Posted 12/08/2008 at 05:53:59pm

The few times I've gone cd key hunting at gamestops they haven't had them.

Is it stealing if you open an already opened box and write down the key or take a cell phone picture of it?

Posted 08/07/2008 at 09:46:46am

I pirate exclusively. Why?

1. I don't play games online, so having a valid key to register for online play isn't necessary for my enjoyment in the game.

2. My wife would never let me pay $50 for every game I want to play. 

Which leads to number 3

3. I pretty much want to play every game but I haven't played more then 2 hours into a game in probably 10 years. So purchasing every game that comes out just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

4. Demoes tend to be very large files and in most cases the places you can download demoes from have VERY slow download rates for non-paying customers. On my private torrent site I can easily get a 300 - 400 download rate for everything I want to download so in most cases downloading the entire game takes the same amount of time as downloading a demo.

Other thoughts

1. Ubisoft offered farcry awhile back that required you to watch a 30 second McDonalds add before each loading screen. I downloaded and played this version and thouht this was a great idea. Of course they stopped offering this game as a free download. Ads are not bad, and if more games could be made free or priced at under $20 because of them then I say put them in.

2. I don't think Nvidia or AMD/ATI have any interest in pirating being stopped. Think about it. One of the main reason they can get away with charging the same price for a graphics card as someone can spend on buying a console is because a person buying a graphics card knows that they can play games for free on their PC, so it's financially worth it to them to spend $200 - 500 on a graphics card. If pirating ended and EVERYBODY had to pay $50 for everygame they played on a PC, the graphics card industry would suffer, because the difference between the PC and Console gaming experience is very minimal compared to 10 or even 6 years ago.

Posted 05/08/2008 at 06:47:26pm

well then i don't think that argument is going to sway the suits at comcast.

Posted 05/08/2008 at 10:32:46am

Who sells RAW 1080p movies? I don't understand why you would be using bandwidth to download or upload RAW movies.