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Article #709960Re: Developers are considering abandoning the PC due to PIRACY!
From: Doug Jacobs
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:57
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:57
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic Walter Mitty <mitt...@gmail.com> wrote: > And if thats the case then frequently not supporting or having DVD > burning capabilities IMO. Which is easily fixed. For the price of one new game you can get a DVD burner and software... > I have found PC game piracy to be far more prevalent than console game > piracy. *shrug*. I guess it depends on your situation. I know back in college (90s) PC piracy was very prevelant. Even if you didn't have personal connections, all you had to do was scan the file servers in the labs. However, that was also at a time when consoles were still cartridge based and pirating a cartridge wasn't so simple. Nowadays, I'd be more afraid of pirating a PC game simply because you have no guarantee that the game will even work, much less be infected with a virus, or just be one large trojan. Even if a pirated console game destroyed my console, which is fairly unlikely, consoles are cheap, compared to a decent gaming PC. -- Win cash and giftcards just for clicking your mouse! http://www.netwinner.com/?signupCode=amuro98
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From: Doug Jacobs <dja...@shell.rawbw.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
Subject: Re: Developers are considering abandoning the PC due to PIRACY!
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:57:29 -0000
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