Top 10 Torrented games list
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To be honest, I think an online connection should be a requirement in order to play a game. I mean c'mon who doesn't have net these days?
Game companies could provide the bulk of the game on a DVD or whatever, but leave out a few small but vital files (such as the main game EXE's and DLL's). Whenever you want to play the game it downloads them into memory (nothing on disk) and then runs the game.
Game companies could provide the bulk of the game on a DVD or whatever, but leave out a few small but vital files (such as the main game EXE's and DLL's). Whenever you want to play the game it downloads them into memory (nothing on disk) and then runs the game.
inconspicuousj
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to be honest i'm not too keen on downloading things like games, they're generally too big. if i lose a disc or damage it beyond repair then i'll just torrent another copy but it's not on to rip off a company in the first couple of days a game goes out to the public and lets face it theres nothing like the battle to get the cellophane off of a new case.
name='monkey7' said:Yeah great, there goes my gaming rig with buggy wirelessI don't really think that's an option, partially because someone will probably find a way to put the files in the RAM with a crack or standalone program.
Well its either a case of everyone suffering with DRM or a few suffering with having to hook up a 56k modem
Sure there will be ways around it, but with some of the game files stored server side, developers could make regular but subtle changes to them in order to foil any attempts to work out memory patterns.
52% of britain's homes have computers within them. Even less have the internet. Data from National survey statistics so accurate.
Games are not torrented for the want to be a pirate of copyrighted material, that is a stupid conclusion for even the government to come to. Games are pirated by hackers for bragging rights, torrented by kids for bragging rights at school before release date and torrented by older people because they can't afford to buy every single good looking game out only to find its crap and they've wasted £30 for some 15yo spotty **** to say "sorry guv, its only worth £3" when its on the shelf next to the counter for the £30 he paid yester-****ing-day.
I am one of the lucky ones that can afford to buy many games but I happen to go to a very regular LAN for what can best be described as work colleagues annonymous. It involves work colleagues from many jobs all interlinked through friends and previous jobs. Me being one of these lucky ones I have the new games, others however are barely able to scrape together a PC that runs XP let alone a game well. So a week before these LANs we optimise games for their PCs as best as we can ready for the LAN so fun and frolics can happen. Can we all play? No! because only a few of us can afford all the games we play over the 15hours we play for. So we cheat (or rather they do). Can you really be cruel to your friends and say your not "rich" enough to join in our fun? Its like bullying for adults and TBH this profiteering by companys makes me SICK.
Games are not torrented for the want to be a pirate of copyrighted material, that is a stupid conclusion for even the government to come to. Games are pirated by hackers for bragging rights, torrented by kids for bragging rights at school before release date and torrented by older people because they can't afford to buy every single good looking game out only to find its crap and they've wasted £30 for some 15yo spotty **** to say "sorry guv, its only worth £3" when its on the shelf next to the counter for the £30 he paid yester-****ing-day.
I am one of the lucky ones that can afford to buy many games but I happen to go to a very regular LAN for what can best be described as work colleagues annonymous. It involves work colleagues from many jobs all interlinked through friends and previous jobs. Me being one of these lucky ones I have the new games, others however are barely able to scrape together a PC that runs XP let alone a game well. So a week before these LANs we optimise games for their PCs as best as we can ready for the LAN so fun and frolics can happen. Can we all play? No! because only a few of us can afford all the games we play over the 15hours we play for. So we cheat (or rather they do). Can you really be cruel to your friends and say your not "rich" enough to join in our fun? Its like bullying for adults and TBH this profiteering by companys makes me SICK.
name='Jim' said:
Me for the past few days whilst I stayed at my Grandad's house and on the train there and back.
Also, me when I moved into my new house and had to wait almost a month for the setup. LAN based house games were the only fun to be had with our comps. Well, there was one open network, but you couldn't game on it as the owner loved to file share.
fruityness
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If the games werent so expensive in the first place, I'd feel there would be less piracy. When warhammer online came out, I ended up downloading it legally - I later realised it was more expensive to download it from EA than it would of been to buy the retail pack from a shop.. No packaging, no dvd's, no manuals, no shipping, and yet they charge more. Then whinge about piracy. DOH. (hmm I wonder what DRM warhammer online has added to my comp come to to think of it).
For me downloading games legally from online stores would be a perfect opportunity to save the end gamer a few bucks, and make gaming more affordable to all. Yet they'd rather rip us off. Then whinge about piracy. DOH.
