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Dagon
Romania264 Posts
However, Take Romania for example! The medium salary îs fucking 300 bucks, and the games STILL cost 60.. I bought sc2, because i want to play multiplayer, but i download a lot of games that i can play through hamachi or Garena.. It îs just not feasible to purchase every game i want to play here.. Plus, there îs no renting system for games. I don't want to spend 1/4 of my sallary to buy a game that i will play for 20 hours.. | ||
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Treemonkeys
United States2082 Posts
On November 17 2010 04:15 semantics wrote: There are two types of pirate people who don't want their waste their money, is common in both 1 is don't want to spend money on crappy things 2 is just doesn't want to spend money on things. IE want something for nothing. That is just an assumption, there are all kinds of pirates. Some people like to try before they buy. Some people like to just have it. I'm sure there are countless reasons to do something as easy as downloading a video game. But honestly, who doesn't want something for nothing? When you see $5 on the sidewalk, do you think "fuck, DO NOT WANT, DID NOT EARN". Seriously. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
Pirates help spread knowledge and culture to the less well off, without them, worldly progress would be slower, and more poor people would suffer without good TV shows, games, or even programs they use to do work like photoshop. We need to support pirates daily, and help them make our world a better place, one illegal download at a time. | ||
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Treemonkeys
United States2082 Posts
On November 17 2010 04:15 Dagon wrote: THIS IS STUPID! People keep saying that it îs wrong to dowlnoad games.. Well, yes! When a game costs 60 bucks and your sallary îs 2000$, sure.. Fucking buy the game!! However, Take Romania for example! The medium salary îs fucking 300 bucks, and the games STILL cost 60.. I bought sc2, because i want to play multiplayer, but i download a lot of games that i can play through hamachi or Garena.. It îs just not feasible to purchase every game i want to play here.. Plus, there îs no renting system for games. I don't want to spend 1/4 of my sallary to buy a game that i will play for 20 hours.. This is a good point, I used to pirate all the time when I was in high school and had no income. Yet some people will say this was "lost sales" when in reality I had no way of buying games. | ||
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11cc
Finland561 Posts
So maybe many of the pirates just wanted to see if the campaign alone is worth paying for it before buying? | ||
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TzTz
Germany511 Posts
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noD
2230 Posts
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XsebT
Denmark2980 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:10 DJ Roomba wrote: I bought the game, but can't play offline ftl. That post needs more attention. + Show Spoiler + Post warning edit: Since you chose warn me for this "youtube comment" (that spoilered vid was obviously the most important part of my comment), I should probably add a little content. I just believe DJ Roomba brought up a important point regarding this issue. The fact that a cracked game has capabilities that the retail doesn't (except for being free of course) is something I've literally never seen from in an RTS game. Basically, Blizzard should be careful not to have superior cracked versions of their retail edition available for free download. User was warned for this post | ||
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kariido
Saudi Arabia179 Posts
iCCup has gone legit, they aren't looking to run a sc2 server. Someone else will carry the torch soon enough. | ||
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ibreakurface
United States664 Posts
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febreze
167 Posts
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NeVeR
1352 Posts
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attackfighter
Canada308 Posts
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KiF1rE
United States964 Posts
On November 17 2010 04:43 kariido wrote: Pirating is wrong. Having said that I'm still waiting for a group to release a multiplayer hack so that I and a whole slew of friends can play with minimal latency and without having to depend on the stability of our internet connection or that of Blizzard's servers. If you don't do it for your fans, Blizzard they'll turn to some hacking group and you'll lose face. Regulating how the lan portion is unlocked can filter out those who've pirated the games from the honest buyers. iCCup has gone legit, they aren't looking to run a sc2 server. Someone else will carry the torch soon enough. or friends being separated by region locking. its sad when legit customers are waiting for something like that though... while i do want a regioneless hacked server to play with other legit users that bought the game, id rather blizzard just fix it themselves and save everyone the trouble. but i doubt ill ever get to play with my EU and korean friends legitimately with the current direction blizzard is going in regards to this issue though =/ even if had the money to buy several copies i still have no idea how i would get into the korean server especially if david kim cant get in lol... | ||
