But what you are saying is that you would never have bought the game unless the pirated server was shut down.
Way to win an argument. I congratulate you and your fellow muppets. Merry Christmas. GM Chicken. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Siddhartha Gandhi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] New crash exploit?(TF2) >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
