Comments on: Words

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:00:57 +0000

I’m sorry, I meant to specify that it doesn’t work for games that have no demos

You’re right, a lot of modern games don’t have demos, which I think is a shame. I think the last demo I played was for Space Rangers 2, over a year ago.

By: EER

EER — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:17 +0000

Except that there is no demo for Sim City, or The Sims, or Portal, or Grand Theft Auto, or Oblivion, or Morrowind, or Audiosurf. I think I pretty much summed up every game I have played recently.

In fact, the only game I have played recently that I know HAS a demo is Age of Empires 2. What happened to the demos?

Anyway that interview is pretty interesting and he makes some valid points. We’ll see what the future brings.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:26:24 +0000

Personally I’m all for using piracy as a means to try out a game before you buy it, but I’m afraid the existence of demos kinda invalidates the argument for use in any reasonable debate.

By: Shacker

Shacker — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:04:22 +0000

Casper makes an interesting point — I pirate a lot of games but I also buy a lot of games, including legit copies of games I pirated and enjoyed. I’m not claiming an ethical victory here or anything but I definitely have spent, and will continue to spend, a lot on pc gaming.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:15:36 +0000

Casper: Sorry your post took so long to appear, it got caught in my spam filter, presumably because of the links. I strongly agree about TV shows, the wait for Battlestar Galactica season 4 is killing me, and it’s not even out in the US yet!

EER: Actually this otherwise extremely interesting and full-of-great-points interview with one of the engineers who built DirectX back in The Day™.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/directx-creator.html

I was thinking about writing a post about it but there are so many great points it kinda seems silly to go over each of them and comment with: “I completely agree with this!” or “This is kinda true!” Instead I latched onto his annoying use of the word “stolen” in reference to game piracy and decided to write about that because it pisses me off when people do that.

It’s kinda like calling the Danish People’s Party nazis – it does nothing to make the DPP realize how fundamentally wrong they are, but it does in time kinda make the actual nazis seem less like the muderous psychopaths that they actually were/are.

By: EER

EER — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:11:37 +0000

So … what provoked you?

By: Casper

Casper — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:53:58 +0000

“Piracy… Is…. Stealing!”
I love that commercial!

I think it’s depressing that the major media labels don’t consider who the average Pirate is. Actually it’s a person who also on the same time is spending much more money on electronic entertaiment than the good “I never download” person.

Some good links on that:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4718249.stm
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/

Also I think it’s really annoying when we here in Europe have to wait so long time before a new TV show from USA will air over here, also the same thing goes with games.