15th November 2004, 7:10 PM
Exactly, which is why, for example, XP Pro is bought by the home user above Home Edition.
Seriously, what is up with this? You don't punish people that obey the law for the actions of the people who break it! I believe PA once commented on this, but making games totally unusable without jumping through a ridiculous number of hoops is going to make people WANT to crack it. I'll likely end up cracking the game myself (if I had any idea where to find a nice crack, but I'm sure you folks will tell me, or I'll google it), even though I'll legally own it, and that'll just be so I can use it as I wish! Key generators? Wow, how do they figure out the encoding used by the games to do that? Must have some code crackers or something... Wouldn't they need a high number of real codes just to do it? Where do they get those to begin with? That's a scary thought... I still hope some jerk doesn't randomly get a code for MY game and get ME kicked off Battle.net or something because they were all like "I want to play the game but I don't have the money, so instead of being a decent human being and just going without, realizing it's just a game, I'll just STEAL it".
Seriously, buying games as downloads is cool (except sometimes I like having a nice hard copy of the game that I can stare at), but if this is what we have to deal with...
I mean, as a matter of course I'll take my games over to my friends and install it on their machines just to show it off. Not like there's any harm, I'm still being legal as I'm not playing the copy I have on my own machine at the same time as I'm playing the one I installed on their machine. It's just a common thing. For example, I've installed You Don't Know Jack volume 4 (the best of the series if you ask me, in that it's the funniest) on ALL my friend's machines and so I'll occasionally bring the actual disks with me so we can all play a game. If that game used this system, I'd have to drag my entire PC with me just to play this game. I don't do that with CONSOLE games, so why would I want to do that with an entire PC? Really, us legal users just get punished for the actions of the idiot pirates... *calls cops*
Cops: Ah jeez when will you people learn to take the law into your own hands?
Seriously, what is up with this? You don't punish people that obey the law for the actions of the people who break it! I believe PA once commented on this, but making games totally unusable without jumping through a ridiculous number of hoops is going to make people WANT to crack it. I'll likely end up cracking the game myself (if I had any idea where to find a nice crack, but I'm sure you folks will tell me, or I'll google it), even though I'll legally own it, and that'll just be so I can use it as I wish! Key generators? Wow, how do they figure out the encoding used by the games to do that? Must have some code crackers or something... Wouldn't they need a high number of real codes just to do it? Where do they get those to begin with? That's a scary thought... I still hope some jerk doesn't randomly get a code for MY game and get ME kicked off Battle.net or something because they were all like "I want to play the game but I don't have the money, so instead of being a decent human being and just going without, realizing it's just a game, I'll just STEAL it".
Seriously, buying games as downloads is cool (except sometimes I like having a nice hard copy of the game that I can stare at), but if this is what we have to deal with...
I mean, as a matter of course I'll take my games over to my friends and install it on their machines just to show it off. Not like there's any harm, I'm still being legal as I'm not playing the copy I have on my own machine at the same time as I'm playing the one I installed on their machine. It's just a common thing. For example, I've installed You Don't Know Jack volume 4 (the best of the series if you ask me, in that it's the funniest) on ALL my friend's machines and so I'll occasionally bring the actual disks with me so we can all play a game. If that game used this system, I'd have to drag my entire PC with me just to play this game. I don't do that with CONSOLE games, so why would I want to do that with an entire PC? Really, us legal users just get punished for the actions of the idiot pirates... *calls cops*
Cops: Ah jeez when will you people learn to take the law into your own hands?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)