I pirate because I’m selfish, just like most other people in this thread.
I pirate because I literally cannot afford it, but do buy often when I can. We’re not the same.
It’s still selfish behavior. Pirating something because you don’t have the patience to save for it doesn’t change anything.
Lmao I’ve saved up for many games. I’ve also bought games after pirating them. You don’t know me.
So it’s not selfish to repeatedly rerelease old games and charge full price for them? It’s not selfish to never come down in price? Ever?
Of course piracy preserves old games. Also piracy is not a problem when it is miniscule. The issue is when piracy becomes the norm, so that these companies will be pushed towards more locked systems (consoles exclusives) and abandon PC. Some may even call for androud style locking up on PC.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify your stealing.
Tell me you are lacking so much knowledge on how computers work that you shouldn’t be allowed to use them without telling me.
I do LFS for funsies. Please resort to more personal attacks because the reality hurts.
My legal right to distribute my works how I see fit is absolutely being stolen. I’m absolutely allowed to sell my work in limited quantities.
Nothing has been taken from you. You still own your work and can still use it and distribute it.
Theft implies ownership. Even if you buy the game, the company or library host you bought it from doesn’t consider it yours. So why would pirating a game be ownership, or “theft,” either? Companies say what’s in their best interest, money. Ownership, especially of digital media, is a social construct. Writing a file onto your disk is not stealing, as it implies limited supply. No product should have infinite profit, it should be relational to labor not money.
Doesn’t detract from my point, it’s still not taking any supply. Right to distribution is a social construct, not a material good
That you don’t know the difference between theft and copyright infringement tells us all we need to know.
I’m fine spending money for a quality product.
Quality product. Not DRM-laden, always-online, unoptimized garbage that pushes microtransactions in my face. It’s not a price problem; it’s a service problem. If I’m going to get a shittier experience as a legitimate customer, piracy is the smart thing to do.
If you’re concerned about DRM, just use GOG or Itch. If you’re concerned about shitty games, do research before you buy something and just avoid studios like EA.
Imma get downvoted for that but even Epic has loads of DRM free games… there’s plenty of choice to buy DRM free games these days…
Don’t underestimate the FOMO factor.
Avoiding a title is simply not a consideration for a lot of people—especially if it’s shitty. They’re important context for meme and conversation material.
I genuinely wish this was a joke.
It won’t change anything until people stop preordering games and actually wait for them to come out before shelling out a hundred bucks.
Pre-order and dlc is what has made gaming so awful lately. Game companies realized they can make a half-assed game and fill it with microtransactions and still make shit loads of money
The biggest issue with pre-ordering is the gaming community itself tbh. Even if an individual knows better intellectually, companies have people specialized to make advertising as engaging as possible. Most of us (I used to be one of them) simply do not have the tools, nor the idea, of how to mentally combat “hype trains” and thus get our expectations up praying that the game will come out good and satisfy us for a bit.
do research before you buy something
So instead of playing, I now have to do work to figure how to spend my miniscule available time on what to play to get the most out of said time.
I’m not mocking what you said. I’m just lamenting the state of gaming.
I’d rather invest my time figuring a smart purchase, than spend my minuscule available money padding some rich fuck wallet. I don’t have much money or time, so I’d rather spend it on quality products and services than waste it on moneygrubbers.
Odd contradiction. I support pirating when a person can’t access media legally (whether due to financials or just dick-moves by corps). However, this is the same logic that writers are striking against with streaming and I sure as hell support them.