Piracy - is it a dirty word?

[shadowfox]

Sad thing is he is honest, he really believe the stuff that sprouts forth from his posts everytime this topic comes up. Everything pre y2k is awesome and everything made in the last 10 years is shit and doesn't "deserve" his cash thus he pirates it to stick it to the man and make studios make games like in the good old day.

And in the meantime he gets himself stuck in an infinite loop of idiot with his personal brand of twisted logic. Games are shit - so logically speaking he shouldn't be playing them, let alone pirate them. Yet, shitty or not, he still DOES play them.

And because they're sooooo shitty ... they get scores like:

Stalker: Clear Sky - 80%

I'll be the 1st for this than. StarCraft 2 - 88%

Assassins Creed 2 - 87.5%

I didn't have the patience to look for more gems.

And the best part is how he expects games to be completely bug-free on launch. Wakey-wakey Raven ... it's the 21st Century and the latest blockbusters are no longer games consisting of 25 files and a few thousand lines of code you can fit onto a single floppy disk.

It's next to impossible to test for every possible eventuality, whereas with thousands of users playing the game and pushing it to the limits is bound to pop up something that the devs missed. In case you don't get the idea, they are busy working and don't really have time to play the game through several times in order to spot all the bugs you are so epically good at apparently finding.

As for your little philosphy of "sticking it to the man" - hahaha ... do you think they even notice you? At least, as a legal buyer, I'm worth a singular unit. Like 1 out of 10,000 purchasers. You pirates are a percentage of one unsightly lump, kinda like a cancer. You're not even worth a full number. Your feedback counts for nothing where bugs are concerned.

And like any cancer, it needs to be treated and removed ... hence DRM. If the cancer goes, so does the treatment.

You ... my lad ... are the cause, and you're most definitely not going to be the cure. You are a shining example of the most base of human desires and emotions - greed, laziness, self-entitlement. You want everything for nothing - but at least you give the rest of us something to measure ourselves against and feel good about ourselves.