Malcador

You believe age matters in this anyway. You might stop pirating as you get older (variety of reasons - e.g. play less, decide to be a consumer or just not being with 'it' anymore), but as for regretting past piracy ? Eh, hardly. You'll regret doing things that were a negative impact on people you know or you, not regretting depriving Ubisoft or EA of your $60. As for my 'reluctance' to tell you of all people my age, well, you're welcome to assume anything you like.

Because it's irrelevant ? If you think it is, I'd like to hear the reasoning

No, that's not it really, most likely lack of concern for the tiny impact it had (and gratitude for stress relief at no cost!) Doubt simply aging is going to change my opinion on the matter

But can you beat Kurasawa 2 in WC ?

This is headline news up here, kinda sad, heh.

I'm wondering how the release of diplomatic cables is exposing evil acts or something. Is interesting and all, but largely not seeing anything particularly noble about this. Shocking that diplomats dont say nice things about others, really.

The stupidity in this thread is staggering. I blame my lack of a Ferrari on the legit market not accomodating me. Well, it makes it even more tempting if you have a game priced arbirtrarily higher than other places. The legit market might as well not try to compete there, when you can go to a local store or hop on Usenet and get it. Hm, nope, not regretting it these days. Was a good way to save cash and have fun back at Uni labs, heh. Besides, you'd think Ubisoft would have suffered from it.

Eh I dunno, I wouldn't want to live out west with all those rednecks. Here in the immigrant ghetto of TO it's much nicer. If the penalties are identical, doesn't make the crimes equal or the same. It's not theft, unless you do something neat and steal every copy as well as destroy all copies of the source (that'd be a coup). But eh, is a quibble. It's funny how you people exhibit such anger and use such harsh terms about people that download games illegally of all things (not even Scene people, just leechers). Still though, no one gets the point of piracy being huge in some places due to the legit market not even trying to be appealing, hm. Yarr.

I heard Just Cause 2 got pretty boring though.

So far nothing I want. Supreme Commander 2 for less than $5 was hilarious though, stupid Taylor had to whore it out.

Could be useful, the delay might matter. Course, as one mentioned earlier, better to not buy games until they've been out for a year, heh.

Poor substitute for playing as you're shown what's wanted to be shown.

Demos ? uh ok. Rentals for PC games is a new one to me, and as for preview videos...you like the taste of manure ? However one useful thing to have is consumerist friends, you can rely on them to buy mindlessly and then glean any input from them. Most useful thing I've come across so far.

Sure, if the money is $5 from them to you. Otherwise...ehhhh.

Wargasm took that.

Operation Arrowhead

Sort of amused at a crackberry user walking out right into the path of a bike courier, not a high speed collision but the entire accident and the ensuing cussing match was pretty good.

Well people are crappy, so there we are. Mostly though the snide digs and aura of self importance does seem common here and everywhere, not that there's anything wrong with that making a 'solid' community that cares about others (as odd as that is for text on a screen, anyway )

Well..yes, I know that (woo my B.ASc isn't useless after all ). What I meant was specifically how it's done. If people pirate the application I work on, I doubt I'd care much either way, like Initech we ship more zip benefit to me other than the already ongoing dice roll of whether I keep my job, hehe. Whether or not they funded the company, they've provided feedback on a product I've worked on and that's what's useful to improve. You're telling me that if a pirate supplies a well evidenced review showing why he thinks the game is bad totally or in some aspects, you'll just ignore it ? What if he praised it ?

I had no idea RoK's military was the size it was, not that much smaller than the DPRK's, well if you include reserves.

Most of it seemed unrelated to piracy - such as their testing problems, or him getting disheartened alot. I'd be glad if someone said they thought my game was crap but played 30 hours of it, at least they've seen everything it had to offer at that playtime and can form their opinion on it. That way it's useful as feedback. I'm curious as to how these groups break the copy protection from a technical view, heard rumours but as you can imagine, can't go ask how they do it, hehe.

Pfft, it's the internet!

Isn't that pretty much all of this forum ?

Better example would be stealing library books, but that's proper stealing not "stealing" like piracy is. But the original point was just the reality of why people do it, little or no impetus to buy it.

Everyone's like Hitler.