«

[TheChosen]

Had to see it to belive it. I looked up on torrent search and yes, Fallout 3 for X-box. All ready to be downloaded. Goody.

Whats with the companies these days? They dont seem to care about piracy as they cant come up with any effective copy protection. Everything seems to be crackable.

And my thoughts on piracy: If I want to play a certain game, I play it. If this game is available on online I'l download it. That is all.

However, If I see an interesting game for sale either on a store or online auction, and I have enough money, Il probably buy it, because I like physical things and owning junk.

Still, either of these wont be much support to the gaming industry, as nearly all the games that I've bought or downloaded are too old to bring any noticable profit or its a used copy (If I buy the game that is). There are exceptions for this rule too, for example, my newest game is Season 1 of Sam & Max.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by TheChosen

Everything seems to be crackable.

everything is crackable

[Panthro]

I don't mind the CD-check things that I can easily get a no-cd fix for, but I object to paying for something and having to download a workable copy. Apart from the dubious legality of downloading a pirated copy even if you have a retail copy, I'd rather avoid buying it and playing it altogether, hoping that enough people will do the same and they will get the idea that offensive DRM doesn't work.

In my opinion, since this episode shows that its not just PC versions that can get put up on the web, and that the version wasn't even released yet, it should indicate to everyone that DRM is entirely ineffective, especially as r.u.s.s. says, everything can be cracked.

Unfortunately, some companies will take the opposite line, and continue with restricted use software as with Bioshock and Spore.

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't mind the CD-check things that I can easily get a no-cd fix for, but I object to paying for something and having to download a workable copy. Apart from the dubious legality of downloading a pirated copy even if you have a retail copy, I'd rather avoid buying it and playing it altogether, hoping that enough people will do the same and they will get the idea that offensive DRM doesn't work.

Same here. For crying it out loud, if I have to pay a stupid copy protection scheme which prevent me to install the damn game more than three time than I won't want to pay more than 10$ for that load of crap!

A shame it have to happen to a game which (everybody hope) is so good...

[Talin]

i was waiting for this news to appear, but for PC's.

funny that they dont control their software harder, making it impossible for "developers relative" or whoever to get their hands on it and taking it outside of the offices.

[gufu1992]

There is the reason why people pirate it.
Beside, what are the positives of NOT pirating, though?

[Panthro]

The positive of not pirating is that the company makes more money, gets more accurate ownership figures, so they alter the games they produce accordingly.

Several game designers, including Black Isle Studios, a personal favourite of mine, went under because they were'nt profitable enough. If half the people that pirated their games had paid instead, then maybe, just maybe, that wouldn't have happened.

Although in one or two cases they don't help their case by releasing poor or buggy products. Fallout 2 is a favourite of mine, but the original release was buggy as hell. Quest for Glory 3+4 also have their bugs, although thankfully there are fan patches now.

[gufu1992]

Originally Posted by Panthro

The positive of not pirating is that the company makes more money, gets more accurate ownership figures, so they alter the games they produce accordingly.

I mean, I don't see how it would aid me if I bought the game, if instead would pirate it.