MattAn24 said:
Versuvius said:
Abuse of the internet? I believe the internet was put in place for the sharing and exchange of information. Aquiring a clone of someones game is exchanging information. Nothing has been stolen, no online codes which activate the games officially or a disc.
PEOPLE also take exception to being told to die in a fire when finding alternatives to being screwed in the arse by companies who treat them like thieving scum. See: Pirated Just Cause 2 becausei bought it new and the CD key was invalid and they refused to send me another (and the shop wouldn't take the disc back because it wasn't their problem). See why not everything is in black and white ;p
Also: The piracy protest of Spore. 3 installs per disc then you had to buy it again. It was pirated in protest and THAT made EA strip the DRM out.
Thanks for your time, anyone else who wants to roll their face on their keyboard and squeal like little piggies about people being killed in fire should well...go expire in a flame.
Nice slew of excuses there. Not once did you mention the fact that GAME DESIGNERS, not the publishers, the DESIGNERS, deserve every fucking cent for every retail copy of a game. They (and I, seeing as I plan to BE a game designer) work their fucking arse off to provide YOU, the gamer, with content. They certainly don't have to!
There is absolutely no excuse for pirating
anything. Ever. It is NOT the answer. Take the Spore example? It's called MASS E-MAIL and contacting the provider, as a civil, mature group. Not exactly that hard~!
The Just Cause 2 issue, not so much a problem because you actually bought it. MANY others simply don't. They completely ignore the fact that developers worked day and night, several of those non-stop to make the best possible game for fans. Downloading it for free illegally is a
massive "FUCK YOU!" to the industry.
I don't disagree with where you're coming from, but don't act like you're running a charity with comments like "WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE YOU INGRATES ANYTHING". You're not in the business out of the goodness of your heart, or you'd do it for free, so the sob story kind of falls on deaf ears.
Secondly, developers often
don't strive to make the best game possible. More often than not, they try to bank on a sequel, gauging the customers' interest with a half-hearted effort. If we bite, they make the game they would have if they'd tried the second time around. Then that usually sells well, and we get a third game that tries so hard to top their best effort that it just ends up jumping the shark and putting the series (that never needed to be a series in the first place) in the grave.
Finally, games that genuinely impress me (which is admittedly hard to do)
do get purchased. I've even bought games I thought were just
okay because I felt
bad for them not selling well. Sure, I don't have to pirate the thing, but buying it on the cheap from Gamestop isn't doing the developer any good either, now is it. But on the other hand, if I'd bought Mass Effect, which would've been on the PC because that's my only venue, and thus isn't eligible for resale, I'd have been
pissed, because I thought that thing was garbage. I got twenty or so hours into it, asked it for that time back, was asked by the video game why I was talking to it, told it to piss off, and uninstalled it. I may have played it, "stolen" it by your reckoning, but I genuinely don't think Bioware deserves to be paid for making what I consider the same game I played nine years ago, plus a bunch of nonsensical instant death traps. I have no way to try that game on the PC platform without paying for it, which would have otherwise meant paying for a game I ultimately thought was horrible. Whether or not you think that's fair, I don't.
On the other hand, Bastion has a demo, which intrigued me upon my playing it, and even though I'm so piss poor that I can't even afford the fifteen bucks it's asking for, I cannot pirate that damn thing, because it deserves my cash. Don't treat everyone who's pirated a game as an indecent, heartless husk of a human being that preys on the flesh of the hard-working.
