piracy on pc
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Yea they made 3p from every spectrum game they copied only took them 7 years to buy a water pistol.
More importantly, how does it fund terrorism if the people pirating don't pay anything?
Was my thoughts as well... lol I know I've erm, *cough* downloaded a game before and never paid for it, well apart from extra electric as i left the PC on overnight downloading.
To be fair, the game was total pants and deleted from my HD and carried on as normal safe knowing I hadn't wasted £30 etc on a POS...
Although I did download Test Drive unlimted and it was a fantastic game so ordered a copy, my saves even worked and I never even opened the DVD case when I got, just kept playing the downloaded copy and placed the DVD with the rest of my DVD games collection... Well, I did pay for it - eventually..!! But why remove and re-install the game when it was working perfectly fine..
Oh and I've erm.. used no CD /DVD cracks as I hate putting the DVD in for games, worked fine for single player games. And, it actually stopped a stupid CTD with toca race driver 3. how bad was that? A PC game crack fixed a stupid Crash to Desktop with a game i'd purchased..!! Laughable really, but then thats codemasters for you..!!
Yeah, I use No-Cd cracks all the time for games I've bought legally at full price (I love having physical games in my library). Can't be asked to keep having a pile of discs next to my PC. They should just remove the requirement from having the CD in to play anyway - pirates will get around it easily and it will just annoy paying customers.
Also the "Piracy Funds Terrorism" ads are just blatantly obvious hilarious propaganda. Bin Laden ain't making money from 2.3 million bittorent downloads of Starcraft 2, is he now?
Just associate something you think is bad with something most people fear - voila you've got some excellent propaganda.
Also the "Piracy Funds Terrorism" ads are just blatantly obvious hilarious propaganda. Bin Laden ain't making money from 2.3 million bittorent downloads of Starcraft 2, is he now?
Just associate something you think is bad with something most people fear - voila you've got some excellent propaganda.
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Agreed, I only use an external optical drive now so I now no longer buy games which need a disc in the drive to play. People with a netbook also have no optical drive.
Starcraft 2 doesn't need the disc to be in the drive while playing and neither does any of the games on Steam, so I'm happy.
More companies should release demos before their games so people can decide if the game is any good before buying without resorting to piracy. I've been bitten in the past by buying games based on reviews etc and have ended up uninstalling them after 30 minutes never to be played again so like to try them first! I downloaded SC2 on release to see what it was like as there was no demo, I bought it a day later so I could play online and its been my most played game of the year so far!
I generally like to try games before I buy them and most of the time there is no demo available, usually because the game is crap and they'll miss out on sales if people realise this before release!
I generally like to try games before I buy them and most of the time there is no demo available, usually because the game is crap and they'll miss out on sales if people realise this before release!
This is why there are not as many demos, it would cost most games in terms of sales.
Exactly, although I did end up buying Mafia 2 after playing the demo and I was massively disappointed with that!
On the flip side... No demo so sod it torrent download it is and once you've got the game they might think.. Nah its good but not paying for it now. Its installed and working. If there is extensive online parts maybe but single player games downloaded due to no demo could mean loss of sale...
Either way, no demos is pretty much a bad idea. you know, we used to get demos of every single game.
The thing I find the funniest is that those anti piracy adverts on LEGIT dvd's are over 30 seconds long and cannot be skipped, so if you watch 120 dvd's (not a hard feat) you've wasted an hour of your life watching a lame anti piracy advert that the people with pirated copies don't have to watch rofl, its hilarious
it doesnt fund terroism but in russia/china etc organised criminal gangs like the mafia make money selling counterfeit software/games etc
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A lot of people, if not the majority of people who pirate games do so because they can, even games that release with no DRM at all are still pirated heavily. It's usually nothing to do with game prices either, since a lot of the people who pirate, especially on this forum have high end, expensive PCs.
I honestly think for some people it's almost an addiction, you have people downloading hundreds of GB's of data per month, how can there be that much they want/need every month? I honestly think people are downloading a ton of stuff they never even use.
I honestly think for some people it's almost an addiction, you have people downloading hundreds of GB's of data per month, how can there be that much they want/need every month? I honestly think people are downloading a ton of stuff they never even use.
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ubersonic said:
yeah, £24.99. ELEVEN YEARS AGO. games are better value today they they've ever been, console or pc. its just a shame that a certain publisher in particular takes the micky
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Indeed, that's getting close to £35 with inflation. Considering you can get NEW releases for £30ish often, games today are great value.
I guess if you're mainly into multiplayer, online gaming that's true.
I'd question whether today's (mostly a lot shorter) SP games are better value.
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OH COME ON!
you cant stop this, its impossible, command and conquer 4 for example tried to stop piracy by forcing users to be constantly connected to the net with legit CD keys just to play single player but there are now hacks and cracks to by-pass this.
I don't see the reason why people try to speak-up against piracy, it's a never ending war plus if you do it's more than likely that you will get DDoS from 4chan.
This is 2 months but a good article to read about. http://mashable.com/2010/09/18/4chan-mpaa-ddos-attack/
I know the authorities are trying their best to crack down on this but the amount of people doing this is on a massive scale its hard to control.
you cant stop this, its impossible, command and conquer 4 for example tried to stop piracy by forcing users to be constantly connected to the net with legit CD keys just to play single player but there are now hacks and cracks to by-pass this.
I don't see the reason why people try to speak-up against piracy, it's a never ending war plus if you do it's more than likely that you will get DDoS from 4chan.
This is 2 months but a good article to read about. http://mashable.com/2010/09/18/4chan-mpaa-ddos-attack/
I know the authorities are trying their best to crack down on this but the amount of people doing this is on a massive scale its hard to control.