I don't care because i just download all my stuff anyway lol
Can't see the issue. Sounds like the game was being sold before release.
Steam games have this sort of limitation as well, except they allow preload so you can pull down all the data before hand.
Steam games have this sort of limitation as well, except they allow preload so you can pull down all the data before hand.
Nice attitude.
Why bother?, oh, I don't know, how about supporting developers so they can continue producing products?
Been done for ages - HL2 did this first.
Activates online...
Except the stores aren't meant to sell this early...
It's meant to be so people who have access to stock first (i.e. me) can't buy it early, and then sell it on eBay.
Yeah, buying original software only gives you headaches. Download, install, play, finish the game / get bored of it, uninstall, delete image disc. That's my favourite way
....and these same people bitch and moan about developers not putting the care and attention into their games as they should. 
Regardless of what you might think, people like you are KILLING the PC games industry. Whether or not you would have bought the game had you not downloaded it, it's the fact that people *are* downloading that's putting developers off.
Regardless of what you might think, people like you are KILLING the PC games industry. Whether or not you would have bought the game had you not downloaded it, it's the fact that people *are* downloading that's putting developers off.
+1
But I don't think that this would change anything because some clever management guy will come and say: "Our product is soo great but because of all the stupid piracy we don't sell enough. We need more and better cracking protection".
Personally I avoid all games / software that require me to have a permanent online connection just to use it (singleplayer) or have any other kind of "clever" protection system. I have nothing against buying software but it seems that you'll always have more problems with using it ("sorry, the catia license server is down, please work later" etc.) than the guy who downloads it somewhere (where it just works). And that is where it goes wrong imho...
Don't think i've ever bitch and moaned about that. Don't clump as all into the same category thanks.
No way. It survives thanks to people like you.
Same with all games that you can buy in steam.
Steam is a very good way to fight piracy IMO. It makes legal game download alot easier!
:iagree: I've played cracked games since i was 6 which is a loong time
(i remember the c64 with tape-machines
) I got me a steam account this christmas and got Battlefield 2 for €4.99 or smth. Now i have like 6 games, never had so many originals before
It's easy accesible and works great :P no need for start cd's or images either
exactly and its completely the industrys fault
theyve created the scene through their own doing and now thanks to the internet and copy protection schemes getting more and more annoying were increasingly cementing the point that pirating software gives you a lot less headaches
ive bought quite a few indie games and decided against buying some large releases and one of the main reasons for that is that buying through paypal and instantly receiving a serial to unlock your downloaded copy is about as convenient as searching through torrent sites and copying some cracked exe whereas jumping through hoops as i would have to with big releases isnt
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Smart move 2K NOT!!!!
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