I'll admit to pirating games for the following reasons (and ONLY the following reasons):
Aged the best or aged the LEAST?
As a longtime player of Ultima Online (since 2001), my only advice to any company or development team thinking of getting into bed with EA is this:
@Cragen: Censorship is everyone
They could bring back the nipples and the nudity and add some proper dismemberment instead of all the cartooney blood-spray and that proper combat-moves thing they promised and lose the rigid limiting classes and levels gameplay and the stupid nooby starter quests and and and.....
Ooooh the irony. CliffeB. gets to be a victim of corporate retardationness. Here's hoping he'll shut-the-fuck-up about 'quarter-term profits' and 'franchising' and 'demographic expectations' in future.
@JayDiggler: *Jigsaw Voice*
*Remembers Fondly*
Translating languages is something game companies can already do. Independence War for example, had complete translation and dialogue in English, German and French but usually, companies don't bother. Which is a real shame.
Who remembers the intro movie to Independence War? It came on an entire CD all to itself, and it was [boomingecho]!!!AWESOME!AWESOME!AWESOME!!![/boomingecho]
@ZinkO: preferred the old theme AND comment system:Yep, Europe has become pretty socialist.
@RatsOffToYa: Goddam Yeah! USA! USA! USA!
@Reikson: As said in the original comment by@I_Hate_This_Place:, the rich run our businesses and keep our economy going. Over taxing them is a bad idea for the consumer as it will trickle down.
@I_Hate_This_Place: No one on welfare took any risks for my business, nor put any work into it. They shall not get any of the financial benefits from it either.
@two cans tied together and thrown down the street to wake u...: NO, they do NOT have ANY value.
EPIC FANTASY AND SCI-FI MMORPGS BASED AROUND REALM VS REALM/RACE VS RACE/GUILD VS GUILD/YOU AND YOUR MATES VS YOUR EX AND HIS MATES MIGHTY COMBAT IN A GRINDING STATUS OBSESSED WORLD OF CLASSES AND LEVELS FEATURING GENERIC, DERIVATIVE AND EASILY UNDERSTOOD SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS SO YOU WON'T FEEL LIKE YOU'RE A MORON AND…
Games Workshop and EA. Together at last. Like plastic bags and glue.
@taftsearlobe33: What are you saying? That I'm being fanatical about Ultima Online?
I once worked on a shop selling everything from boardgame figures to photographic equipment where the owner made a point of encouraging people to pick up and feel the goods. He never worried about anyone trying to run out the door with something in their hands because he had a shop at the back of a long shopping…