need a crack for v 1.0.7.4

Yes, the "best buy" or wtf series.

Unfortunately I don't know if any money from them goes to any employee of the late Troika game. (Sierra gets some, that's for sure!)

 

To be honest, I don't really care about a company that wants to make millions from a hyped shit-quality thing.

 

What exactly do you mean in this particular context?

I'm sure you didn't mean arcanum as the product in question. You must mean that in general you don't care if people try out a product illegally, find it to be crap and fail to buy it afterward?

That doesn't really address the contention that people will fail to buy a game they tried illegally when they *do* like it.

Anyway, Aren't demos a better way to aquaint yourself with a game than downloading it illegally?

 

Whoah it's very important that you understand what a huge difference there is here.

Shoplifting costs the brick and mortar company retail company hard cash. Someone illegally downloading software then deciding they don't like it and not buying it doesn't remove cash from anyone. The *BIG* difference is that someone (the retailer) paid for the particular copy you stole from the store whereas *nobody* has paid anything for the particular copy someone downloads from a warez site somewhere. In the first case it is simple theft in the second case the damage can run the complete range from zero damage to (the cash loss equivalent of) full blown theft depending upon what the behavior of the downloader in the absence of the downloading activity would have been.

True but I only remember that being the case for Doom. For everything later there was traditional demos instead or in the case of Doom2 no demo at all iirc.

exactly. It rubs the wrong way entirely when 'progress' somehow leads to less convenience.

 

it doesn't matter what you get in the end.

If I fish a copy out of the landfill and if I sneak into somebodys house and steal their copy of arcanum I'm still getting the same thing in the end (a copy of something I wanted and could otherwise have bought but didn't) but one is morally reprehensible the other probably isn't even theoretically wrong.

 

Aye there's the rub! It's actually much more complicated than you jsut described because in one very real sense copies of intellectual property really *do* just "magically" appear out of nowhere.

Now you see one copy....
Hey presto! now you see two.

The problem was all the work involved in making that original copy. The best system is to have those who bennefit from the intellectual property pay for it. This covers the costs to produce the original copy and provides incentives to produce other original copies of intellectual property.

however this does not in any way change the fact that copies can be "magically" produced at no additional expense to the author(s) of the property. The important thing is to make sure that no such copying activity is used to circumvent the original authors being compensated for consumption of their product by those who bennefit from it.

I oppose (or at least am irritated and annoyed by) some anti-piracy tactics but I hate the illegal downloading and use of software that people know they would otherwise buy even more. Don't mistake me for a supporter of illegal use of software.

 

Why? wouldn't it be even easier just to make your own ISO?

 

Or, they'd have to start making games that didn't suck.

Do you think it's bad to borrow a game from a friend or play it with him to try them before you buy it? It's pretty much the same thing, either you like the game and go buy it, or you don't like it and return it.

If you don't like copy protection, I suggest you try the [urlhttp://www.download.com/Galactic-Civilizations-II-Dread-Lords-demo/3000-7493_4-10518894.html]demo[/url] of Galactic Civilizations 2, and if you like it, buy it, this game has no copy protection whatsoever, and by buying it you prove that people are honest, and help support the absence of copy protection.

 

I just looked at the poor guys posting history. I *really* doubt he was looking for a way to play an illegal copy of the game since it seems clear he's been playing it already.

 

He clearly stated that he wanted a crack for 1.0.7.4. I'm sure he is playing 1.0.7.0 with crack.

 

Cracks can stop working for games after patches?