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Re: PC Red Faction Guerilla Delay?

May 21, 2009, 13:09

Verno

it can be daunting initially but once you've got all the flashing out of the way, you're set. The actual process of playing games is much simpler, as you don't need to worry about cracks or CD-keys. Just burn the game and you're good to go. As for Xbox Live, I don't really see that as much of an issue. If you're pirating games, you're probably not that interested in multiplayer to begin with, just like on the PC.

Hah, no sorry you're totally wrong and I'll explain why. Piracy on the 360 as an example, can be a huge pain in the ass. You have to run programs like mulleter or XPO to verify the rips and fix them. If you don't do this you get banned from Live. You have to get a special cable to upgrade the firmware on the majority of the dvd drives and certain games require upgraded revisions that might or might not work with older games. You have to worry about which of the three dvd drives you have in the first place, open up your 360 and so on.

That's nothing at all as simple as copying a file from one directory to another, something the majority of computer users can accomplish. Piracy on the PC is a joke compared to the consoles. Believe me, I wish it was easier on the consoles.

If you're pirating games, you're probably not that interested in multiplayer to begin with, just like on the PC.

No, that's the PC you're thinking of. The vast majority of 360 games have entirely free multiplayer, you do not need to pay a monthly fee beyond the XBL gold membership. It's not like say an MMO or some FPS with auth'd accounts. Part of the big draw is that you get the complete game pretty much for free, MP and all while saving yourself $60+.

I will admit that PC piracy seems a lot easier to the layman.

No offense but you seem to be the layman who doesn't understand console piracy. You don't just burn a game and go. You don't just drop a dvd with firmware on it into your xbox drive and press install. The worst potential part of piracy on the PC is a layman who doesn't understand rars(most torrents these days have no rars in them anyways, people just make a torrent with the disk image) and disc mounting software if you don't have a dvd burner(lol).

Piracy on the PC is considerably easier and this is from someone who does both. (yes yes I'm a bastard etc)




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