the game industry can try to pull out the best strategy out of the Sun Tzu war manuel, somebody is gonna crack the games regardless. and PC is not only the victim, consoles are catching it too. just look up any popular game in any torrent site. its availiable in raw file. all you have to do is snag it. thats right, snag it! and if you are a true computer whiz and know a thing or two about files and imaging, its cake.

but you still got those other millions who don’t use torrents and the games still generate mad revenue and its not fair to make shit too complicated for the “honest consumer”. so what are these greedy faggot game industries bitching about? more money for a private jet? if they think these delays are an effort to say “confuse” these Jedi piraters waiting for the release date like vultures in the Mahabi desert, they are stupid. they are only hurting themselves. and its simple, release the games, stop bitching make money.

On another note, what about old games? I’ve searched my @%$ off for some good old games like Curse of Monkey Island or Grim Fandango. Some Classic old games. But some companies don’t support those products any more and I can’t purchase them. What do you do then?

i know games are getting more pricey these days, but development costs for a lot of the AAA titles are huge.

games like call of duty 4 have so many features, like multiplayer, arcade mode etc. that you really are getting a good deal on the pc or the xbox360 – and you don’t need a crysis level machine to play it either!

if you figure out how much a movie goes for, for lets say 90 minutes of entertainment versus a game which in some cases gives upwards of 20 hours of entertainment value, and if it has multiplayer, well, you’re getting such a good deal.

the thing to do is rather than steal, rent first, or read multiple reviews – chances are, if all the reviews (except for a certain website we won’t mention here) agree that its fantastic, then chances are it probably is worth the cash

i mean, even i have issues with the annual need for speed full price update, which is what i think it amounts to ;o) i still dont think people think about all the people who work to get that made. if you think you’re sticking it to the man, whoever that might be, consider that you’re sticking it to people, families and kids just like you

But when you’re distributing copies of games to a large amount of people, that’s when it’s across the line.

there is no excuse for copying games. even the crap ones. i make my living as an art director for a company where we make video games.

the amount of hard work that goes into making a game is incredible, and to have our means of making an income treated in such a way is despicable. it also shows an incredible lack of respect from the people we make games for.

would you go out and steal a car? or steal books from a book store? would you walk up to someone and grab their lunch out of their hands?

well, when you copy games, you steal. and the more stealing, the less really good games are being developed because indie developers can’t afford to put all that time and effort in and then discover that the majority of their games are being stolen, and you are in effect preventing us from feeding ourselves and our families. we are not rich, or wealthy, or any of that. we are hard working creatives. creating for you.

so why steal from us. even if you put a big corporate face to the developers like EA, you are only hurting people like me, and gamers everywhere, stifling innovation, and actually promoting yet another round of shovelware, sequel and the like.

There is just as much piracy in console gaming as there is in PC gaming; if not more since CD keys aren’t typically an issue.

Jeff, you’re a moron. You should try to get a big game out within time constraints checking thousands of lines of code to make sure everything works alright. Bugs are bound to happen. If you pirate anything at all you should be ashamed. Even if you don’t like a game, it took people many hours of work and toil to get it out and on the shelves. Have some respect for your betters.

I do however like that Xbox Live mitigates cheating (as would the inherent limitations in consoles). Though, I am admittedly not a console gamer.

On a side note OpFlash had about the worst interface ever (and was very buggy at its inception).

How about the graphics dept, obsolete hardware within a year to run the most currect games, and the suppliers forcing expensive hardware upgrades. or 300.00+ dollars every 2 years for the latest console. dont forget the $$ on all the new games for these crappy consoles. I dont pirate, i try, and i buy the ones i try and like. I still play the original flashpoint, these guys had it right – replayability. I have spent alot of money on good pc games in last 10 years. Piracy has also saved me the same amount.
If anything, pirates should be keeping the industry idiots in check.

the only thing i agree with this pathetic blog , is the cheating response above, cheaters = child molesters in my book.

You dont like what i said kiss my a$$