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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005
was searching for ultility on downloads.com without any luck thought i would try this bittorent a friend mention although ive heard about it never bothered as DL.com is okay for me. Anyway i go to this torrent site and sure enough theirs the ultilty ive been looking for the past few days, plus another zillion or so other software.
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That's the nice thing about BitTorrent - lots of choices. What you do is completely up to you.
Anybody that thought BitTorrent won't be used that way was just fooling themselves.
As for me, any sympathies I may have had with some software companies dies fast. It dies in several stages:
1) The "game" costs about
10,000yen (almost US$100). For that you get about 100 CGs (often less) and a bunch of not-too-great text as a story. Sometimes its OK but sometimes the CG is doujinshi (semi-amateur, costs about 2000 yen) grade - still it is 10000 yen. Remember that you can get 3D graphics, action, simulation or whatever for less than $50 in the US. If they ever export the product, in HK it'd cost about <HK$200 (very roughly 3000 yen or US$30, a more human price). But mostly they don't...
2) I bite the bullet and go find it at amazon.co.jp. The shipping fee is half the price of the software...
3) I bite that bullet too (now I'm paying $150 for 100CGs and a bunch of not great text)... something notifies me that even if I barf out that much money, I am not allowed to purchase the product because I'm overseas and they don't do exports...
4) I go to their website to purchase the product (man, those things are pure psychoaddictive) ... same thing.
Somewhere in all this, I begin smiling when I see the product being strewn around over BT...