| I've gotten free pirated copies of a bunch of visual novels lately. It makes me feel a little guilty. But at least my wallet is happy. Especially if said novel sucked. |
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| It doesn't matter; if it's not free, I won't buy it. I'm not that much fond of games and is willing to spend money on things I would enjoy for at least an hour. |
| It's great for older games where nobody makes money on them if the companies even exist now. Don't pay scalpers for those rare games, and instead download emulators or buy a flashcart or modchips and then download the games you want to play. |
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Not this shit again... |
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AWESOOOOME WE came to play WE came to play There's a price to pay Time for you to get down on your knees and pray WE came to pay Say goodbye to the good old days They never coming back Watch your future fade WE came to play WE came to play to get OUR dues paid WE guess you had a dream But they can't be said WE came to play WE came to stay Best get out of my way ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ |
| "You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. " -Brihdaranyak Upanishad |
| Not my style. When I want something, I buy it. I'd want it if I really did. Not the kind of guy to play anything. Rarely done gaming piracy. |
| I hate piracy if I'm not the one doing it. |
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| I've bought a lot of games I normally wouldn't have with the help of steam sales and piracy, so yeah. Fuck the tightasses who say it doesn't work. Also I'm not paying for a game twice, Nintendo/Playstation. If I can emulate it on my computer you get nothing from me. |
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| not just on games but digital piracy is so common in poor countries like ours since 20 dollars is like 2-3 days worth of salary already or 1 month internet service of 1-3 mbps so ye even the government offices here sometimes use pirated softwares |
| Games are generally expensive in Australia but when they go on sale, they become rather affordable. Since Australians have among the best wages in the world (our minimum wage is said to be the highest), people here can afford games most of the time. Due to that, I don't pirate anymore. I pirated when I was a teenager but those games I pirated, I already paid for real copies lately. |
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| Video Games companies for the most part understand that consumers in third world countries generally have a lower reservation price than first world customers, so the prices are certainly lower than the actual rate. Even so, it's generally been accepted that these markets are not incredibly lucrative since people REALLY won't feel like paying anything near a marketable AAA price, so they've pretty much just accepted the situation. Reducing international prices further would only contribute to the weird grey market that are places like G2A, in which case any rational consumer would just refuse to pay the original price for the game in place of more competitive prices. Since trade like that is remarkably inefficient, profit maximization deduces that there is simply no reason to "stimulate" these markets. Some companies complain that pirating results in lost sales, but I think this only really applies to first-world consumers that would otherwise have been able to purchase games (and any reasonable company should be able to estimate a loss account for these sales beforehand, and it's probably VERY low since you can be fined for FAR more than a petty 60 dollars). So if you're in a region where you otherwise would not expect to purchase games at a reasonable price (compared to average costs of living), there isn't a real moral dilemma in choosing to pirate as long as you keep it to yourself. Selling pirated games on the other hand is quite not good, but I guess it fills a niche. Obviously, "We need more socialism in Gaming" is a troll statement, so try not believing yourself and you'll be correct. There is nothing you can learn about the industry by embodying a beggar. |
| I don't use current gen systems to play pirated current gen games, but I'd use homebrew emulators for old games on them. I download current gen games off the Internet or dump my copy to data mine them. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that when the Nintendo Switch is hacked by pro hackers, the public knows everything. The secrecy among hackers is bullshit. People need to be able to do whatever they want with a system as early as possible. |
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| With the promotion of day one paid DLC, I say pirate away. It's a shameless money grab practice. Then you have games that are 15+ years old on the digital stores and they're priced at $10 - 20$. Inexcusable. But you have reputable developers like CDProjekt Red who give you free DLC and tons of goodies for buying their games. I got no problem giving them money. I rarely pirate unless it's a niche game that's pretty expensive. I usually buy games used so scumbag developers don't get money, but I will buy new for special collector editions and good developers. |
