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| News Comments > PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
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Re: PCGA on Piracy |
Feb 13, 2009, 22:14 |
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You're not entitled to a game. If you're not happy with the price, lack of demo, non-returnable policies, etc. (all perfectly valid issues)..then you do not buy it and you do not get to play it.
I had a guy on steam forums once tell me that waiting until a game got a little cheaper was as bad as stealing. comments?
Don't mistake anti-DRM people for pro-piracy people, nor should you make the mistake of believing that people who think that some efforts to curb piracy have had an overall detrimental effect on gaming don't find piracy an abomination.
BRAVO SIR!
This comment was edited on Feb 13, 2009, 22:15. |
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| News Comments > PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
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Re: PCGA on Piracy |
Feb 13, 2009, 14:31 |
wallace321 |
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Are you saying that this friend of yours was using Daemon Tools in a legitimate capacity (i.e. not for pirated software)?
No clue how he pirates his software. But does it matter? All it took to get around it was a cd crack. Remember it didn't tell him the reason it crashed, I just recognized it from previous experience. I'm not sure how you can not have any sympathy for the guy. He bought the game for a change and THIS is what he gets for it? Is that the lesson they want to teach people like him? "Dont' bother buying our software, we won't let you run it"? Or better yet, "we don't need your money, pirate" lol! The people I don't have any sympathy for are the people who think THAT is a good idea!
Ok so that guy is a pirate and developers don't want his money. (right? or do they think he can't get around something that stupid? we did pretty easily with a cd-crack) Fine. But it gets worse. Daemon tools is popular software for piracy, true. There was a bad incident for Securom when Lego Indy was being reviewed for PC Gamer by Kristin Salvator. Securom refused to allow the game to launch because of something as simple as Nero Express which, as pointed out in the review, came preinstalled on the system. Ouch.
This comment was edited on Feb 13, 2009, 15:21. |
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| News Comments > PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
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Re: PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
Feb 13, 2009, 13:05 |
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someone in the biz needs to explain why they keep wasting their time and money (and whining about profitibility out of the same mouth...) licensing copy protections that ONLY ONLY ONLY (times 100) ONLY affect store-bought copies, not the ones downloaded on bit torrent that all the pirates are playing? It affects customers, not pirates. It makes ZERO sense.
I bought a copy of Ghost Recon for a pirate-friend recently so we could play co-op. After patching up to the level of my steam copy, how embarassing was it when we had to download the no-cd crack for us to play it because it wouldn't run on his system with daemon tools installed? Good thing I recognized it for what it was and knew to get the crack. That is what it's like to play PC games now. Problems by design. I totally blame the idiocy of the publishers for this situation. It's called biting the hand that feeds you.
(by the way, I know a total hick redneck family who has a modded x-box and plays burned games. you can run from the problem by embracing consoles and snubbing the PC gamers that made you rich, cliffy or try to solve it but i'm telling you right now that can't run from it forever.) |
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| News Comments > PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
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Re: PCGA on Piracy's Benefits |
Feb 13, 2009, 07:41 |
wallace321 |
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can someone please explain why CD-keys don't do a damn thing? When it comes time to patch a game, why can't they blacklist KNOWN popular pirate keys or WHITELIST the ones known to be legit and distributed? That would at least restrict access to multiplayer which is 80% of the game for some people.
Think about this cliffski, if you saw hundred dollar bills in the street, would you start picking them up? Everybody else is! It's crazy! 100 dollar bills all over! Yaaaay!! And then the bank scolds the people for picking them up, not the idiot armored car driver who drives down the street with the back door open day after day. So the bank's answer is to hire Blackwater escort vehicles who then shoot anybody who gets close to the car whether they were trying to steal from them or not, with the door wide open still spitting money all over.
I don't care if that analogy is picked apart, it sounds very accurate to me and it was fun to think about because I really have no sympathy for idiot publishers who want to stop piracy by punishing people who bought the game. |
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| News Comments > Aliens RPG Axed? |
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Re: Aliens RPG Axed? |
Feb 12, 2009, 14:18 |
wallace321 |
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NooooO! A chance for the franchise to branch out a little! Now it's going to be FPSs forever!
Anybody remember that old school Aliens adventure game? |
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| News Comments > DICE Not Casual |
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Re: DICE Not Casual |
Feb 11, 2009, 20:50 |
wallace321 |
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Is there any good larger-scale (32 players +) FPS on the radar?
I'm looking for something upcoming to be excited about..
I have nothing factual to add, just my own wishful thinking, but wouldn't it be nice if the upcoming AvP3 game had the large scale (32+) vehicle based gameplay we're all wishing BF1943 had?
certainly would be a different setting, wouldn't it? |
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| News Comments > DICE Not Casual |
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Re: DICE Not Casual |
Feb 11, 2009, 03:35 |
wallace321 |
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I'm going to trust the guy. I mean, what do I have to lose until it's time to fork over the money for the actual game?
