About pirating and stuff

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Posted by Nicolas (permalink)

Seriously guys, stop sending us emails because you can't install the game, because you can't launch the game, or because you have weird errors everywhere. We're not going to help you make the mod work on pirated versions of Portal or without Steam. This mod needs an original and legit Portal because it also uses some of the content of Half-Life 2 that extends Portal. Of course, this content doesn't seem to be included in the pirated version of Portal.

So, please. Stop sending us emails if you you don't own a legit copy of Portal.
We're not going to answer anymore.

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  October 13, 2008 11:32 PM,  Devon said :
I think that is almost funny that people would send you e-mails about that. Buy the game people it is worth it.

  October 13, 2008 11:39 PM,  AnimaguS said :
LOL poor pirates

  October 14, 2008 12:04 AM,  fire.esper said :
AVAST, YE SCURVY DOGS!

  October 14, 2008 12:22 AM,  Matt said :
What's the point of pirating Portal anyways? It's only 20 dollars right now i think.

  October 14, 2008 12:42 AM,  Anonymous said :
lol amazin!!! hahaha cheap a$$

thanks for the walkthrough!

  October 14, 2008 12:45 AM,  Anonymous said :
hi team,

I'm too lazy to create a forum account just for this. All I wanna say is: thanks for your hard work you all put in this great mod. and just ignore all the whiners out there ;)

Nice website too :)

greets
mattie

  October 14, 2008 12:50 AM,  Sarda [CP] said :
@Devon-
you should see the number of support requests we get over at the Audiosurf forums from people who pirated it. Yeah, Audiosurf isn't free, but it's only $10, which is pretty much free for the kind of game it is.

  October 14, 2008 1:15 AM,  DemonStrate said :
You know, it took me like over an hour to realize to how install the game, because the installer extracts like 1.3 gigs completely to the Windows harddrive (in my case, I only had like 300 megs on it, so I had to clear stuff up to that 1.3 which was difficult, since my Windows HD is only 10 gigs total), before it extracts to the destination HD. This is a terrible fluke with the Winamp installer system. Winrar-type installers, you can set the temporary extraction locations, so they are on other HD's. Tisk-tisk.

  October 14, 2008 3:34 AM,  Flashx11 said :
I think pirating Portal is pretty sad; if they really want it, I think it's even down to $10 now. Plus, Portal: The First Slice is now free (not that that will help with playing the mod, or will it?).

  October 14, 2008 5:12 AM,  Anonymous said :
Well, you don't really need to pirate Portal. This works perfectly well with the portal demo (The First Slice).

Since when is changing a Windows Shortcut illegal?

  October 14, 2008 7:57 AM,  Lionel said :
@Sarda:
I bought audiosurf 5$, this is even less than you imagined :D
And of course, one shouldn't try to crack portal for the mod since the demo version of portal lets the mod work!

Anyway, great job doing this game guys, very impressive!
I'm just still wondering why you didn't put french voices (there is also a french synthesizer in the soft you mentioned).

  October 14, 2008 9:22 AM,  the pirate said :
My mother earns $1428/month and my fater is dead. $1171 goes for bills. That leaves $257/month for food. Se why I need to download my games to keep up with my friends?

  October 14, 2008 12:55 PM,  Zaric said :
You should report everyone who emailed you about pirated versions. Include their email addresses with full copies of the email included and explain the situation. Worst you'll get a thank you letter from steam, best you'll get some frequent offenders banned or sued; You can't loose!

I think you guys should see the Steamworks about making prelude gold, like Synergy, Age of Chivalry, Insurgency, and Zombie Panic... it's up to quality for sure, and should be an official mod on the steam list.

  October 14, 2008 2:27 PM,  Nicolas said :
@the pirate:
You made me laugh.
If you can't afford the game, then you can't play the game. It's as simple as that.

  October 14, 2008 3:19 PM,  Dodo said :
@the pirate
How about making some money yourself huh?

  October 14, 2008 5:06 PM,  Anonymous said :
I got it to work on a pirated version quite easily.

=]

  October 14, 2008 5:08 PM,  guy who posted above said :
... and if i wanted to, i could afford it easily... but why pay when you can have it for FREE!!!!

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe

  October 14, 2008 5:14 PM,  poggy said :
Tested with NoSteam portal and Cracked steam, both works fine..

  October 14, 2008 5:24 PM,  the pirate said :
@Dodo
Teenager aren't allowed to work where I live. So there is no way for me getting any money myself

@Nicolas
It's quite hard to go to school because everyone talks about portal prelude 24/7/365 and then you are quite outside if you are the only one don't playing it

  October 14, 2008 5:46 PM,  Cammeron said :
Ok first off "the pirate" get a life if you are really in such pain because everyone around you is talking about portal prelude (which isnt going to last forever) than you need to rethink some very big parts of your life like idk your FUTURE. Second off theres always a way to work MOW LAWNS, BABYSIT, WASH YOU NEIGHBORS CARS.. both excuses you gave are horrible.

and hey if ur willing to pirate since its illegal why not get illegaly hired?

I normally could care less if someone pirates but this is just a lame ass excuse so I had to comment.

People Pirate for 3 reasons.

