One of the things that make me mad!

Chuki

Chuki

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I'm not sure where this goes, but it concerns PC Games. I'm an avid gamer, I game on my machine as much as I can when I can (which isn't very often).

Well I was talking to a buddy today and he wanted to play War Craft 3 online. I told I'm didn't have it, he said he would send it to me. So he started sending, and it was going to take a couple hours, so I ran uptown and seen that Jedi Knight 2. I came home, he asked me for a copy, I gave him a trip about "I just spent $50 on this game and you want a free copy" well he proceeded to say I'm giving a game too. I told him it's a beta version and he didn't even buy it. He tried to give me some speach about a barter system. Then cancled the upload. Now I don't know if it's legal or not for me to have the Beta.

My point is I get sick and tired of people (namely people I know) assuming that since I just bought the game and have cd-burner, I'll just dish them out a copy of the game. I hate that, then they have the nerve to get all pissed off. Thats not fair to me at all. I hafta spend $50 for a game, and you spend nothing? Then guess what? You give him a burned a copy, then he passes it on because he didn't pay for it.

I just get so damn tired of it, I'm about ready to sell my damn cd burner. The 24th of march (my bday actually) My uncle, asked me to burn a game I have for him. It wont work on his computer, and he wanted to install it on a freinds computer, that I know is into getting anything he can for free. It's hard at times to say no to your own family. One of my most favorite games is Screamer 4x4, and I had to pay the royalites to get that game shipped over from overseas I paid almost $70 for that game, and thats the game my uncle wants, and his freind. I had to basically say no. Even though it was his birthday.

Do you guys ever get pressured like that? The other day I got offered the cost of the blank cds for a copy of Visual Studio 6 Pro!!! I just laughed in his face. Luckily I got that on an academic discount so $280 was better then $1200 is what I beleive it was. That reminds me I need to get some more software before my fiance is done with school....

Is that bad? have my fiance buy and register software, but I use it? We live in the same household and everything.
 
I know how that is with friends, i just got jk2 today and a freind asked, and after years of asking for games and me being anooyed and saying yes like a good freind, i sayd, No. It mayd me feel good. and besides its kindof nice having someone watching you in aww as you play a really good game that only you have..
 
Don't worry...your real friends and family won't make their friendship conditional on whether or not you give them games. Just make sure they know your reasons, and if they disagree, well, it's their decision and out of your hands.
 
I tend to say no also unless it's A.Old Game B.There Family. I just can't say no to family :\. I geuss mostly because they have gotten me so many games over the years :(


But when a friend ask if I can burn him a copy of a game I just bought I just no. They always go "why not? I would" And I simple go "Because I beleave in supporting a good game" then they either get pissed(Rare) or say whatever lets play :)
 
the way it is!

the way it is!

I don't even own a CD burner..(yet). I do use a friends to pump out mass quantities of MY bands demo CD though. When Wolf3d came out, me and a good friend went out and happened to be by a computer store. We went in (good old tradition of looking at the newest stuff while scoffing at the Mac section) He had some cash on him so he bought RTCW (we both grew up killing Nazis in Wolf3d). We got to my place and he installs the sucker (also commenting on how my old radeon32DDR looked better than his GeForce3 ti500). He ended up playing that thing alone while I was having some brews with some other friends in another room) Anyway, he tells me how great it is and asks if I want a burn of it. I tell him that I better buy it if it's that good..we then conclude how games just seem better when you pay the cash for them. I have a coupled CD's with stuff on them I don't even know what they are. I'm just not interested if I don't spend money on them...does anyone feel the same way? It's like I have to earn the game...that's just the way it is!
 
Re: the way it is!

Re: the way it is!

col200 said:
I don't even own a CD burner..(yet). I do use a friends to pump out mass quantities of MY bands demo CD though. When Wolf3d came out, me and a good friend went out and happened to be by a computer store. We went in (good old tradition of looking at the newest stuff while scoffing at the Mac section) He had some cash on him so he bought RTCW (we both grew up killing Nazis in Wolf3d). We got to my place and he installs the sucker (also commenting on how my old radeon32DDR looked better than his GeForce3 ti500). He ended up playing that thing alone while I was having some brews with some other friends in another room) Anyway, he tells me how great it is and asks if I want a burn of it. I tell him that I better buy it if it's that good..we then conclude how games just seem better when you pay the cash for them. I have a coupled CD's with stuff on them I don't even know what they are. I'm just not interested if I don't spend money on them...does anyone feel the same way? It's like I have to earn the game...that's just the way it is!
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I feel the same way about the cash buying game thing, but as for 3d image quality, I actually find my geforce3 has much better 3d quality than my radeon ever did.
 
There is something special about owning the real thing that I just can't put a finger on. Maybe its the original art pressed on the CD, or the manual that comes with the game, or maybe its the satisfaction of paying for something and knowing its mine. I don't know, but I rather have the original than a copy.

Jim
 
Well when you have a crappy job like I do, you learn to appreciate things much more when you hafta wait and save for something. These people who have mom and dad buy them everything make me sick. Granted my parents bought me my 1st computer which at the time was $3k! and I can never thank them enough, because if they wouldn't have done that, I probably would have never got into computers. And because of that, I'm not training for a new job working in CTI, writing programs in VB, and deploying all the software and hardware. 6 months worth of training!

Guess what? Legally I never graduated highschool either! Everything I own is like gold to me, I work hard for this stuff. I'm just glad I some how managed to score job as a programmer for CTI setups, and I get to go out wherever and setup the networks, install the hardware, all that good stuff. But the good thing is, I get to work from home! and actual travel time will be very minimal, as my primary position will be writing the programs.

I honestly think this is where alot of flamewars come from, either folks who get hardware, games, whatever for next to nothing, illegal, or free or however. Most of these people probably don't appreciate what they have in front of them and are prepaired to bash other peoples items, and myself know that somebody somewhere worked hard for whatever item that is in there hand.

But to keep on topic, if you want a game please go out and buy it! Look online sometimes you can get some awesome deals, I know I missed a few.
 
I also love having the original game, rather than a copy of it..
For me, it's the satisfaction of purchasing the game myself, knowing
that I worked hard for it and i can "reward" myself with it.. knowing
that i have the manual, the original CD and the original box..

If, say for ps2, I go out and rent a game.. i wouldn't be able
to appreciate it because i have to play as much of it as I can in
3 days (blockbuster)..
 
most games now have CD keys so u gotta go buy them anyways.

But thats not the whole thing.
something about the real ting where u pay money to me seems better than having a pirate burned copy.

When starcraft BW came out, it didnt require a CD key and my friends all got theirs burned. Me not really liking pirate stuff had to think of an excuse to buy the real copy, and lo and behold my cdrom drive was purely screwed at that point so it couldnt read burned CDs anyways. Excuse found, game purchased.:)

yeah and sometimes burned CDs can get all screwed up.
 
Depends on the game anything below $40 is usually a safe bet and anything with unreal in the title:) Since a wedding and a house I have to save for games are a low prioity.
 
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