06-24-2013, 03:25 PM
Yes piracy is bad and I'm guilty of it, but I do it to test how it will run on my system. (I'm talking about PC piracy, and don't give me the "there are sites that will analyze your system specs. and determine if you can or cannot run a game, because those sites told me I could run Splinter Cell: Conviction and it runs like shit on my PC.)
Instead of typing a wall of text as to why I do it here's two game examples. One I pirated then bought after confirming it ran okay on my PC, and one where I didn't and should have saved my money.
1. Skyrim: After hearing praise of this game's sandbox of wonderful goodness, I wondered if my system can handle Skyrim's raw dragon power. (This was back when I had a stripped down version of the AMD Radeon 5550 card.) So I pirated it and found out it ran alright on high settings, and purchased it when I got my next paycheck.
2. Splinter Cell: Conviction: As I mentioned earlier in this post, a couple of "PC Spec test sites" told me that Conviction will run with little to no problems, but after buying the Steam bundle they couldn't be more wrong. This game can only run at a mere 15 fps on low. Even after upgrading my graphics card and cpu (Because I really wanted to play Alan Wake @60 fps) I only managed to gain a extra 5 frames.
Instead of typing a wall of text as to why I do it here's two game examples. One I pirated then bought after confirming it ran okay on my PC, and one where I didn't and should have saved my money.
1. Skyrim: After hearing praise of this game's sandbox of wonderful goodness, I wondered if my system can handle Skyrim's raw dragon power. (This was back when I had a stripped down version of the AMD Radeon 5550 card.) So I pirated it and found out it ran alright on high settings, and purchased it when I got my next paycheck.
2. Splinter Cell: Conviction: As I mentioned earlier in this post, a couple of "PC Spec test sites" told me that Conviction will run with little to no problems, but after buying the Steam bundle they couldn't be more wrong. This game can only run at a mere 15 fps on low. Even after upgrading my graphics card and cpu (Because I really wanted to play Alan Wake @60 fps) I only managed to gain a extra 5 frames.