Fileforums?

I will probably get banned for this as well, but, at this point, I really don't care. Yesterday I patched Doom 3 with their v1.3 patch. Well, as many of us now know, the patch causes the game to ask for the cd key to play. This immediately sparked a raging inferno in me to find a crack for the game. Whilst searching for information on a possible crack, I came across this forum (which I have visited before, but was not a member of). Not suprisingly there were a few posts about this patch.

I entered one thread that was started by a seemingly legitimate owner of the 0s and 1s arranged by id software, and written to little polycarbonate disks with an electroplated aluminum substrate. The poster, whom I noticed is a regular member of this forum, was looking for a solution to a problem he was having with the new update. There were the usual jerks on the thread I was reading saying the cd key-check was not allowing them to play the game with said patch. These guys usually swear up and down that they have a legit copy of the game, but we all know that if they did, the patch would not keep them from playing it. They were looking for a crack obviously, which I have, and it works. I guess I made the mistake of mentioning something about not having a cd key. <-- A bit more ambiguous than what I actually said.

I also stated that it is sad that these "crack seekers" (which I am often in the practice of doing) were insulting the intelligence of the members here by crying about a patch ruining their game that they really did buy (something I am never a party to). Yeah, right, and I'm an Ethiopian Sumo Wrestler. These programmers know what they are doing, and are not going to risk harming their own business by hindering customers from playing their games with a patch release. Besides, if there really were legitimate customers having problems with the patch, the topic would be so hot, somebody would be selling t-shirts at the mall.

I agree that a person should buy any game they enjoy. I usually do when I play through one, and determine it is worth the price. The developers deserve it. However, I disagree with the notion that you should go onto a forum and lie to people about owning a legit copy of a game. I also beleive you should not be punished for telling the truth: something Forums are notoriously known for having a big deficiency in. If you don't own the game, then just say it. No one is going to beleive you anyway. If the request is not welcome, someone may just point you in the right direction, rather than write you off as an asshole with no credibility.

With all that said, I was disgusted that I had been banned because I had the audacity to be honest on your forum. What really pissed me off was that nobody in the administration of this forum had the balls to send me an e-mail letting me know this, or why. I read through the rules, (before posting) and fail to see where I blatantly violated the constitution here. I also have read many of your threads that have references to crackz that are obviously written by, and for, warez downloaders (yeah you know who else that group includes). I just wish someone would let me know where I screwed up. I would assume (very bad thing to do, by the way) that the webmasters/administrators/moderators (whatever) know that I can reregister under a different name as many times as I wish. Why wouldn't they want to communicate with me on this? I have been using the internet for over 10 years, and have never been banned from any forum before. I am not bragging, but I have a lot of resources at my disposal (many innate) that could be helpful to the members here. I am just now getting comfortable with settling down, and sticking with one forum. I don't think it will be this one though. I don't have much time for the squeemish. I'm sure this forum will do well without me. I will take my honest ass somewhere else. Somewhere that when you defend someone's intelligence, (which I'm sure the poster didn't "need" me to do) and tell some punk to get real, you don't get banned.

All I was trying to do is offer assistance where it might have been needed. I am very good at finding things on the web, and have obtained the crack to fix the cd-check in the doom 3 v1.3 patch (ericepp**********com). I just thought since this is called FILEFORUMS, that there might be others here interested in this harmless little 1.66 MB file. ;-{)> Huh, maybe Fagforums...