Further, a lot of the time the end product isnt that good anyway. I seem to recall black and white 2 having a patch ready for *day of release* which weighed in at about 100mb or some such. The game was buggy, they knew this, yet shipped anyway. GTA IV was released recently.. An RSS feed I read said many were very unhappy over the buggyness off that game.. A lot of games are like this, with glarring errors / gameplay bugs - which shouldnt of been there if only they did a bit of thorough QA. For me its just another reason not to buy, and I dare say for others to torrent.
If they charged many people a small amount for games, rather than a few people a large amount, personally I feel more would buy the games, and their profits would go up. This would certainly be the case for me. I dont buy games often - due to their price - then pick and choose carefully after reading reviews for the games I do buy.
For me downloading games legally from online stores would be a perfect opportunity to save the end gamer a few bucks, and make gaming more affordable to all. Yet they'd rather rip us off. Then whinge about piracy. DOH.
Further, a lot of the time the end product isnt that good anyway. I seem to recall black and white 2 having a patch ready for *day of release* which weighed in at about 100mb or some such. The game was buggy, they knew this, yet shipped anyway. GTA IV was released recently.. An RSS feed I read said many were very unhappy over the buggyness off that game.. A lot of games are like this, with glarring errors / gameplay bugs - which shouldnt of been there if only they did a bit of thorough QA. For me its just another reason not to buy, and I dare say for others to torrent.
If they charged many people a small amount for games, rather than a few people a large amount, personally I feel more would buy the games, and their profits would go up. This would certainly be the case for me. I dont buy games often - due to their price - then pick and choose carefully after reading reviews for the games I do buy.
fruityness
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Ahh as an adder to my previous post. I just checked the price today of warhammer online, EA are selling it for download at £34.99, and play.com have it for retail purchase at £9.99.
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 = £34.99 from EA download store. And £14.99 from play.com.
EA, you're just adding to piracy with this level of profiteering.
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 = £34.99 from EA download store. And £14.99 from play.com.
EA, you're just adding to piracy with this level of profiteering.
Rastalovich
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name='rrjwilson' said:
Focusing the blame of high prices to piracy is an old game played by publishers. They know it's not the case, and they'll continue to charge "whatever price they feel they can get away with" for their product.
name='fruityness' said:
It's a good theory, but I can remember 8 bit games being sold for under £10 a throw and they were also dished around. All the same thing, b4 they're released, version that didn't require the 5.25 floppy in order to play (no cd today), and the bbs was more flooded than the internet is today.
Maverick1dj
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I'm totally ****ed about this DRM B******S. I always buy my games, as i prefer a paper manual and a box, and the added security that everything's above board and working fine.
One thing that really gets to me apart from the installation of hidden DRM software (C***S!!!) is the inability to emulate a disc image of the game. I always create a disc image (ISO) and use software to emulate it in a virtual drive. There's nothing more annoying than fiddling around with several different discs all the time, also it prevents your game discs becoming scratched/damaged, and in case they do, you have a back up, as you never seem to get a replacement which means you're forced to re-buy!
Overall the one thing that really gets to me is the fact I've spent over two grand on a very fast PC, that was built for multi-tasking, but if i wanted to play a new game, and say burn a couple CD's (which i do a lot) i can't coz i HAVE to have the game disc in the drive for the game to run. Most would see it as small issue but it really p*****s me off, and for those who'll say just buy another drive a) that isn't the point, i spent a lot of money to have the privilege to be able to multi-task b) I'd use that drive too!!!
DRM just rapes the good customers and forces all others to either not purchase and download for nothing a cracked version which doesn't have all the shortfalls and issues the official DRM version does, hell that's probably why Spore is the No.1 downloaded torrent!!! It's the most notorious game with DRM.
As for internet connection to play, that would be terrible for me, i wouldn't have been able to play any games for the last month as my connections been so choppy, on/off all the time, also what if i wanted to use a game on a rig which wasn't connected, a laptop away from a wifi connection. One of the things that always attracted me to PC gaming was the depth of games, and versatility of the systems and platforms to play them.
Buy adding such over the top DRM developers are turning my PC into an exaggerated console. I have my 360 for that!!!
The problem developers have with profits doesn't lie with pirating i honestly believe most who pirate wouldn't go out and buy the games anyway, and developers seem to be punishing the honest paying folk because they believe every pirated game is a lost sale! I believe it's because PC games have lost their edge, few PC games these days are anything other than ported console games, and console gaming is more reliable, simpler for most users so why not use a console to play these games?
