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noname2200 on 21 October 2009
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Jereel Hunter said:
noname2200 said:
Pharaoh said:
Well I bet most of those guys who signed that petition are cheaters and pirates. I have no sympathy for cheaters, play the game as it was intended. If you want to mod the game, become a developer and make the game you want and mod it as much as you want.

These developers and publishers put so much time and money into a product, just to see it destroyed or given away for free at the expense of the general public who just want to play the game as it was designed.

That's one hell of an opinion you have there.

It's wrong in every possible way, mind you, but I applaud you for being willing to wave it in public. I certainly wouldn't have the courage required to out myself like this.

He's not wrong about most of the guys signing the petition being pirates. I'd wager the grand majority of those signing would not have purchased the copy at retail anyway. As a primarily PC gamer, I play lots of games on custom servers, and anytime someone in our group says something like "hey lets play on " a couple of guys say they can't, their copy isn't legal. It's a rampant issue, and it's the pirates fault, not the company, that the company takes away these options. If there was no piracy(or at least less), you can bet more companies would be leaving in the ability to run custom servers.

I wasn't referring to that portion of his post, I was referring to the part about modders and modding. It betrays an appalling ignorance.

Although I do now take issue with that assertion. It's painting with far too broad a brush. Lots of legitimate players, including the most devoted and "hardcore" fans of PC games, often create their own servers just to maximize their enjoyment of the game, and to form specific, close-knit communities. This behavior elongates the title's lifespan. I won't dispute that many pirates are out there, and that this will harm them specifically, but it will also damage legitimate consumers. It's throwing the baby out with the bath water.