Any good argument against piracy? I still can't see any problem with it.
Any good argument against piracy? I still can't see any problem with it
Charles Davis
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Joseph Diaz
Game devs are gay
David Hughes
I'd argue that if I found out something was downloaded 10million times but only 10,000 were sold and user reviews were high and their was praise throughout the press and masses I'd pretty much say fuck you people for stealing my time that it took to make the product from me.
Michael Foster
The greatest games ever made would not exist
Oliver Hughes
If you end up absolutely loving a game you pirated, but still never buy it, you're no better than a nigger.
Eli Jenkins
Sebastian Hill
always online gimmicks
gives the devs a reason to push microtransactions and DLC bullshit
Nathaniel Peterson
>something was downloaded 10million times but only 10,000 were sold and user reviews were high
Examples?
But piracy exist and good games also exist.
Levi Lopez
Because it erases a potential sale.
>B-but I wasn't gonna buy that game anyway!
Really? Look at all the games in your pirated library. Many of which I bet you like a lot. Do you really think that if you took all those titles away and had no option to pirate games, that you wouldn't buy games legally? You'd have far fewer games and would likely still have a desire to play more. So yes, in that situation, you absolutely would buy at least some of those games. You're also not entitled to the fruits of another person's labor.
Christian Bennett
Based
Isaiah Jackson
You give money to tranny and faggot and leftist and help them having a livehood.
Colton Hill
Piracy lessens your enjoyment of games overall.
See: Zig Forums
Easton Flores
Why should I force myself to be an idiot when it comes so naturally to so many? Once you realize that a significant portion of people are pretty fucking stupid you'll never question piracy again.
Cameron Kelly
>small brain: idk what's the problem with piracy
>big brain: i know why piracy is bad but i do it anyway
Chase Hughes
Basically this. If a sufficient sample of the userbase doesn't pay for the media, it can no longer continue existing and making more games like it. Thus killing potential quality games. This is a purely hypothetical scenario however. But it highlights the moral issue.
Ayden Scott
Nah.
Robert Morgan
It depends on circumstances. Obviously if you like a game and want the devs to make more of it you can't expect them to do it for free, so pirating games you like only hurts your chances of getting more games you like.
Brayden Young
Idk of any example myself user I just gave an what if example of an event that would piss me off. Either way the reason copy right laws history wise was because of people noticed folks like Edgar Allan Poe never made any money for their work.
Henry Morales
You parried the beam, right Zig Forums?
Hunter Howard
Well if the sun is devoured by a spacewolf, all video games will stop being made. We need to reinstate human sacrifice.
Thomas Foster
This is the only thing I can think of but if a game is good it will still sell well right?
I used to pirate when I was a poor fag but for a long time I have had so many games now that I don't have time to play them all so I will never pirate because if I don't have the time for it what's the point when I still have a huge back log of games I still have fun playing.
Isaac James
Honestly I only pirate to check if I'll like the game because faggots no longer give us demos. People that came up with "pre-order game to play the beta" are both ultra faggots and jews in one, I'll never buy a game that tries to sell me a fucking demo.
Aiden Perry
There is no spacewolf and arguing into absurdity isn't going to make people think anything other than you're a faggot.
Ryan Young
>faggots no longer give us demos.
This is and always has been false.
Asher Long
>company releases demo
>users bypass it to play full game for free and early
Are you retarded?
Hudson Hill
It's as likely as what you're suggesting. Best take precaution for more things that will never ever happen, like you making a good post.
Logan Collins
Pirating is dependent on other people not pirating
Adam Lee
>Idk of any example myself user I just gave an what if example of an event that would piss me off
I do agree, tho. That's why I paid for Shovel Knight or Terraria in first place. Fortunately, it sold well.
I can think of Hotel Dusk/Last Window. But I only play them after Cing fall for bankrupcy, so buy it was meaningless. That said, I buy them second hand anyway.
Jonathan Rodriguez
There's none because selling digital goods is fundamentally flawed.
Add that pirated games actually offer a better service because you don't need accounts, launchers and DRM bullshit, ironically the only way to own said digital goods
Landon Martin
How often does that actually happen you moron?
Tyler Lewis
Lincoln Hughes
I'd rather not risk getting viruses, thanks.
Josiah Cook
If you genuinely want to support something then pirating it doesn't help. If you don't care then its whatever
Ethan Watson
Name five games in the recent 2 years that gave us a FREE demo. Only example I can think of is Nioh 2.
>bypass a demo to play full game
Demos are supposed to be a snippet taken out of a game, some games even changed the content of the demos themselves.
I'm thinking that you're the retard here, or just a zoomer that only plays online games.
David Gray
The less evil company out there. How does he does it?
Michael Sanchez
Uhh...Maybe because it's a literal Federal fucking offense that can put you in jail.
Jason Barnes
Either way I will say that copyright law has been an issue for ages. Charles Dickens certainly didn't enjoy the idea of his shit being robbed for example. Granted he died and was worth millions, but again I bring up an example of Edgar Allen Poe.
Still at the least I do see copyright law being abused plenty today and do think that shit needs to be changed some. Fair use needs to be fought for more for one thing.
Josiah Cox
>Be piratechad
>Get no computer virsus thanks to experience
>Get no corona virus thanks to having free games at home
>Be buycuck
>Die in wagiecagie
Jack Collins
Evenicle 2
Caleb White
In American. Shit, american law wo't even let you modify consoles. Ergo, you're not allowed to tamper with a thing you own which is exclusively for private use. What the fuck.
Daniel Rivera
not really, i have discovered many great games with piracy.
Aaron Myers
There's the best answer. time to pack up thread achieved.
Cooper Phillips
>brand loyalism lessens your enjoyment of games overall*
Noah Lopez
It's only bad when it's done for something like an indie game by a small studio, triple A shit's fine
Ayden Richardson
>if something is the better product it'll sell better
user, welcome to economics 101, where just being out first is better then then being the best.
Brody Kelly
If no one ever buys games, no one will make big-budget games. Or they will and the games will be full of microtransactions. Your pick
Oliver Flores
If you couldn't pirate indietrash, nobody would play them except streamers who get paid to do it.
Now I may be a pirate but at least I don't charge people to watch me play games.
Josiah Fisher
keep telling yourself that.
Leo Wood
What? I've bought plenty of indie games, most people have been buying their indie games ever since Steam flooded with them.
Isaiah Hill
patreon and the fact that shit like twitch even exists is proof enough that people will dump endless money into shit that they like even if they don't have to
Nolan Green
>easiest way is not by putting antipiracy technology to work
>creates its own futile DRM storefront anyway that you couldn't play games like HL2 without
Gabe has always been a hack