First one: Is it only the person that owns the game that is allowed to play it?
Say my brother sees me playing game A and he wants to give it a try, am i allowed to let him play with my game? It's one of the biggest downsides of steam, if he wants to try a game i cant play any of my steam games because it's the same account. And not many games have any decent demo's.
Second one: If you legally bought a game, are you allowed to use a no-cd crack so you can play without having to enter the dvd? I have two excuses for that. The first excuse is that i really dont like to mess around with changing the dvd's. That mostly comes from back in the days they thought it would be a good idea to release a game on 4 or 6 cd's instead of one dvd. Their dvd box making skills are poor too. GTA:SA has the worst dvd holder ever. EVER. It's just the hardcover manual with the dvd attached to the cover. It has no protection whatsoever against dust and because it's in there like that it gets scratched very easily. I put in another box after a few weeks but it was already too late. Other boxes always make me feel like i'm going to break the dvd if i try to take it out. Or they're too loose and the dvd is moving around in the box, creating scratches and so on.
The second excuse is that i fcked up when i bought the motherboard. The motherboard i had ordered wasnt in stock anymore so they gave me another one. It's almost identical except for the number of sata ports. I didnt know. All my other pc's used the older system. I should have noticed it. I should have called and demanded a motherboard with more sata ports. But well, i didnt notice untill months later when i bought a new harddrive and noticed the pc had only two sata ports. So now i got two hard drives on the two sata ports and no dvd station connected. I only change the wires when i format the computer so it's either play only games that dont require a dvd or crack the games i bought legally. We got several computers here and we tend to cycle the upgrades, so that 2 sata motherboard is going to be around for a while.
I once had a discussion with a customer representative about it and he said i wasnt allowed to make any changes to any of the files or folders of the game. I then asked why i was allowed to change the settings or the username, which technically makes changes to a gamefile and then he changed the subject. Staying on the subject, I asked about game-mods and usermade maps and that was pretty much the end of the talk. I dont see the harm in it, if i own a real, legally bought copy of the game.
Say my brother sees me playing game A and he wants to give it a try, am i allowed to let him play with my game? It's one of the biggest downsides of steam, if he wants to try a game i cant play any of my steam games because it's the same account. And not many games have any decent demo's.
Second one: If you legally bought a game, are you allowed to use a no-cd crack so you can play without having to enter the dvd? I have two excuses for that. The first excuse is that i really dont like to mess around with changing the dvd's. That mostly comes from back in the days they thought it would be a good idea to release a game on 4 or 6 cd's instead of one dvd. Their dvd box making skills are poor too. GTA:SA has the worst dvd holder ever. EVER. It's just the hardcover manual with the dvd attached to the cover. It has no protection whatsoever against dust and because it's in there like that it gets scratched very easily. I put in another box after a few weeks but it was already too late. Other boxes always make me feel like i'm going to break the dvd if i try to take it out. Or they're too loose and the dvd is moving around in the box, creating scratches and so on.
The second excuse is that i fcked up when i bought the motherboard. The motherboard i had ordered wasnt in stock anymore so they gave me another one. It's almost identical except for the number of sata ports. I didnt know. All my other pc's used the older system. I should have noticed it. I should have called and demanded a motherboard with more sata ports. But well, i didnt notice untill months later when i bought a new harddrive and noticed the pc had only two sata ports. So now i got two hard drives on the two sata ports and no dvd station connected. I only change the wires when i format the computer so it's either play only games that dont require a dvd or crack the games i bought legally. We got several computers here and we tend to cycle the upgrades, so that 2 sata motherboard is going to be around for a while.
I once had a discussion with a customer representative about it and he said i wasnt allowed to make any changes to any of the files or folders of the game. I then asked why i was allowed to change the settings or the username, which technically makes changes to a gamefile and then he changed the subject. Staying on the subject, I asked about game-mods and usermade maps and that was pretty much the end of the talk. I dont see the harm in it, if i own a real, legally bought copy of the game.
