But i just grabbed a snack and sat down to enjoy the conversations in this thread.
It is all actually very informative btw

Bro, where did you get the idea that i don't support local retailers?

I thought we were having a discussion about digital VS retial. Facts against personal opinions. I don't see any of my post attacking you in any way. I may support CHeese in terms in his ideology, but that doesn't mean i have any vendeta against you.

This post has been edited by meetxj9: Mar 23 2011, 03:54 PM

Well, this is Steam thread, so maybe move those argument about where to get cheap game serial number, xbox, retailer discussion to another thread?

I was actually going to use an Astro analogy, but that works as well

f***ing pirates, how do they work?

What if a friend borrows a deck of cards to play Solitaire at his own accord. f***er should give me money for lending the cards to him.

yes telaxeh is doing a great job there. It's one of the more useful threads except when people are offering up their own opinions that they're passing because they already bought it or summat.

Incidentally, I'm now facing a moral dilemma because when i came home from work yesterday, my wife was drumming away on my copy of rock band 3 on the xbox with her own gamertag. I'm not sure if I should turn her in to Bill Gates or not.

Single player games.

Hell yeah! And they were drinking MY beers too!! Damnit!!

Ooops, I think I came off a bit strong there.

You didn't attack me at all... I was just stating that your opinion was... quite the opposite of mine and I think we would be at loggerheads, so I opted to just let it slide.

Well it is kinda pertinent though and it did stem from a discussion based on Steam. I don't really like splitting threads over small diversions like this. It'll run its course in a day or two and then we'll get back to complaining about how the midweek sales are crap and how Steam's update isn't working

Singleplayer games ie. RPGs and what not.

I don't see how it is not piracy for singleplayer games to be played by several people and by using one license only.

it always work for me

butthurt raging in the background.. u guys continue, i got some snacks from my colleague already

Solitaire is a single player game. How dare my friend play Solitaire with my deck of cards. He should've at least gone for fishing so that both of us could play. f***ing pirate.

Isn't that a deck of cards, that can be used for more than just Solitaire.

You've clearly been brainwashed into thinking of games as a service rather than a product. This is a new thing.

In the old days, me and a bunch of friends would huddle around an 8086 trying to guess the answers for the adult check to leisure suit larry 1. Which was a single player game. edit: the floppies they came on were pirated though. That's a different story altogether.

Incidentally solitaire is a single player game (the hint is in the name of the game itself).

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Mar 23 2011, 04:01 PM

Yeah, that happens sometimes. Not nearly enough to warrant heavy handed action though, but I'm still keeping an eye on it.

I might be mistaken, but isn't piracy more like stealing someone else's profits and having profit of their own?
So if the person is not earning any money, I don't think letting his friend play his singleplayer game is really "piracy" per se?

So your logic can be summarized as "if you don't pay money to buy this game yourself you CANNOT even double click on the icon of this game, even if it's on your friends pc and he is going off on a 1 month holiday in africa".

just an example, of course.

Fair enough. I do have that perception that games are like a service.

Isn't solitaire = a deck of cards which could be use for more than just solitare.

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Added on March 23, 2011, 4:07 pmIn that form, I also can argue that one license used for multiple users.


This post has been edited by kianweic: Mar 23 2011, 04:07 PM

Oh, and what about corporate software then.

There is one room in a department where only one pc is located. An original Microsoft Office is installed on one PC that is used by 10 different people working on 10 different days (shifts).

Piracy?

erm i think this is what the developers are trying to achieve nowadays.

Good point.

You are right. Ok, I apologized for saying that sharing Xbox is piracy.