I want to stop pirating games (on PC)
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Gamersgate, Steam, and www.find-games.co.uk are your friends. You can get games for cheap. I live on a tiny income, and I can always get all the games I actually -want-, if I want them.
Most English Universities block quite a few ports, and some have data caps so pirating will become less of an issue for you. When I was at Uni I couldn't connect to any sort of network, live, battlenet, wow, anything really. Heck some video streaming such as iplayer didnt even work for me.
Depending on your computer, you could go to this site called "Good old Games," where they have older games (Fallout, Beyond G&E) for cheap.
There are tons of free alternatives, particularly in the MMO world.
Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Allods (WoW clone thought the last patch destroyed it the first few levels should still be fun).
A pile of open source games, some of which are even good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games
And of course the best game ever made
NETHACK!
Dungeons and Dragons Online.
Allods (WoW clone thought the last patch destroyed it the first few levels should still be fun).
A pile of open source games, some of which are even good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games
And of course the best game ever made
NETHACK!
this my friend is the answer, I love the sales steam has, i used to pirate things too... then i found steam... and now it is my best friend... mmmm cheap games on sale at like 75-85%off... /drool...Hubilub said:
Ya know, cause it doesn't cost a cent to record and publish an album or film a movie.zungerman090 said:
If you want to stop just stop, its not like a drug addiction, just unplug the internet or whatever.
Sorry but "fail".zungerman090 said:
You want to stop pirating ... except music, then your still a pirate. A druggie is still a druggie even if he only takes weed.
Work and effort still go into making music, so why rip them off but not game devs?
If you want a pat on the back stop pirating.
Since the OP was so brave as to confess his crimes openly, I will too... I've been a pirate, yes, since 1695. I've robbed countless vessels on the high-seas, murdered and maimed a shameful amount of people, and even dealt in cursed Aztec gold.
But now I'd like to give it all up. Piracy just doesn't have the same glamor to it, seeing as how I share my affiliation with kids who download stuff from the internet.
Yaaaaaarg, a plague on all of you land-lubbers!
Signed, the ghost of Blackbeard.
But now I'd like to give it all up. Piracy just doesn't have the same glamor to it, seeing as how I share my affiliation with kids who download stuff from the internet.
Yaaaaaarg, a plague on all of you land-lubbers!
Signed, the ghost of Blackbeard.
Nice one. It's always good to see another guy stop pirating. The more guilt you feel, the better.
I have long been a used game buyer and the recent backlash is actually getting to me. With Steam sales and ebay I now have a pile of shame too big to ever complete. So I am considering going all new in my purchases. The one question I have, is the one I ask all former and current pirates, do you really play all of the games? I have hundreds of games for PC and current consoles but I almost never play them and when I do it usually from a handful of favorites. So I would guess most people who pirate games have too many to play so do you do what I do with cheap and used games and just pile them up in case someday you feel like playing them or do you only download games that you will spend a good amount of time playing?