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Originally Posted by Pyrix
a few files arent warez , they do less than 50 percent of the game
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They aren't? thats odd.. ok lemme put it in a different prespective for you.
You are a stay at home programmer for a living (You can't get a job with your dream company (Sony Online Entertainment) becuase you either suck, or you are just to lazy to go out and ask them), but you can program nonetheless. Now, lets say one day you finally get your amazing new anti virus program to complie, error free, you test it and it can clean ANY virus that you put into it. Now, this is a big thing, i mean it can clean ANYTHING, no one will ever lose a file to a virus again as far as you are concerned. So now you don't need that SoE to employ you, hell you can sell this program to the average consumer for $100 and every company will buy a lisence for it for $2500 to keep all their networked computers safe. And here is the best part, its only a single file!, its so small, so simple, but it works perfectly!, now here is the catch in all this, you want to make big bucks off this, so you go out and you market it, you pay for banners to be post on websites, that way everyone will know of your new product. and again its only ONE file! no extra virus databases, becuase all the info you need is coded into the program. So you sell a few hundred copies, you make some cash, but well you don't want to stop at a few grand, hell no you want more money! however.. some little group of people decied well if we all pitch in 10 bucks we can get one copy and put it on all the other machines so really we are getting the full program for a 10th of the price. just make sure we don't register it! they will never know. Or some guy buys your product, he is a very talanted programer, and he designs a crack for your program so it never has to be registerd, and he then hosts your single file and his crack on his warez site so people will come download them, and click all his banners and he can inturn make money. so now not only are you losing money, but he is now making money off your product (by proxy) . And all of this from your amazing ONE file program. now tell me if this guy ends up spreading your program to 15000 people in the U.S. alone, and you don't make a dime off of it, it would kind of upset you no? i mean you worked your ass off making this program and now 15000 people have it for free! so is one or two files warez? ofcourse it is. the eqgame.exe is the main program that everquest runs off of, no you can't play without the zone files, but that doesn't matter, you still have their main product. so think about this when your searching for those files on the internet, although SOE is a money whore, they still pay people to make that product and they want somthing in return.
And Zlen i am not sure what you mean what code are you talking about?