Sunday, October 4, 2009

An Introduction To Game Downloads

By Herminia Garner

Anyone who has been on the Internet for more than 5 minutes will be familiar with torrents or something similar. Basically, downloading pirated games, movies and music which is extremely popular these days, partly due to the industries involved not allowing a genuine alternative in many respects. Fortunately, game downloads are an exception.

The other disadvantages about doing this, is that you may well give irises on your computer. A great deal of posts on these torrent websites contain malicious software which obviously you need to avoid. Also, if you download pirated games, you will not be open for any technical support, you will have difficulty installing patches for the game, and in many cases, it is completely impossible to play online in multiplayer games.

This is why you should buy games online. However, there are generally far more options available to you when it comes to buying games online and you have with movies and music. Buying games online will also allow you to download them, depending on where you buy them from.

Not only that, but you will also be able to save money since of course if you are buying digital downloads online, you don't have to pay for any packaging or anything else but the game itself. Most games these days are available for digital downloads. They cost a modest amount of money of course, but they are completely legal and you have almost all the advantages of going into a store and buying the game itself.

It cannot be stressed enough, that you should not downloaded legal pirated content. There are a number of reasons why you should not do this and not just because it is illegal. Firstly, you leave yourself open to getting viruses on your computer, since many malicious users use these sites and deliberately integrate malicious software into the downloads.

Also, you will not be able to get any technical support or customer support and when you want to update the game, you may well have problems. Also, any multiplayer component of a game will very likely be unplayable if you have a part of version.

Of course, none of these disadvantages apply if you buy a game legally online and download it. You should be aware however that sometimes various digital downloads do not allow you to use fan made contents for the game. This is often because the way the a package so it is well worth looking into this before you actually buy a game.

You should have no difficulty in finding services where you can download games cheaply. These sites basically require a free membership and you may well use the free client which will help speed up the down the process and allow you to pause or resume, an essential feature since your by downloading files which are around 5 GB or more.

Also, some games are available to play online, but these are rather different and often flash based and very simplistic but they will one of older computers.

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