Posted April 01, 2012
spinefarm: I actually know a lot of pirates that buy GOG games after pirated them first. So it's a win win anyways...
GameRager: Agreed. I'm one of them. I still pirate older impossible to buy titles but when I can afford a few games here I send the money GOG's way ASAP(or have someone do it for me until I can afford to pay them back.). Also some here say games aren't necessary but I say otherwise. Yes you can live without them but I feel they are an essential part of our culture and to miss out on part of one's culture because one cannot afford such things(and one can make their own copy without taking a copy or resources from the one's who made the product, thus depriving them of said product/resources PHYSICALLY.) to me is just ridiculous. (Bear in mind i'm talking about older media/entertainment here, like 10+ years old, where a company/etc has made their money back and then some but won't release the IP into the wild for public consumption while hiding behind crazy-long copyright terms.)
So yeah pirates are not different type of ppl. They are gamers too like all the ppl hating them.
The awfull part is that gamers that can afford buying games hate ppl that can't afford buying games... that suck..
spinefarm: Mate there are ppl out there that can't aford bread to eat...so for them is expensive :) 5-10$ is not much...but still I don't believe numbers like that hurt so much and actually I think piracy is helping sites like GOG... do you see a Steam section on sites like that?
EdgeZombie: Games are not an essential good, trying to justify piracy in this way is completely invalid. Post edited April 01, 2012 by spinefarm