If a video game you pirated turned out to be really good and reasonably priced by the developer, would you purchase it afterwards?
If that same video game were released under a free (as in freedom) software license, which basically makes "pirating" it legal, but the developer still charged that reasonable price, would your decision to buy or not change?
>>321879335
Richard, what are you doing here?
You will get nothing but inane comments here.
And no, I would probably still pirate it.
I would however give money to developer if it wasn't mandatory price but instead just optional donation.
the only time I remember buying a game after pirating it was Amnesia
also Fable TLC, but I bought it a long time after playing it originally
I don't really pirate stuff anymore
>>321880984
A lot of people who pirate before buying consider the purchase after to be a donation, just at a fixed rate.
>>321880984
Richard Stallman wouldn't have used the term "piracy" at all
I did so with Ori, meat boy and sonic generations
>>321879335
About a third of my Steam/GoG library are of games I or my friends have pirated before.
>>321879335
I'm not trying to start shit, but I have known literally nobody that has pirated a game and then bought it. Even if it turned out to be their favorite game they did not actually buy it.
I usually only pirate shit in order to try it out to begin with. If demos were a thing I wouldn't have to.
>>321879335
Consider that the money making game rewards greed and draconian control of your product. Being the "for the little guy" is a nice but ultimately failed business model and only helps indie studios and other small projects to "fire back against the big guy" when in reality they are trying to become the big guy controlling wealth.
If consumers can get it for free without consequences , they'll take it. If businesses can get away with over pricing and duping you with false marketing, they'll do it.
>>321879335
Unless I want to add it to my physical collection at some point, no.
>>321879335
yes, witcher 3 and fallout 4
yea man, pirating is demo
Nah.
I only pirate older games anyhow though.
>>321879335
I pirate because there are no more proper demos out there.
If I pirate and I like it, I buy it.
If it's charged at a reasonable price and I know the money doesn't go to EA or something, I buy it.
I don't want to hurt the industry, I want to hurt publishers.
>>321879335
Yeah, I've done that for several games. And I wish more games would go open source. I donated pretty well to that Humble open source bundle too. Remember when Notch said Minecraft would eventually go open source? Good times.
piracy exists only on pc
on pc the pirate games are basically copies of originals....same code
why would anyone pay for a code they already have? they could just copy and paste it. same thing
its like saying; do you want to throw 70 euros out of the window or no?
OP should maybe visit a shrink and get on anti-psychosis meds
>>321884878
>piracy only exists on pc
Opinion discarded.
>>321884878
>piracy exists only on pc
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>>321885151
nice fuckin meme retards
x1 and ps4 have no piracy
ps360 was last gen
nintendo is for children or autists
>>321885289
what meme? are you retarded?
>>321882498
I for one do it all the time. It's like having a better demo, where you get to play the actual game and not the exciting snippet prepared by the devs. I've fallen for that trap too many times.
Plus you're either a teenager on an allowance or an unemployed manchild living in your parents' basement if you truly consider games too expensive to buy.
>>321884493
This so much
If it was something that has no physical version of any sort, then no I would not spend money on it regardless.
>>321879335
I pirate and buy games. Witcher 3 is one, Fallout 4 will be one. There's been countless games that I've done that with.
I pirated kotor on my pc because I'd played it on Xbox as a kid, played it, beat it, loved it, bought it again because it was cheap on steam.
Then the steam version didn't work lol
>>321884493
Pretty much this. I enjoy having physical copies of the games I like but I'm not going to pay for a shit game without testing it out first.
Demo Discs disappearing was a huge disappointment.
>>321879335
I pirate every game.
I cannot afford buying games day 1. I pirate them, try them out. I'd use Steam and its refund possibilities, but 2h is too damn short.
However, if a game met my taste, I purchase it afterwards - although I search for the cheapest price or wait some more days.
I dont see it as a donation, more like a sign 'keep up the good work'.
Games need something like a trial period!
>>321879335
Yes. The one I remeber the most was the Introversion Complete Pack after trying Darwinia and Uplink.
>>321884493
The publishers control devs with money and budget, so by not buying it you're hurting the devs too. Publishers aren't stupid enough to actually separate their interests from the devs. They purposefully tie themselves to the devs and make them dependent on the publisher.
Publishers are just glorified banks giving out loans to artists with an expectation of profit. By not paying you're fucking the artist as much as the publisher, except the publisher has so much money they probably won't hurt while the devs get kicked to the curb to beg for change cuz fuck them for not turning a profit on their investment.
I appreciate your sentiment, but your efforts will amount to nothing or the opposite of what you want.
Ultimately, artists have to get the guts to take a chance or be lucky enough to have the resources to make their shit without the lure of publisher money. I doubt anything is gonna change though
>>321879335
Now that I have a solid income, yes
>>321887251
I understand this. Don't get me wrong.
That point about the publishers was more about pre-purchasing, blindly buying early-access etc or cash-grabbing games like MGSV or Fallout 4.
Before I buy a title, I educate myself about where the money goes to and who benefits from it. Also if the game is good and published by an evil organization I sometimes still buy it, even though the developer only gets a miniscule share. Of course my efforts are a water drop on a hot stone but I get the satisfaction of "at least doing something in my interests".
My point being: I don't buy baseless or without thinking.
>>321887787
And that's smart. Good on you. I recommend everyone research and get informed because businesses will ALWAYS try to trick you into paying more for less. It's their strategy from day one.
That being said, I think you're right about the drop in the bucket feeling. I say keep it up cuz there are more people like you out there than you think, but keep realistic expectations and understand businesses are machines with lots of moving parts, and the bigger and more intrinsic they become the more things can go wrong and collapse.
I think the economy is on a slow but steady slide down that hill, so stay smart and aware and you just might have a nice life before everything goes to shit.
>>321888327
Will do. Godspeed to you as well.
>>321885289
>Moving the goalpost this far
>>321879335
Yes
I've done that for several Final Fantasy games, as well as two visual novels: ef - a fairy tale of the two and eden*. For visual novels, I'm more inclined to buy them as opposed to other games due to their niche audience.
