Why did you promote all of those comments? Gerrycomo's is obviously just a copy-paste of something unnecessarily long that he didn't read.

Who the hell promoted this?

With a faked CD key and/or a modified game file. Most games don't have the CD key check in the exe anyway. It's usually part of the game code, often checked when starting online components.

Yeah. There's one thing when you're an MLG ranked player, and another entirely when you're on a team that plays Gamebattles.

Unless you've set an Indian Alarm.

I've always wondered: if a police officer asks to search my home, and I'm certain I've done nothing wrong, should I ask for a warrant? That is, I'm not sure what they're searching it for, or they're searching it regarding some murder case that has nothing to do with me (but somehow involves my house) — is it just…

For everyone saying that he should have gotten the death penalty, think about this:

Pro gaming can do whatever it wants as long as people stop saying "DUDE I'M MLG PRO I CAN PWN NOOBS ALL DAY".

You don't need a cracked executable to run a pirated game. You can just have the image mounted and it will work.

Well that would be a crack, not a pirated game. The executable is the same in pirated copies. Cracks are new executables that don't check for a game DVD.

It was great for its time. The only thing holding it back was network speeds. Now that tech has advanced (procedural engines, etc.) and everyone has high-speed broadband, it could be incredible.

Planetside, for all its glitches and buggy gameplay, was the most fun I've had ever playing a game.

What does it mean 'a licensed copy'? I own Oblivion, but can a mod really check for a pirate copy?

There is no value destroyed. In buying the product, you get a free online pass. Only one comes with the product. Use of the pass means that, in reselling it, the second purchaser does not get the pass.

I don't think so, because you bought it knowing it was used and therefore had no online access. The game itself does not remove the online access — the first user simply still owns that original access.

"In their twenties now" does not make a large consumer base of regular video gamers.

No, they aren't. The majority of the consumers in the US do not play video games on a regular basis.

I mean legally valid enough.

Yes, other publishers are definitely on board.

Meh, pro gaming will go big and mainstream once the video gaming generations become the main consumers in the economy.