Pirated Europa Barbarorum

[Ayce]

People still buy software in those parts?

[Hax]

Ayce deserves a balloon.

[Olaf The Great]

But yeah, I want to see the packaging :)

[The Persian Cataphract]

I've never laughed so hard in my life. Seriously. I don't know what's more stupid, that the pirates think they are being clever, or that there are stupid individuals who buy software otherwise marketed under a free license.

[Jolt]

How many computers do exist in Malasia? It'd be cool for a tourist to buy a pirated game in Malasia, that game get discovered in the check-in and the guy get sent into a Malasian prison for 3 years for buying EB 2 :D

[Flying Pig]

Frankly guys, it's free anyway. While they're selling CA property if they include RTW (HINT HINT!) it's not worth you chasing them. Frst, you can't prove that you made it, seeing as your acount is not vbound to your identity, and all that's happening is some poor guy is making a bit of money with your help. Other freeware gets sold fully legally under GNU2 and so there is a good legal defense (at least over here in the UK) and really, you shoulddjust feel flattered

[keravnos]

Nobody will do anything about them and if anyone would that is CA, not us.

I just want to see the face of anyone buying that CD then coming here, discovering it is a free download... heh.

Anyways, that is just cool, to be considered as good as other fully commercial games of NOW. EB, a mod of a game which was released in 2004.

[General Appo]

Yeah, and 1.1 was released about then as well, right?

[Olaf The Great]

Although if CA finds out about this, they may assume the EB team is the one that's selling the copies.

Chaos could insue, although most likely not :)

[Hegix]

People still buy software in those parts?

When I was living there I always bought my pirated games. Mainly because they were dirt cheap and that the low low internet speeds made it too much of a hassle to download.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Ha! I just saw this. That is hillarious.
Nothing we can do, though. By the software agreement, all EB content belongs to CA, Sega, and/or Activision, anyways.

[Celtic_Punk]

ive been to hong kong, they got stalls in stanley market that sell stuff like that... i bought pokemon chrystal and everytime you pick up an item it says "*your name here* *itemname* bag f*ck"

gets a kick outta me everytime lmao

[The General]

While it's amusing in a sense, it's annoying, too - people making money at the expense of the EB team and their hard work.

[Nobo]

I would just love to read the description on the back of the case. I remember when I used to buy movies in Thailand or China, it would always crack me up to read the crap they printed on the back of the cds

[pezhetairoi]

Well, quite a storm kicked up here.

To answer the question of everyone, I don't have the photo because my student just showed me in his phone before he deleted it, but the cover was just a big version of EB's symbol (the bronze circle with 'EB' in it) and 'EB 2.0' superimposed on top of it. Very unprofessional :\

Coupla screenshots of pezhetairoi (me! me!) and the ubiquitous cohors, together with a few lines of hype. That was all the description there was. Nondescript, in other words. Which doesn't do justice to EB, i daresay.

And as I said before, not a single line of 'This game requires RTW to run. Buy today! From the store next door to us, they still have 10 copies left.' Nah. They had RTW Gold selling there. Pirated DVD games, wtf. Or so my student said.

TA, I kid you not about Sims 7 and Halo 4. Some very adventurous technopreneurs they have there in Malaysia.



I wish I live close to one of them stores, though. :\ The distance between Singapore and Johor Bahru is 2 hours, most of which is sitting through the jam on the Causeway... Couldn't be bothered to travel there to do some knuckledusting. If they come to Singapore, maybe.

Quite the compliment to the EB team, isn't it?

[phonicsmonkey]

While it's amusing in a sense, it's annoying, too - people making money at the expense of the EB team and their hard work.

Well, I just bought RTW:Alexander specifically for the purpose of playing EB 1.1 using the Alex.exe

I will never play the Alexander campaign itself - so you could argue that CA are making money at the expense of the EB team and their hard work