That's a good point, but as this is a hypothetical discussion I'm only talking about removing the pirates who are blatantly stealing. Other people might have different ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by {XG}Gijs007
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That's a good point, but as this is a hypothetical discussion I'm only talking about removing the pirates who are blatantly stealing. Other people might have different ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by {XG}Gijs007
Warlord you idiot, why did you post links that are the same fucking company. Clearly Americans won't realise that. The game is pretty hard to get yes, but you can still get it.
Fuck the pirates, if they want to play the game go fucking play the demo.
Leave the pirates.
People don't understand piracy, control, and value. If the pirates are not physically costing you anything... let them be... and try to derive value from them. They are your non-paying customers.
Uh this isn't a general piracy thread it's specific to Halo. Seanaero, if i'm not mistaken, is trying to see if he is going to allow servers to run with his stats system if they all have the same hashes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phopojijo
You might argue that they make the game worse, but the game is what you make it. They're not stopping you from playing with who you want and how you want. Pirates gonna pirate. This is an old game and I'm just glad to see people still play it, whether they paid for it or not. I would rather have them than not. There aren't enough active legitimate players left to populate a variety of servers and maps. People play what they want when they want to, so the idea that removing all these pirates will rewind the community's clock back to the golden days is unrealistic. It's just not the same anymore. In short, if you think the community can be better off without pirates then I so no reason why it can't already be done.
Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not saying this or anything remotely like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Con
And just so you all know something- even during the 'golden' days, we thought the game was dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Con
No, you're saying that you'd rather have the game be completely dead than have it be kept alive by pirates just so you can achieve a selfish, self-righteous moral victory. Fuck the fact that many people here enjoy playing the game regardless of the means by which their fellow players obtained it, eh? Gotta stamp out those pirates of an eight year old game, whatever the cost! Even if the cost is the death of the game!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooky
That's so much more reasonable.
When did I ever say I was being reasonable?Quote:
Originally Posted by king_nothing_
And anyway I think you're completely misinterpreting what I said. I'm not saying anyone should go on a zealous quest to eliminate pirates from Halo CE. But if someone were to ask me hypothetically, whether I would rather keep them or be rid of them all, I'd prefer them gone. The fact that Halo is primarily played by pirates these days does disgust me and I'm under no obligation to anyone to be reasonable about it.
There are more than enough legitimate players in the community to keep the game alive. The problem is that A LOT of legitimate players use the version changer to play with all the 1.00 pirates because there's simply more of them. If they all stopped doing that and just stuck to their legitimate 1.09 version then they would more than likely have an overall better experience IMO.
Who am I to tell people how to play their gaymes though.