How does /v/ justify piracy?
>>320358148
I'm not paying $90 including tax for a new game and I don't give a fucking rats ass how the dollar is doing. The companies profit margins aren't my fucking problem.
Let's do some bingo.
>I pirate the game first, then I see If I want to pay it.
>I'm not a cancerous buycuck!
Anything I need to add?
If I'm unable to buy a brand new copy of a game through means that ensure the original developers get paid for the sale, then it's okay to pirate.
>>320358148
I'm used to be against it, but them them ps4 got hacked and I'm hyped for all the free games.
I don't
I just don't care whether or not it's justified
Suck my dick, I ain't paying for shit
>having to justify
I'm a bad motherfucker and I don't need no other reason for it
>DLC, microtransactions, season pass, etc
It's a natural mechanism of defense OP.
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>>320358148
I have no justification. I just pirate because I can. Despite that, my steam library still has a decent amount of games.
Because the big gaming companies are greedy and I don't want to pay them when I can get their shit for free.
>>320358148
Because it's easy and I can.
>>320358148
I buy more games than non-pirates anyways.
I can do it.
If piracy wasn't a thing I wouldn't just buy the game.
>>320358148
I definitely wouldn't have bought the game anyway.
...if it was mediocre, I would've bought it used.
In either case, the devs/publishers wouldn't see any money.
>>320358148
Not going to pay for something I'm gonna play for 15 minutes and then delete forever.I can't remember the last time I spent more than 30 minutes with a single game. Send help.
1. sometimes I want to play a game
2. sometimes I don't want to pay for that game
3. so sometimes I pirate it and play it
4. some people think that's wrong, but I just don't really care one way or another
there we go, that's the entire thought process. I don't need to justify it to myself or anyone else because I don't care to.
I don't always pirate, but when I do, I don't give a shit.
Because I want to obtain something for the lowest price possible. This is why I buy games on sale, and pirate them if they're cheapest on a torrent site.
>>320358148
As a patent attorney, no.
As a consumer, if I'm not going to buy the game anyway, there's no actual harm done, so yes.
>>320358148
There's no need to justify anything. Market research shows that "piracy" actually enhances sales in the entertainment industry.
The very same research shows that publishers would actually make bigger net profits if they sold their games at a lower price point.
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What is there to justify? I just refuse to pay for games
>>320358148
I don't, I'm an asshole for doing it.
>>320358148
I want new shit and don't want to pay for it, isn't that the only justification I need?
I can't pirate new console games and that shit is overpriced as hell, so pirating all the Pc stuff I can and emulating older console stuff balances out the jewiness of current console games.
>>320359628
>if they sold their games at a lower price point
All I can read here is "another shoah".
By not caring.
>>320358148
I pirate and play pc version and buy console version instead.
>>320359510
Find a game that's a notorious time sink and just roll with it. There's plenty of F2P shit out there that does this pretty well with no financial commitment.
>>320358148
developers who lie, cheat and false advertise deserve no money from me for their shit game
Why bother justifying it?
It's wrong, I do it anyway. You do it too.
SCOOL
>>320358148
Im poor and cant afford it
Already spend all my saving on 4chan machine
I don't need to justify, I just do it
>>320359720
ps4 was jailbroken last week dude.
>>320359750
What exactly are you implying?
>>320359706
To elaborate, it is wrong. You're not sticking it to the man or anything noble. You're ultimately taking the hard work of many many people for notion. I don't give a fuck about the publisher's profits, even though I should because I dictates whether or not the games I enjoy get sequels.
Monetary barriers to culture are a dumb thing.
>>320358148
It's easy
>>320358856
The developers seldomly get paid for a sale at all.
>>320359901
pirating a game has the same impact on sales as watching a movie at a friends house.
>>320359895
dont bother with him, is a jew accusing others of being jewish.
Typical jew.
>>320358148
>devs are dead so buying the game they made won't go to them
>testing the game whether it will run on toasters
>not enough money to buy game in the first place
>not giving a fuck
>>320359818
>Games bore me to death, help me!
>Get and even more notoriously-boring-but-stuffed-with-copy-paste-busywork-game.
>>320358845
>implying you ever end up paying for it
Also, demos exist for trying the game first.
