OldScho0l wrote on Feb 12, 2011, 17:10:
The only reviews that can trusted are user reviews. Most review's are bought and paid for by the game company or someone affiliated with them. I wouldn't buy any games without lots of research. The thing I'm trying to get at is that these companies are not held accountable for faulty software and if they know it is not polished, they should not charge 50-60$.
I'm not trying to justify piracy, but piracy has been going on since before recorded history and it will never go away.

OldScho0l wrote on Feb 12, 2011, 16:50:
Piracy is the way it is because game companies charge 50-60$ for unfinished products. They release their pile of junk and when it doesn't work, they figure we'll just move onto something else. Why should they care? They already have our money by then. I for one am tired of spending several days to get the games to run properly on my more than adequate machines. I have literally hundreds of PC games that I have purchased and at least half of them did not work properly upon release and half of those were never fixed with patches.
I do feel bad when devs make a solid game and they get robbed by pirates, but I am also sympathetic to the pirates who have been robbed by these same devs in the past. If games were back at the 30$ price like they were 10-13 years ago, I would buy them more often. At 60$ a pop though, we're taking a big risk because we don't know if the game is even finished. Most games these days are junk and I can't afford to buy 5 different games in order to find the one that actually works as advertised.

For all you console fanboys, your systems are junk and your games look like watered-down poop.

Beamer wrote on Apr 4, 2010, 01:26:
Also, it drives me nuts when people say "remember when we could download Quake maps for free!?"


I question whether you guys remember. You connect to a server via QSpy. It makes you start downloading a user-created map you don't have. The download takes forever and, by the time you're half done the server switches maps. You now need to start downloading a new map. You finally get in the game and find out it's a piece of garbage with missing textures everywhere. That was my experience with user made maps.

Surf wrote on Mar 8, 2010, 18:38:
The Virus/Hacking debate between Windows/Linux and Mac has already been settled and all are open to attacks, nothing is safe. The reason for the viruses is maximum effect.