Poll: Your views on pirate/illegal games.
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I'll admit to wildly pirating during the life of the original XBOX, it was very much going on between my friends, and I imagine I have over a hundred titles I've only ever played once.
I actually could empathise with that pirate article from a week ago, where he says that pirating, apart from all the usual arguments, just horribly devalues games.
For about 90% of my Xbox collection, I probably spent more time burning the discs than I did playing the damn game, it was just a thing of trying to get the most games, with no real quality control, now I buy nearly all my games, and actually play and enjoy them.
I actually could empathise with that pirate article from a week ago, where he says that pirating, apart from all the usual arguments, just horribly devalues games.
For about 90% of my Xbox collection, I probably spent more time burning the discs than I did playing the damn game, it was just a thing of trying to get the most games, with no real quality control, now I buy nearly all my games, and actually play and enjoy them.
I pirate games, only to try them out. If I like it, I'll buy it. And that's how I've been going since I started.
There's no such thing as pirated games here in the Philippines!
There's no such thing as pirated games here in the Philippines!
I won't download a game if:
I want the multiplayer.
It's on PS3 (Because i can't
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I won't download a movie if:
I'm going to see it with somebody else/a group of people.
I will download for anything else, mainly because if i have the option to, why shouldn't I?
I want the multiplayer.
It's on PS3 (Because i can't
)I won't download a movie if:
I'm going to see it with somebody else/a group of people.
I will download for anything else, mainly because if i have the option to, why shouldn't I?
I do pirate games if:
They have DRM. Quite frankly, any publisher using DRM deserves to have their work stolen.
I simply cannot find them, and they are no longer being sold. That said, I still feel a little bad about it.
Music: Yes, simply for economic reasons AND the simplicity of having one hard drive with all my music on.
Movies: Rentals are so much easier AND don't eat cap.
They have DRM. Quite frankly, any publisher using DRM deserves to have their work stolen.
I simply cannot find them, and they are no longer being sold. That said, I still feel a little bad about it.
Music: Yes, simply for economic reasons AND the simplicity of having one hard drive with all my music on.
Movies: Rentals are so much easier AND don't eat cap.
EA don't work hard for years.SmilingKitsune said:
They release half-assed games that last the half they were ment to.
Ubisoft, Valve, Blizzard. They work years to make a good game. Okay, two latter ones, because Ubisoft is getting worse every time they release something.
But then again, I refuse to buy any Valve game until they get a brain and stop ripping off Europe people.
These days, I wish I could be bothered to pirate games. Considering the amount of money I've wasted buying poorly coded shit that doesn't work properly (like fallout 3), it's kinda depressing. How, as a PC gamer, do we get the message across to developers and publishers that giving us second rate console ports that fail to use modern hardware that it's unacceptable?
All that said, I have pirated a few games that have been refused classification down here, because that's literally the only way to get and play them (I don't see why some elderly people who have no idea about gaming are allowed to tell me, an adult, what I can and can't play), and I still love abandonware, because I get to play games that I loved as a youth but can't buy any more, though I'm not sure that abandonware counts as piracy.
All that said, I have pirated a few games that have been refused classification down here, because that's literally the only way to get and play them (I don't see why some elderly people who have no idea about gaming are allowed to tell me, an adult, what I can and can't play), and I still love abandonware, because I get to play games that I loved as a youth but can't buy any more, though I'm not sure that abandonware counts as piracy.
I don't pirate games and I'm anti-pirating to an almost fanatical degree mainly because of a friend of mine who pirates games A LOT and his pro-pirating arguments take logic, brutally murder it and then repeatedly rape its corpse until my brain has turned into a pureed mush and has started oozing out of my ear.
If a person can't afford every game that comes out, then they were never a sale to begin with. So if that person pirates a game, nobody is loosing ANYTHING. Thus there is no logical reason against it.
If your pirating even though you can afford what your pirating, then there's reasons against it.
A true Artist in any form should want their works to be seen, heard, player, etc.. By as many people as possible. Whether they paid or not.
