So I guess its the developers fault you don't like to read.
Anyway they make it pretty clear about the install limit in most games. And if you happen to miss it you can easily contact the developer and register your game. However I guess being lazy you would be pissed the Pirate Bay is being closed.
FYI I aint saying your lazy.
its not the developers that put DRM on everything, its the publishers, and manytimes I have had developers tell me to head over to megagames or gamecopyworld and get a "fixed" exe file to fix a problem caused by flawed/buggy DRM.
Anyway you never have to buy the game again. Read a few posts up for the legit way to do things.
WRONG, EA has told plenty of people they would unlock only ONE more activation and has flat out called them pirats for going over the install limmit, so once that ONE activations over, you gotta RE-BUY the game(and they will tell you this flat out, read th EA forums)
You call it boycotting and I call it justifying their fears and breaking the law. The bottom line is there is all this static about installation limits because of piracy. Will it stop piracy? No. But stealing in protest does nothing but put more limits on legit users.
Infact there is one problem with your OPINION in this case, not every country has laws covering this and in many they actually have laws making it perfectly leigal to "pirate"(aka download) programs and games and other content.
If you want a good example of a company thats totaly stoped trying to fight piracy on SP games, look at Stardock, their titles have a key for online play, but the SP game can be had easly free, also if you have a legit key, you can use their services to update the minute patches/addons come out, if you dont, you gotta wait for somebody who does to torrent/rs/exct them for you.
Theft is not my opinion. What you said you do is breaking the law. I just want to make that clear. There is no justification for it. But Ill leave you to your own poisons
Meh I knew that going in to this. Some fight the good fight by theft. I fight it via the pen.
I just hope no one here thinks I'm being a troll. I'm pretty sure you guys know me better than that.
Theft is not the case if your country doesn't have laws calling downloading theft, so you need to know where everybody you reply to is located and if their country has IP/Copyright laws.
its like people sending DMCA notices to non-us hosts/server/service admins, fact is the DMCA is a US law, not a world wide law, and so those notices mean exectly DICK to people/services/exct from outside the us.
I agree, theft is bad, BUT you also got one huge problem, downloading/torrenting isnt theft in the true sence of the word, theft is one person/group taking something from another person/group and thus depriving them of said item, on the internet when you download/torrent/exct a file, you aren't taking that file away from anybody, you are COPYING IT, so instead of one person having it and another having had it stolen, 2 people now have it.
its like me coming over, taking your windows cd, making a copy/imaging it to my hdd, then leaving haven already put you cd back where i found it.
you haven't lost anything(didnt say i copyed your key did i?)
Oh and technically according to the riaa, if you rip a cd to your hdd, then put it on your pmp(portable media player) your a thief because you now have a copy of their property that you didnt pay for.
its the same crap they pulled back when casset tape recorders came out and people wanted to copy their records to tapes because they could then carry them around and listen in the car and at work!!!
the media industry has ALWASE been SLOW and RESISTANT to change, they do not like to have to adapt, and it really hurts them.
think about this, IF they put out their content for a reasonable price in stores AND online for download, wouldnt you think more people would buy it?
just like stardock's seen huge sales of games like sins of a solar empire with virtualy no advertising, enlarge due to people trying the FULL sp game, and then wanting to have online play access.
I know I personaly nolonger buy movies unless i have seen the whole movie, and feel its worth buying, then i buy a pre-viewed copy at the videostore most of the time.
I WONT buy games form some companys because they have prooven over the years that they dont support their products.
Atari: Unreal2 XMP, they closed the dev house that made it b4 it was truely finnished then killed the master servers to help promote ut2k4 sales.
NeverWinterNights 1 and 2, Atari puts "drm" on the games that causes serious problems for PAYING CUSTOMERS( ME!!!)
NWN2 couldnt even be properly patched due to the DRM, took them close to a year to fully fix the patching issues with the base game......then more then once i have had updates cause problems like explorer crashes.
oh yeah and the random updates that made it say my legit nwn2 disk wasnt legit..........what a crock.
VUG: Tribes: Vengance, these MORONS pushed the game out over a month early, put it up against halflife2 and doom3 and then when sales sucked due to timing AND multi player bugs, they promised a patch and reniged on that as soon as the return time for the game was up for the bulk of copys sold, leaving those of us that bought it for 50bucks (or more) to wonder why we spent our money on yet another VUG product.
EA: limmited activations on games like bioshock, spore, mass effect, as well as spicific game problems including crashing/stability issues and performance issues dirrectly linked/linkable to the DRM used, when you run out of activations it can take weeks to get another activation then when u do they call you a pirate and inform you that if you need another activation, you need to re-buy the game.
Oh, mind you in the case of NWN, I had bioware reps each time tell me to get a fixed exe from megagames or gamecopyworld(perfectly leigal if you own the game)
i had other games with the same kinda crap, Chrome for example, i couldnt play at all till i got a fixed exe because the protection didnt like my system, it would crash out on "tag checks" so their support person(nice lady on phone) told me where to get a fixed exe and what one of the 4 avalable to download and use.
so please dont ASSume that because somebody downloads a "cracked" or "fixed" or whatever exe/patch for their game that they are breaking the law or a pirate, many times its the only way to fix the problems you run into.
hell NWN2 ran ALOT better with the fixed exe then with the default, over 20fps boost from the lack of securom running in the background!!!!
some reps on the bioware forums where pm'ing people with a link to a "fixed" exe file to help with performance issues with the game.....thats SAD since bioware didnt even acctualy make the game
(they helped tho)
