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Valve Takes the Offensive on Warez Users?
Drull writes "It's claimed by a poster on filefront.com that Valve might have released a "Warez" version of Half-Life 2 to monitor and ban those who attempt to use it. This is the news from some guy with a filefront account, so take it with a grain of salt.
why is this modded funny? I think its quite true. The only people who have problems with steam are people with crummy net connections and people who try to use it when traffic is very high. If you use steam on a day that isn't close to a big release day, and your bandwith isn't poop it works just fine. In fact, I've never had a problem. The only thing I can say about about steam is that it is windows only. You can tell the last time I played steam by running the uptime command.
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No, dipshit. That was an option before I bought it and spent my money and time on it. I did my part of the bargain, they didnt. I now deserve compensation. No matter what dimwitted appologists of Valve are about to say in between the bouts of licking their master's balls.
. Congratulations, your morals suck. The people who worked 5 years on this won't get any of your money...and you are so proud of yourself, that you want them to pay you money. Beyond my comprehension...it's people like you who are the problem.
No, what is immoral is your spineless insistence that only the game developers have rights because they are the ones bringing you new "oooh shiney" moments in exchange for you parting with some of your rights. And yes indeed, all of this is bound to be "beyond your comprehension". No suprise there.
Some of my friends on IRC were talking about it.
I bought the game and it will be there when I get home today ($35 shipped from Fry's Outpost). I buy all the games that I play even though I can get cracked versions from my friends. They say they are "disappointed" that I pay for games I don't have too. I will admit I have been playing a cracked version CSS for the past couple of weeks and it is sweet. This is the reason I bought the game. Funny, isn't it?
I know what the Internet is, what the hell is this Interweb business?!
The likelihood of Acclaim going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Argonaut going out of business is what?
The likelihood of Virgin/Vivendi/Fox being sold to another company is what?
The list of giant companies that ended bankrupt and penniless is too long to list. Jesus, are you a goldfish? Talk about 3 second memory...
its spelt "latter" mr "lesson-maker". you're obviously not the sharpest pencil in the box if : A : you think you can dictate morality. B : you think locking a machine to a net server is clever. So offline players cant play ? oh. problem for the x_hundred million people who actually are NOT online right now.