Zucas said:
yanamaster said:
Zucas said:
vlad321 said:
So Mass Effect 2 for the PC is already out and up for download.
-1 week earlier
-No SecuROM crap
-No GFWL crap
-No other DRM crap
-Easy as hell installation (compared to GFWL and all that)
So how do publishers actually expect people NOT to pirate given that pirated copies are better than retail in every aspect?
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Because people should hold themselves up to a high level of decency rather than the dirt I walk on. Of course considering they don't, the rest of us pay for it... literally.
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True but hey, i guess the world isn't perfect as we would like it to be right? I've already bought the game through my local game dealer which didn't stop me downloading the game just to be rid of all the securoms, gfwl's, drm and other crap.
Besides that you have to rue the system that we created ourselves that allows us to reach out for easy pickings.It's human nature and no amount of self holding to a higher decency level will change it.
edit:although i do agree with you in general. Good thing that most pirates even if they dl the game decide to purchase it later. Being on the right forums you can find out that most treat the dl as a demo to judge and later purchase a retail copy, question is, is that wrong?
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No the world is definitely not perfect... but it could be if we tried haha. Or at least better than it is. And well I'm not going to get into a discussion of what human nature is, but just a little food for thought (is it really our human nature or just what is ingrained into us to believe. Nurture verus nature is another very interesting philosohpical discussion that wore me out in my philosophy and political theory classes haha.
But what I always say, if you don't like the service being provided for you, then you don't have to buy it. That's our capitalist system and it works well. If you still want to be involved but don't want to have to pay, then you are in the wrong setup and in this society that is looked down upon. I'd like to think that my working hard at school and my job means something than some kids in their basement exploiting the system because they are too lazy to get off their buts. But maybe that's just the southern USA way of looking at things... don't know how things work around the rest of the country or world to tell ya the truth.
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Well three things:
1. I am worn out in these discussions mostly since my sister has used me as a test subject for a lot of her pschological tests, be they about religion, fear or pancakes, so i feel you bro.
2. No we do not have to buy it but this goes against economical rules of scarce goods and competition. If i want a good then i want a good, period. If company A wants to sell it to me in a form like ME2 is right now, i don't want that so i look for another comapbny with Mass Effect 2. But there isn't any.And yet there is: pirated games. Which gives a scarce good. for free. in the form i want it. Economicaly speaking, there is no bad moral choice here.
so i say that buying it at a retail store and then pirating the game is as good as the world will get in this situation.
3. i sure as hell also would like to think that i will be something more than the bum called Joe across the street but this ain't no motion picture and i ain't got no damsel in distress to save so i have to make due with that i've been revving my ass in uni to earn a bundle of money in my future job and hope that it makes some difference. In the end we're all born and we all fester in/on the ground/water/outerspace after we kick the bucket. And how we lived in between that doesn't really change much ;P.
Hoho.
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