Yeah thats not always accurate, minimum specs sometimes just outright are wrong, I see no harm in pirating a game to check specs or to even see if one likes it, but then again a simple demo could fix all of that, all games should have demos, even open world ones. I mean if Sleeping Dogs, Just Cause 2, and others can whats stopping every game?
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http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx
this website analyses your hardwear and tells you if you can run games
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That's because the most discernible difference between i5 and i7 in terms of desktop cpu's is that the i7 has hyperthreading. Most games haven't really utilised hyperthreading as of yet and they tend to just identify the i7 as an i5 in that manner.
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that isnt exact and doesnt have every model and driver versions. The best way to find out if your pc can run it is to try it. if it doesnt have a demo then pirate it to see if you can run it. nothing worse than buying a game and not being able to play it
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The site can be useful, but it's not always accurate. It tells me my computer can blow WoW's max settings out of the water, but if I go over mid settings my FPS drops to horrid.
At the end, actually loading a game to test it is much more accurate than going to a website that's just estimating based off of the specs of your hardware without taking compatibility into account.
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I swear, I have rarely ever bought a game on a whim because of an advertisement. However, Good game demos have made me spend more money than I would like to admit. Granted, Bad game demos do make me not buy the game, but 9/10 times I would not have bought the game anyway. It is a shame, but I think it also has something to do with the fact that fewer big games are being developed for PC.
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Only some Lan Games (CS 1.6, Warcraft 3, Stronghold Crusaders 1,...) and Minecraft but I bought it. Bbut after I got Steam I really dont pirate anyomre and got the most of thse games on Steam now. Well even tha lan games were only from friend to friend for lan gaming.
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Most of them. I don't give a shit what haters say. I try the game before a purchase
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you sir has brain,if the devs are too lazy to put up a demo,the best way to test a game is to pirate it,Arrrrr ya slimy sea dog xD
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Same here and I am a dev :D Well, I buy the games after.
And no, devs don't decide this, marketing department does.
Ya know, PC games don't get optimization these days so not releasing demos it's a way of hiding it so that you can then blame it all on piracy :D
So blame it all publishers & marketing not the devs. I actually feel my work is apreciated if you pirate my stuff :D
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I've bought all these days after I pirated them:
Borderlands 1
Fallout 3
Half-Life 2
The Sims 3
Diablo II
And yeah, I bought them all.
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AvP, L4D2, KF, Minecraft, X Superbox (xP ), Arma 2, Arma 2 operation arrowhead (both WAY before DayZ), Oblivion, Saints row The Third, Total War (all of them) Mount & Blade, Resident Evil 5 and many many more o-o
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Portal 2, Terraria, SFxT, Civ5 and DMC4(5 sucks btw)
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I've pirated:
Games that I torrented but still didn't buy:
I'm 100% sure that there were more (I just forgot...)
Oh and this is a list of games I torrented and actually played more than 10 hours into and bought. There were many more that I pirated but didn't buy because my computer couldn't handle the graphics or because the game didn't work for me.
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I don't pirate.
I probably would for Aquaria, but it looks too good and I don't want to be mean to the devs...
Music, however, don't get me started.
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Fallout 3.
I now have 3 physical copies for PS3(normal, GOTY and Limited Edition) and the GOTY on steam.
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Some of the games that i 1st played as pirated ver. and then bought them are Killing Floor,Crysis 2,The Ball,Aliens Vs Predator,Worms Reloaded,Border(AWESOME)lands 2 (will buy it soon)
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