He certainly has put it all out there, so to speak. Their reputation is on the line now. he realizes we have legit concerns about the game, and has reassured us (us directly. PC gamer fans of the original game) that this game won't be shite.
I'm holding off judgment until the game finally comes out, but the stakes suddenly got MUCH higher. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt here. If they're going to stake that much on this game, maybe they know something we don't? |
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| News Comments > Dead Rising 2 PC |
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Re: Dead Rising 2 PC |
Feb 9, 2009, 13:24 |
wallace321 |
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Personally, I would only be complaining about it being a "shoddy console port years later" if:
1. It was actually a shoddy port. If it was optimized for the PC perfomance-wise and control-wise, then it's a PC game. Otherwise, it's crap whether it's a console port or not.
2. they want a full $50 price tag for it years later. the game is past it's prime. it's not wine. old games just can't compete with new ones and the price should reflect that.
3. low sales blamed on piracy (if they fail at 1 and 2, i certainly won't be buying it and pirates are going to pirate it anyway. the best they can do is release a game people want to buy that works as advertised.)
I think most PC gamers are reasonable. The ones that actually buy games are anyway.
I just don't get it. If pirates are going to steal it anyway and make it available to the world for free, why would you release buggy, unfinished, DRM infested, crap that people don't want to buy either? |
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| News Comments > Battlefield 1943 |
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Re: Battlefield 1943 Announced |
Feb 5, 2009, 10:54 |
wallace321 |
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24 players sounds like a console cop-out. Didn't Battlefield 2 support 64?? Metacritic search says: BF2 - 64 players, BF2:MC - 24
They won't be able to recereate the epic battles of battlefield 1942 with only 24 people. But that's all the consoles can handle and that's undoubtedly what this is, a console port.
Confidence is low. i repeat, confidence is low. : (
If they would just fix the cheating issues, I would have no problem playing BF2 or 1942... Ohhhhh i see now... |
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| News Comments > No PC PoP DLC |
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Re: No PC PoP DLC |
Feb 2, 2009, 21:34 |
wallace321 |
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"fine we're releasing without DRM because we all know how much you hate it; hopefully it'll make you buy the PC version"
4 months later:
"we're releasing DLC for Prince of Persia... except on the PC, it's a business decision. sorry"
Well, it's not as bad as getting DRM and no DLC. But it still feels like we're getting cheated somehow. And so it was the PC version remains the inferior version to own. Gotta love Ubisoft's way of thinking...
This comment was edited on Feb 2, 2009, 21:40. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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WoW the religion |
Jan 31, 2009, 16:43 |
wallace321 |
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I could get behind this. It has more believable lore than both christianity and pastafarianism. Plus, nobody has to die! Unless this is a PVP server?
"light be with you"
"ding!" is the new "mazel tov" |
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| News Comments > Legal Briefs |
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Re: Legal Briefs |
Jan 15, 2009, 20:36 |
wallace321 |
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Two points -
1: in most (probably all) states, they're legally old enough to have sex together but since they took a picture of it, suddenly it's a felony
2. the girls who took the pictures; slap on the wrist. the guys (who probably did nothing wrong except not deleting the picture); charged as adults, 20 years on a sex offender's registry and will probably never be able to get a decent job
laws have NOT kept up with technology (or common sense...) |
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| News Comments > Game Warning Labels |
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Re: Game Warning Labels |
Jan 12, 2009, 22:12 |
wallace321 |
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"warning; children learn how to act from people and their environment. so hitting their mother with a beer bottle may send the wrong messages"
People have been violent sociopaths long before video games. a warning label on video games won't change that. people are also stupid enough to think this garbage helps.
after theyve put a warning label on everything and nothing has changed, maybe then they'll require a license to breed FINALLY. |
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| News Comments > Weekend Sales |
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Re: Weekend Sales |
Jan 10, 2009, 21:34 |
wallace321 |
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I bought the bundle for super cheap...but don't remember what I paid...maybe 1-2 months ago?
I think i bought it maybe in september - I paid $11 or $12 I think. DOH! |
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| News Comments > Relic: DoW Support Lacking |
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Re: Relic: DoW Support Lacking |
Jan 9, 2009, 19:08 |
wallace321 |
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Why fix or patch games at all? That's what sequels are for!
<end sarcasm>
their support of the original Dawn of War "wasn't up to snuff" "Isn't up to snuff." There, i fixed it.
Just because the new game is coming out doesn't mean the old game never happend. With that attitude, there's no reason to suspect that they won't do the exact same thing again. The didn't have any problem finding the time to ADD DRM to CoH waaaay after it's initial release.
PS. Blizzard and Valve are still releasing patches for games that came out in 1997 and 1998 (Diablo and Half Life)
Anybody have any comments about these points? |
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| News Comments > Evening Tech Bits |
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Re: Evening Tech Bits |
Jan 7, 2009, 21:12 |
wallace321 |
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| What would a silver bullet do to vampire-anything? Nothing. Unless by "silver bullet" they meant "stake-through-the-heart". |
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