🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, August 1, 2013 10:33:52 AM UTC-4, Xocyll wrote:
> PW <emailad...@ifIremember.com> looked up from reading the entrails
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> of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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> >On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:38:15 -0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
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> >wrote:
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> >>"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
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> >>entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
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> >>say:
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> >>>Before it was
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> >>>"Steam is a place where you buy games you will not play" :))
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> >>>But now, with trading cards presentation, it is
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> >>>"Steam is a place where they pay you for your gaming" :))
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> >>>
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> >>>Like I, at last, began to play "Call of Juarez", got 3 cards,
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> >>>sold them in no time, and overall got 150% of price I paid for the game.
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> >>>
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> >>>IMHO, this feature is serious blow to pirates, much more effective than
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> >>>all those stupid laws and restrictions.
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> >>
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> >>Pretty much what I've said all along;  You don't treat everyone like a
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> >>thief by putting intrusive security schemes on the games that the
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> >>pirates defeat in no time anyway, you reward purchasers with a little
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> >>extra.
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> >>
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> >>Make them _want_ to buy it.
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> >>
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> >>Really they have only themselves to blame - crap games at very high
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> >>retail prices and they long ago stopped including the basic stuff with
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> >>the games - REAL MANUALS for one - when all they give you is a
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> >>half-assed manual on .pdf, there's no barrier to copying.
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> >>
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> >>When there's a 100+ page manual you need, well that's a bit harder to
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> >>copy.  Sure the pirates can scan it (assuming it's not hard to scan) and
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> >>make a pdf, but that's actually work.
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> >>
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> >>$60, 100 hour games in Game _boxes_ full of discs, manuals, cloth maps,
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> >>posters and other stuff to $60, 10 hour games in dvd cases with a disc
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> >>and an install guide.
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> >>Give far less at the same price and make it easier to distribute
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> >>digitally - gee I wonder why copying increased?
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> >>Xocyll
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> >Games that must be downloaded for days sometimes that cost more than
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> >purchasing the boxed DVD.
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> That's the downside to the whole digital download revolution - it
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> assumes that everyone who wants the game also has ultra broadband and
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> can download multiple gigabytes in a few minutes.
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> That's one of the reasons I prefer retail boxed games - My DSL is about
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> 1.4MBit on a good day.
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> The other reason is if I have the retail box I don't have to back up the
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> installation or face another multi-day download to play it again - I can
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> just stick the disc in the drive.
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> And there's just something about being able to look over at the game
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> shelf and look at the boxes.  Even games you don't think will load
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> anymore evoke fond memories.
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> The Wing Commander box does, but Wing_Commander.rar never would.
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> Xocyll


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