An Article on Piracy

[tpex]

I think a huge problem some people have with casual gamers is for example (sorry to bring this up) when Activision decided on IW.net and no dedicated severs, they didn't worry about the 500000000 signatures (I think it was) probably from what people whould define as hardcore gamers, because they knew the where millions of "casual gamers" on all platforms who didn't even know about this, now because there are millions of "casual gamers" Companys don't have to worry about doing badly when they do something stupid that the masses with just lap up anyway, its the same with the music industry

[Azimuth]

Thats a good example. It not the clutering itself so much that bothers me. It's the fact that you build your house right in the middle of my view, in a spot where you would get a much better one, but than you build the house in such a way that you don't enjoy it yourself.

The "Casuals" as I lable them simply because there is no better word, don't deserve the games they get because they don't apreciate them. And remeber, my definition of a casual gamer is probably alot lower status than any of yours.

You still haven't answered my question: why do you deserve to play the games you pirate? I mean, it's not like you appreciate them or anything.

[Necuno]

You still haven't answered my question: why do you deserve to play the games you pirate? I mean, it's not like you appreciate them or anything.

its there for his leisure to pass time till next one comes he really wants to buy

[Voicy]

I agree with the opinion in the article. Really straight forward and the way most of us did it.

I was into piracy simply because you couldn't afford and/or find any place that would sell Police Quest, Space Quest, Black Cauldron, Accolade's Grand Prix, Cal-games, Rise of the Triad, Prince of Persia, Montezuma's revenge and whatnot...

I now take pride in my original gaming collection and enjoy adding new titles to it when I can afford it.

The first title I bought legit was Day of the Tentacle - and enjoyed buying originals ever since. (Azimuth, you'll be pleasantly surprised to know that Gradius's epic collection of original games back in high school inspired me even further to get originals.) However, if you think about it, most of us bought originals way before we started pirating anyway - back when we all had our nintendo golden chinas with the 24-in-1's and mario and ice climber and double dragon and zippy race and so on...we had huge collections and even back then games cost us R100 each...so what changed?

I'm mostly into console gaming now on an unchipped xbox and enjoy it immensely. As for PC, I bought dragon Age Origins on pc and have only played about 30mins of it in total. Why? Because I trust Bioware and would like to support them. Modern Warfare on the other hand, i did pirate to play the single player campaign...my justification being that I have no intention of playing the multiplayer aspect of the game, which I believe to be the main focus of the game, but this does not give me any right or excuse for doing so.

On the fence-sitter part of things, I have played a bunch of pirated games on PC, but I have legit xbox copies of them...and I don't think it's piracy if you have a copy of a game but a pirated copy for a different platform. Since I see it as being similar to buying a music cd for your car/hifi, but then converting it to MP3 to play on your IPOD. Different platform and product software, but you paid for it. On that note, I enjoyed the Need For Speed titles on PC - most of them I pirated, but I now have pleasure in buying the xbox360 version of those titles (yes all of them - though some are xbox1)

Anyway, that's my rant on it.

[Gradius]

I'm being positive about my post.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o
Anti-Piracy! WOoo HOO n stuff

@voicy, why thank you.
@RG, i would tell you to stop trying to prove your point. but you'll just get told your opinion doesn't matter
@Nec. lol @ answer bra

[Azimuth]

On the fence-sitter part of things, I have played a bunch of pirated games on PC, but I have legit xbox copies of them...and I don't think it's piracy if you have a copy of a game but a pirated copy for a different platform. Since I see it as being similar to buying a music cd for your car/hifi, but then converting it to MP3 to play on your IPOD. Different platform and product software, but you paid for it. On that note, I enjoyed the Need For Speed titles on PC - most of them I pirated, but I now have pleasure in buying the xbox360 version of those titles (yes all of them - though some are xbox1)

I have a couple of friends who do the same thing, and on the same basis. It's not an altogether illegitimate position, I think, but I wouldn't do it myself. Partly because I'm just too scrupulous, I guess, but mostly because downloading pirated software means giving the people who make it available a reason for doing so. If that makes sense. I mean, it's basically perpetuating the cycle by being an active part of it.

I'm not sure that the comparison with mp3 conversion is a particularly good one, though. If you look at an application like iTunes, for example, the mp3 conversion from CD functionality for iPod is built in by the vendor itself. I'm not sure that this is (still) considered piracy or illegal duplication (i.e. that the buyer of a CD is entitled to conversion for their own private use; comparable with the legal "backup" loophole exploited by pirated software sellers). Not that I'm trying to start an argument, of course, I just think that is perhaps worth pointing out.

Also, Day of the Tentacle is an awesome game.