If your pirating even though you can afford what your pirating, then there's reasons against it.
A true Artist in any form should want their works to be seen, heard, player, etc.. By as many people as possible. Whether they paid or not.
Well, to me, piracy is a kind of 'try-before-you-buy' idea. Since I feel playable demos rarely show the full potential of a game, it's often more effective for me to pirate a copy, buy it if I like it, or delete it if I don't.
As a result, the games I have on this box are either:
a) Free to play anyway, or;
b) Games I've bought having pirated them to see how well they played out.
As a result, the games I have on this box are either:
a) Free to play anyway, or;
b) Games I've bought having pirated them to see how well they played out.
I will pirate a game every time, if I decide its actually good and worth my money I go out and buy it, if not I just toss the piece of crap into the bin and never play it again. think of it as trying before buying?
All the games I have installed are legal versions, either bought on media or downloaded through Steam or EA Downloader. If you play a game, you should pay for it.
That said, there is some justification for downloading games to evaluate. I wish, for instance, that I'd downloaded Far Cry 2 before I bought it. Given the current climate where even companies think "Only an idiot would believe pre-release information" is justifiable, there has to be some sort of try-before-you-buy; something has to give consumers a fair chance at evaluating the product they're buying.
And of course I have downloaded games where the purchased media has proven unusable; games where the DRM is unacceptable, games where it identifies software I need for work and decides "Oooh, he's got a DVD burner, he must be a pirate", things like that. When copy protection makes it easier for pirates than legitimate customers, something's wrong.
That said, there is some justification for downloading games to evaluate. I wish, for instance, that I'd downloaded Far Cry 2 before I bought it. Given the current climate where even companies think "Only an idiot would believe pre-release information" is justifiable, there has to be some sort of try-before-you-buy; something has to give consumers a fair chance at evaluating the product they're buying.
And of course I have downloaded games where the purchased media has proven unusable; games where the DRM is unacceptable, games where it identifies software I need for work and decides "Oooh, he's got a DVD burner, he must be a pirate", things like that. When copy protection makes it easier for pirates than legitimate customers, something's wrong.
@Jaythulu: How does Fallout 3 count as 'not working'. Grief man, the sheer scale of the game means that it will invariably have a few glitches, as do all games, but that hardly renders it unplayable.
Yes I pirate games, yes I pirate movies and yes, I pirate music.
Games- Generally to see if I like them. I downloaded Fallout 3, it turned out (in my opinion) to be pretty average for a Bethesda game. The last game I pirated was a game called Nerf Arena Blast, simply because I couldn't find it anywhere else
Movies- If I suddenly get the feeling of "Hey, I want to watch that movie", I'll download it. Very rarely do I watch a movie more than once, so I see downloading the movie more like a digital video channel rather than "stealing" the movie (yes, I know I'm not technically stealing due to nothing being removed, but you get the point). The last movie I pirated was Wanted, I watched it once and then deleted it. Decent enough movie, I just wouldn't watch it again.
Music- Only if I can't find it legally or I want one song from an album. The last piece of music I downloaded was The Hangover by Funkoars.
I will not pirate Valve games, I will not pirate multiplayer games and I will not pirate indy games that are still on the market.
Games- Generally to see if I like them. I downloaded Fallout 3, it turned out (in my opinion) to be pretty average for a Bethesda game. The last game I pirated was a game called Nerf Arena Blast, simply because I couldn't find it anywhere else
Movies- If I suddenly get the feeling of "Hey, I want to watch that movie", I'll download it. Very rarely do I watch a movie more than once, so I see downloading the movie more like a digital video channel rather than "stealing" the movie (yes, I know I'm not technically stealing due to nothing being removed, but you get the point). The last movie I pirated was Wanted, I watched it once and then deleted it. Decent enough movie, I just wouldn't watch it again.
Music- Only if I can't find it legally or I want one song from an album. The last piece of music I downloaded was The Hangover by Funkoars.
I will not pirate Valve games, I will not pirate multiplayer games and I will not pirate indy games that are still on the market.