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Game Piracy
Topic Started: Aug 31 2013, 05:44 PM (122 Views)
Mystic
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Channeling My Inner Wright

What do you think of it?

I could make the Internet Superhero speech.

"I THINK PIRACY IS BAD AND PEOPLE SHOULD BURN IN HELL AND DIE AND PIRACY IS BAD"

However, I couldn't say that, because I have pirated games. I've pirated Pokémon, Zelda, Mario, GTA and everything in between.

I've owned an R4, and am ordering one for my 3DS.

I don't feel good about pirating, but money is hard to come by these days.

I think piracy is a funny topic, everybody says they're against it, but probably everybody with a computer has pirated music.

Thoughts?
GAMING:
Currently Playing: Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time 3D, Ace Attorney: TAT.
Going To Play In The Near Future: HOPEFULLY Fire Emblem if. THE HYPE IS REAL. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Smash Mains: Link, Lucina, Mario.
Favourite Game: Legend of Zelda.
Favourite Character: Link.
Favourite System(s): GameCube, 3DS.


ANIME:
Currently Watching: Dragon Ball Super *sigh*, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Kai.
On Hold: Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Gintama.
Planning To Watch: Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Kill la Kill, Code Geass, Seven Deadly Sins.
Favourite Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood).
Favourite Character: Vegeta (DBZ).


MANGA:
Currently Reading: Dragon Ball Chou. (100x better than the anime.)
On Hold: Dragon Ball, Gintama.
Planning To Read: One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Toriko, Naruto.
Favourite Manga: Gintama.
Favourite Character: Vegeta.


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crashbreaka
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If they weren't selling games for 100 bucks + where I live, I wouldn't pirate.

Annoyingly we seem to be stuck in a continues loop of 'this games too expensive, I'm gonna pirate it' and 'these games are being pirated, we need to raise prices to amend the lost profit'.
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Wahnsinn
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Yes, I did pirate in the past. I'm not ashamed nor am I proud of it.

For PS2, I did a lot more pirating. Well, it was my dad doing that, not me. haha

For PSP, I often read on the internet "you're stupid if you buy PSP games because you can pirate them" or "its easy to crack your psp". I don't even care.

I bought every PS3/PSP/Vita game I own. When I download emulators/roms, I often bought the games in the past.

About the raising prices: At least in my country, they kept the same prices for years now. In fact, they even lowered it around 5 years ago. It's only 60 euro for a new game.

The companies do get enough money, but they also do lose money because of all that. Especially developers for Android/IOS have serious problems with it. It is getting a little bit too much.

I understand pirating and everything, but honestly, some people are p*ssing me off. I actually read so many YT comments saying "why pay if you can get it for free".
There actually are people that call others stupid for buying games. I think those kinda people are so damn annoying. They think that if you don't pirate, you're dumb.

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I think piracy is a funny topic, everybody says they're against it, but probably everybody with a computer has pirated music.
Oh sh*t. *abandons thread*
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Mystic
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I know for a fact we pay one of the highest prices in the world in Australia.

I also pirate games I don't want to buy a console for ie: Super Mario 64.
GAMING:
Currently Playing: Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time 3D, Ace Attorney: TAT.
Going To Play In The Near Future: HOPEFULLY Fire Emblem if. THE HYPE IS REAL. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Smash Mains: Link, Lucina, Mario.
Favourite Game: Legend of Zelda.
Favourite Character: Link.
Favourite System(s): GameCube, 3DS.


ANIME:
Currently Watching: Dragon Ball Super *sigh*, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Kai.
On Hold: Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Gintama.
Planning To Watch: Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Kill la Kill, Code Geass, Seven Deadly Sins.
Favourite Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood).
Favourite Character: Vegeta (DBZ).


MANGA:
Currently Reading: Dragon Ball Chou. (100x better than the anime.)
On Hold: Dragon Ball, Gintama.
Planning To Read: One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Toriko, Naruto.
Favourite Manga: Gintama.
Favourite Character: Vegeta.


