Ethan_Kaizer
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My friend bought Fallout 3 through Direct2Drive recently. Is it illegal for him to let me use his account to download the game onto my computer?
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Akubane
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well if you don't pay for it, yeah.
If you've paid money and own the game legally, no.
If you've paid money and own the game legally, no.
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So even though he legally bought it, he's not allowed to let me use it?
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NOPE, if it was steam it would have been a diferent case, sorta. as you could play it in offline mode.
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Okay then. I guess I'm gonna have to buy it... but I have no money >_<
Thanks for the help guys.
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Well, you downloading it for free using his account is no differen't than pirating it through any other means.
Even with steam it would still technically be illegal.
Wether or not he installs it on two of his own pc's, or 1 of his and 1 of yours doesn't make a lick of difference in my opinion, but game companies don't see it that way. I can understand it.
In case a (both his PCs) it's still the same person playing both copies. In case b it's two differen't people, so they're losing any profit they'd make off the second person.
Even with steam it would still technically be illegal.
Wether or not he installs it on two of his own pc's, or 1 of his and 1 of yours doesn't make a lick of difference in my opinion, but game companies don't see it that way. I can understand it.
In case a (both his PCs) it's still the same person playing both copies. In case b it's two differen't people, so they're losing any profit they'd make off the second person.
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well if you think about it it's like i go out and buy a pc game, install it on my pc and then take it to my dads and install it on his pc. that's legal as far as i know, is int that what your trying to do? except without a cd
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unless they specifically state a certain amount of computers you may install it on, i don't see an issue with it
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sirect 2 drive is horrible they have a 3 instal limit, and *** soon as you activate it on your pc the copy on his will no lnger be any good, thats how bad d2d is, i have only ever purchased 1 game from them and will never do so again.
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Yeah, I don't know why he uses D2D, when he has a Steam account as well. There's no advantages of D2D over Steam imo.
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