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Originally Posted by flatfroggerx
I picked up on it purely because you because of the timespans you used, they where similar to that of typical upgrade cycles.
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Good post and fair play to you also. The whole point of forums is so people can disagree politely. :-D And to be honest I do buy a new PC every five years, but the PC I had last, HAL2002 (wow, six years then) who died earlier this year (RIP) I think had the original box and motherboard and everything else was new. Sort of like the old joke about a sword in a museum “oh yeah, it’s the original. The handle’s been replaced three times and the blade twice.”
I’m a typical “not afraid to hack her PC to bits to make a game work but can’t afford an all singing all dancing rig” – in that I buy a PC about every five years, and when I get a game that breaks the acceptable threshold I’ll throw some more memory in, then a new graphics card, then a bigger hard drive, etc. etlalalalail it dies or I have money to get a new one.
But I’m of the opinion that most of the people that will torrent Spore would have done it anyway, copy protection or not. And cracked copies tend to have a few amusements built in. Either a virus, or phishing, or malware of some sort, spyware, or even just the fact that the patches refuse to talk to it. I like my new computer too much to put something I’ve got hold of from some random bloke somewhere. If I’ve bought it and something goes wrong with it, the onus is on EA to sort it out. The law works both ways. I bought it, I have rights too. If you have problems with a cracked copy they’ll tell you “told you so” and that’s that.