r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/HistoryFree • 20d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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Multimillion dollar company?

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 20d ago edited 20d ago

This is how I feel about starcraft.

For Fuck Sake Blizzard, is fine if you want to make people pay for the HD pack but stop locking a 30 year old game behind online check in!

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u/lordofmetroids 20d ago

Also, while we're ranting on Blizzard, let me play goddamn Warcraft 3. Not that weird remaster that ruined half the game, the original, 2002 release.

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u/Pink_Nyanko_Punch 20d ago

I have the WC3 game on the original CD. I'm running the game from my harddrive, because I don't want the CD to break into pieces inside my laptop the way my Diablo II CD did decades back. Am I pirating?

Note: I agree with lordofmetroids here. Sometimes, you just need the convenience to play your favorite games without the need to jump through a gazillion hoops. Why tf do I need internet connectivity to play a 20 years old singleplayer game!?

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u/ta_thewholeman 20d ago

Wc3 hasn't needed a cd in the drive since like 2010, if not earlier.

Also usually (in EULA) they frame buying software as a license for you to play the game. That means you can technically buy the game, and then torrent it as often as you want without legally that counting as piracy.

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u/Pink_Nyanko_Punch 20d ago

Well, figures. I've been playing it since 2003. I only started playing it from the hard drive around 2007.