On the other hand, it does seem to fit that the person that wants to play City of Villains would be the one to want to steal something that's free...
An MMO gamer making fun of a person who is not very familiar with MMOs is clever, funny and thread-worthy.
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1) I was making fun of his impulse to pirate something and the fact that he went so quickly. He and I go back and forth on that subject all the time...|
Originally Posted by Silverado
An MMO gamer making fun of a person who is not very familiar with MMOs is clever, funny and thread-worthy.
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2) He's been playing the game for a very long time and had taken a long break. It's not as if he's absent from the concept entirely.
Why would he be torrenting games he already had anyways. Doesn't he burn his non MMO disc images for backup?
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and worthy of you posting, apparently.|
Originally Posted by Silverado
An MMO gamer making fun of a person who is not very familiar with MMOs is clever, funny and thread-worthy.
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edit: silver, was that cute little neg-rep for you? i thought you were better than that. at least sign it like a man.
What's the point of torrenting a game you need to have an official account to play, anyway? I mean, if this were Lineage or WoW or Aion where there are thousands of "private" servers all over the 'net, I could kind of see that, but there aren't any for City of Heroes. And I've looked. Besides, from having to help friends of mine with just that kind of trouble, you do NOT want to grab torrent versions of the game if you want to run it legit. It DOES NOT WORK.
On his general instinct to torrent a game first before buying it, though, I can't actually say I get the urge to smite. If you actually read the info files on those torrents, the pirates keep repeating "If you like the game, BUY IT!!!" and if that's what it takes to get a person to buy a game, then all the better for it. These days you just don't get decent demos of games, and even back when you did, they SUCKED just the same.
Of course, this really isn't something that's relevant to an MMO, as MMOs come with free trials that are basically just that, only legal. Sure, ours has the crotch-kickingly annoying limitations that trial accounts face, but even then, grabbing a free trial and giving it a couple of weeks is the easiest AND the most legitimate way to try a game. That's basically how I realised I hated Champions Online and Lineage II, though learning I hate Aion and WoW was more from watching people play them.
So, yeah. Resist the urge to slap your friend on the back of the head and just show him the free trial 
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Exactly. I'm sending him the "please come back, we're sorry you hate us" trial that these crazy devs concocted.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
So, yeah. Resist the urge to slap your friend on the back of the head and just show him the free trial
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Oh, and to everyone else:
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| What's the point of torrenting a game you need to have an official account to play, anyway? |
... nomming a couple free sample teriyaki bites...
... and then bursting the hell out of there before the cops show up. FIVE OH. FIVE OH!
lol I guess
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I assume he has other useful abilities to qualify as "friend." Otherwise, that level of wrong would get you kicked out of my superfriends circle.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Exchange with my friend over the weekend:
Marcian: "Wait, you played City of Villains!?" Homie G: "Yeah, but I took a break. Thinking of trying it again, though." M: "You really should! It's in a great place right now!" G: "Maybe... I guess I'll torrent it and see if I like it enough to pay for it." M: "You... you're going to pirate the game?" G: "At first, yeah." M: "..." ----  This was after I had explained to him that he didn't need to buy the game again, because he already owned it permanently... |
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Torrenting it might be way faster than downloading with the updater though.
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Burning it to DvD for him would be even better.
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Originally Posted by sblinks
Torrenting it might be way faster than downloading with the updater though.
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Just goes to show some people's intense desire for 'free loot' overwhelms their ability to think rationally. A torrent version for a game that requires an account to connect to the servers ain't gonna work (unless they come with hacked accounts I guess), then to top it all of this is despite them already having the game! Too weird for words.
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Just think, this is a person you might PUG with...
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Having made a DVD is superior to getting a torrent. Not having made a DVD, however, makes burning one impossible when you lack the software, and people tend to not make backups of games they're leaving when they think they're leaving for good. At least the people I know.
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Originally Posted by LISAR
Burning it to DvD for him would be even better.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I hope so. He downloaded the game last night. With any luck, I can get him on the forums, wherein he can defend his behavior... |
Originally Posted by Gaming_Glen
Just think, this is a person you might PUG with...
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Re: Torrenting something you've already got.
It's not entirely ridiculous. Lots of people on bakaBT do it to help boost their U/D ratio 
(Okay, not quite what we're talking about... but whatever )
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Exchange with my friend over the weekend:
Marcian: "Wait, you played City of Villains!?"
Homie G: "Yeah, but I took a break. Thinking of trying it again, though."
M: "You really should! It's in a great place right now!"
G: "Maybe... I guess I'll torrent it and see if I like it enough to pay for it."
M: "You... you're going to pirate the game?"
G: "At first, yeah."
M: "..."
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This was after I had explained to him that he didn't need to buy the game again, because he already owned it permanently...