I don't think PC's are used to their full potential these days, and few developers are pushing the boundaries. All this OTT DRM seems like bureaucratic finger wagging; pointing the blame for poor profits. I bet Bethesda have had some pretty decent profit margins over the last few years, and they don't incorporate any DRM into their products!!!
Ooooff! Essay Sorry! This DRM C*** has really got to me...
One thing that really gets to me apart from the installation of hidden DRM software (C***S!!!) is the inability to emulate a disc image of the game. I always create a disc image (ISO) and use software to emulate it in a virtual drive. There's nothing more annoying than fiddling around with several different discs all the time, also it prevents your game discs becoming scratched/damaged, and in case they do, you have a back up, as you never seem to get a replacement which means you're forced to re-buy!
Overall the one thing that really gets to me is the fact I've spent over two grand on a very fast PC, that was built for multi-tasking, but if i wanted to play a new game, and say burn a couple CD's (which i do a lot) i can't coz i HAVE to have the game disc in the drive for the game to run. Most would see it as small issue but it really p*****s me off, and for those who'll say just buy another drive a) that isn't the point, i spent a lot of money to have the privilege to be able to multi-task b) I'd use that drive too!!!
DRM just rapes the good customers and forces all others to either not purchase and download for nothing a cracked version which doesn't have all the shortfalls and issues the official DRM version does, hell that's probably why Spore is the No.1 downloaded torrent!!! It's the most notorious game with DRM.
As for internet connection to play, that would be terrible for me, i wouldn't have been able to play any games for the last month as my connections been so choppy, on/off all the time, also what if i wanted to use a game on a rig which wasn't connected, a laptop away from a wifi connection. One of the things that always attracted me to PC gaming was the depth of games, and versatility of the systems and platforms to play them.
Buy adding such over the top DRM developers are turning my PC into an exaggerated console. I have my 360 for that!!!
The problem developers have with profits doesn't lie with pirating i honestly believe most who pirate wouldn't go out and buy the games anyway, and developers seem to be punishing the honest paying folk because they believe every pirated game is a lost sale! I believe it's because PC games have lost their edge, few PC games these days are anything other than ported console games, and console gaming is more reliable, simpler for most users so why not use a console to play these games?
I don't think PC's are used to their full potential these days, and few developers are pushing the boundaries. All this OTT DRM seems like bureaucratic finger wagging; pointing the blame for poor profits. I bet Bethesda have had some pretty decent profit margins over the last few years, and they don't incorporate any DRM into their products!!!
Ooooff! Essay Sorry! This DRM C*** has really got to me...
Personally, I torrented Far Cry 2 entirely because of DRM.
I buy games that the developers will let me play. I bought Crysis (despite DRM) and Bioshock because they are good games. One of my friends who payed for spore said it was a collosal dissapointment and said to all of his friends, pirate it- it isnt worth paying for.
DRM will stop pirates like the benefit system stopped homeless people.
I buy games that the developers will let me play. I bought Crysis (despite DRM) and Bioshock because they are good games. One of my friends who payed for spore said it was a collosal dissapointment and said to all of his friends, pirate it- it isnt worth paying for.
DRM will stop pirates like the benefit system stopped homeless people.
Youngie1337
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Memory entries and information can easily be emulated, also so many forms of protection are out. Hackers will ALWAYS defeat the object, nothing is perfect.
I bought one day, CSS, played it once and got bored. Why the hell would you buy a game simply to find out its complete crap and then have to take it back. OR, as i like to put, even lazier, with a downloaded game (torrented) comes a crack, that crack means not having to find the disc.
All games are crackable. Look at the new GTA, took all of 2 days to crack? i mean come on, the companys should stop spending money trying to stop us and spend the money on making the game more enjoyable, eg, code the bloody thing properly. GTA 4 is terribley optimised. Im running at 28fps at 1280x1024 on medium settings on a 3870x2 clocked to the max and an e6750 @ 3.5ghz. I feel sorry for anyone else with a lesser spec system.
Bioshock was the best one for waiting for a crack though. What a game....
All games are crackable. Look at the new GTA, took all of 2 days to crack? i mean come on, the companys should stop spending money trying to stop us and spend the money on making the game more enjoyable, eg, code the bloody thing properly. GTA 4 is terribley optimised. Im running at 28fps at 1280x1024 on medium settings on a 3870x2 clocked to the max and an e6750 @ 3.5ghz. I feel sorry for anyone else with a lesser spec system.
Bioshock was the best one for waiting for a crack though. What a game....
