From: Nai_Ying_Kwok@guru.apana.org.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Black Crypt HELP!!! [PLEASE - I'm STARVING!!!!]
Distribution: world
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:32:33 +1100
Organization: Guru Meditation BBS

In a message dated Sat  3 Jan 93 12:31, Jeff_holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (jeff 
wrote:


 J> It's jerks like you that are causing software companys to pull out of
 J> the
 J> Amiga market. If you want to steal software fine, it's your own
 J> business as

Jesus, you have no idea what you're talking about.  In a country where
releases are slow or most software houses are INCOMPETENT, there is NO WAY
you can get current games except if you mail order, and then you have no
idea what the f*ck the games look like.  The unfortunate truth is that
sometimes pirated games are BETTER and give you MORE than the commercial
shit... For example Zool, where the pirated version is HD installation and
the orig is not.

So what are the alternatives if you want to get the new releases FAST??  I
for one wouldn't be willing to wait 12 months after all the pirates have
finished playing the game to get the f*cking piece of shit software that
probably isn't worth $2, let alone $60!!  Mail order is just as bad as the
game could be a heap of shit and I WOULDN'T KNOW!!!

The most palatable alternative is to look at the pirated copy as a demo,
and if it is worth it, wait for or mail order the released game.  I am not
saying I do it, but I fully understand the attitudes of unwilling pirates
WOULDN'T pirate if they have a better alternative to doing it...

 J> long as you don't try to justify it here.
 J> I suppose you're one of these people who goes into a restaraunt, eats
 J> a meal
 J> and when the bill comes you say the food wasn't good enough and you're
 J> not
 J> paying for it. Would you have the same attitude that a free trial is

Gahh, it is a totally different situation and you know it.  If the
restaurant said give me your money and two months later gives you the food
would you still pay for it?? The analogy is not accurate, but then again,
neither is yours.  And what's wrong with complaining if the food simply
isn't good enough anyway?  You just cannot compare these two things as the
situation isn't the same...

 J> OK if
 J> your boss came up to you on payday and told you he didn't think you
 J> did
 J> enough work over the last 2 weeks and he wasn't going to pay you? "But
 J> if you
 J> just work a little harder MAYBE you can have a paycheck next time."

Oh yeah...  in this case, YOU would be telling your boss "I know you need
my services NOW, but I'm not coming to work until 6 months later"...  

TELL ME you would still hire a dickhead with that kinda attitude....

 J> My guess is that you'd have a bit different attitude about "FREE
 J> TRIALS"!

If software companies had a different attitude about DISTRIBUTION and
SERVICE and PRODUCTION QUALITY, like HD installable games so you don't have
to hack their games in the first place, and also REASONABLY PRICED games,
then pirates wouldn't exist in the first place.  

What is required is for them to product CD-ROM games that are AT LEAST 100
mb long EACH, that would seriously fuck up the cost benefit ration of
piracy versus purchase.  Tell me pirates would seriously consider using 90
disks to copy games and fill up their Hard drives and you are truly
deluded...  

I mean, imagine the RSI cases it would result in! :-)

NY

-Disclaimer:  I do NOT pirate games!!



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