the "game" forum more like the "were can i find a no-cd crack forum"!

I am a avid pc gamer and therefore always make copys of my games and store away the originals. Therefore i know all about multiple cds onto 1/2 dvd(s), no-cd/dvd cracks, and everything else. I just get so ticked when I go to the game forums and see some thread without a reply that goes something like this.... " I just download such and such game off of uTorrent/BitComet/etc. And I do own the game. When I mount the game with Daemon Tools it says please insert disc and restart application. What do i do?" I get so ticked when some nobody comes to the forums covering up their piracy of pc games with some lame story. If you dont have the game DONT download it!!

 

Yeah right!!

Fraid it doesn't happen like that all prices nowadays are a con and so producers deserve whats coming to them.

So your telling me and everyone else that you've never downloaded a song, DVD, or computer game because your sick of waiting 4 months for them to come out and having to fork out 1/3 of your weekly wages on something that'll keep you occupied for 48 hours tops!

 

Okay thats not what im saying at all. I am saying i am sick of people so dumb that they dont bother to look at other threads. Most of the time the "postee" doesnt own the game, they just made up a chintzy story to cover up the fact that they illegally downloaded it.

And about your comments about me downloading stuff. Your right I do download stuff. When I hear of a new band thats supposedly really good I download some of the songs to see if I like them first. And if I dont like them then I just delete the song, why would i want to keep them if i dont like them?? And if I do like them I buy the actual cd so I can rip it into a higher bitrate than the crappy 128kbps that nearly everyone on P2P networks uses. And no I dont download movies either Im not going to waste my time and bandwidth on a movie I might not like when I can just rent it for $3-4 or buy it for $15-$20. And if I own it I can just copy it and therefore no need to download it.

And when you say

Do you mean you download pirated movies 4 months before they come out?

 

*Double Post*

 

Everyones entitled to there own opinion and I'm not trying to start a flame with a moderator because we all know the outcome of that one! lol

Anyway lets say that I get paid £150 pounds a week, 17.5% of that has to be paid to the government (tax), so that leaves me with £123.75, £60 a week goes into rent so £123.75 minus £60 = £63.75, now phoneline and internet costs around &30 a month so minus £7.50 - £20 weekly foodshopping equals £36.25.

So in reality after all outgoing payments I'm left with £36.25 now I'm not saying your right or wrong or I'm right or wrong its just a topic of opinion but our government doesn't do anything to help young adults get started out in life.

1. I can't affors any education and government are unwilling to pay for it.

2. I can't afford to drive even though I'v been saving up for driving lessons for the past 3 months I'm only at £250 and to get all of it done in one go I'm going to need at least £400.

3. Tony Blair is a major dumbass and has been raising taxes left right and centre everyone in England knows that prices have been going up unevenly to how much we get paid in resulting all out poverty except from the minor few, even though Tony Blair gets to spend all the tax payers money on planes and flights for his family, rehoming and protecting convicted paedophiles at very high prices and get this any illegal immigrant made to deport to another country gets £10,000 (we don't get that type of kindness), house prices have actually gone up over 100% in most areas in the last ten years as opposed to about 33% increase in income.

And at computer games costing £40 a pop and having to wait 4 to 5 months for things from the states to come over here then I personally think this is justified.

Have you watched V for Vendetta I think that portrays a truth in what is to come and how the government is shaping up.

If BNP win this national election I dread to think what'll become of us.

and add to all that get this the 'free' NHS service that we pay for through taxes as it once was is going to entail us to pay £5 every night we stay and no more free treatment!

Just a couple of newspaper articles over the past week I couldn't find the more serious ones but you'll catch my drift.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/m...CBQUIV0?xml=/health/2006/05/01/hjuniord01.xml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...FOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/05/11/nstudy11.xml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...FFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/05/11/ntory11.xml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...CFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/05/10/ntax10.xml

 

Let's get honest here a little folks, I'm pretty sure the first time I had my own access to the net, my first thoughts were what can I get free on the net?

It opened up a whole new world.

PeaInAPod and Neph, I do agree with you, but not all the way, up to about 99.8%.

Till the end of downloading days, people will continue to get pirated anything, and eventually they will all figure out how to handle and operate the files they download.

This is absolute.

It took me about a year to get good at downloading just about anything I wanted, I am one of those people that self-taught myself,
BUT, I can honestly say I never posted a thread anywhere complaining my downloaded game wouldn't work. That is ridiculous, and I think it comes from younger impatient people. If something I downloaded didn't work, I really didn't care.

I broke down only 2 times, once to buy Half-Life 2, and once to buy Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.

paul1085, yup software does cost money, but I'll be honest with you too, I make quite a decent wage for a living. I'd hazzard to guess
that if I could put a monetary value of all the stuff I've downloaded over the last four years, I probably could buy a new sportscar, a home, a bunch of new toys.

