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But the problem with counterfeiting is that the fault lies solely with the counterfeiter and there is no monetary trade for internet piracy. Since we also use the term pirate for anyone who illegally downloads a immense amount of pirated material and counterfeiting doesn't encompass their guilt in the matter, I believe that it isn't an appropriate term. This is an unique phenomenon of a digital age and should be considered in its own class, IMO.

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Actually, a lot of people think that this hack was a reaction to Crytek not releasing a PC demo.

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Also we are going to Man-Hell for not posting this Cool men have unlit cigarettes on their mouths, ALWAYS.

No, you said that Kreia was a one dimensional character. Let's do a side by side comparison of Kreia vs. every other NPC out there. Right off the bat you know she is not a Jedi, eve if it's implicit you realize that she is a destitute Sith. Despite this she becomes your mentor since you are bound to her and can only retrain yourself through her. All the time mentoring she shoots your expectations down, revealing more about the characters surrounding you than them. She manages to protect you and breed you for an ultimate confrontation and in the end be it that whatever you choose (light or dark) she'll besmirch you for it. She is the character driving the story, the mastermind behind this whole plot and by her influence the whole KOTOR storyline. Please do mention another companion that matches all of her accomplishments. You want to see one dimensional, why don't we take a look at ME companions? Being the quintessential representation of their species and basically interchangeable with any of them.

Too subtle to claim that this is "not much to do with piracy really". Once it's on the net it doesn't really matter how it got there*. The game has been pirated many times over by now. *Although a copy that has no protection is certainly worse than a copy that has yet to be cracked. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, for example, was available to download long before it was ever cracked. I know that a lot the hacker teams wait at least a week to release it so that the game may have it's sales. Don't know how much help it is

It's something I'm thinking of avoiding until I actually play the game.. since it has the potential to spoil some in-game story I imagine... I read the first issue, It doesn't go any further than what the previews have shown. Mostly background stuff on how the world reacts to the advent of the singularity, the characterization of Jensen seems a little off sometimes due to facial expressions.

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Right, because all of the conversation with her which are of deeply philosophical nature, existential and the major religious theme of KOTOR 2 equating the force to a Pantheist sentient being not deep. But Shepard making some crack about where the council can shove it, writing gold.

That's what I would do if I had a good enough computer, even if just for the campaign. wait you're saying that if you had a good enough computer you WOULD steal crysis 2? Piracy isn't stealing. It's like borrowing. I hope you are kidding.

What I see as the main problem with PC gaming is the work it goes into into getting the game to run properly. From awkward control schemes, bugs and the system requirements. It's a lot of work for your average casual gamer that's used to putting a disc in playing immediately. Gaming has moved from technology conscious people to reach a broader audience whose computers are used mostly to check their facebook status. The Millennials are a social breed, most games right now include some sort of social aspect. Unlike the Generation X who is very individualistic and self reliant, their gaming experience was private and personal. Which is what PC was back in the 90's, it was a personal possession. The games reflect that, now PC gaming is mostly MMOs.

I think that the piracy problem is over dramatized by the industry and we have begun to join in the hysteria a little bit. Crysis was an exclusive PC release and performed well enough to generate a sequel, I wouldn't say die until it release. If more copies of pc games are pirated than are sold, which was suggested to be the case in another thread, then I think it's a pretty big problem. There's always a level of loss in a business that is tolerable and products are priced accordingly. But when the loss levels are that far out of whack, a company can't simply adjust pricing to make up for the loss. Even if the pirated copy does not always correspond to a lost sale, it sometimes does, and that is still a lot of lost revenue. Especially for a game that takes multiple years and thousands of developer hours to complete. It's a major problem for pc gaming that I don't think CAN be overstated enough. Crysis sold what eventually, 1.5 million? It sounds good but is that really a lot? Crytek is a company that appears on the surface to be more comitted to the pc as a gaming platform than most, so having this happen is pretty unfortunate. I see what you mean, how piracy affects a particular company is different of how it affects the industry. Although I believe they were sort of expecting it thus the multiplatform release.

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I think that the piracy problem is over dramatized by the industry and we have begun to join in the hysteria a little bit. Crysis was an exclusive PC release and performed well enough to generate a sequel, I wouldn't say die until it release.

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Another blow against pc gaming, the comments thread after the article also makes for depressing reading. Right because all PC gamers definitively know how to pirate and have no morals. Half of them don't want the hassle, others don't like to wait, and there are those who actually believe in ethics. PC gaming is dead because gamers prefer console not because of piracy.

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Yep, the rest of the world know that it's a crazy alien theory.

We keep going like that we are going to eventually go over all the variation of the "monomyth". I don't even care about all the plot holes, I could had look past them and the wasted codex. But the dialog was just awful, I mean MaleShep is like a crossbreed of James Bond and Zapp Brannigan. All the one liners and Saturday morning cartoon writing. What bothers me the most is that I know they are capable of more but seem content to "reach a broader audience" by dumbing down their games. Basically I'm tired of everyone calling games an art form when the best they done it's stroke the egos of a bunch of teenagers. And then they ask why everyone thinks video games are for kids.

Sorry I meant the game, the demo is on it's place.

Well, the demo has been delayed. until Feb 22 not a lot but...

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