Demigod: 18,000 Customers; 120,000 Pirates


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People are just cheap! PC games are the cheapest games out of the bunch as well! They already get a discount. :p

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this is a game i actually felt was worth buying

but you know what, i regret it(like all non blizzard games i buy)

the pirates can play online..that was the only reason left to really BUY a game

however, the game actually IS worth the money if you looked at its overall quality

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the pirates cant play online, well they can but they cant patch it to the version paying users use because the game needs to be registered with impulse and a cd key before it will update so if they want to play online with fixes and updates they are going to have to buy it.

granted its probably the most crappy PC game release this year, the dev's are going above and beyond to get patches rolled out to fix the problems, Frogboy (the CEO) of Stardock has been working his ass of helping people in the chat channel and working out the bugs with the connection issue's so in another few days i would say that most of the problems will be fixed.

i for one really like the game and it has tons of potentiol once the connection problems are ironed out.

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What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate.

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What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate.

it would matter abit more if the pirates are taking up resources that would have otherwise gone to a paying customer, such as server capacity.....

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What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate.

They shouldn't have the priviledge to play a game someone else paid for.

And these are the type of pirates that will shield themselves behind "legitimate" concerns like DRM as their reason for pirating.

What a bunch of hypocrites!

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People are just cheap! PC games are the cheapest games out of the bunch as well! They already get a discount. :p

They get a discount because all the hardware you need to run the newest games cost you an arm and a leg; even more than a PS3! :p

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What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate.

What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant.

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I wonder how many of these 100000 pirates copies originate from a country where demigod wasn't in the stores yet... like in europe...

People want the game, have the internet news and know it's available, but can't buy it in their country yet because the "booklet" still needs translating....

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What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant.

and what exactly did they steal? It's not like 102,000 copies got pulled off the shelves.

I can't remember the last time I played a game that let illegal copies online, these guys are idiots.

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What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant.

What annoys me is people trying to equate copyright infringement to stealing, if you pirate something you dont walk into a game shop and take it off the shelves, you just download the bits. Thats not stealing.

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the 18k and the 100k were just connections not copys..so granted there were 100k pirated versions trying to connect and 18k legit users at that time they checked..not just 18k copys sold.

the only reason they got online was because it was released early by GS and was torrented by saturday morning before the servers were up and ready so no cd key/serial checkers were in place.

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What annoys me is people trying to equate copyright infringement to stealing, if you pirate something you dont walk into a game shop and take it off the shelves, you just download the bits. Thats not stealing.

You pay for the license to install and use the game...not the media used to install it. Yes, you are stealing. :rolleyes:

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