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Posted November 23, 2011
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lukaszthegreat: why should they terminate anyone? they did not terminate the guy who said he pirates games right?
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lowyhong: Who's that?
YOU!
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lukaszthegreat: why should they terminate anyone? they did not terminate the guy who said he pirates games right?
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Darling_Jimmy: Because GOG is making money from piracy. Aren't their partners concerned about those shady dealings?
the fuck? how they are making money out of piracy? what are you drinking?
Post edited November 23, 2011 by lukaszthegreat
Posted November 23, 2011
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Umm, what? He clearly stated that the game is from his boxed copy. It's not like he pirated that game from some warez or torrent sites.
Post edited November 23, 2011 by wormholewizards
Posted November 23, 2011
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xyem: By that logic, you just got banned.

".. you have to shoot at the crack in the wall to proceed"

would also get you banned.

I'm glad it's not one of those forums :P
except the thread would have been closed long before i ever had a chance to comment. and except i wouldn't have mentioned the one word that would get me banned. d'oh.
Posted November 23, 2011
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lukaszthegreat: YOU!
Gasp. I never would have guessed.
Posted November 23, 2011
I'll have to agree with GOG's stance, it was unthoughtful also from me to discuss about cracks in that discussion because as said, some partners could see it as pro-piracy discussion, even if it wasn't that necessarily.

As a matter of fact, if I wanted to know about e.g. Steam cracks, the correct place to ask for them would obviously be the Steamworks forums. Since we don't need any 3rd party cracks in order to play GOG games, the crack discussion doesn't really belong here.
Post edited November 23, 2011 by timppu
Posted November 23, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: We don't make any money from piracy, no. We do, however, find that a number of people who used to pirate games find GOG.com an alternative to torrenting games or downloading them from abandonware websites.
GOG has ad banners on abandonware sites: LINK


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lukaszthegreat: the fuck? how they are making money out of piracy? what are you drinking?
1. Ad banners (obviously.)
2. Beer.
Posted November 23, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: We don't make any money from piracy, no. We do, however, find that a number of people who used to pirate games find GOG.com an alternative to torrenting games or downloading them from abandonware websites.
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Darling_Jimmy: GOG has ad banners on abandonware sites: LINK


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lukaszthegreat: the fuck? how they are making money out of piracy? what are you drinking?
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Darling_Jimmy: 1. Ad banners (obviously.)
2. Beer.
and how does that make them make money out of piracy??? they lower the piracy rate a bit by people coming here instead of pirating games from abandonware sites.
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lukaszthegreat: YOU!
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lowyhong: Gasp. I never would have guessed.
:) you should pay more attention!
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timppu: As a matter of fact, if I wanted to know about e.g. Steam cracks, the correct place to ask for them would obviously be the Steamworks forums. Since we don't need any 3rd party cracks in order to play GOG games, the crack discussion doesn't really belong here.
but any mention of cracks on steam is bannable offense. and staff do not even discuss that.
Post edited November 23, 2011 by lukaszthegreat
Posted November 23, 2011
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timppu: As a matter of fact, if I wanted to know about e.g. Steam cracks, the correct place to ask for them would obviously be the Steamworks forums. Since we don't need any 3rd party cracks in order to play GOG games, the crack discussion doesn't really belong here.
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lukaszthegreat: but any mention of cracks on steam is bannable offense. and staff do not even discuss that.
Aww crap, why do they have to be such tightwads? Do I get banned from all my Steam games in the process?

Just joking of course, I would never try to find any cracks for Steam games.
Post edited November 23, 2011 by timppu
Posted November 23, 2011
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timppu: Aww crap, why do they have to be such tightwads? Do I get banned from all my Steam games in the process?
I've heard that you do, but I don't really believe that since your Steam account isn't used on the forum. You make a separate forum account.
Posted November 23, 2011
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Darling_Jimmy: GOG has ad banners on abandonware sites: LINK
You are correct. But we don't get paid for running those ads. It costs us money to run them. I'm not sure how that qualifies as making money from piracy. Those banner ads attract people to GOG.com who frequent abandonware sites, however, and convert them from pirates into legal buyers.
Posted November 23, 2011
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timppu: Aww crap, why do they have to be such tightwads? Do I get banned from all my Steam games in the process?
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Barefoot_Monkey: I've heard that you do, but I don't really believe that since your Steam account isn't used on the forum. You make a separate forum account.
seems improbable as like you said steam account and forum account are completely different. Moderators also don't really have any power over steam itself. Staff might have that power but still seems unlikely for just asking. They do have the right tough according to EULA (staff, not mods)

you probably might get VAC banned even if cracks you used are not actually designed to help you cheat.
Posted November 23, 2011
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Fred_DM: except the thread would have been closed long before i ever had a chance to comment. and except i wouldn't have mentioned the one word that would get me banned. d'oh.
You are presuming a moderator would have seen the thread before your post.
As no moderators had posted before you said TheForbiddenWord..

Locking/banning just for using a word, regardless of context is completely stupid.

Now, I have to hack down a tree to fix a crack in my pirate ship that I really should get back to working on.
Posted November 23, 2011
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lukaszthegreat: you probably might get VAC banned even if cracks you used are not actually designed to help you cheat.
Wouldn't the whole point of cracks beeing that you don't need go online/use Steam? All the cracked Steam games I've tried circumvent Steam completly (Up to a point I didn't notice they were actually steamworks).

(This comment, btw, would get me banned on Steam forums)
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xyem: Now, I have to hack down a tree to fix a crack in my pirate ship that I really should get back to working on.
You are so banned!
Post edited November 23, 2011 by SimonG
Posted November 23, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: You are correct. But we don't get paid for running those ads. It costs us money to run them. I'm not sure how that qualifies as making money from piracy. Those banner ads attract people to GOG.com who frequent abandonware sites, however, and convert them from pirates into legal buyers.
I'm not interested in the ethical component of the discussion. I just can't believe that your partners don't care about GOG funding websites that freely distribute pre-cracked infringing copies of their games but they do care about someone asking how to crack a legally purchased game for personal use.
Posted November 23, 2011
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Darling_Jimmy: I'm not interested in the ethical component of the discussion. I just can't believe that your partners don't care about GOG funding websites that freely distribute pre-cracked infringing copies of their games but they do care about someone asking how to crack a legally purchased game for personal use.
I think that's where you're wrong GOG was entirely funded by CDProjekt as far as i know, the "partnership" between GOG and abandonia only involves these banners and the fact that games from their sites are taken down and replaced with links to GOG if they get published by GOG.
Post edited November 23, 2011 by WBGhiro
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