neb555 posted...What exactly is the point of your post? You argued that people will pirate for a demo of the game, then acknowledged "I'm ignoring the fact that there's a demo." You can't just ignore something because it's harmful to your argument, why isn't the demo sufficient?
Though with the ad hominem attack in your response, I'm gonna guess that we've got more than one 14 year old poster in this topic.
The point was, the demo wasn't actually a thing until recently, before that if you wanted to try before you buy, what choices did you have?
Basically, I was coming from a spot before the demo even existed, sure it exists now and it's harmful to my argument now, but when I'm arguing about a point in time before the demo thing came up, it's not exactly harmful, especially since quite a few of us bought it before the 1.0 release at some point.
So, at that point, what choices were there? You could just blind buy it, but blind buying has a good 50/50 chance of giving you something you wouldn't want. You could ask a friend or family member who has it to borrow their username just to try it, but in my case, the only person I knew who played it was my sisters boyfriend who's a stingy a-hole when it comes to letting me borrow his stuff even after I let him borrow Saints Row 3, a game I just got two days earlier, for a whole week. And then, there's the cracked version, which was arguably the best way to try it before committing to buying it at the time. Or watch youtube videos, but watching a game isn't the same as actually playing it.
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