Really we have already become good?

Come on, admit who caught the times of a free piracy? Who bought games in the market from trays from us there from us? Who went to the basement shop at the house and bought one disk with 5-10-15 games on it? And who finally downloaded games from torrent trackers?

Yes, I think that almost everyone. And everyone has this time in his own way, the story of the piracy of each of us is unique. After all, someone, out of the most lucky, was able to buy a computer or bought it, someone at work “used” it for not completely necessary purposes, someone played on the prefixes of that time. However, we were all under the same sail. Pirate.
In this blog, I would like to describe this subjective path of development by one -eyed, but I will not be afraid of this word, industry in computer games, its development, its rise and its falls in our vastness.

I will not moderately delve into the details of the history of the development of the PC and consoles in the CIS, because they are worthy of a separate article. Immediately about one -eyed pirates.

I understand perfectly well what to fit 30 years The pirate industry in the CIS on one article of one blog is a task, hmm, impossible. Therefore, here I will try to write only very briefly and very compressed material, but I will try to do this as clear for readers.

So, after the collapse of the state known to us, a new market appeared for foreign gaming companies – the CIS, the market is almost empty and quite large. But at the same time, he was hitherto unknown, and therefore it is not known what it was worth expecting from the new territory – success or falls for the company on these endless expanses?
Therefore, the penetration on (mainly) Russian -speaking territory did not occur so quickly, even with some kind of wary. Here our time began.
Time Adventure Piracy!

Actually, while the sharks of the gaming business thought, analyzed and planned, our enterprising newly made businessmen decided to take advantage of such a position and disrupting a good jackpot, “simple” Having bought it abroad the English -language version of the game, localize her, and start print cartridges, floppy disks, and then even CD-boobs with a translation into the great and powerful.
So, or almost so we have the first pirates, although it would be more relevant to say, businessmen.
But the surprise – the translation was often, to put it mildly, not quite satisfactory! I would even say – it was easier to play with the dictionary and the English version than to try to understand what these “translators” “hung up” here here.

Therefore, my first games were exclusively in English With a dictionary : D

Well, I sympathize with those who loved games from https://casinosnotongamcare.co.uk/review/gxmble/ Japan and Korea. There was much more difficult to play with the dictionary.

But time passed, the games gradually went to the east of the country, the sharks of the game world began to look more closely in our direction, trying on the new market. Timid steps began to turn into confident steps, working with our segment became more and more active, already official localizations tried on the secrets of voice acting and high -quality Ahaha translation. The first began to appear Official Localizations studios.

The struggle began, quite evil. In computer games, protection against unauthorized copying began to appear, the pirates have new methods of hacking this protection. Step by step, such a peculiar evolution began to move forward the protection market and methods of combating it. The eternal struggle of the sword and shield. And now, the time of the lottery (100 games on one disk!) gradually left, the time has come for full -fledged shops selling games Pirates.

/Offtop/. Moreover,, oddly enough, piracy is closely related to the economy of the state, the most political system and the situation in the country in particular. And what was there in the 90s? Economics – full seams, absolute freedom in everything, factories / newspapers / ships are mercilessly privatized, the population learns to live in the new realities of the new country.

, Therefore, having put the denyuzhki officials, you could do a lot of what to do – and did. Then the authorities paid little attention to the games – there were more important things. And every fight against piracy was simply unnecessary, once, it was necessary to improve the country.

The most favorable soil for the work of a real pirate. /Offtop/

But time passed, the Internet appeared, and oh miracle! – A relatively short time later, even the home phone was no longer turned off when you went into the World Wide Web. The speed was slowly and gradually increased, and the game could already weigh the whole gigabyt (!), Moreover, becoming better and better, it seemed a little more, and the game would be truly photorealistic!

Actually sensing, where the wind blows, the pirates deployed their activities from the real, hardware world, in the software world, a slow transition to the network began.

In fact, piracy also changed its appearance-if in the 90s it was exclusively localization of the game in the Russian language, followed by physical resale on various discs, then in the future, there were more problems with hacking the game and copying it to other media, it was not so easy to take and go to the source code, the developer of the games became smarter, he began to protect himself from such unauthorized penetrations, the time of craftsmen arrived. hacking and repack.

In fairness, I will note that the developer used to be more cunning-remember only the very old games that could not be from the pirate-then the boss with endless HP, then the right door does not open and something successfully was cut out of the game by our fearless pirate

However, even then the choice was to buy a license or a pirate at all, because there were no licenses in relatively free sale!
Then of course, the licenses appeared, but then then. Firstly, the price often exceeded all reasonable limits, and secondly, some games could go out with so many bugs that I did not want to take risks and buy a license for crazy money-and try to download the patch of “almost the first day” in the 00s!
*Taking this opportunity, I convey many thanks to the Download Manager program for the opportunity to pump files after the Internet \ Turning off the computer \ Substituted power wire and so on and so on.

But time passed. The Internet developed and it was possible to download a patch for games, and not even in a day, and there was even some sense to buy licenses. But the problems remained. For example, if you scratch the disk, then write, write, and copying the game using the NoCdnullodvd system in essence was also piracy. Again, these magnificent decisions of the publisher – limited the number of licenses, well, for example, three licenses for disk. Ah, how many nerve cells were ruined when reinstalling Windows and a scream “The game-Name remained there, and I have the last activation! If you are cursed the publisher. ”

However, before we follow the pirates, let’s stay in the cozy bay of the 90s for a second and the beginning of the 00s. Like the real captains of their courts, proudly are pirates-gazelers-it was they who performed the fate of the world (at least the CIS), they crap created a selected translation and it was their ships or until they changed the flag turned out to be unnecessary before the galleons of official translations.

Only a logo of companies are represented here, many already unknown, some have become a legend, and someone will live to this day