Thread: Game Hackers

Yeah, but I don't care right? When I get to work in gaming industry, I will hate crackers.

If you like a game enough to want a cracked version, just buy it. Publishers put a lot of work into those games that you like so much. At least make the effort to reward them for making something you enjoy.

Originally Posted by dravenSt0rM

Yeah, but I don't care right? When I get to work in gaming industry, I will hate crackers.

That viewpoint would be fine if you were the only one who had it. What happens when hundreds of thousands of other people do the same thing simply because they don't care?

Then game publishers either go bankrupt or they drop the development team and if that game was good then we no longer get support for it, nor do we get a sequel to it or more good games from that developer.

What do you think would have happened if everyone had pirated Halo 1 or Half Life 1 to the point where Valve or Bungie had gone bankrupt and never took off as companies? We wouldn't have seen Halo 2 and 3 or Half Life 2. We also wouldn't have seen TF2, Counter Strike or the Steam platform. Lucky for them, many people like to purchase games that are good, sometimes even after they pirate them. And as much as I hate the series, Call of Duty would have not stuck around if the first one had not made enough sales due to piracy losses and then the rest of them would have never been made. No game series no matter how good is immune to bankruptcy.

If you're going to pirate a game like Call of Duty or some very popular title that is going to make a ton of revenue anyways, by all means go ahead. Likewise if you want to pirate an OLD game that is not a main source of revenue for any publisher or developer at that point then I see no problem with that either.

However, if you pirate new games by developers who actually need all the money they can get from it to get by then you are only being selfish and hurting the industry in the process. Moreso, pirating indie titles is one of the most scumbag things you can do since those people do not even have the support of major publishers to keep them afloat if they lose sales to piracy. You are also the reason why companies are putting more and more increasingly invasive DRM into games when they wouldn't have to do so if less people pirated. You may think that your act of piracy alone does not make a difference but it does when all of these single actions add up.

If you don't think developers have been shut down in the past because of this, you are mistaken. It has happened plenty of times and many people have lost their jobs as a result. You ruin gaming for everyone else when you pirate new games.

Game crackers only enable piracy to occur more and while I support them in cracking games like Diablo II since I don't want to pay for a game that nobody plays anymore, I hate it when they crack new games like Deus Ex: HR.

Anyway, I thought I would rant about that since the topic of game hackers is pointless. We all hate hackers. That's common sense. I want to go to their houses and destroy their computers with a bat.

Originally Posted by OmarFW

That viewpoint would be fine if you were the only one who had it. What happens when hundreds of thousands of other people do the same thing simply because they don't care?

Then game publishers either go bankrupt or they drop the development team and if that game was good then we no longer get support for it, nor do we get a sequel to it or more good games from that developer.

What do you think would have happened if everyone had pirated Halo 1 or Half Life 1 to the point where Valve or Bungie had gone bankrupt and never took off as companies? We wouldn't have seen Halo 2 and 3 or Half Life 2. We also wouldn't have seen TF2, Counter Strike or the Steam platform. Lucky for them, many people like to purchase games that are good, sometimes even after they pirate them. And as much as I hate the series, Call of Duty would have not stuck around if the first one had not made enough sales due to piracy losses and then the rest of them would have never been made. No game series no matter how good is immune to bankruptcy.

If you're going to pirate a game like Call of Duty or some very popular title that is going to make a ton of revenue anyways, by all means go ahead. Likewise if you want to pirate an OLD game that is not a main source of revenue for any publisher or developer at that point then I see no problem with that either.

However, if you pirate new games by developers who actually need all the money they can get from it to get by then you are only being selfish and hurting the industry in the process. Moreso, pirating indie titles is one of the most scumbag things you can do since those people do not even have the support of major publishers to keep them afloat if they lose sales to piracy. You are also the reason why companies are putting more and more increasingly invasive DRM into games when they wouldn't have to do so if less people pirated. You may think that your act of piracy alone does not make a difference but it does when all of these single actions add up.

If you don't think developers have been shut down in the past because of this, you are mistaken. It has happened plenty of times and many people have lost their jobs as a result. You ruin gaming for everyone else when you pirate new games.

Game crackers only enable piracy to occur more and while I support them in cracking games like Diablo II since I don't want to pay for a game that nobody plays anymore, I hate it when they crack new games like Deus Ex: HR.

Anyway, I thought I would rant about that since the topic of game hackers is pointless. We all hate hackers. That's common sense. I want to go to their houses and destroy their computers with a bat.

Nice write up mate, and you are right, but what for all those who don't have money for games? I am in that group sometimes. Then it is okay to download and play. When I have money, I buy game, it is not a problem, and it feels good right? Also, crackers don't really have any profit of cracking, but as you said alot of people use they're cracks. Anyway I got your point.

Originally Posted by dravenSt0rM

Nice write up mate, and you are right, but what for all those who don't have money for games? I am in that group sometimes. Then it is okay to download and play. When I have money, I buy game, it is not a problem, and it feels good right? Also, crackers don't really have any profit of cracking, but as you said alot of people use they're cracks. Anyway I got your point.

A few years ago, I even buy pirated games in the flea market just to be able to play it. But I kinda a bad experience since my PC got a virus from those disks... What a bummer... But now, as much as possible, I "try" to buy original games to support it.

I think that crackers who hack games are giving people living in the developing countries an opportunity to play games that they will never find in any local market or store, that's why we usually notice that hackers are usually from the third world countries either from Africa, Asia or South America.

Are they really from Africa, Asia or South America ? I didn't knew that.