theArtistFormerlyKnownAs
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AFter playing both though, in my experience, everything loads much quicker on a legal copy than on a burnt copy :shrug: (but I can live with that if I'm saving 48.50 a pop)
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AFter playing both though, in my experience, everything loads much quicker on a legal copy than on a burnt copy :shrug: (but I can live with that if I'm saving 48.50 a pop)
glhs837
Power with Control
Just a note...
unless you save your receipts...how can you prove that YOU bought your games?
Yeah...I wouldn't go quite that far and just put it out there
Of course you cant, other than having the real disc, not a burned one. Thats a great start. Still possible that I took them from a store, say, but much less likely. Thats "real theft", you see. I'm curious, how many people who use "backups" have kids, or kids who might learn from them, say nephews or nieces. How do you explain this to them?
People are much less willing to really steal than do it virtually. Me, I usually download a demo to try something out, or maybe rent it. I dont do any PC gaming, so I'm not up to speed on how prevalent demos are in the PC arena
AFter playing both though, in my experience, everything loads much quicker on a legal copy than on a burnt copy :shrug: (but I can live with that if I'm saving 48.50 a pop)
Yea, unless you need the game in the drive to make it run. In which case having an ISO and alcohol 120% makes everything so much faster.
Recurringly billed games usually have a 7 or 10 day trial, and some games have a "demo" level to play, but more often then not, legal demo's are hard to come by. A lot of games are getting much harder to pirate though, with online registration or a limited number of times a key will work.
Which, altogether sucks....not only for pirates, but also for people that genuinely BUY games. Limiting the number of times a keycode will work really really limits the shelf life of a game, as if you reformat your HDD that the game is on, you need to re-register the game.
If you want to see the outcry that happens when companies DO limit the number of times a keycode can be used, just google "Spore DRM"