By Dark2025
I buy games, most people do. Just yesterday I bought Galactic Civilizations II, after I have already been playing it for a week. Yeah so I download games and I'm not going to hide that fact, but I pay for the genuinely good ones. Most games I download I never plan to buy anyway, and ones that I do plan to buy I would download them and try them out to see if it really is worth buying. Then there are ones I didn't think I would buy, but then I realize how good they really are, like GalCiv2 (plus no copy protection, which wanted me to buy it even more). I only know about 2 or 3 people who would never pay for a game or movie or anything else. I'm not sure if the money spent on copy-protection would be worth trying to get the money off those 2 or 3 people and get their protection software bypassed within 2 days of release, rendering it useless, when they could spend it making the game better so people like me would actually want to buy them. Protection really doesn't help either. There are ways to bypass any copy-protection system out there, even StarForce, but I don't download or buy any of them, because they take slightly more work to get working than the ones that can be cracked or keygen-ed (but still very much possible to get working with little effort). That means I don't test them out, that means I don't buy them. Plus I'd hate for the games to mess up my computer. That would not be nice.
That one quote is what keeps SF's head up their own ass... if it wasn't a plant to begin with.
ALSO...
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And where I live, we have another colloquialism: The Customer is always right.
Guess that tis is identical colloquialism, just say in different words.
SF is not paid by the end user. They do what they are asked to do, what they are paid to do.
You can't stop SF by bitching to them, you don't matter to them. You can only stop them by cutting off their payment... by changing the minds of the publishers... by boycotting SF games and by educating the mass market... you need to organise real world groups to go to game stores, stand outside and hand out flyers and tell ask people what game they are gonna buy.... you can't go into the store.
You can also tell the store owners about SF and the problems and ask them to not carry the games... eventually some will listen, and eventually the bigger ones will listen, and then finally you'll get a target or walmart to listen, and SF will go away.
I buy games, most people do. Just yesterday I bought Galactic Civilizations II, after I have already been playing it for a week. Yeah so I download games and I'm not going to hide that fact, but I pay for the genuinely good ones. Most games I download I never plan to buy anyway, and ones that I do plan to buy I would download them and try them out to see if it really is worth buying. Then there are ones I didn't think I would buy, but then I realize how good they really are, like GalCiv2 (plus no copy protection, which wanted me to buy it even more). I only know about 2 or 3 people who would never pay for a game or movie or anything else. I'm not sure if the money spent on copy-protection would be worth trying to get the money off those 2 or 3 people and get their protection software bypassed within 2 days of release, rendering it useless, when they could spend it making the game better so people like me would actually want to buy them. Protection really doesn't help either. There are ways to bypass any copy-protection system out there, even StarForce, but I don't download or buy any of them, because they take slightly more work to get working than the ones that can be cracked or keygen-ed (but still very much possible to get working with little effort). That means I don't test them out, that means I don't buy them. Plus I'd hate for the games to mess up my computer. That would not be nice.
That one quote is what keeps SF's head up their own ass... if it wasn't a plant to begin with.
ALSO...
QUOTE
And where I live, we have another colloquialism: The Customer is always right.
Guess that tis is identical colloquialism, just say in different words.
SF is not paid by the end user. They do what they are asked to do, what they are paid to do.
You can't stop SF by bitching to them, you don't matter to them. You can only stop them by cutting off their payment... by changing the minds of the publishers... by boycotting SF games and by educating the mass market... you need to organise real world groups to go to game stores, stand outside and hand out flyers and tell ask people what game they are gonna buy.... you can't go into the store.
You can also tell the store owners about SF and the problems and ask them to not carry the games... eventually some will listen, and eventually the bigger ones will listen, and then finally you'll get a target or walmart to listen, and SF will go away.