Piracy.

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Katilian said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Advantages of Legal Purchase

1)  You get the manual.  Games often come with extra media like manuals, maps, collectible cards, and more.  Buying it legally gives you extra goodies in the case of a lot of games.

2)  No hassle of storage.  You get the game and the case so you don't have to worry about storing one or more giant .iso files on your HDD or having to burn them to DVD.

Of course, now I have the hassle of storing a physical product instead. While I do like some of the goodies and having a physical copy anyway, it is much easier for me to keep an ISO on my HDD (which I make anyway even with the games I buy) than needing to store and search for physical media whenever I want to play the game.

Plus, I can always write a pirated game out to DVD without any hassle for minimal cost anyway.

It's even easier for a honest PC gamer to just download the game from a DD Service, like Steam. Faster downloads and never, ever needing to to keep an ISO on the HDD.

Katilian said:

That Guy said:
don't forget

5) It works. A pirated game is often times buggy or unpatched

6) no porn/spyware/viruses

5) A pirated game is usually only as buggy as the original. With an original, there is no guarentee the DRM isn't going to bite you. With a Pirated version, you only have to wait a day or two after the patch is released to be up to date again (assuming you don't have a nice Clone CD copy ready to go).

6) You need better sources if you are getting hit by nasties.

5) Pirated games have usually more bugs/problems than the legit copies. Have you never played the pirated copies of Spore and GTA IV? It's fine and dandy if we're talking about old PC games, but nowadays they're more complex and need more work to make a pirated version be fully proper.

6) I got a nasty from Piratebay...