~Twitter~
@TerrorGI
 
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My favorite thing about piracy is the people typing pages upon pages on why they feel entitled to not pay for something. If they were just honest and said "I pirate because I want free shit" then people would at least think "at least he's being honest" instead of rolling their eyes at your essay that's really just a roundabout way of saying "I just want free shit"

Well with music piracy, I found some great alternatives and places to buy my stuff easily, and I found out how much it costs to record albums, and I'm trying to get into the biz. I'm slowly weaning myself off of it, but since I don't have a job, it's kind of hard to buy everything. I'll most likely drop my music pirating significantly after I start working.
 
Mystic
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I'd probably only support R4s, as they only play DS games, that are already dead. I won't get a Gateway, because I'd rather buy 3DS games.
GAMING:
Currently Playing: Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time 3D, Ace Attorney: TAT.
Going To Play In The Near Future: HOPEFULLY Fire Emblem if. THE HYPE IS REAL. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Smash Mains: Link, Lucina, Mario.
Favourite Game: Legend of Zelda.
Favourite Character: Link.
Favourite System(s): GameCube, 3DS.


ANIME:
Currently Watching: Dragon Ball Super *sigh*, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Kai.
On Hold: Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Gintama.
Planning To Watch: Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Kill la Kill, Code Geass, Seven Deadly Sins.
Favourite Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood).
Favourite Character: Vegeta (DBZ).


MANGA:
Currently Reading: Dragon Ball Chou. (100x better than the anime.)
On Hold: Dragon Ball, Gintama.
Planning To Read: One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Toriko, Naruto.
Favourite Manga: Gintama.
Favourite Character: Vegeta.


~Twitter~
@TerrorGI
 
Pockets Zanetic
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Not much going on here.

I would buy games, but they're ridiculously expensive nowadays. About 5 years ago, the price range for most new games was £20 to £30. More recently, it's shot up to £30 to £55. Since I'm so used to old prices, I can't help but feel I'm getting scammed.

tl;dr: I want free shit.
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Zel Kamtari
Sep 1 2013, 09:13 PM
I would buy games, but they're ridiculously expensive nowadays. About 5 years ago, the price range for most new games was £20 to £30. More recently, it's shot up to £30 to £55. Since I'm so used to old prices, I can't help but feel I'm getting scammed.

tl;dr: I want free shit.
Idk if they do this where you're from, but after a game's been out for a bit, they drop the price to $20, you might be behind everyone when they're talking about the game, but I'd rather do that than drop $60 on a new game.
 
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For me it's not so much about getting free shit, but more than I just can't afford the prices they want for it. I do buy pre-owned games and stuff precisely because they're affordable.
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Mystic
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New is always my first choice, but I just can't afford it.

I use to backup my DS games on an R4, so I'd just need one cartridge, then I pirated a bunch of shit :3

It's not that I want free shit, but Nintendo ripped me off a few cool preorder exclusives in my day. Just evening the playing field.
GAMING:
Currently Playing: Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time 3D, Ace Attorney: TAT.
Going To Play In The Near Future: HOPEFULLY Fire Emblem if. THE HYPE IS REAL. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Smash Mains: Link, Lucina, Mario.
Favourite Game: Legend of Zelda.
Favourite Character: Link.
Favourite System(s): GameCube, 3DS.


ANIME:
Currently Watching: Dragon Ball Super *sigh*, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Kai.
On Hold: Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Gintama.
Planning To Watch: Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Kill la Kill, Code Geass, Seven Deadly Sins.
Favourite Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood).
Favourite Character: Vegeta (DBZ).


MANGA:
Currently Reading: Dragon Ball Chou. (100x better than the anime.)
On Hold: Dragon Ball, Gintama.
Planning To Read: One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Toriko, Naruto.
Favourite Manga: Gintama.
Favourite Character: Vegeta.


~Twitter~
@TerrorGI
 
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