Benifets to be a pirate gamer :(

Mattus · 4 May 2008 at 02:29

Rapidshare is pretty handy providing you have a membership. Torrents aren't so good unless you're on a private tracker - usually five times as many leechers as seeds, so public downloads are pretty slow.

Margaret · 4 May 2008 at 02:32

I buy PC games & PS3 games but that's about it.

TV shows are my main addiction from the internet, the UK schedule is simply too far behind. (plus HD rips > SD quality)

Kreeeee · 4 May 2008 at 02:33

Raymond Lin said:
XBL is only £24 a year if you know where to look, getting a game 2 days before release? Whoopie Do !

But lets just say that if his xbox goes pop, Microsoft won't repair it.

I remember seeing GTA 4 on rapidshare, it was a 64 parts in 100m file ! I'd rather pay £40 and get legit than download all that, too much hassle.

ah, to be naive

More like weeks early.

And with the money saved, a new core - sell the pads and memory card etc = £100. Or someone who pirates will have no qualms about re-flashing the drive and sending it back. Warranty stickers are not an issue.

One click gets you the whole thing overnight from different sources.

yak.h'cir · 4 May 2008 at 02:35

I'm aware of those. My reasoning is that the only thing that puts me off pirate games is the risk that whoever made the file could have put something nasty in there. I don't see the point of paying money to get the genuine one but then still having to take a risk installing some unofficial patch. If I'm going to have to expose myself to the risk anyway I might as well keep my wallet in my pocket.

Margaret · 4 May 2008 at 02:35

Raymond Lin said:
XBL is only £24 a year if you know where to look, getting a game 2 days before release? Whoopie Do !

But lets just say that if his xbox goes pop, Microsoft won't repair it.

I remember seeing GTA 4 on rapidshare, it was a 64 parts in 100m file ! I'd rather pay £40 and get legit than download all that, too much hassle.

Microsoft will repair it.

A) Many people send their Xboxes to Microsoft even with modded fans and they still got repairs. (also missing warranty sticker)

and

B) You can use a hairdryer to take off the warranty sticker and put it back on so it looks like it was never taken off. (saw this on youtube)

Also for about £6 a month you can get access to Usenet which will max out your connection, I get 1500-2000kb/s on every download.

Have a feeling this thread or many of the posts may go soon.

Anewbe4u · 4 May 2008 at 02:43

Mattus said:
Rapidshare is pretty handy providing you have a membership. Torrents aren't so good unless you're on a private tracker - usually five times as many leechers as seeds, so public downloads are pretty slow.

Yeah, I pay for my torrent downloads. 1.5mb pretty much constantly.

Spyhop · 4 May 2008 at 02:51

It's unjustifiably lame to pirate something like GTA4, a fantastic game that hundreds of people have slaved over.

Ascendancy · 4 May 2008 at 02:51

Your friend only had GTAIV 2 days before release? lol. It was leaked 6 days before retail.

manoz · 4 May 2008 at 03:16

wush said:
It's unjustifiably lame to pirate something like GTA4, a fantastic game that hundreds of people have slaved over.

Any game is justifiable to piracy the difference between games is that the ones you enjoy deserve to be bought. There are companies I buy software from straight away cos I know I would enjoy it regardless, Valve being one of them .I wouldn't pirate GTA4 nor would I buy it,s I dislike the franchise and this ones not gona change my mind(which the hype led me to believe)

Darkwave · 4 May 2008 at 03:20

manoz said:
Any game is justifiable to piracy the difference between games is that the ones you enjoy deserve to be bought.

I don't enjoy paying rent and stuff, does that mean I can justify not doing it?

manoz · 4 May 2008 at 03:23

Ulfhedjinn said:
I don't enjoy paying rent and stuff, does that mean I can justify not doing it?

If you don't enjoy living where you are then yeah you could justify not paying it. In which case I'd go find a better place to live and pay for that.

Darkwave · 4 May 2008 at 03:26

manoz said:
If you don't enjoy living where you are then yeah you could justify not paying it. In which case I'd go find a better place to live and pay for that.

Yeah but following the analogy, piracy is continuing to live there without paying. Unless you're like me and only pirate if there's no decent beta/demo, and then delete it if it's rubbish or buy it if it's good.

manoz · 4 May 2008 at 03:30

Ulfhedjinn said:
Yeah but following the analogy, piracy is continuing to live there without paying. Unless you're like me and only pirate if there's no decent beta/demo, and then delete it if it's rubbish or buy it if it's good.

Yes that's what I do(most of the time). Other times some games do not need demos for however, like Valve, Blizzard etc ones.

I preordered and bought crysis cos I loved the demo(and the tech) so much. Though when I played the game it felt like I'd only seen a few rooms of the house I was renting

Spyhop · 4 May 2008 at 03:41

Let's not kid ourselves that the typical person who chips their console does it to try before they buy.

Darkwave · 4 May 2008 at 03:46

wush said:
Let's not kid ourselves that the typical person who chips their console does it to try before they buy.

Well, I for one was talking about PC games. I don't pirate console games.

uknowist · 4 May 2008 at 03:51

KNiVES said:
Just remember that game developers need a salary too, to go home to their wives and kids, and put food on the table. Yes that's a very old fashioned and simple way of looking at things, but it's also the most accurate.

are you serious?

manoz · 4 May 2008 at 04:02

Zefan · 4 May 2008 at 04:05

uknowist said:
are you serious?

Are you serious? Of course he's serious, it's a job like any other. The middle level/entry jobs are often poorly paid and the pressure to work many many hours when it comes to crunch time is huge.

Things change I've changed · 4 May 2008 at 04:28

Zefan said:
I fully appreciate that it is against the law, however I don't place it anywhere worse than buying a game second hand.

You can't be serious surely, you think that buying a game secondhand is as bad as pirating a game ?

manoz · 4 May 2008 at 04:36

Zefan said:
Are you serious? Of course he's serious, it's a job like any other. The middle level/entry jobs are often poorly paid and the pressure to work many many hours when it comes to crunch time is huge.

We need to do what Canada does and offer more tax credit/incentives. From what I know it was quite common a while ago and went down, even though it makes more money then the movie industry. I'd like to see more reason for companies to develop in the UK, hopefully pushing up the quality