile or any other "victim blaming" - I deserve deserve some money back, right? Cities and Counties also owe us all a very large tax rebate at least in the 10's of thousands of dollars due to the fact that I pay taxes but have been unable to use certain roads due to scheduled maintenance, unscheduled repairs, hurricanes, floods or whatever.
Also I want money back from every monthly service fee I ever paid for every February for 48 years. I paid for 2 days service I never got. You guys never mention this when complaining about Zenimax, but maybe you should start. It's at least as valid a complaint as the other two.
Now what am I gong to spend all this money on? Maybe I'll quit my job today because with all the money I'm going to get back I'll be rich. O.o