by gubr » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:52 pm
In Europe and USA I think there is common software and cracked one.
In Ukraine we have common software and licensed software.
So far I have four licensed games.
First licensed game was "Pilot Brothers" - quest, made in Russia, on two CDs and was not working because second CD had the same content as first one while it shouldn't. Support offered me to send the disks to them and they will send me the right ones - the cost of the delivery was the same as cost of the game. I thought that one game from my neighbours for double price is too much and I threw the disks in trash bin.
Second licensed game was some RPG - made in Russia, was not working because of bugs in the game. No fixes for a long time. Trash bin.
Third licensed game was SHOC - made in Russia and Ukraine. Was pretty stable, very interesting, exciting indeed. I bought it after I played unlicensed copy downloaded from torrent. I bought the licensed game because it was in appropriate price range for me (15$) instead of ... i.e. Neverwinter nights (>30$). And I felt proud for Ukrainians and Russians - they are really able to make a masterpiece. I still excited with the game and mods of course.
Fourth licensed game was CS - made in Ukraine and Russia. I was sure about this game as the same people made it. I was sure they will use their experience from SHOC and the game will be awesome. Rather stable on my system (3 crashes in first three weeks of playing in evenings) - but I saw (and still I can see now) how many people were/are disappointed with crashes, bugs, unbalanced gameplay, stupid ending ... So many complains. I was really disappointed with the end of the game myself.
I think I am some kind of patriot and I do buy games made by EX-USSR people. And after I played SHOC - I can recommend you to buy it. Great game. As to the CS... With all my respect to GSC - I suggest you to download it from torrent and check if it will be stable on your PC, and if it doesn't crash, if you like first hour of the gameplay - buy it. But after you tested it only.
They increased the price relatively to SHOC, but the game only looks better and gameplay is ... it is not suxxx but ... it is ok! Not more.
samurai without a sword is alike to one with a sword but without a sword