No Fallout 3 Demo [Apr 21, 2008, 6:40 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Eurogamer
has word from Pete Hines of Bethesda Softworks, who says a demo for Fallout 3 is
not in the cards:
When you build it as one thing, there's no way to portion off a section and have it stand on its own without putting the whole game in the demo, which we're just not going to do. And it doesn't really capture the fun of a game like an Elder Scrolls or a Fallout, where you can go where you want and do what you want. So no demo, sorry.
That's basically what a pirated game is. A legitimate copy of game with a crack.I think most people think of pirated games as being a copy of the game that isn't yours. Sure, it was originally a legitimate copy of the game (for the person who originally uploaded it, assuming he or she paid for it), but it's not your legitimate copy. That's what I meant when I said that I had pirated games in the past. If it makes it easier to understand, let me rephrase: "I've downloaded games illegally in the past, but most of my experience comes from using cracks with games I have purchased."
Now, the cracks aren't always good. However, bad cracks are always addressed within a day and a good crack is released. The "scene" has quality standards, so if a release is bad, it is either fixed or a replacement is released by another group. This is why I say that you need to have knowledge of piracy so you know what works and what doesn't. If you just download random crap off P2P, then yeah, there's a greater risk of things not working since many P2P releases aren't done by scene groups.I know something of how "the scene" works, but what I was talking about was games that are deliberately programmed to sabotage copies of the game that are cracked. The only specific example I remember is X2, and I'm not sure if it was ever fixed. The effect it had was to harass the player by taking away his or her accomplishments gradually; this isn't something that would be obvious to crackers, so I don't know if they noticed. Thankfully Egosoft is one of the few developers that's smart enough to remove copy protection after a while, so it's a moot point now. But still, I wonder if it was ever successfully cracked?
I'm pretty sure that X2 wasn't the only game that did this. Like I said, I haven't cracked any recent games, so I'm not sure if this practice increased in popularity or not.
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