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Warent
Sweden205 Posts
The music and video history has a huge history of fighting against technology, the argument has always been the same; we lose sales! Some might remember the: "Home Taping Is Killing Music-campaign", did it? The fear is of course most about losing power, in a digital world, there is no longer a need for CD-distributors. Will artist survive? - Yes. Will the CD-industry? - perhaps not. Internet is revolutionary in many ways, history might regard it in similar ways as we regard the printing press and the following "illumination". The essence of Internet is, and always has been, the sharing of information, thoughts and content. And yes, in many cases the information and content is copyrighted. From a macroeconomic perspective, we should probably ask our self why we desire music, videos, games or culture in the first place? The consumption of culture, seems to be somewhat overlooked, imagine an endless bibliotech of music, videos and games at everyone's disposal, what is that if not welfare? Yes, there must probably be some incitement to create culture as well, and I do believe that there is and will be, copyright has a roll - for commercial purpose. During the Napster era, CD sales were high, the correlation between file sharing of music and sales has not been proven, however I've seen research pointing at the opposite. I myself no longer download music, I stream it from the legal service Spotify and so does most of my friends, file sharing is not killing the music industry. Blizzard is a company who haven't been fighting technology, nor should they. When you buy Starcraft 2, you are not really buying the game, but rather the license to play it, and for the service that they provide along with it. The smart move from Blizzard would be to try their best to improve these services as much as possible, that's what they sell, and that is what we pay for. | ||
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MK4512
Canada938 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:13 Plexa wrote: I would bet that a number of those illegal downloads are actually people just annoyed with the speed of the blizzard dl  Yup! 100%, I was away from my main computer (which meant no disc) and the blizz dl'er was slow as hell... So, i got a torrent and had it in ~1 hour! EDIT: I think that this should be almost required reading whenever starting any piracy debate. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1121596044/how-piracy-works When I was trying to convince my friends to buy SC2, I told them to torrent it, and after they did, the almost immediately (the next day) told me they were picking it up by the end of the week... | ||
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JeJeFlak
Romania52 Posts
And yes people from countries with a medium income of more then 2000 dolars a month should spare the rest of the world from their judgment ..you are the minority in a very poor world, and no it's not because you work so hard to achieve that. | ||
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BlueBird.
United States3889 Posts
Also, on another note, if i can get a lan version of SC2, I will get it, even if that means "Stealing" it.. I already payed for the game, I think its ridiculous I cant play lan. | ||
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misaTO
Argentina204 Posts
On November 17 2010 02:43 Dagobert wrote: Download the English version... log in, play... where's the prob? There is no easy way to get a hard copy of the game in english in my country. Could have been easily solved with a built in language option as every modern game has. On November 17 2010 04:15 Dagon wrote: THIS IS STUPID! People keep saying that it îs wrong to dowlnoad games.. Well, yes! When a game costs 60 bucks and your sallary îs 2000$, sure.. Fucking buy the game!! However, Take Romania for example! The medium salary îs fucking 300 bucks, and the games STILL cost 60.. I bought sc2, because i want to play multiplayer, but i download a lot of games that i can play through hamachi or Garena.. It îs just not feasible to purchase every game i want to play here.. Plus, there îs no renting system for games. I don't want to spend 1/4 of my sallary to buy a game that i will play for 20 hours.. Also this. In america for a minimum wage you can afford the game at 50 US dolars. Where i live, spending that % of a salary for a game doesn't allow you to spend any more money on leisure during the rest of the month. Of course, that is, if u still plan on eating. I demand 2 things from blizzard. Higher Quality & Local prices. | ||
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Shinkugami
England74 Posts
On November 17 2010 07:57 misaTO wrote: There is no easy way to get a hard copy of the game in english in my country. Could have been easily solved with a built in language option as every modern game has. You're supposing the angry legion of 14 years olds Blizz' was aiming at with SC2 (from WOW) are smart enough to speak another language... For instance on the EU version I frequently get raged at in obscure languages. That and the fact that the translations are friggin atrocious, as usual... | ||
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