Recent content by Red Is Dead

Indeed, what an amoral, selfish piece of work I am, looking to try things before buying them. How horrid. Truly I am the cancer that is killing the video game industry. Not the 200mb day one patches to fix the buggy releases or the "Yet Another Battle Warfare 27: the Cash Cow" franchise. I...

There is no game rental service available anywhere near here. The closest game shop is a 3 hour car ride, or a 15 euro train ticket. Add the game's rental price and I might as well just blindly buy the game - nevermind the fact that it's still a 3 fucking hours trip and I can't really do that...

I would love to test kitchen appliances before buying them too, but there's no real way to do that. Since I can't break in a store to steal one and return it if it doesn't fit my needs, and get away with it (which is the important part, really) - well, i'm SOL. I'm fully aware that piracy...

You usually get a good idea of a game's gameplay after one or two hours (depending on the amount of unskippable cinematics - aaargh) on them. Running through the tutorial (if there's one available) is also generally enough. That's usually when I decide "hey, i'm willing to spend X euros on...

Oh, Don't misunderstand me, I fully condemn piracy for the sake of piracy. The whole "I wouldn't have bought it in the first place" is a bloody moronic argument. Same with "I did not steal anything, they did not lose money etc." and basically all the stuff OP uses to justify his copyright...

Long time lurker here. Just registered to say this: I'll stop downloading games when publishers will remember that demos are a great promotional tool. No, I'm not going to buy a car without giving it a test run first. Same with a game. Demos allow me to make my own idea of the gameplay - It...