• it takes longer to do anything in this game, you can only have a certain number of trees, so on and so forth.

This is different from its predecessors how? It takes no more time to do things, though the requirements are different. You could only have one berry bush in VV1, and three coconut trees in VV2.

• all the while, watching my villagers starve because there's no way of getting food unless you get enough tech points

Again, different how? In VV1 you will run out of food and die without research. In VV2 you will run out of food and die without research. In VV3 you will run out of food and die without research.

• You will be disappointed with the game because you will realise that you've paid for a game that has no continuity once the puzzles are solved and they just keep having babies and fish and collect tech points but for what?

You implied that you played the other games, but you keep saying things that nobody who played the other games would say. This is no different than VV1 or VV2. If you had played those games, this would not surprise you.

• I stated fully and clearly that i was disappointed with the game, upon which all the replies that i recieved from the software vendor accused me of lying, having no morals and then threatened me that they have "changed their policy as of yesterday"... refunds will no longer be available after 48 hours. yeah, whatever.

The developer guarantee is the developer guarantee. The vendor is not the developer. Also, most such guarantees have nothing to do with if you like it - that's what the free demo is for, to make sure you like it. I don't know the specifics of LDW's guarantee, but such things are usually regarding technical issues.

With the cost of most games today, and the length it takes me to play some of them, I'd say two weeks of solid enjoyment out of ten bucks is pretty dang good.