>>320358148
Triple a games aren't fun and i only play them for 3 hours.
>>320359218
/thread
>>320358148
You don't
You just get free games
/thread
>>320358148
Sometimes I want to play a game but I don't want to pay for it, so I pirate it so that I can play it without having to pay for it.
Justify?
No.
Do I still do it?
Sure.
>>320360102
Demos barely exist anymore though.
>>320359980
There is no direct evidence that piracy influences sales at all, that's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that it's wrong because you're undermining the work that went into it.
>justify
fuck you i want free shit that is my justification faggot
I'll buy it if I like it :^)
>>320358148
I'm a special snowflake and I should get everything I want for free.
>buy game
>play for a couple hours, never pick it up again
>rinse repeat for years
ENOUGH. i'm done paying for games
I don't pirate. For..gosh, must be close to 10 years now.
It's called knowing what I get into and having a job to pay for shit.
>>320359628
The PSP sold millions of hardware because of piracy. You could say the PSP was successful because of it.
>>320360225
There are a surprising number of demos on Steam. It's just not obvious that they're there a lot of the time.
Just about every pre-2007 title I pirated has not a single bit of the staff that made the game left.
In the case of Konami, just about every shred of talent that isn't arcade or pachinko related is dead.
>>320359997
My point was that everybody would be better off if the publishers and retailers were more consumer friendly. For example only a handful of them even have a return policy at all. And even they're a very recent development.
>>320358148
>"I am superior to those filthy pirates out there because I support the industry:^)"
>only buys 3 years old games that are under $5 on steam
>only ever plays assfaggots and CS
>>320358148
>paying for shit you can easily get for free with 0 chance of being caught by the law
Very very smart. I applaud your intelligence.
I usually buy it if it's a fanservice game. But if it's censored, you can forget about me paying a single penny.
>>320360318
this is your own fault
why is it always the anime posters that are complete fuckwits?
>>320358148
I don't have to justify it.
>>320360246
Misquoted
>>320359980
was for >>320358148
>>320360067
He'll either bridge the gap until something he's interested in releases or he'll enjoy himself. Taking /v/'s opinion on anything related to video games is dumb either way.
>>320358148
I bought every game that I liked after pirating it. Which is not many but still...
>>320358148
I only pirate when it's easier.
Netflix sucks in my country, so I pirate TV shows.
Anime is inaccessible outside of Japan, or would force me to wait for weeks/years to get an official release, so I pirate.
I used to pirate games, but then Steam got good, and I also have a few Playstation consoles, so I buy games for them.
Same goes for music. Spotify is pretty decent, so I stopped pirating music. I still pirate weeb music though, because it's not accessible.
I strongly believe that accessibility reduces piracy more than lawsuits.
Jews
>>320360386
>if the publishers and retailers were more consumer friendly
>were more consumer friendly
>consumer friendly
>another shoah
It keeps happening.
>>320360564
Yes, reasonably priced quality services that provide content will beat piracy. The problem is publishers don't know how to monetise that properly yet, so they aren't doing shit.
>>320358148
I live in Australia and companies try to charge me a ghetto tax on digital goods. Pirating the software is my way of protesting the practice.
>>320358148
>buy 20$ Frozen cortex
>game multiplayer is dead within months
>buy 60$ BF3
>EA announced BF4 just few days after i bought it
>buy TF2 for 20$
>few weeks later it went F2P un announced
>buy Arma Dayz because hype
>barely play it for few hours
fuck legal gaming, i have been screwed too much with shady practice
>>320360585
Still not seeing the link here. I'm assuming you've drank a little to much of the /pol/aid and think anything talking about making money is part of some Jewish conspiracy.
The games I pirate are no longer actively beong produced. At worst I'm taking a sale away from gamestop or something. If I like it and find it somewhere I'll more than likely buy ot anyways
It's a constant escalation, not just from the pirates, but from the rights holders as well.
The copyright trolls have successfully infested our tax system and they are now welfare leeches.
They also encourage our governments to take freedoms away from our internet access, more surveillance.
So if you think it's only the pirates who are bad, you're delusional.
