Ea to charge for game demos
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A cut down version was available for free, the full creator had to be bought.
I dont even consider private servers as piracy, you arent playing WoW you are just titting about on a non game server and going straight to 80 with no effort and no rewards. Private servers probably account for less than a tenth of 1% of people interested in wow. A private server doesnt class as being WoW.
As it happens I was talking more about the ability to control the game players by the control of accounts, control of keycodes that can be used only once and the fact that to play ( properly ) you simply cannot pirate it.
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you do know that isn't made by EA right?
Understandable, but overwhelmingly wrong. True, the majority of private servers are so-called 'fun' servers, normally with a custom run at the beginning aimed at getting you to lv60/70/80 depending on what expansion's cracled on that server, but there are a lot of 'blizzlike' servers with standard progression, or 1.5x/2x exp gain/drop rate modifiers to balance out the lower population, and there are a lot of players on them. even the best have their bugged quests and the like, but the game's so huge that the vast majority of content is available free of the monthly subscriptions, so piracy's definitely an issue there.
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There are many people who pirate full games as demos, and cash out if it's worth their money. As far as I'm aware, it's quite a large part of the pirate scene - an expanded 'try before you buy' that is often cited as not so much a defence of piracy, but rather in skepticism of the estimated damage caused - normally by software developers.
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Oh yeh I realise that. Have done it myself in the past. It just makes me laugh that people will then pirate a demo to see if they will like the full game enough to buy it. They'll inevitably just pirate the full game too.
Unless having the demo will give you money off of the first game I can't see anyone paying for it.
Unless having the demo will give you money off of the first game I can't see anyone paying for it.
Of course they will, there are way too many 'I want it now' kiddies out there who will happily line EA's pockets without a moments thought.
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Looks to me like demos will just be a glorified BETA test that we have to pay to participate in?
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True dat, i had my own WoW server at one point, currently playing on a private Aion server
I do own the retail copies though
I'll get my demo's from elsewhere thanks 
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Luckily these days there are quite a lot of good free games and abandonware.
Shame EA is becoming a **** again for pc gaming. I hope Valve and some other companies stay reasonably pc friendly.
.Luckily these days there are quite a lot of good free games and abandonware.
Shame EA is becoming a **** again for pc gaming. I hope Valve and some other companies stay reasonably pc friendly.
I'm waiting to see the uproar when Bobby Kotick (Actiblizz) makes battlenet a P2Play service in time for diablo 3 release. I'll certainly be ****ed and it will make me think twice about buying a game I've so long been waiting for, but I think the hype around D3 would be too much for players to hold off from buying it and sticking to any principles/boycotts they might voice to begin with.
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The sad thing is the bloke is enough of a **** to make that happen because he knows he can get away with it. And I'm about 80% sure he will.
PC Gaming has entered some pretty dark days
EA is now descending back into the pit from whence it came
Did it really leave it?