- Sleeping Dogs
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All things considered, piracy is:
- Good, because games are too expensive. - votes 1084
- Handy when publishers dish out a DRM nightmare. - votes 1067
- Bad, because it's a fucking crime and it ruins the industry. - votes 899
- A disease that can only be cured by DRM. - votes 62
TOTAL VOTES 3,112
Okay, many people see piracy as a bad thing, which we do as well, of course. But from some angles and at least from the perspective of people who can't afford games, piracy may be the only option. This brings us into a very tricky area - how people buy games. I mean, if you can afford games that aren't so expensive but you can't wait for them to get cheaper (which they do eventually), then maybe you shouldn't really resort to piracy should you? Also, if you resort to piracy just out of sheer laziness or to support some insane cyber-style rebellion then you're not just automatically condoning piracy, you're also a retard. If you really, really don't have a choice and you really, really want to play good games, then better you wait for them to get cheaper and, well, less buggier, because let's be honest, a lot of games need time to get more polished, don't they. It's an endless topic for discussion, isn't it.
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Same thing with my games.
I pay for the good ones only (AFTER pirating them to test).
Example:
Pirated Homeworld, liked it, bought it.
Pirated Need For Speed Shift, didnt like it, deleted it...
Those comparisons (if i can't afford a porsche, i steal it) are wrong because the context is different, if you could pirate a porsche,(not the physical act of stealing), and no one would notice it's a pirated porsche, wouldn't you do it? it's hard to believe you would not
See the difference? here we are talking about bits of information, it's not tangible, so it's not the act of stealing, unless a pirate would actually go to a store and then physically steal the game in the box, that would be stealing.
This is like saying:
"But from some angles and at least from the perspective of people who can't afford designer jeans at $200 per pair, shoplifting them may be the only option."
The point I'm making here is that games are a luxury, not a need.
If one can't afford a luxury, then the appropriate response is not to just go and steal it. If you convince yourself it's somehow justified to steal a luxury, then you're obviously deluded and infantile.
If you're gonna do something wrong, at least be man enough to know it's wrong.
Really... that's all I ask.
I've noticed some people that get too accustomed to pirating everything have gotten this completely irrational idea that they're entitled to the games. That they have some sort of automatic right to play them.
Well, that's bullshit.
You're so poor you can't afford video-games? That sucks. But you don't need them, do you? No, you just want them.
And besides, If you're really that poor...
You shouldn't be using your free time playing video-games anyway.
Trying telling that to a restaurant. Try telling that to a movie theater when you see a movie and don't like it. You'll find yourself being charged with a misdemeanor and fined.
That's not the way it works.
The fact is this: stealing is stealing is stealing. Videogames are a LUXURY. They're not a basic human right.
SMART buyers research. They read reviews, they watch gameplay videos. There's no such thing as "well, most movies are bad so it's alright to pirate cable."
In short, pay up, deadbeat.
Do you think that Beethoven would give a shit if someone played his music in some cathedral somewhere and ask money for that, or Baudelaire would throw charges if someone copies his poetry on a piece of paper, or Michelangelo would ask people to pay tickets to see David, Hell No!
I can't stop wondering how people developed such a perverted minds to think that they are able to own something beside their thoughts (even that's disputable) and not only that but to think that whichever idea they managed to materialize somehow is worth millions of dollars.
Anyway Half Life will remain on this earth even after Gabe's death or Doom after Romero etc., so will pirating make any sense then. If not then why would it now?
And if you are going to say something about they should be rewarded for their effort read the first sentence.
I don't think so
I pirate games; I don’t do it because their too expensive, I do it because I see no point in supporting "shit" games.
From the "big" publishers I own every single blizzard game except the latest wow expansion, and I did pirate every single one (except wow) of them first, their good games that provided me with good entertainment. I own some EA games because rest of that publishers games are shit at least imo.
I see no point in wasting money on a game that has 0 content, crashes every 15minutes or lags like hell or is bugged to hell and back, problem here is that demos often don’t show anything about the game or are polished beyond belief while the rest of the game lags, is buggy. Piracy isn’t killing PC gaming, it's killing companies that make bad games; sadly it's 80% of them.
I download games to check if its worth buying or to check how much cash I'd have to spend on newer hardware to have a decent play. If I like what I see - I buy it. If I don't - I erase it after 15 minutes of playing. And there are always a lot of series I will buy without downloading anything or even watching a teaser because I already know what to expect.
In this example it's not piracy. It's just being fair. For the whole deal to be fair, you also need to know what are you going to buy. And how many times have you been screwed that way? I still remember buying GTA4 which, basing on previously released requirements, should run smoothly on my PC only to find myself buying a whole new PC setup to run it somewhat smoothly on medium settings.
One thing I love "piracy" for - if the DRM sucks ass, you will always find a neat crack or no-cd patch. I bought AC2 the same day the crack was released.
But then I started seeing that it's wrong on TV and on the internet.
Not too long ago I got a bank card with which I could buy things from the internet. I bought Torchlight. Freshly released Torchlight on Steam was cheaper than Diablo2(which was released in 1999 I think) in a store.
My gaming buddies were buying most of their games, so I thought that maybe they dissapproved of torrenting games. I made an effort to buy more games. Now the ratio of bought versus pirated games on my harddrive is about 60:40
And my two cents on piracy: if you want to do it and feel ok about it, then do it. Don't brag about it and certainly don't make excuses, 'cause they're always pathetic. Just do it and shut up. Others simply should stop bitching.
Or actually maybe it does... that's what pirating is right?