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Vic <tu...@cam.org> writes:

>Yam wrote:
>> while they have no excuse for doing something illegal, they do have a
>> point on trying out a game.  not all stores have 30-day money back
>> guarantees (none of the stores around my place seem to have them), so i
>> usually don't buy a game without playing a demo.  however, if there is
>> no demo, i rely on reviews and friends' opinions (i don't pirate myself)
>BTW the stores around here don't have any guarantee at all! you bought
>it, that's it!
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Ditto here in Australia. The best you can hope for is a replacement policy if
the game is defective; no money back or anything. If you buy it and don't like
it, tough tiddies.

That's why I'm sort of in favor of a 24-hour temporary 'piracy'. Too many
games these days don't show proper game screenshots on the covers, or the
cover and the game review only talks about the 'cut-scenes' and the best bits
of the game without talking about the bad bits [There was a recent discussion
by Critical Bill about how some game reviewers hesitate to write bad reviews
about games so as not to insult the game companies, who would possibly 
withdraw advertisements [which is a bis source of income]. How do I then know
what a game is really like?

Talk Voyeur for instance. No screenshots on the back, it was hard to find a
good review of it (at the time, locally). So how would I know how good it is.
A friend had it, so I borrowed it,... it was absolute crap. Even he was sorry
he'd bought it. If I hadn't known the game was like beforehand, I could have
been burnt badly.

PS: I agree with the previous analagy: Few sensible people buy a car without
taking it for a test drive, or buy a house without carefully looking it over.
If you don't agree with that, then man have I got some prime Florida real
estate for you ;-)

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