The PC Builder's Guide

[StrongCoffee]

Yup, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...

[spychi]

oh I forgot to add that on my personal record I reported two real persons (for piracy obviously) to the cops and get them pay huge penalties, I am proud of myself very much and I will do it in the future

[StrongCoffee]

You´re such a nice citizen. The autorities must be very proud of you.

one question spych, ...are you trying to sound menacing?

[spychi]

You´re such a nice citizen. The autorities must be very proud of you.

one question spych, with no hard intentions...are you trying to sound menacing? If not, Im sorry...

nope, you are on the internet you can say things like this

[StrongCoffee]

thought so...

[Xyvik]

While this is still off-topic, I might as well throw my hat into the ring. However, much like my hacking, I class myself in the "Gray Pirate" realm. Thanks in part to a horrible lack of reliable rental services for PC games, and thanks in part to insane game prices, I have tended in the past to pirate games in order to try them out before I fork over hard-earned cash. I have saved myself literally thousands of dollars doing this by finding crappy games before spending $50 on them (or $60, yes I'm looking at you MW2).

Nowadays I really just can't be bothered. I'm getting too lazy to worry about cracks and <insert registry fix here>. So anyway, if I like 'em I buy 'em, and as a game developer myself that is a mindset I prefer more people to have

[Gradius]

nope, you are on the internet you can say things like this

I've tracked your IP and will be forwarding the Polish authorities an earlier post of yours where you proved that you pirate games.

I feel proud.

[spychi]

I've tracked your IP and will be forwarding the Polish authorities an earlier post of yours where you claimed that you pirate games.

I feel proud.

pff, feel proud as according to the polish law if i commited a crime and no one reported it at that time, having no evidence now you will just loose
in fact this is the internet, I can claim that you went rouge and used your admins privileges just to write that, if you were actually serious

[SinsWage]

A general rule of thumb I've used in recent years is this. If a game company feels confident about their product they WILL release a demo of it. If not they don't want you being armed with the knowledge that the game sucks. The only "piracy" I've ever been involved in is downloading old game that a publisher no longer supports. I'm a huge supporter of Xbox Live Arcade, PSN and Virtual Console. I love classic gaming and I wish that developers with fantastic games from the past, especially 90's Lucasarts and blizzard, would make older titles work on new machines for a discounted price.

[Hammy]

http://www.legionhardware.com/articl...ormance,8.html

I just found this awesome set of tests. You should definitely add this into the OP