>>320360739
I'm saying that the industry is currently too big to sink, and the suits up top aren't convinced of "consumer friendly" practices being effective for making money. In fact, most of them would see the lowering of prices as a sign of defeat or hard times (reinforced by the consumers; just look at the public/press reaction to console price drops).
To them, it IS another shoah - something of an entirely fictional boogeyman that nonetheless drives sleep from their eyes each night.
>>320360730
That's only because you're stupid, quite obviously.
>>320360582
/thread unironically
Don't be a cuck who supports a jew dominated industry.
>paying money for 1s and 0s
Is it a meme?
>>320360941
>tfw I'll only be able to buy 3 yachts this year for my kids as birthday presents.
it's truly the end times for us hard working executives.
Because for some reason demos are barely done anymore.
>>320360941
The "suits" up top are mortal and will eventually retire and be replaced.
And no industry is too big to fail.
>>320361025
Seriously, I've been Jewed enough in life. At the very least I can say it isn't in the video game department. Don't care if I can't play the latest piece of shit that will be dead online 4 months later. There's so much vidya from the past that we can play for years to come without getting bored.
>>320358148
sharing
I treat it as a demo, or I only pirate old ass games. I bought hotline miami 1 because I enjoyed the pirated game, I didn't buy 2
>>320361097
/pol/ here, how dare you insult our glorious capitalist overlords. This literally IS like unadda shoa- err I mean gas the kikes! Yeah, that's right... we're on your side guys, ha ha.
>>320361025
Jews, Arabs or Chinks. Pick your poison because they run everything.
>>320358148
When I already paid for the game but lost the disc/ disc won't read / won't install for some reason / crashes all the time, then I'm getting a fixed version on the interwebz.
Or if I'd be forced to install shitty software to play it.
>>320361465
All equally screw us financially. Seriously, they''re fucking terrible over here in Japan.
Old games that don't have a reasonable avenue of purchase, are now freeware or have been long abandoned are fine to pirate.
I don't pirate 'new' games, but I don't really care either way.
Pirating games that don't have a reasonable demo available is fine too, so long as you only play for a 'reasonable' amount of time, and delete it after. Playing for 10 hours and then saying 'I don't like this game' isn't okay. Playing for about an hour however is.
I don't. I acknowledge that it's an indefensible act but just do it anyway because I'm not a faggot.
Stop trying to justify it and just admit you're a cheapskate like me that wants free games you pussy.
>>320358148
Fuck you, that's how.
>>320358148
What is there to justify? a niggah wants to share a copy of his game through internet with his friend so he puts a link to a digital disc so they can download it and creates a program that allows them to play it without keys or physical disc.
It's just this little thing that any other person that may see the link is able to download it too, but that's just a detail.
Steam charges Australians in USD, that's enough to make me want to kill everyone within a ten mile radius.
>>320358148
>benefits me
>capable of it
>almost zero chance of consequences
>>320358148
>PC can't rent
>can't legally try before buy
>can't return if game is not liked
>thus piracy exists
I'm not coughing up $60 for a piece of shit game I'll never play again. I'll download a pirated version. If I like it, I'll buy it. If not, delete it.
>>320365773
Stuff like that would drive anyone to piracy.
People like free stuff?
I'm a mature adult who always pays $59.99 day 0
>>320358148
Did you pay for that stock image, OP?
I pirate games I wouldn't have paid for and in most cases, wind up getting rid of or playing just once because their trash.
Shit like FNaF, Undertale and that kind of stuff.
The only relatively new game I pirated that I would have paid for is Sonic Generations.
When it comes to old games I honestly see nothing wrong with piracy. They had their time, they made most of their profit and that's it. In most cases the game would only be obtainable by buying it online so I'm not taking any potential profit.
If they game is available via an online store I'm not paying companies for an official emulator that's outclassed by fanmade ones with more options.
Im poor and my money is worth more than video games.
What is the difference between buying a shitty game, playing it for a little then returning it for full price and pirating a game before uninstalling it for the same reason?
Game devs are shit and I don't care if they starve
Fuck devs and their false advertising and premises.
I always pirate a game before I buy them, check them for a while if it worth.
If I like it I am buying it or uninstalling.
ITT Being this poor and young
Enjoy your holidays kids lol
