You think this would work if I went to EMI and asked to pirate their music because I couldn't afford it. NO. Stop being lame. If you cant afford it then don't play it, you don't deserve it! You don't also think valve is feeling the pressure of the economy? If everyone stopped buying games but still play them then valve won't last for very long.
But to come on here asking for a fix for something you didn't pay for.... are you crazy or has the world gone mad. 2008/12/20 Siddhartha Gandhi <[email protected]> > I want to say that anyone suggesting that cracking your server does not > push > people to buy the legit version of the game is ridiculous. > > Let me tell you the story of myself, and over 200 other TF2 players. Back > in > the months January - June a cracked server called Onan's Disciples was > started. It turned out to be one of the biggest American servers, having a > consistent 32 players for much of the day. When the server was shut down > and > replaced by a legit server, almost all of us bought the game on Steam. Just > about everyone who was a regular on that server now owns the game legit, > and > the vast majority of them originated as pirates. > > That server achieved two things: > > a) People bought the game who, if they hadn't gotten the cracked version of > the game, probably wouldn't have. > > b) It created a community that lasted even when the server went legit. > > Sure, that server allowed people to illegally play the game, some of whom > never went out and bought it (more often than not, because they didn't have > the ability to buy it), but if that server did not exist, would the ones > who > did buy it have bought the game? The answer is no. > > I'm not justifying piracy, I don't think anyone is, but before you censure > this man consider that piracy doesn't always lead to lost sales. > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