| i don t care about people saying that gaming piracy is like stealing or bad. if i can get the game for free why would i pay 60 dollars for it ( i only buy multiplayer games like battlefield) |
| Most games are shit I don't pay for shit. |
| No fuck piracy get better a better job. Awful people who steal others hard work exactly why I can't stand pc gamers most of you are trash. |
| PSN:ShadowStrike002 2x national and 2x all-American wrestler  |
| no point in pirating when the games i enjoy are already available for free anyways. edit: meanwhile.... http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/04/29/pirates-complain-about-piracy-irony-meter-explodes/ |
| You can buy lossless digital music from your favorite Japanese artists on https://ototoy.jp/. The songs are all DRM-free and you can re-download your purchased albums as you wish. Show your support to your favorite artist if you can! ps. if you are looking for Japanese albums, you have to search it in Japanese (not romaji). Just copy and paste the name. For those who want to learn Japanese through anime Resources for learning the language |
DreamingBeats said: I remember that... I mean, they had a cracked, working copy of the game running not too long after that was discovered. The game was pretty shit regardless (and now there's a whole series on steam just like it) so, eh.no point in pirating when the games i enjoy are already available for free anyways. edit: meanwhile.... http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/04/29/pirates-complain-about-piracy-irony-meter-explodes/ |
| If a game has any form of DRM on it, it should be pirated. I usually buy games that are free of DRM unless they're really hard to find and I have no choice but to pirate them, but any game that uses DRM is getting pirated and the DRM removed. |
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HaanFrost said: ...This is how Capitalist oppress the common folk . We need more socialism in Gaming . Rich should pay more for the Poor ^_^ I REALLY hope you are trolling...because if you aren't, you have to be one of the biggest F-in' morons I've heard from on here... You want a government to regulate and control the gaming entertainment market? If that's the case, you'll be getting more of this:  and none of this:  That would also mean less capital for these companies to make AAA games, which means they have to fire their teams of animators, programmers, and game designers because they can't afford to pay their salaries. So now you have more people out of work (really helps out the poor, eh?). If you don't want to pay high prices for AAA games, just wait for them to go on sale on Steam or find another way to get them when the price goes down. Keep in mind, gaming or even consoles are a big luxury to many people in other countries. Last game I pre-ordered and paid full price for was Mass Effect 3....never doing that again. |
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LordPlucky said: HaanFrost said: ...This is how Capitalist oppress the common folk . We need more socialism in Gaming . Rich should pay more for the Poor ^_^ I REALLY hope you are trolling...because if you aren't, you have to be one of the biggest F-in' morons I've heard from on here... You want a government to regulate and control the gaming entertainment market? If that's the case, you'll be getting more of this: and none of this: B-B-But Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is one of my favorite games. 11/10 -IGN |
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Lord_Sithis said: I absolutely detest piracy. I mean, what's the difference with stealing? That it's harder to get caught? It doesn't sound nice, but even if you're poor you can't just go to a store and take whatever you want. There's a very big difference since piracy is all just digital so you don't actually "take" anything, I'm not supporting it just saying. |
Mouloudexe said: i don t care about people saying that gaming piracy is like stealing or bad. if i can get the game for free why would i pay 60 dollars for it ( i only buy multiplayer games like battlefield) Exactly, especially as a broke student. |
HaanFrost said: I'm fine with piracy but the "argument" used here is not logically sound.I am seriously starting to wonder what kind of relationship our Western Gaming Buddies will have ! Hey Bud , Pass me your PS3 for the weekend . I will have cousins attending , would like to have fun with them . No Bud , Go buy yourself one and support the Publishers . ......... But we are Buddies ........No man No Buddy when it comes to supporting Publishers , You come second . (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ FUCK ^_^ Look at me . I share all my games with neighborhood Kids . I gave my XBox 360 controller to my friend which saved his money + helped him to play and have fun with his cousins . I copy pasted 150 Hollywood Movies from my Friend in 2 hrs . You can stop pretending to be retarded, people already see you as one now. |
