Who Would Pirate the One-Cent Humble Indie Bundle?
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What about people who don't have paypal? :| I know plenty of people who don't trust online buying.
Not saying it's a good thing to do, just saying it's not necessaryily a question of pricing here.
I bought it myself for 20$ just so people don't get the wrong impression.
Not saying it's a good thing to do, just saying it's not necessaryily a question of pricing here.
I bought it myself for 20$ just so people don't get the wrong impression.
Guess you haven't seen one then. I don't think Marijuana should be illegal, that doesn't mean I smoke it, nor do I plan to. I'm an atheist (somewhat) too and I protect peoples belief in god or religion. To be frank I often argue things both ways, not for lack of opinion but because I actually think its important to see all sides of the picture instead of simply insisting that you're right and they're wrong. For me the defining attribute of a troll is ignorant posters who don't care to justify their opinion adaquately nor care to listen to others (examples if you care = "Halo sucks" "lol fag" etc, note that I don't much care provided they're somewhat justified). Perhaps I'm wrong but hey, that would just mean I can finally crawl back under my bridge without fear.danpascooch said:
Why should being the devils advocate change my argument anyway? Because your accusations didn't land? Really not too sure.
I'll let you get the last word in before I stop reading your blathering, it's obviously important to you, and I realize no matter what I say you still think game developers are horrifying leechers who are all incredibly rich, which is the probably the top ten dumbest things I've ever heard in the year I've used these forums.Kurokami said:
By the way, I'm going into Game Design and Development at the Rochester Institute of Technology this fall, I look forward to forcibly sucking all of your money away into my swirling gold rimmed vortex of game developer evil.
Maybe the pirates just didn't realise that they COULD play only 1 cent for it. After all, it didn't explicitly say "Only 1 cent," At least as far as I can tell - It said "Pay What You Want." I guessing that the pirats thought "Hey, there's probably still a cap or something - Fuck that, I'm stealing this shit!"
Maybe they've just got cleptomania. Maybe they just don't want to give their credit details. Maybe they just like the challange or something. Who knows?
Maybe they've just got cleptomania. Maybe they just don't want to give their credit details. Maybe they just like the challange or something. Who knows?
Not surprised its the dumbest thing you've heard, you're the one who said it.danpascooch said:
I have great respect for good games and their developers, the fact that I dislike games with no originality or thought put into them surprises you? If you're hoping to become a game developer than good luck to you. I hope you make some good games and then I will happily give you my money. If you make shit games however, I will be lumping you into the category of money snatchers/worthless grit, which I think is fair as you'd be judging me the same way, I'm sure.
In any case, thanks for enabling my procrastination till now. Next time try and reply to what people post instead of replying to your own made up nonsense. =]
(oh yeah, that smiley's gonna piss you off)
Seriously though, good luck in becoming a developer. These games I simply despise don't feel as though they're created by gamers.
Let me quote you:Kurokami said:
Yeah, I can see the great respect there, funny, you didn't say anything about the game developer's quality in that quote, just "most" nor did you say that you respect good game developers.
So yeah, I was replying to you posting that most game developers are basically money grabbing pricks, maybe instead of accusing me of responding to "my own nonsense" in such a way that makes you look like an even bigger jackass than everyone already thinks you are, you should remember what you posted just a few days ago.
Well, this could be partly falsified because maybe two friends both put in half the cost towards whatever they paid, and they both shared the downloads, or a single person downloading the game on multiple computers for their own use. However, I don't think that's enough to cover all 25%. It's just kind of disheartening that people would steal something that costs a penny.
If you'd like, you can PM me your email and I'll buy you a giftable code.Feylynn said:
They extended it a bit because of things going open source I think.
Edit: Neverrrmind, read more and saw you already got it.
Double edit: My offer still stands for anyone who doesn't have a credit card or something and can't buy it with the available options.
Probably people without a credit card or people for who the method of purchase is otherwise difficult along with people simply too used to pirating shit. I doubt that it's really a case of "these poor, sad children aren't getting a penny of mine!" for most people.
