DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL GAME AND PIRATED GAME?

some folks says the pirated game had a difference on graphics between the original game...... is that true?

yes its true. Buy all your games and support devs

Yes.

And you should never pirate. Save money for games, that simple.

I always thought so and more glitches.

Yeah there's usually a limit on how much turbo anti aliasing you can apply on pirated versions to save space.

That and probably the digital equivalent of herpes and syphilis.

No there absolutely no difference, folks here like to troll and challenge your intelligence. Only thing is 99% of the time you won't be able to play online, but I for one have to always get my games from Steam cuz I have OCD.

My thoughts about it

advantages to pirated games:

no drm so no limits to installs or worries you can't install it in future and no worries about servers being down at any point in future

free

quick to play once downloaded since you don't get forced to patch so you install and play... however this can also be a disadvantage in getting patches for fixing bugs

the feeling of sticking it to greedy publishers, i feel people really enjoy pirating EA games especially... even Ubisoft due to their crappy pc ports

disadvantages:

could contain viruses... most recent was some early release of Watch Dogs had a bit miner that was hidden within it so it would mine coins on peoples PC's who downloaded it and give profits to the person that created the torrent.

more difficult to patch

can't play online with any people

wastes bandwidth to download... assuming there was a physical copy of the game to begin with... if it was a digital only game, advantage goes back to pirated game

if its a good game, you are not giving money to people that deserve it for making a good game which is rare in these days of mostly crappy games... this is easy to fix though if you do download a game with a simple click and you can buy it online and remedy this

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overall i can't see how people downloading games makes much difference... theres just not that many doing it to make much of a dent, even the most popular game you maybe see a few thousand downloaders at a time.

Also read through the comments on these torrent sites and a large amount of these people can barely afford pc's that can even play these games on top of their bandwidth costs. They always ask if their crappy dated rig can play a game, its obvious they have little money by the pcs they are using.

If they weren't able to download them they wouldn't buy them thats for sure since they have no money to begin with. If anything its good to keep the poor people occupied playing games rather then robbing the rich.

I stopped reading right there. There is no advantage to pirating games, unless you want things for free and for people to lose their work.

There are 2 main differences: when you download a game for free people who made it don't get paid, obviously (or the company pays them but don't return the investment or whatever), and you can't play online. You also have to patch manually. So if opportunism is your sole driving force then yes you can pirate single player games all you want. I made a link to opportunism definition so you don't need to waste your time googling it, and you're welcome :).

PC guys replied to a bot post?

Getting into no-no land here. If you wish to discuss piracy, discuss how it affects the industry. Like what the industry can learn from it, adopt I guess you could call it, what harm it has done. Discussing possible advantages is a big no. We won't have any encouraging of piracy on these boards.

Feel free to make a new topic with that as the intended discussion. This one however goes to much towards encouraging piracy so I'll have to lock it.

If you think otherwise, please use to PM all mod feature we got here.