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HaanFrost said: I am seriously starting to wonder what kind of relationship our Western Gaming Buddies will have ! Hey Bud , Pass me your PS3 for the weekend . I will have cousins attending , would like to have fun with them . No Bud , Go buy yourself one and support the Publishers . ......... But we are Buddies ........No man No Buddy when it comes to supporting Publishers , You come second . (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ FUCK ^_^ Look at me . I share all my games with neighborhood Kids . I gave my XBox 360 controller to my friend which saved his money + helped him to play and have fun with his cousins . I copy pasted 150 Hollywood Movies from my Friend in 2 hrs . In other words implying that when you lend someone a game, you two can't play the game separately at the same time, as they have your copy of the game. Copy/Pasting is creating an entirely new separate copy from the one you currently own. A copy that you do not have the rights to distribute. I'm not making any claims of morality here, but sharing a game is not the same as pirating it. |
Lost_Viking said: LordPlucky said: I REALLY hope you are trolling...because if you aren't, you have to be one of the biggest F-in' morons I've heard from on here... You want a government to regulate and control the gaming entertainment market? If that's the case, you'll be getting more of this: and none of this: B-B-But Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is one of my favorite games. 11/10 -IGN Yes, 5/7! perfect game for sure!! ;) "You're ALWAYS winner!" - AVGN |
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Cagliyora said: Hoppy said: It's great for older games where nobody makes money on them if the companies even exist now. Don't pay scalpers for those rare games, and instead download emulators or buy a flashcart or modchips and then download the games you want to play. Yeah, I agree with this. I'm not going to buy a SNES/NES and a game to play langrisser when I can just play it on an emulator. That being said if a game company remade an older game like they're doing with FE2 right now I'll gladly buy it. Also, I don't feel bad pirating fan translated visual novels. I'll gladly buy them when they get officially translated sure but I don't see any reason why I should buy a game that isn't localised to begin with because the developers obviously don't care for the western market. I agree too, I'm the same way with super old TV shows or anything else I can DVR. I'm not going to pay 10 prices because I want to play Math Blaster Pre-Algebra on Windows 95. |
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| It shouldn't exists, but at the same time all games should have demos (or some kind of refund policy) |
| Do people still download games? I mean outside of VNs, and more mainstream oriented stuff. The only thing I can agree with is that the price you have to pay for games today is ridiculously high. Also with the amount of early access games that are released these days, and still having to pay full price for them - it's crazy. |
| I have no moral objections to piracy, but still haven't done it for 5+ years, simply because I don't care enough - with the massive amount of games coming out these days - to pirate a game if something about it makes it unbuyable for me (for example Denuvo, I won't buy or pirate a game with Denuvo, I simply will never play it until it's removed - like Doom did, which made me buy it) I have like 370 games of which I've only played 100 of for more than 10 hours, and the two games I've played the most in the past few years have been Rocket League (1000+ hours) which cost me $10 and War Thunder which is free. Other dealbreakers: uPlay, DX12 support but no Vulkan support, launch day DLC, being obviously designed-for-DLC, (Dawn of War 3 or Total Warhammer for example) cash shop with anything more than cosmetics in a game with a box cost (Black Desert) basically anything that is even slightly anti-consumer I have zero tolerance for. |
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| I think emulation shouldn't be considered piracy. Especially when a particular company just drops their old consoles and their library with no care or concern for backwards compatibility. Nintendo and Sony does this, Microsoft is getting better about it. A handful of games being remastered at a quality that still inferior to PC if there was a port at the time it was released being sold back to you at full price is outrageous. I won't feel bad about my emulators. Support things you like. But I know what it's like to be flat broke. Just when you're not flat broke remember those things that brought you joy you might've got for free (: |
| I used to play a lot of cracked games, my friend was super-helpful with it actually, that I only had to ask him for games and he would get them for me in just a few hours. That was when I was still a child, though. But my mentality changed for the last 2 years, "you have to give in order to gain" is what I think of it. I bought all of the games that I like on steam, I felt sorry to the game developers actually. I'm against it now, since it's not a very pleasant feeling when someone "stole" your product you made by your own effort. (and I still haven't completed the games I like....) |
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