Starforce Petition!

[DUKE_NUKEM]

@ DABhand

I don't think that, if ALL gamez had low prices, people would continue to download them. I feel sick when I see dl links to gamez which cost 15 euros, but I understand (NOT justify) the motives of those who download games which cost 50-60 euros. There are too many games, too much similar, nobody obliges us to buy everything, it's true, but if a game would last one month (= approx 30-45 hours), 40 euros (not 50 anyway) would be an honest price. 90% of games last max. 20 hours, it's not possible to include in this type of considerations the online gaming 'cause it's not a "quality" of the game, it's a mere possibility. However piracy is not so dangerous as they want us to believe, it hurts small software houses leading them to give up but the big ones (EA, Ubisoft and so on) still have big income as they are able to "recycle" their preceiding gamez without offering any of really "new". So don't worry, I don't think they will ever know what is poverty....

[Tijay]

In my opinion there are some more reasons that people DL warezed Games. Not only for the price. I´ve no need to dl such games, my wife has a games store so i can test or play the newest releases. But i can say its more comfortable to play with cracked versions. It´s extremly annoying to type endless Cd/dvd keys, 2 or 3 times reboot the system, waiting for verification the protection, hear spinning the Cd/dvd device while my playing session, the boring questions for registration the game, cancel for more and more games the fuc**** "Gamespy", watching minutelong boring Intros - in some cases without chance to break it - , and so on. I just want to install a game, remove my CD/DVD and start playing simple. For me the only reason for using Gamefixes from GCW or other pages.
And i´m sure, this could be an reason for DL warezed games. They are much more comfortable, smoother and sometimes more stable. Here´s the point for the games industry to learn. If somebody spend 50.- Euros for an game, he has to got an userfriendly product and not an bull**** like starforce and Co.

Tijay

[acha]

Most people that downloads games are from latin america, the main problem here is that games never reach to our stores... I would like to walk a few blocks and buy the cossacks 2 or any new game that have been released in europe and USA, but here in this ****ing far away country on the southern part of america games never reach.
I I go to a store they only sell a sims game or an AOE!!

Its too sad that some countries are left out of a certain market, here a customer is almost forced to download a warez game...

Hopefully Ive joined e-bay and bought the new cossacks, but I have to wait that the seller sends it by an expensive mail company which will double the price of the product... So ones again the poor and undeveloped countries have to pay more in order to buy legaly.

[coffin filler]

@ acha...Whilst you have my sympthany due to not getting good games released in your part of the world there are still "other" ways to obtain games without resulting to warez!! One simple option is to buy from a reputable source (many on the www) where by you can order almost any game and if you are to young or dont own a credit card you can pay with "pay pal" etc. Of course this will result in extra charge for postage but its not a massive hike in the original price. Also its not just the poor and under developed countrys that cant buy certian games as i myself (UK) had to buy a game called Enclave online from another country as it wasnt being released over here. I could of easliy downloaded a warez copy of the game but i am one of the few (mabey even a fool) that tries to support the dev houses etc that are responcible for brining us these great (and sometimes crappy) games. (i have a fast connection with unlimited usage and download size but i choose to buy it with my hard earned £s. Anyway this is getting off topic (as its a thread for SF ). (its just i see so many lame excuses where people try to justify there warez illness