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-Your BMI is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

I object to people making my life more difficult for no good reason, on principle. Upgrading your OS before September will also be a must unless you are OK with losing your music. If it wasn't MS behind it, I'd wager it's intentional.

Prove it!

I'm thinking of buying it, then cracking it, which shouldn't be too difficult with the speed cracks are released at and all. Problem is that might cut me off from updates, which is a rather undesirable side-effect of playing the game I have paid for at my leisure, essentially leaving me with the same thing as if I had pirated the game to begin with. So, this kind of crap protection system is actually encouraging people to download the game illegally rather than buying it legit, QED /pragmatism

I think it's time the focus of the discussion shifted back to piracy. And by piracy, I mean me.

All right, cut it out. I'm the devil's advocate around these parts, mkay?

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Yes. As I said, I'm very proud of myself.

So, I make a blanket statement, and you choose to interpret it literally, countering with one of the most brilliant arguments ever to grace these boards, namely: ...just because I made the mistake of expressing an idea that is not of the liking of some of the regulars around here. You'll forgive me if I quietly withdraw at this point. The sycophancy and sheer absurdity in the thread are starting to make me feel real stupid for having been goaded into participating thus far. Carry on, carry on.

As I said, yes. I know you stole a game that you would have bought otherwise just to prove your point. That is statistically relevant how? Who is living in la-la land, again? It sounds to me like you're shifting the focus of the discussion from piracy to me to compensate for a lack of substance in your argument.

Seriously now. Do I really have to explain this to you? Stardock's business model success is actually fairly good evidence to support that those that pirate games likely wouldn't buy them if they couldn't steal them. How many people are willing to shell out $40-60 for a piece of software that they don't intend to get the most of (in the form of multiple playthroughs, updates, and extra content)? But yeah, I know you stole a game just to prove me wrong. Whoop dee ****ing do.

Thanks. I'm very proud of myself.

Because I am sure that every single person that pirated the game would absolutely not have bought it otherwise The unfortunate thing is that the only company with a vested interest in demonstrating that piracy can result in lost sales are the companies themselves, which means if they ever do any type of study on it, people just casually dismiss it. I know that there are people out there with the idea of "Why pay for it when I don't have to?" because I actually live with one. That's anecdote unfortunately, so you can casually dismiss at your leisure. If you don't know of anybody that actually feels like that, then I'd wager you live a rather isolationist lifestyle, or you are in fact ignoring the blatant evidence. Especially since you only need ONE to show that piracy = lost sales (even if it's just one lost sale). No. Smart devs win. Whiners (and you) lose. Game over man, game over!

My guess is they added that to counterbalance Carsomyr's dispel on hit ability, since Anti-paladins can't use it, and the Unholy Reaver in the game is just a plain +5 greatsword. It would have made much more sense to update the Unholy Reaver, though.

You horrible, horrible person. 10/10

You should be able to do it with Near Infinity. All that would involve is editing the 2da file that assigns abilities to the kit. If you are using Tactics' Anti-paladin, the file is WWANTI.2DA, and the string you'd need to remove is "AP_WWANTI", in row 1. I think. I haven't done it myself since I don't have that kit installed, but that's the melee effect that applies a dispel on every hit. Try it and see how it goes. Of course, you could just create a character with that class, and remove the flag from under the "affects" tab with Shadowkeeper, but that may or may not work, if those are updated at level up.

Lol no. It's called an excuse. They can make up any number of those to justify their game not living up to their sales expectations, but that doesn't make them true. Yours is living in denial. You can state that people that pirate wouldn't buy the game anyways, but that doesn't make it true. That goes against what I said how? Read my other posts in this thread. Specifically the one where I say I'm not disputing that pirates excuse their behaviour by claiming that piracy isn't equal to lost sales. As an aside, to live in denial is to disregard blatant evidence. There's no such thing as blatant evidence to support that piracy = lost sales. You failed.

For me it's more of a "your ISP is having trouble today? Sorry, no gaming for you then" issue. And the "cheaper" part, I'm not too convinced either, looking at the prices on Steam. You know, I sometimes miss the days when a broadband connection wasn't needed to go take a crap.

Funny that you would ask for proof, when you provided none yourself. Yep. Not gonna argue with that. None of that changes the fact that it's an excuse, though.

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Lol no. It's called an excuse. They can make up any number of those to justify their game not living up to their sales expectations, but that doesn't make them true.

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Affection-deprived much?

Why stop at going console exclusive? Shoot them I say. After stabbing them.

I liked BG(2) portraits. Must be nostalgia... Anyway, for NPC mods, get the Edwin Romance, and unleash the erotic fury. You know you want to. It's such a shame the BG1NPC mod doesn't continue into BG2. I haven't quite recovered from Shar-Teel's romance ending in BG1.