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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Heckler, I understand your point, and the problem is not with Martes or badkarma's intentions. For all we know they may be telling the exact truth. However, people who download games illegally will not announce they do this (if they do, the are banned), so there is no way to tell the honest people from the dishonest people. Were you here when SH5 came out? Do you remember the people compaining that the game had serious bugs like the crew chanting numbers over and over and they had big bug eyes? Yeah, those were signs that these people were playing pirated copies of the games.* When you see 200,000 downloads on the torrents, you have to know there's a lot of people playing SH games that did not pay for them, like me...and you.
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I'm hoping I will be
I assume you meant SH4
and no I wasn't around then... but I ahve been around many other games that have suffered the same problems. I went out and bought GTA IV on release day for the PC and immediately had many issues trying to get it to run (on a high end PC) at an acceptable level... The GTA forums were full of the same issues... and lots of people calling anyone who had issues pirates and so forth.
Over a year later and those same issues are still going on, performance on high systems is a joke and rockstar were trying to claim the game is 'for future systems' that don't exist yet... and in a few years computers will ahve full performance... The real problem was that is was a really sh*tty port from the console and done badly... they never even bothered to change the controller configs and released it with Xbox 360 controller support only and no way to remap certain controls or actions for a mouse and keyboard.
Needless to say I struggled for a couple of months and never solved them all... and the game went back up on the shelf... tried it again a couple of months ago and new patches, but they still haven't fixed the problem of it being a sh*tty port.
Too many games, too many bugs... have left me a little bitter and suspicious of every single software developer/publisher out there.
I think that's why I'm so impressed with this place... SHIII seems to be bigger than it was 4yrs ago, bigger than SHIV and I imagine SHV isn't going to knock either of those of the top spots with things looking like they do... and even if it does and a lot of people unaware of the DRM, if those people who experience problems with it, put it on the shelf like I would and not bother with another one again... it hurts Ubisoft not us, as we've still got SHIII & IV to play with, and I suspect will have for many years to come.