Well as i said, there was a +50 page thread for hundred's of people who it clearly didn't work for, so you're in the minority there.
Unfortunately I have no basis to back up apon because valve simply deleted it.
advance to the source engine.What's that? I can't hear you over the loud, obnoxious mac updates.
Just pretend I'm not here.Aha! Caught you!
I'm British.
Most people don't pirate to sample. They'll pirate it, finish it and then won't touch it again. The majority of pirates don't fit the "wasn't going to buy it anyway" mould.Can I be a good example here? I disagree and i suppose i Don't fit in with the majority in this case, I downloaded Splinter Cell conviction after being very skeptical after seeing all the trailers and gameplay footage (I realy didn't like where they were taking the series), then after 'sampling' it for 2 weeks I deleted it, and my play to the game was limited to the 360 demo, after my 360 died, Onlive launched and I only played it through that, and now that it's on sale for 22$ I purchased it and It's now sitting on my account, ready for download.
In fact, they get exposed to the content (game, music, whatever) and that equals increased customer base, which increases sales.Think of it this way, I purchase a ticket to go see inception at the imax, I watch it and think it's great, then recommend it to all my friends, why can't I get the same thing from obtaining a game, regardless of whether or not it's legally purchased? It makes no difference.
I laughed at this for 5 minutes, What is wrong with me...
WTF indeed, I built my own rig for $300.Same, get your stuff second hand and not from retailers if you can.
There's free music you know.Yeah maybe there's select pieces of music, never entire albums.
Minimum spec for HL1 is very low; even an integrated card provided it's not ancient should be able to play the game and draw some sprites without dropping to unplayable frameratesIt still has to draw as many pixels on the screen that the game is running at, have you even tried running half-life (Original\Vanilla\Unmodified) on a integrated graphics card (Please keep your mobile ati HD radeon 5000 series out of this, that's just stupid.) at your monitors native resolution? Chances are, it doesn't work. If THAT doesn't work, what makes you think something even the slightest bit more complicated will work better?
Then why show them? Show what it can really do.I imagine It's not to show the engine to it's fullest, but to just show a couple of the basic engine features instead.