Journal #8719
Posted 8 years ago2016-07-07 11:34:26 UTC
My parents think that buying from Steam (and the whole Internet) is full of scams.
It's very discouraging to know that almost all the games I paid for, are pirated copies burnt onto a DVD.
It didn't take me much time to discover that the games were cracked, thus I learned how to "crack" games, which is actually just replacing the game EXE and DLLs with changed ones.
I realized that by the multiplayer, which by the way, never worked.
It was my parents' fault. But hey, I can't blame them, they just want me to have a secure life, and they want to have secure bank accounts. (they think buying on Steam is a scam, because "prices are higher than the tag says so")
Here are some photos of most of the games my parents and I bought:
Except for "The Terminator", it's a movie, the only thing which isn't pirated.
Here's some more:
Now you can totally see how much I spent (around 120 BAM in total) on pirated games. But hey, it doesn't mean it's not worth the money, since I enjoyed playing these games, and they did make my latter childhood (from 8 to 11 years of age).
The only things, however, which weren't pirated were a copy of Tactical Ops, and a ton of PC Play magazine DVDs:
Just ignore the two on the top, they were there by accident. I still keep these for archiving purposes.
It's very discouraging to know that almost all the games I paid for, are pirated copies burnt onto a DVD.
It didn't take me much time to discover that the games were cracked, thus I learned how to "crack" games, which is actually just replacing the game EXE and DLLs with changed ones.
I realized that by the multiplayer, which by the way, never worked.
It was my parents' fault. But hey, I can't blame them, they just want me to have a secure life, and they want to have secure bank accounts. (they think buying on Steam is a scam, because "prices are higher than the tag says so")
Here are some photos of most of the games my parents and I bought:
Except for "The Terminator", it's a movie, the only thing which isn't pirated.
Here's some more:
Now you can totally see how much I spent (around 120 BAM in total) on pirated games. But hey, it doesn't mean it's not worth the money, since I enjoyed playing these games, and they did make my latter childhood (from 8 to 11 years of age).
The only things, however, which weren't pirated were a copy of Tactical Ops, and a ton of PC Play magazine DVDs:
Just ignore the two on the top, they were there by accident. I still keep these for archiving purposes.
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Uhm... why?
I don't really know. They perhaps never heard of Lord GabeN XD
My dad first said the thing about scams when I was 8, I wanted to buy an activation code for Blockland, and I even showed him the 10 reasons to buy Blockland.
Then he said, begin quote:
"Listen son, I know you really want it, but the people who sell these passwords on the Internet are scammers.
They, once you enter the credit card number, will sweep all our money, it doesn't matter if it costs $10 or even 5, the prices are always higher in the background."
Huh, as if everyone is a hacker. Tell that to the people who have the codes.
I remember these words very well, and I'll remember them for the rest of my life, just to prove the opposite.
I believe I asked him: "But how do these thousands of people already have the serial key?" He never replied. My mom, of course, has very little idea on how to use a computer, so she never talked about these things.
Now I can finally grab my chance, if you remember my 2 journals of "Teh epik master plan". I'm opening the bank account in less than a week, and I will finally bring justice to my neighbourhood!
(yes, the neighbourhood, I also have a cousin/neighbour, who also wants to buy games on his mom's mobile phone, but they won't allow him)
Bank Account - Not Completed
Debit Card - Not Completed
I'm sorry to say this, but I'd prefer a debit card over a gift card. After all, the debit card I'll get is a MasterCard, not Maestro.
Yes, it's a modded GTA III or something. That's how lame Bosnia is. Yes, it's pirated, yet I paid for it.
Worst of all, I'm still waiting for that debit card, and my parents won't say anything about it.