I bought this for $5 despite having no desire to play any of the games, I just support what they are doing.
I said that, gave all my money to the developers. I'm already doing enough for charity.TazTheTerrible said:
You are right, i had to go back and redownload two games that got corrupted due to my wireless connection dropping during a thunderstorm ( i know awesome!)so that means i pirated the game on my second try? I donated good amount and since its a a charity i donated more than what all the games together would cost, around $20. I also got 2 of my friends to get it, while 2 other friends got me to buy it. I love these indie devs, i truly hope they atleast get their daily bread from the people that pay for their games, which are of course awesome. Anyway, if you havent donated, if you can only afford $5 bucks, just do it. My friend only had a few dollars in his account, donated $1 and later this week came back and donated another $15, because he is an iphone app developer and he knows how much work goes into this.GiantRedButton said:Note that only people with credit cards can purchase the bundle.
For some kids its simply easier to download it from somewhere else than steal there moms credit card, which are quite rare in some countries.
I'm sure there are some hard workarounds, but those are rather...hard.
More important, what a great deal, alot more interesting than the piracy discussion so thanks for that info
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I'll try to buy it really hard, but note that i don't have a credit card. I'll edit the results.
Maybe the pirates had no other possible option then to pirate.
Edit: Up to now, no possibilty to buy the games. Has anyone an idea to cirumvent the creditcard requirement?
In germany 22.7% of people own a credit card, none of the in my family or me.
So i can't pay for it even if i wan't to.
I guess thats the reason then, the pirates CAN'T buy the bundle, they aren't cheapskates.
Also, in this statistic, if your download stops and you restart the download, you count as a pirate.
They have a ftp server, no donation required.
The just compared the number of downloads with the donations, downloads being 25% higher.
So: (edit)
If you internet connection dies and you redownload, you're a Pirate.
In this statistic anyway. And if you pay 50$ and download it on every family computer, you are 4 or 5 pirates, all in one person.
rant rant rant...
The rationale of some pirates is that information is free, as it can be distributed freely.
This is an exception as it is more of a donation. Only people with credit cards can participate though, which makes piracy still a viable option.
And as you see, the free information movement (Linux users) donate 50% more than Mac or Windows users.
This is an exception as it is more of a donation. Only people with credit cards can participate though, which makes piracy still a viable option.
And as you see, the free information movement (Linux users) donate 50% more than Mac or Windows users.
I don't see the problem with saying most, I thought we clarified that I dislike the developers of games I consider complete rubbish, sure I may have exaggerated the number slightly by use of the word but I still don't see how that means I don't hold a high respect for the position of game developers. You seem to be tripping over reasons to hate me, when you accused me the first 2 times of being a pirate I atleast took the time to correct your mistake, I only called you a moron/troll the third time, which I'd have reconsidered had you not made me repeat myself and already decided this thread was an oppertunity to insult me. Tell you what, I'll admit my first post may have been a bit inflamatory and my stance misleading (somehow), and I've apologised for and corrected it in other posts. Now if you could admit that you've simply taken this whole thing personally I'd be happy to stop flooding this thread with our little quarrel. I've got some doubts as to whether you'll do that though, so I think I will be stopping with this after this post. Feel free to flood my message box however.danpascooch said:
EDIT (note that the only reason I don't completely eradicate the pre-edit is because you can see it regardless in your messages and should you choose to respond to that one people'll be able to see what you're talking about):
I just looked into your previous posts, to varify that you're just some arsehole who's out for blood, and having done that I'm gonna take back my moron/troll comment. My opinion and stance remain the same, and I still think you seemed to have jumped to make this personal against me, but I shouldn't have insulted your credibility or intelligence based only on this thread.
The actual percentage of pirating is probably in the realm of 5%. I know that I had to download several of the games multiple times to get them to work correctly on my silly computer.
I find quotes are relatively important as they allow users you've quoted to respond with ease (in case you didn't know, a quotation appears in the message box making it very simply to adress).Frankster said:
you simply need to type in
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