Pretty sure Walmart paid for the games before the sale though . <| sep |> They would make your credit reports look bad . For any lenders looking at your reports , they probably won ' t lend you money until you sort out the existing pastdue debt . <| sep |> 1 . 8 to 1 . 9 was absolutely not a minor version release . It tackled the same dragon that made Python 2 . x to 3 . x difficult string encoding . Ruby ' s shift was only minor relative to Python virtually every former Ruby programmer I ' ve met since then has blamed the 1 . 8 to 1 . 9 transition for angering them into quitting Ruby but of course , Python 2 . x to 3 . x is still going on . But Ruby has one huge difference from Python Rails is by far the vast majority use case for Ruby developers . And when the Rails core team announced they were going allin on 1 . 9 , that made everyone in Ruby much more incentivized to go along , because chances are , most of your professional income was going to come from Rails development . Python has nothing like Rails to drive the community forward . This isn ' t necessarily a bad thing , as it is a result of the much more diverse use cases for Python .