Who Would Pirate the One-Cent Humble Indie Bundle?

[DividedUnity]

I downloaded them from a link to try them first. I only donated 20 dollars because world of good and penumbra were the only ones I liked and removed the rest from my computer because i didnt think they were that great.

Either way you really cant complain when people dont want to pay anything for a pay what you want bundle. It is pay what you want even if that amount is 0.

 

[JediMB]

Too bad that I already own the games I'm actually interested in in this bundle. Paid a couple of bucks for World of Goo back when it had a similar solo-campaign, and have a retail copy of Penumbra Collection.

 

[Lukeje]

How many of those extra downloads were people re-downloading in order to make backups on other computers? Something it clearly says you are allowed to do? (Though several of them are only licensed to be installed on one computer at a time).

 

[Baby Tea]

Man, it's almost like the rationalizations that pirates use for their behavior (DRM, price, etc) are actually just flimsy pretenses to get stuff for free. Can you possibly imagine that?!

I don't know. Every pirate I've talked to said they only use piracy to combat DRM, lack of demos, and high prices! And nobody would lie over the internet to win an argument, so they must be telling the truth! They are freedom-fighters, Mr. Funk! And I don't think your tone truly reflects all the hardships of getting free software that they have to endure! Bitching about a lack of seeders is a real traumatic experience!

On a much more serious note: This is crap.
The selfish pricks strike again!

Maybe the pirates had no other possible option then to pirate.

That is not an excuse. Not in the slightest.
If I lived in Far-away-istan with no access to these games, I still wouldn't have the right or reason to pirate.
It's never the right option.

 

[Dogstile]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "ungrateful, self-entitled dicks," that's who.

Hmm. Wow, it's hard to believe that pirates would be this unprincipled. Man, it's almost like the rationalizations that pirates use for their behavior (DRM, price, etc) are actually just flimsy pretenses to get stuff for free. Can you possibly imagine that?!

Most of my pirate asshole friends don't have a credit card.

 

[dmase]

They pirate it and then they are gonna let it sit in their hard drives and maybe play it once. Well they have to fill up that terabyte external hard drive somehow why not pirate a practically free game to fill it instead of wasting so much time cracking games with DRM.

 

[John Funk]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "ungrateful, self-entitled dicks," that's who.

Hmm. Wow, it's hard to believe that pirates would be this unprincipled. Man, it's almost like the rationalizations that pirates use for their behavior (DRM, price, etc) are actually just flimsy pretenses to get stuff for free. Can you possibly imagine that?!

Most of my pirate asshole friends don't have a credit card.

So... get a friend to do it, and pay them back? Use paypal? Don't acquire the damn games?

It really blows my mind that pirates don't seem to have a concept of "If you can't afford it, you don't get to have it."

 

[Crossborder]

Maybe these people have a reason? Maybe they can't pay over the internet? I know I can't. I don't have a credit card, paypal or anything else of that stuff. I know, it's unlikely, but it's still possible they either pirate it, or don't play at all.\
EDIT: Argh. Damn ninja's strike again.

 

[BeholdMyGlory]

TorrentFreak wrote a good article on this, and takes a slightly different view than this one: http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-when-even-a-penny-is-too-much-100510/

 

[Dogstile]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "ungrateful, self-entitled dicks," that's who.

Hmm. Wow, it's hard to believe that pirates would be this unprincipled. Man, it's almost like the rationalizations that pirates use for their behavior (DRM, price, etc) are actually just flimsy pretenses to get stuff for free. Can you possibly imagine that?!

Most of my pirate asshole friends don't have a credit card.

So... get a friend to do it, and pay them back? Use paypal? Don't acquire the damn games?

It really blows my mind that pirates don't seem to have a concept of "If you can't afford it, you don't get to have it."

While I agree, and yes, i am arguing for the sake of arguing here.

"Pay what you want". I'm sure the guys didn't say "Pay nothing" but it does say it.

 

[scotth266]

This proves that some of the pirates out there just don't have any morals at all.

 

[Sebenko]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "ungrateful, self-entitled dicks," that's who.

Cound not be said any better...I cannot believe some people...

Yeah, considering this is a pay what you want pack of five games, with some of the proceeds going to charity, I'm actually pretty disgusted.

And I'm the sort of scumbag who would kick a puppy for a laugh. And I might be a liar.

 

[GiantRedButton]

It really blows my mind that pirates don't seem to have a concept of "If you can't afford it, you don't get to have it."

I doubt that anyone can't afford to buy the 0.01 euro game. The payment system is a different issue. Propably just a unfortunate choice of words.
but if you can't pay the developer anyway, what difference does it make if you download it?
It's not like the developer loses money. They allow 0.01 donatios so that as many people as possible can play it anyway.
Kinda sucks that the indie developers get the worst when it comes to piracy.
The games aren't 20 gb in size but just a little rapidshare file, and allot of people can't be customers to begin with.
Unless your in America where everybody knows someone with a creditcard.
The indie devs can't change it either, boxed copys are expensive. Though games like world of goo do get boxed releases. But those cost 30 euro, so around 40$ i assume.

Edit: Some assholes are downloading the games from the main site.
So they are actually costuing them money. That gets me angry..so much audacity.
Still I think if you can't be a customer anyway, whether you play the game or not doesn't matter.
just don't cause costs to the devs...That does matter, especially taking money away from charity AND indy devs. you might just be curbstomping puppies at that point.

 

[Xangi]

For some reason I can't use my prepaid card to buy this. It keeps saying it's invalid, and to try another card. I WANT to buy it, but it seems like paypal, amazon and google don't want me to


Still no reason to steal it though, that's just ridiculous.

 

[joshthor]

even im going to buy it and i only have $1.50 to my name.

 

[Cheesebob]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "ungrateful, self-entitled dicks," that's who.

Hmm. Wow, it's hard to believe that pirates would be this unprincipled. Man, it's almost like the rationalizations that pirates use for their behavior (DRM, price, etc) are actually just flimsy pretenses to get stuff for free. Can you possibly imagine that?!

I go one better and simply call them:

Fuckwits.

 

[Asehujiko]

So... get a friend to do it, and pay them back?

Perhaps that's exactly what they did? Seeing as how Rosen listed that as one of the reasons for the numbers being as they are?

You seem to be completely fixated on the assumption that every missing sale is a pirate laughing at them behind his/her keyboard and not any of the multiple other causes mentioned.