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I recently had the game from dust refunded as Ubisoft told steam to give out refunds to dissatisfied customers.
The game is removed from my steam library, but still installed and works from my steam folder. I'm sure they arent going to ban me for copy pasting and keeping it, even though its an atrocious unplayable game that I'll never touch again.
The game is removed from my steam library, but still installed and works from my steam folder. I'm sure they arent going to ban me for copy pasting and keeping it, even though its an atrocious unplayable game that I'll never touch again.
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Steam isn't the "system police". It won't matter.
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Steam can't detect pirated games and ban you for it, and I doubt massively that such a feature would ever be implemented (humongous legal grey area).
Personally, I wouldn't care if they did, the pirate leeches deserve it imo.
Personally, I wouldn't care if they did, the pirate leeches deserve it imo.
Steam can't detect pirated games and ban you for it, and I doubt massively that such a feature would ever be implemented (humongous legal grey area).
Personally, I wouldn't care if they did, the pirate leeches deserve it imo.
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if you play games for long enough you'll realize why pirating is bad.
one example: look up Demis Hassabis founder of Elixir studios, though it doesnt say it there one of their games was heavily pirated (evil genius). the goverment offered him a job, he left the games industry
one example: look up Demis Hassabis founder of Elixir studios, though it doesnt say it there one of their games was heavily pirated (evil genius). the goverment offered him a job, he left the games industry
They need to get a lot more creative on tackling piracy, its just so easy nowadays. I like the always on connection but then you get people screaming about it PLUS its cracked in a heartbeat. Piracy is always quoted as a driver for primary console development and the PC getting stiffed with poor ports.
But no, there is no way Steam would detect a pirate game on your hard drive, we would have heard about such an 'invasion of provacy' a long time ago.
But no, there is no way Steam would detect a pirate game on your hard drive, we would have heard about such an 'invasion of provacy' a long time ago.
Steam can't detect pirated games and ban you for it, and I doubt massively that such a feature would ever be implemented (humongous legal grey area).
Personally, I wouldn't care if they did, the pirate leeches deserve it imo.
On what do you base that claim? Assuming your premise is that downloading is "stealing", please can you site a single source that actually provides evidence of that - that a download has ever equaled a lost sale?
If you can't, then your premise is actually, I don't like what you did, therefore you should have your steam account banned. Well, by that basis, I don't like your post, lets ban your steam account...
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Piracy on consoles is the same. All you have to do is flash your drive, if this can't be done someone will do it for £20. Then you just download an iso, burn it and play. In fact it is easier to play pirated games on the console as no moving of files is required. Well Xbox anyway, not sure about PS3.
So I don't get the whole PC piracy is worse then consoles. In fact Console is worse as it is easier and they get leaked earlier.
So I don't get the whole PC piracy is worse then consoles. In fact Console is worse as it is easier and they get leaked earlier.
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Isn't that what EA/Bioware already do?
Piracy may not equal to lost sale but it is stealing nonetheless (you could also argue that stealing a car from a dealership isn't equal to a lost sale). You use something you have not bought/been given the right to use.
hense the shift towards free to play micro payment models.
too many big publishing companies have stiffed gamers over the years tbh. ******* in suits who care about nothing other than the bottom line and gouging as much cash as possible in the shortest space of time.
i've thought about going back to pirating but you know what, it's the developers that get hurt and us the gamers in the long run. just need to get rid of the leachers. and i don't mean the pirates.
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I can't beleive anyone still uses this argument. I am going to explain this very slowly, in the hope that you are the last person left who hasn't heard it.
Stealing. A. Car. Deprives. The. Owner. Of. That. Car.
To equate to "real life" theft, the original owner must be deprived of something that they would have had, if your actions had not taken place. If "Tim" downloads something made by "Ben", then Ben is only worse off by the implied theory that Tim owes Ben the value that would normally be charged for this "thing". Ben still has his thing, he is still able to sell his thing. He is not missing anything that he had before Tim downloaded the thing.
I do want to be clear, I'm not saying that pirating is morally correct, I don't deny that in many instances that Tim is downloading something that Ben created, and that he does not want him to download, however, I am sick to death of this deeply flawed argument.
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