Rijk schrieb in Nachricht <85qsle$2djo...@reader2.wxs.nl>...
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Why are you all so extremely anti-warez? It's not a secret almost all of
the
PC-gamers uses illegal copies....
Maybe. I do not. And the fact that it is common is no excuse.
Maybe the reason many people uses illegal copies isn't as criminal as it
seems...
To use an illegal copy is one thing. To multiply and distribute them is
another.
I think 50 dollars is still a lot of money for a game (that's the
price of almost all the games here in Holland), a game of which it is
always
the question wether you are going to like it or not...I bought many games
in
the past years which weren't worth there money at all, so I can imagine
people really get enough of paying money for something unexpectable.
There are good game magazines reporting about pros and cons. And there are
commonly demos in which you can test the game. It were demos that made me
buy Warcraft, Age of Empires, Imperialism and Transport Tycoon and Master of
Magic. And not to buy Railroad Tycoon 2, hehe.
Then
they are easily persuaded to buy a five dollar copy of the game on school
or
at work, from a friend who has a CD-writer. It sounds weak, but it's
reality
and I'm sure you all know that. It's unrealistic to want everybody to be a
'plaster saint' where the seduction is so big....
I can understand seduction very well, but I am also able to understand the
motivations of a children murderer without neccessarily liking it.
The copying and distributing of software hurts the ones who produced it.
They do not earn as much money as they would have. This you can see very
well in the case of unprotected (or easy to crack) software: Starcraft f.e.
sold not well - but everybody has it. Programs with good copy protection
sell better. This is fact, no discussion.
To have a certain game is not essential for your life. If you can't afford
it, then don't buy it. Maybe you could put together with your friends and
purchase an original owned by all.
Or you wait until the prices do lower. So do I. I think the same as you: the
price of $50 for a game is too much. But after few months the price is
reduced. If everybody would do this, this could be a sign to change pricing
politics. But although I did not spend $50 I still spent money. Money that
the software author receives and money that motivates him and the company to
go on producing software.
I am not a moral man, I am only thinking globally. I have no mercy for bad
software, they shall earn nothing if nobody buy it. But if we also do not
support the software we like then we shouldn't be surprised when software
gets worse and worse.
The biggest thing I ever have done is to violate the "license agreement" of
installing my software only on one computer. I think if I had paid for a CD
it is my own thing what I do with it inside my 4 walls.
3DTT is done with a legal original of Delphi 3.0. I could upgrade to Delphi
5.0 by warez but I don't. If I would need Delphi 5.0 I would buy it. I don't
need it, so I also do not download it.
And is it, just as with CD's, not also the software industry to blame? I
think 25 dollars for an audio CD and 50 dollar for a PC-Game is very high
for young people. I know that with games this money is needed to cover the
costs of development, but if prices where lower, they would sell more.
No. This theory is wrong. Prices would have to be very low to make this
effect happen. We are not talking about essential things for life. We are
talking about greedyness. Of course we ALL have the money to buy games. But
why should we spend it if we get the software for free or nearly for free?
It is only a question of copy protection. Well-protected games sell better.
If you have no choice, suddenly you have enough money, what a surprise!
Maybe
even such more, that the profit would be even higher. I think they will
also
have to lower prices in the future, because with the increase of bandwidth
on internet, it will be easier and easier to get illegal copies. A more
flexibel attitude of the software (and music) industry towards their prices
would be very welcome and necessary to secure their existence in the
future.
If you do not want to spent so much money then do not spend it.
Stealing a Rolls Royce because it is too expensive to buy is the same. You
don't need it for life and happyness. If you wait a bit the prices will go
down. Why do you have to possess the game from the first day on?
By the way, Transport Tycoon is an old game which is hardly nowhere sold
anymore. With the new Windows version, TTDLX and surely TTO became
kind of
obsolete.
No, because I owe TT I have no intention to purchase the new Windows
version. If it would have an improvement in gameplay, I would buy it. This
way I demonstrate that THIS software it not of worth to me.
And I think other people think similar. If they can have TTDX for free why
purchase the Windows version?
Is it that bad then, that mr. Houde puts TTDLX (together with
another old game, Warcraft II) on the internet?
This is even more bad, because he has no profit to do this, he only damages
the profit of other people. This is not acceptable.
I think it is at least not
enough reason to try to totally expel him from this newsgroup, by refusing
to answer him and by not so kindly asking him to get out.
I think it is a very good reason and everybody should do so. I support
flaming and refusing him until he doesn't show insight (is it the right
word? I simply translated the German "Einsicht"). Should we, who did pay for
our copies welcome him just as we would not know that this kind of crime
affects ourselves in long terms, too?
I hope I haven't called your wrath upon me...be merciful, I'm a worthy
catholic, protected by the Lord and by the Holy Ghost. I'm a model student,
who tries always to make his homework and who tries to limit truancy to a
minimum, who never hits people without a reason, who brushes his teeths
every day in favor of the people around me..... But I had to have this
said.
Until you do not produce and spread illegal copies you may have any opinion
you like.
Peter
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