Spaced wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 15:29:

If Quake had failed because of some apparent bug, I'd have gone back to Duke Nukem 3D.

Who takes recommendations from a pirate? All of us. Someone recommends a game, do you demand to see a receipt? How many of the comments and recommendations for on this fair site come from people who have a legal copy? All? I very, very much doubt it. Most, I hope, but not all. If someone reports that "Medal of Duty: Modern Battlefields 4" is a buggy piece of crap, do you stop to think that maybe it's a FADE type DRM and they have a pirate copy?

Why would you allow others to determine your opinion for you? And you said it yourself, many comments are made by people not using the game legally. These days the way things are, you should start from the position that you don't know who is posting at all and it is likely they are using an illegal copy of the software, have a crappy system they're lying about, and/or don't know how to properly operate their computer. Then work in from there as more information is provided to validate the claim.

Risk and cost is certainly a factor and if you don't want to take the risk or can't afford a game, don't buy the game! That's a perfectly legitimate (and -legal-) decision to make. But don't go stealing the product and then complain when your hacked apart malware infested illegal copy doesn't work right. And anyone who -expects- an illegal copy of any software program to work right is a fool and so is anyone who listens to them -assuming- they are using a legal build (and have a capable system they know how to use). Many reported game bugs are a result of pirating and sometimes developers lose weeks or months of time trying to find and fix problems that never existed in their software! The problems were -introduced- by the idiot hackers who ignorantly deleted a bunch of code. Then the developer gets blamed and their reputation harmed for the result of -piracy-, not their own legitimate work. And we're supposed to sit here and welcome the pirates, their theft, their spreading viruses and malware, the damage they do to developers, and the time wasted that developers could have spent on making their games better? No way! I say find 'em, jail 'em, and get them off our platform. Our computers will be safer, developers will earn more, and our games will be better.