I can't afford to do that tomorrow either!

All the software I have in my possesion, excluding Windows XP is illegit.

I pay my ISP monthly, I use what I download for personal use only, I do not sell any of it either.

I do show friends with Pc's how to download and get stuff they want too. I don't like to harbor knowledge, those people are gonna do it anyway, someway somehow, so I just help them along.

The good thing for all the developers of software is that there are much less people in the world doing what I do, than there is honest poeple buying their work. So, they are making money.

If I can keep a buck in my pocket, damn right I will.


Ahh, just my 2 cents!!

Weycraze

 

Your right Neph, there is no justifying it.Period

I guess I sit right in the middle of the fence between good and evil,
And probably a bit on the evil side!!!LOL.

Condemned is a pretty good game BTW!

Peace and out,

Weycraze

 

Ouch! That credits going to hurt in a couple of months time!

I didn't feel that your last message was grouchy in all favor looking back at some of the posts you've made after banning people I feel quite privileged to be spoken to as leniently as you intended.

I will try keep my opinions about piracy to myself in the near future as it will only contributte to all out warfare which isn't good for the morale of this site.

Also I am proud to say that I own over 30 PS2 originals and have bought most of my PC games that I have as I feel that some of the smaller titles don't get the attention that they deserve, I have only fully been into computers for a short (5 months), as I used to be a major piss head until I had a wake up call in Hospital, anyways Afterdawn's like my alcohol now so keep the good work up!

PS Whats Halflife 2 like as I'v completed the first one 3 times but up until recently I hadn't really contemplated getting the second as I'm not to keen on PC shooters.

 

I just wanted to agree with Nephilim I am 16 and if I dont have enough to buy a game I go with out. Now I know the responsibilities are most likely majorly different for me then most in this thread ( jobs,family,etc.) but when FEAR came out I was in school and had no job. So I started mowing lawns when I was with friends and we stopped at McDonalds I either got nothing or something off the $1 menu. And after a while I could afford it! Now everyones finamcial states different. Like Nep. and Paul stated so that does come into play. But piracy is piracy. Support your developers.

 

Yeh sitting in front of a warm computer at night beats waking up in a hedge freezing my ass off somewhere wondering why I'v got several lumps on my head! lol

 

did someone say cheese?? go to cheese thread

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/330584

=pepsimaxx=

 

I hope your sister gets Condemned: Criminal Origins for you Nephilim it is a pretty cool game. I just started playing it today and its going pretty good. My videocard is a lowly PCI 128Mb DDR ATI card. It stinks but it works. I cant wait till im done building my new system.

 

No prob Neph,

Download yourself a "free" bittorrent client. I'm quite partial to the latest version of Azureus.

I'll PM you a free invite, since I'm a notorious Power User now!!

And investigating away you'll go.LOL

Just josh'in ya!!

Take care buddy and see ya around!!

Weycraze

 

Hey Neph. if you could give me a hand. Im also building myself a new pc. And Im looking for a new video card. any suggestions. my budget is up to $300. and do you know of any good sites were i can read up on overclocking? or would i be better off hitting google? thanks

 

I have the ASUS ATI Radeon EAX1600 series i thinnk i got it for 120 at Newegg.....It works really great......By the way what card do you need

AGP or PCI

Here is one for your Price Range
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102492

 

again I'll admit I use No CD/NO DVD hacks/cracks on games I DO own, cause half the time I cant remember where I put the original or its been damaged or the lameass copyprotection has some temper tamturm thus resulting in the game not running anyway from the original discs. God forbid I run the game from my DVDRW drive and not a DVDROM/CDROM, my DVDROM reads slow as hell, gameplay suffers the game stutters waiting for the DVDROM to catch up etc. To hell with that! Id rather use the NO CD/DVD crack to remove the copyprotection and not hafta worry bout the game crashing/freezing/stuttering cause the copyprotection threw a wrench in the works or my DVDROM took too long to access the next level etc.

ya'll can call me a pirate all you want. aint going change my attitude or what Im doing. Till the game companies get it threw their thickheads that all this added copyprotection crap like StarForce is dicking over legit users more than it is the pirates, Im going keep using NO CD/DVD cracks to remove it /bypass it so I can play a game I legally paid for..

Oh yea , and dont forget about those aging out of print games that are no longer updated some of us still own. the Publisher gave up updating such and such game, doesnt run under say WinXP x64 with the current exe. Does that mean I gotta throw the game out or be forced to dual boot? NO, I'll just find the updated NO CD/DVD crack that forces the game to run under newer OSes