Malcador

Well we'll get your feedback on the game, so that'll contrast with the negative-to-begin-with stance as you seem to be pretty positive on the game. I've yet to pay full price for crap - although I'll admit Civ V CE was a colossal waste of money

Well corporations are evil. As for Google being evil, well wait a bit longer.

We need someone who hates the game going in, to get it - balances things out. As for me, meh, waiting for the GOTY and a price drop of $2.50 seems like the best plan.

Soundtrack might be tempting, but hopefully one can extract or just get that. The 10,000 credits at the start though, heh.

I did find something funny when I walked into Mojave last night and talked to the NCR troops. Well I guess they really are an army of one.

Oh well, sorry.

Only DLC I've found somewhat interesting were some of the Borderlands ones. Knoxx and Ned, mostly.

Why? The Obsidianites don't really strike me as the "Day one!11!!" crowd... Did you see the posts earlier in this thread ? Borderline Day one people

One nicer thing about buying it the old way, is being able to return (then again, if you somehow bought a package of games instead of one, you'll have some major issues).

Funniest comment I've seen about Hitler was "He was a great leader, just that he had bad ideas"

Not sure what good that policy does, well other that avoid panty-knotting - my post is deleted for a cracktro of all things ? Bah! it's 8-bit esque audio Two different groups there, that bundle was DRM free so people just downloaded it without paying rather than actually cracking anything. Maybe some of the scene groups think they're doing this to stick it to The Man, though. Ah Iron Lore, that thread post teeters on bitter whinging, but he does make some good points, I found this bit kind of amusing Hard to tell an actual crash as opposed to a copy protection failure, so no wonder.

Oh yeah, I can see that happening.

Plotted the best way to garrote the coworker across from me. Who answers the phone "Uh...who is this?", bah. Sucks too, all the cool non-corporate stooge people quit my job due to heart trouble, being fed up, or expecting a child, so kinda stuck. Spent too much time arguing on forums today rather than working, though, whoops

Right, that was insulting to you ? Sure, passive-agressive man, heh, I disagreed with it, hardly went on some tear on how worthless your argument is. As for GAF's policy, sounds reasonable. Another forum I'm on has people that throw a hissy fit over the mere mention of piracy itself and ban people, I guess that's a bit extreme compared to the policy you've mentioned. But nah, it wouldn't be vacant, we'd have fine moral examples like above.

Never been on GAF, why ?

And a lot because reverse engineering binaries and poring through assembly can be fun

I'm pretty sure individuals do, but they keep the brand up, at least for the really old famous groups.

They still do, you can find a whole bunch of them on Youtube oddly, of all places. Scene itself is still about cracking the games, as they compete with each other etc. and have their rules and what not. But I guess "leechers" have definitely undergone what you've described (which was my mistake of your meaning, I think).

Hasn't it always been a subculture though? Way back to the Amiga days ?

The packaging has really improved though.

Yep, second time around I smashed it easy. But the first time out, I had no idea wtf I was doing to be frank, it was a brick wall.

Hm, Monkey Island 2 SE does sound appealing. For once, there's something I want on these Steam sales!

The swamp wasn't my favourite zone, at least in Chapter 2, especially at night - seemed to me more monsters came out then. The Arcehspores or the Coccacidium were almost unbeatable for me when I first played too.

Well I don't invest in the industry, I just buy some games (although investing in the big publishers is a good idea they keep saying). Not quite the head of a Scene group yet. As for rationalizing past piracy, eh, I wouldn't say that I looked at it that way then or now.