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GenericShadowGS  10257 posts
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Yarr! Pirates! 6/27/08 5:54pm - Edited By: GenericShadowGS  6/27/08 5:55pm (1 edits total)
Following Crytec's recent words to the media, there has been a large amount of discussion on pirating software (games in particular.) The only problem with that is that about a third of the people involved in those discussion are half brained retards who cannot write a single sentence correctly. Or who say things so stupid that it makes me think they themselves are the reason behind PC gaming demise.

So I bring the discussion to you, who might possibly engage in it more maturely and with proper spelling and grammar.

First off, I think that pirating did hurt the sales of Crysis. Yes they are not the only thing that hurt sales, but it is a factor. A pirated copy of a game hurts sales ONLY if that person would otherwise have bought a copy. In the reverse, if that pirate would not have bought a copy, the company looses nothing. In fact, the pirate might buy the game after playing the pirated copy. And don't tell me that they wont, I know for a fact that it does. (And unlike those retards on the IGN boards, the word fact was used correctly)

In the end, people should buy the game. But there is no extreme answer like "all pirating is bad" or "all pirating is good because it's the company's fault for making a bad game." People are always giving statistics to try and prove one extreme or the other, but they are always narrow minded and don't take into account all the factors.

(edit, oh the irony...)

 
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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/27/08 6:35pm
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why Steam is the wave of the future.

 

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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/27/08 8:40pm
Thunderpants17251077 posted:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why Steam is the wave of the future.


Not in backward jerkwaters like Malaysia where the internet connection makes evolution seem fast.

I second the thought - I've stopped my own pirating habit a few years back, but all it's really done is make me far more selective in the games I play. To tell the truth, I haven't played a non-blockbuster since I quit piracy simply because my spending limit is maxxed out after three or four purchases per year, so it doesn't leave me much time to experiment. I'd probably never have played Planescape or Sacrifice with my current spending habits, but them's the breaks.

 

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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/28/08 1:38am
Valve: Why the PC is the future
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=160866

 
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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/29/08 2:49am
It's still possible to pirate single player steam games, though it's more difficult.

Arguments that people pirate to 'try a game out' before purchase doesn't really hold much water. The majority of people I know who pirate have never bought a retail game except for perhaps Counterstrike or Team Fortress because they HAVE to.

Personally, I've never pirated a game that I actually want. Sometimes someone will give me a pirated game because they say 'it's so awesome', usually these go in my draw and are never touched. I buy a game maybe once every two months, and I never find time to play any other game in those months.

 
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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/29/08 7:22am
InvivnI posted:
Arguments that people pirate to 'try a game out' before purchase doesn't really hold much water. The majority of people I know who pirate have never bought a retail game except for perhaps Counterstrike or Team Fortress because they HAVE to.


I've done it a couple of times with games that may or may not work on my rig. One time the game performed adequately so I bought a copy, and another time it didn't and I didn't.

 

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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/29/08 9:26am
I've used a few pirated games, and downloaded a few cracks, but they always seem to have something wrong with them; some sort of bug always cropped up. I gave up on pirated software and cracks after my illicit copy of Half Life shit the bed.

 

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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/29/08 10:32am
Yeah, if you pirate a game you can't patch it unless you get new pirating crap.

 
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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 6/30/08 9:41pm
Here is an interesting little article, although not entirely about pirating.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/op-ed/4999-Who-Do-You-Trust

 
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RE: Yarr! Pirates! 7/6/08 1:13pm
I don't pirate games, but then I don't play or buy too many new games these days.

Although I did make a copy of the Diablo disk to play LAN games with a friend of mine.

I pirate more music and movies than anything else. Most of it is stuff I wouldn't have bought, like the System of a Down Discography. I'm not about to go out and find (and pay for) their demos. A few CDs I've lost, my sisters have stolen, my sisters have, so I have no qualms about torrenting those. I did download the latest Gnarls Barkley and Ratatat CDs, which I would have bought and might still for the sake of having the CDs themselves, especially because they're such good albums. (Maybe not as good as their last ones, but still damn good.)
As for movies, I don't buy movies, period. I rarely even rent them. I'm not interested in modern cinema, and on the rare occurrence I am, I'll go to the theater.

 

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