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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by {XG}Gijs007 View Post
    beside lots of pirates are also from the middle east cause the game is not being sold their and it does not get shipped if you buy it over ebay cause they only ship to western country's...
    its not that they can't afford it, cause they can afford to hire servers from me...
    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by Phopojijo View Post
    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by Con View Post
    so the idea that removing all these pirates will rewind the community's clock back to the golden days is unrealistic.
    Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not saying this or anything remotely like this.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by Con View Post
    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.
    And just so you all know something- even during the 'golden' days, we thought the game was dead.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pooky View Post
    Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not saying this or anything remotely like this.
    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!

    That's so much more reasonable.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    Quote Originally Posted by king_nothing_ View Post
    That's so much more reasonable.
    When did I ever say I was being reasonable?

    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.
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    Re: Pirates, keep them or ban them, what would you do?

    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.
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