I'm a Beta pirate as well.It's very hard to resist when you get a message from a friend that says, "Hey dude I can get you into the Beta for free!" I just followed the instructions and continued the chain.
Here's a tip: don't violate the Terms of Service. It's not as though people are getting perma-banned for discovering a secret room in one of the maps. You used an exploit to get into a beta test. As part of that exploit, you accessed beta servers without the owner's permission. Here in the UK at least, that is a _crime_.
What doesn't make any sense, you giving out the beta or them complaining about others breaking the rules? It is in the Term of Use, but all of you know right from wrong. Its the consequence you are questioning over your actions, and yes this equates to more advertisement but at what cost?? These are test, to find glitches, bugs, bandwidth need, etc... If they cannot generate these results because we have 23K invalid users it does not help at all, it actually destroys their process. It becomes less accurate, more expensive, and time consuming. So no this s**t does not help beyond giving it inaccurate results and a bad PR for bad implementation of a beta (crashing because of overload). In the end I can Clary see you understand the usage beyond your key - which is why it was so secretive in the first pace ya know, lol, but that is so lame you pretending not to know.
I disagree. I'm not saying they're all innocent, but the scenario of "OK, I'm going to go to my friend's place and show him the COD4 demo I got the right to test", which is very probably, does not deserve a 24 hours ban. I'm sorry, but there's nothing wrong with that, you guys may call it an "exploit", but the way it's acheived, it can be done in a totally innocent way, so it's just stupid to punish the act. It's THEIR MISTAKE, THEIR FLAW, stop punishing people who didn't know they were doing something wrong. Now, Iet's keep the thing real, of course they're some people who knew it was wrong, but then again... their bad, their problem, they should punish themselves.
jmg703Sep 7, 2007
congratulations to you. You rule in life. [/sarcasm]
dcb360Sep 7, 2007
I'm a Beta pirate as well.It's very hard to resist when you get a message from a friend that says, "Hey dude I can get you into the Beta for free!" I just followed the instructions and continued the chain.
carzorstelatisSep 7, 2007
Here's a tip: don't violate the Terms of Service. It's not as though people are getting perma-banned for discovering a secret room in one of the maps. You used an exploit to get into a beta test. As part of that exploit, you accessed beta servers without the owner's permission. Here in the UK at least, that is a _crime_.
cykillerSep 7, 2007
What doesn't make any sense, you giving out the beta or them complaining about others breaking the rules? It is in the Term of Use, but all of you know right from wrong. Its the consequence you are questioning over your actions, and yes this equates to more advertisement but at what cost?? These are test, to find glitches, bugs, bandwidth need, etc... If they cannot generate these results because we have 23K invalid users it does not help at all, it actually destroys their process. It becomes less accurate, more expensive, and time consuming. So no this s**t does not help beyond giving it inaccurate results and a bad PR for bad implementation of a beta (crashing because of overload). In the end I can Clary see you understand the usage beyond your key - which is why it was so secretive in the first pace ya know, lol, but that is so lame you pretending not to know.
daridaveSep 7, 2007
I disagree. I'm not saying they're all innocent, but the scenario of "OK, I'm going to go to my friend's place and show him the COD4 demo I got the right to test", which is very probably, does not deserve a 24 hours ban. I'm sorry, but there's nothing wrong with that, you guys may call it an "exploit", but the way it's acheived, it can be done in a totally innocent way, so it's just stupid to punish the act. It's THEIR MISTAKE, THEIR FLAW, stop punishing people who didn't know they were doing something wrong. Now, Iet's keep the thing real, of course they're some people who knew it was wrong, but then again... their bad, their problem, they should punish themselves.
darkeverSep 7, 2007
buried for not being true.