dj42's Journal: drunk defending steam, in trouble

I got two -1 troll posts for defending steam against the flash-flood of idiots that like to jump on the anti-steam bandwagon. I seriously think most of them are would-be pirates (or actually pirates) still angry they had to pay to get a "complete" experience, including patch updates, etc.

It seems a lot of pirates get mod points too. People treat games (because they are for intertainment... I guess) with less reverance than computer software. If it was a thread about how Lightwave 7's registraiton servers were down on saturday night (~$2000 piece of software), it'd never make frontpage /. nor would anyone mention how they love the pirated version and spreading it around (and if they did, they'd likely be modded down). But if it's a popular game? Everyone can talk about how cool it is to pirate, and how the pirates are the good guys.

Fucking hipocrites that don't respect the $millions that went into making Half Life 2, who WANT TO PLAY, and yet still stealing, doing their part to contribute to the mediocrity of our society. Anytime anyone does anything sufficiently good, it's up to assholes to ruin it for the rest of it.