1. They would rather not pay
2. They want to actually try something before they buy (i have to admit i have done this once before but i did end up buying it)
3. They can't afford it because they blew money on something else.

Its called priorities my friend you cant have everything.

That being said. Down with DRM and up with Open Source

  October 14, 2008 5:57 PM,  bug said :
portal exploit, testchamber 17:
http://rapidshare.com/files/153958751/screenshots.rar

  October 14, 2008 5:57 PM,  Sarda [CP] said :
... which really makes me wonder what good the government sees in letting piracy continue. and don't tell me they're not, a simple law and punishment for those who they catch isn't stopping anything. they need to shut down the sites that don't work hard to stop piracy. and i don't care if you think that's a bad idea, it's not. in the long run, everything will work better. it's the same way with everything in the world. all the best solutions to the big problems require solutions nobody wants to hear. anyways, if companies didn't have to worry about 1/4 of their fanbase pirating their games, then the prices would be lower.

  October 14, 2008 6:09 PM,  Cammeron said :
Shutting down these sites isn't that easy first off the ones that are in the US are not just gonna say "here i am" and let them know where they keep there servers then you have "international waters" where you have the select few who can get boat servers out there. and it isn't the governments job to stop it. the government isn't suppose to be big brother. Its not as easy as just shutting down servers some sites are privatly hosted and getting proof even if they are known as piracy sites can be illegal or close to it. it also isnt illegal to keep the software on a server sometimes they just act as if they had no idea people were accessing it.

Nothing is EVER as simple as it seems. and in all honesty nearly everyone over the age of 15 has stolen something wether it be a ringtone they thought was free off the internet or a copy of portal. if we throw every person in jail things arnt going to work. its become so overgrown at this point that its nearly if not impossible to stop.

  October 14, 2008 6:28 PM,  Anonymous said :
shuting down piracy sites is ilegal :)

  October 14, 2008 8:23 PM,  Hunter X said :
http://www.skammich.com/pirate.swf

  October 14, 2008 10:07 PM,  Anonymous said :
The discussion about piracy is useless. There are so many threads about this topic out there and nothing happend. They who download everything from warez-sites download anyway. Look, the fight against piracy is running since digital-datas were introduced. It is a very personal desicion: buy or copy? And remember: Warez will never die!
It is a very personal desicion: buy or copy?
Keep cool, and now let`s talk about this portal mod.

  October 14, 2008 10:29 PM,  Cammeron said :
I wasn't trying to sway anyones decision just trying to say if you're gonna do it don't make up lame excuses call it what it is I know lots of people personaly who pirate if thats there choice more power to them. but yeah back to the mod. I loved it but the very last level keeps crashing for me.

  October 14, 2008 11:25 PM,  Sarda [CP] said :
"shuting down piracy sites is ilegal :)"

if this was serious, that's sad. if this was bait for a flame war, that's even worse. i don't care if you even present me with a law that says this, piracy is illegal. therefore any law saying you can't stop piracy sites is unconstitutional. i swear, there are too many people who don't even think for a half second before giving opinions.

  October 15, 2008 9:42 AM,  Anonymous said :
@Sarda [CP]:
TPB was recently banned in italy. TPB went to court about it and they won. TPB isn't blocked anymore in italy

  October 15, 2008 2:07 PM,  Anonymous said :
Sorry but making the game work off a pirated version works perfectly.

You are just all doing it wrong :P

You have to create a shortcut that will make hl2.exe execute PortalPrelude.

I already have the Orange Box on the Xbox360, i don't see why i would pay for portal again.

  October 15, 2008 10:49 PM,  Evan said :
Can I be the first to point out the irony in the fact that you distribute copyrighted content without licence in this map-pack, then jump on the anti-piracy brigade? Piracy is bad, including the kind you performed in distributing this mod.

  October 16, 2008 12:06 AM,  Sarda [CP] said :
"TPB was recently banned in italy. TPB went to court about it and they won. TPB isn't blocked anymore in italy"

all that means is Italy's not doing it right. there is nothing anywhere that says that pirating isn't illegal.

  October 16, 2008 12:27 AM,  Nicolas said :
@Evan:
Come on, give us a break.
We included a 50 second extract from Scorpions and an extract of Chemical Brothers. The songs aren't even present in a whole in the game files so you can't rip it off...
Then, the props are coming from a Valve game, and EVERY mod does it, Valve don't care as far as it's not for profit of for a game not related to theirs.
There's a LOT of worse things happening every day everywhere. Even in the modding community. We tried our best to include free stuff, there's a lot of people who don't care.

  October 16, 2008 11:58 PM,  Existential said :
@Nicolas

Funny you should use the "there's a lot worse happening every day everywhere" argument... I hear a lot of people who pirate using that too ;) I'm not saying what you do is wrong but I think Evan has a valid point.

@Sarda

You should watch Equilibrium. I understand your point that everything illegal should obviously be banned but life isn't that black and white. You can only go so far before you start violating basic human rights. Do you want to turn the internet into something where everything you do is monitored and every website has to be validated before being published. I mean honestly it's the only way that you could ever stop piracy. People will ALWAYS find a way. It's human nature. I think the governments have bigger fish to fry, there are definitely more pressing public concerns than piracy.

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