Posted 07/12/2009 at 02:10:18pm

I will admit that I pirated the game before release. Why? Because I wanted to know what the game was about. I like the game and ended up buying a retail copy. And for those that didn't like it, well, they didn't buy it anyways.

The point I'm trying to make is that most people who are concious with their money buy games if they have first hand experience with the product. I don't know a lot of people who actually pirate a game that is worth buying and never end up paying for it. If anything, pirating helps PC gaming in my vision because it gives people a chance to test a game they might like. Playing the game will solidify there thoughts on it and they will end up buying it, or they won't and they will uninstall the game they pirated.

Posted 07/12/2009 at 01:53:50pm

Ok then, I will give you a reason for the rising dominance in console gaming. The console market raps a bubble around their customers, their customers get little to no exposure to PC gaming. Not only that, false assumptions are constantly circulating the console community, things like "It cost $1000+ to play PC games well" or "PC's are complicated and I don't want to learn how to build one" or even "I don't want to fuss with managing a PC to play games" Holy hell those are false claims. Managing a PC is about as hard as managing your movie library on your 360 or PS3. Building a PC? It's not hard either. If you want to know what hard is, go back to the 90's. All PC hardware that is bought today comes with comprehensive intructions on how to install each component. There is only about 8 - 9 components to install, wow, that must be melting consoles gamers minds. That's like an 8 - 9 piece lego set. Yet somehow, all of this is scaring people away from PC gaming. Even if you are having to do just a little extra work, it's far more worth your time than buying one of those consoles. Even the one thing that PC gaming shines in, mods, is shadowed over. I have several friends that didn't even know what mods were really about. All of them have the impression thats mods are somewhat like Halo mods... Golden warthogs, haha. When I showed tham the enormous variety of mods out there for The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and what they did, they kicked themselves for ever buying it for on console. I KNOW this is the case for millions of consoles gamers. All of these false assumptions lead back to how the consoles market puts a bubble around their customers. If more people actually knew what PC gaming was all about, many of them would switch. When it comes to consoles gamers, many of them are not educated enough to make a concious decision on what they really want, there are millions out there that unknowingly wish they had a PC to play games with. 

 By the way, with $750, I built this PC two months ago. 

CPU - Phenom 2.5GHz Quad Core.  GPU - Radeon 4830 512MB.  HDD - 640GB Hard Drive. RAM - 4GB of Memory.  Those are just the main specs. It also came with the power supply, DVD, a 20 inch moniter, mouse/keyboard. It came with everything I needed start right off to playing games and whatever else I pleased. I'm playing every modern game out there at max settings without any problems and have plenty room for more on upcoming games. The XBOX 360 can't touch this machine. I barely ever have to do management. I scheduled to defrag the HDD every week (I don't even have to open the program, haha, so hard) Every month I install a new video card driver which requires me to download the installer and run it, which take me less than 10 minutes. There, that's management in a box for you. This machine is worth every cent and more just for the gaming aspect of it. I can also browse the web and do anything else I need. Whenever I do run into a problem running a game (which is next to never) I can google my problem and there are several answers to my problem to quickly fix it.

 I had to do so little to get so much. I learned a couple essential PC skills so I'm ready for the 21st century and I'm enjoying using all the quality, free mods that enhance and extend the life of my games. Oh yeah, let's not skip on that. All the games I buy are lasting much longer than they would have on a console.

 May I get struck by lightning if I am lieing. There is your truth buddy.