Do you use an adblocker? If so, you're guilty of theft of an internet service.

Those ads are there to support and fund the server and content that you're enjoying, and you are disabling that and thus directly damaging the owner of that website, and costing him real money.

Yeah, no. Is it in the terms and conditions to which you have agreed that you must download and view those adverts?

No?

Then not theft.

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Although copyright law has become severely bloated in the US and easily manipulated, I do support it as a way to allow people to profit off their creations. Copyright infringement isn't theft, its worse. Its stealing somebody's creative works and partaking in them for free, if they intended to do that there are plenty of ways for someone to release their creative works at no cost.

I do believe game developers and the like should offer demos (like how you can preview a book or song before you purchase them), but regardless of whether they do or don't, you shouldn't decide that there is nothing wrong with violating their right to profit off of their creative works. I pirated games for a long while, once I had the ability and money to pay for things on my own, I did. (I may have pirated one game... but I can't actually purchase it any other way because **** Eidos Store not selling to the US and not offering a physical copy...).

All this being said, copyright law is taken to absurd levels in the US, and needs to be shortened to about ten years maximum again. Seriously, lifetime + 70 years is absurd.

My butt itches.

I think it has something to do with the 110 hours I've logged sitting in an office chair playing Skyrim.

No worries though, I got some boxes out and set up a standing work station. Now I can play standing up!

110 hrs and I've MAYBE got 1/4 of the way through the total game content? Something tells me its more like 20%, **** is massive.

Anyways, whatever you lightweight internet warriors were going on about. Please continue, I'm off to play more Skyrim.

Also, Skyrim does not suck.

Do you use an adblocker? If so, you're guilty of theft of an internet service.

Those ads are there to support and fund the server and content that you're enjoying, and you are disabling that and thus directly damaging the owner of that website, and costing him real money.

I pirate most games before I buy.

I do not buy most games I pirate.

I tend to hate most games I buy at full price.

I did not play Morrowind

I did not enjoy Oblivion



THAT BEING SAID.




I Pre-Ordered Skyrim

I had 84 hours played the first week.

I have 100 hours played as of now.

It was worth every goddamn penny.

I have a very similar view of movies, and I'm just too jaded to bother even pirating most games. So many **** games and movies this is where people are, but when real gem comes along you have to give it credit and Skyrim is such a gem.

Edit: Mordin dies in ME3 = I'll never play it.

The only real argument against piracy in this thread is that pirates get a **** version of Skyrim where the mouse doesn't work, while those who payed get a working mouse.

Piracy isn't stealing. Stealing is when you take something from someone so they can no longer use it. Piracy is forceful sharing. ^^ Because some people are greedy. When it comes to computer games, and software, we should start to do it like they do in libraries. If you copy the pages of a book you borrowed from the library, it isnt illegal. Same should go for software.

Notch, the developer of Minecraft, has explained his take on intellectual property and piracy during a series of rapid fire talks at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco. Speaking to developers and journalists he explained: GG#A lot of big companies try to make piracy like theft; I wouldnGGVt steal a car, but I would steal a good design. If I liked another personGGVs apartment, I would try to make mine look like someone elseGGVsGG* but thatGGVs not stealing.GG%

MONEY IS CRAP, and only a sign of greed!

dude they live for like no time at all. 16 years or something. That's like mourning the loss of a goldfish.

I thought Mordin would die of old age before I got to Horizon. I consider every day I got w/ him a gift.

It works like **** in the bought version as well, to be fair.

I got to Riverwood, tried to kill Talon Whatshisname (the storekeep who wants you to go get the golden claw thing), and found out just how non-sandbox the game is.

I killed his sister and then hit him until his health bar was empty and he fell to his knees. A few seconds later his health bar refilled and we were fighting again. Repeat several times, and I decided to just leave. He followed me, which turned the whole town against me. After deciding to abandon that fight I fled into the woods with him chasing me. I ran to another town with him chasing me, and found that that town's denizens were now attacking me.

Unkillable NPCs that will hound you for the rest of the game, making it impossible to continue the storyline...sounds like a broken game to me.

Implying if they were killable you'd be able to continue the game anyway.

If an NPC has to survive to drive the storyline forward, make them immune to aggression the same way the children appear to be (yes I tried to kill one of the kids, just to see if it was possible).

You obviously didn't try hard enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNuFNZijnCo