Piracy in the gaming industry: Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?

[larch]

And the gray shade with piracy is the "Stealing" of games is to teach a lession to these dumb quaks that they should stop being greedy idiots.

The Greedy and the Dumb deserve nothing.

Do you rape woman who dress in provocative ways to "teach" them a lesson? I bet you that you wont walk into a store and shop lift anything from the display. Why because piracy is anonymous its easy, in the end you cant justify morally or by the law itself that taking anything without payment is not stealing. But keep telling yourself that you aren't stealing, in the end it is people like you who are the main cause of the PC gaming industry woes.

[Azimuth]

And the gray shade with piracy is the "Stealing" of games is to teach a lession to these dumb quaks that they should stop being greedy idiots.

The Greedy and the Dumb deserve nothing.

"Greedy" like people who just help themselves to stuff without paying for it? You're such a hypocrite.

You - you more than anyone else - do not deserve to play games. You're a selfish, presumptuous, self-important, greedy little brat.

[Strifehart]

Pirates are a gazillion times more greedy than the so-called "greedy" corporations.

[Raven Gold]

Lets put it in examples. Recent wounds that need a little more salt.

Moder Warfare 2. A game RUINED by greed. They took away everything that made Call of Duty what it was. They don't deserve a single penny for what they did.

And now the one that spawned this topic in the 1st place.

Assassins Creed 2. The dumbest choice they could have ever made. Id doesn;t help to protect yourstuff if you're going to be retarded about it. They shouldn't get anything back because of that.

I'm not greedy. I just support the games that are made the best. The ones that have the player in 1st mind, not the publisher's bank accounts. And you know what might just happen if more people did that? I know it's too logical too understand, but we MIGHT just get more games that are better. I know! It blows the mind doesn't it?

[Strifehart]

How has Modern Warfare 2 been ruined?

No matter what time of the day I sign in there are a crapload of people playing the game. Be it on Live or on the PSN. Surely it cannot be "ruined" if a crapload of people are still playing the game.

I really dislike resorting to picture retorts, but this pretty much sums it up :

[Azimuth]

Lets put it in examples. Recent wounds that need a little more salt.

Moder Warfare 2. A game RUINED by greed. They took away everything that made Call of Duty what it was. They don't deserve a single penny for what they did.

And now the one that spawned this topic in the 1st place.

Assassins Creed 2. The dumbest choice they could have ever made. Id doesn;t help to protect yourstuff if you're going to be retarded about it. They shouldn't get anything back because of that.

I'm not greedy. I just support the games that are made the best. The ones that have the player in 1st mind, not the publisher's bank accounts. And you know what might just happen if more people did that? I know it's too logical too understand, but we MIGHT just get more games that are better. I know! It blows the mind doesn't it?

You're a selfish, presumptuous, self-important, greedy little brat.

No matter what time of the day I sign in there are a crapload of people playing the game. Be it on Live or on the PSN. Surely it cannot be "ruined" if a crapload of people are still playing the game.

Oh, didn't you get the memo, Strifeheart? Only casual gamers with no standards play MW2.

If my eyes roll any harder, they're going to roll away.

[Strifehart]

I'm not greedy. I just support the games that are made the best. The ones that have the player in 1st mind, not the publisher's bank accounts. And you know what might just happen if more people did that? I know it's too logical too understand, but we MIGHT just get more games that are better. I know! It blows the mind doesn't it?

That's cute. It's fine to vote with your wallet. But resorting to pirating the game and essentially getting the experience for "free" isn't really helping your cause.

If you want to make this "stand", then here's a tip : Don't buy the game and don't play it. Simple.

I find it f***ing amusing that PC gamers are bitching about game prices. Your games are half the price of those on consoles. If you forked out less cash on your state of the art video cards and goddamn pimped out "rigs" you might actually have some money available to buy games.

You are just a cheap, selfish, presumptuous, self-important, greedy little brat.

You aren't a gamer if you pirate.

[Isengard]

That's cute. It's fine to vote with your wallet. But resorting to pirating the game and essentially getting the experience for "free" isn't really helping your cause.

If you want to make this "stand", then here's a tip : Don't buy the game and don't play it. Simple.

I find it f***ing amusing that PC gamers are bitching about game prices. Your games are half the price of those on consoles. If you forked out less cash on your state of the art video cards and goddamn pimped out "rigs" you might actually have some money available to buy games.

You are just a cheap, selfish, presumptuous, self-important, greedy little brat.

You aren't a gamer if you pirate.

You're generalizing a little there. PC games are most definitely not half the price, they are typically 30% cheaper than on console and considering they don't have to pay royalties for PC games it makes sense. However there are quite a few that are even more expensive, like MW2 and Dark Void, that cost R500 a piece, not exactly a huge saving if you ask me. I hardly see PC gamers complain about the R400 price tag, it's quite a pair price, but when we complain about R500 we have valid complaints, simple.

[Strifehart]

You're generalizing a little there. PC games are most definitely not half the price, they are typically only R200 cheaper than on console R400 PC vs R600 console. However there are quite a few that are even more expensive, like MW2 and Dark Void, that cost R500 a piece, not exactly a huge saving if you ask me. I hardly see PC gamers complain about the R400 price tag, it's quite a pair price, but when we complain about R500 we have valid complaints, simple.

So you're essentially looking the gift horse (in the mouth) that you get 90% of the time and bitch about the 10% of the time some random distributor pushes the price up?

If you are not happy with the price, don't make the purchase. Don't play the game. Simple. No one is forcing you to buy it or even play it. It's not like you need to play the game in order to survive or something. It's a damn hobby.

Jeez. Start you might have the right to moan a bit if you where ever faced with a R800 price tag of a standard edition game.

[Necuno]

there goes a lot of effort and time into making a game; art, music, video and actual programming. been thinking about how much should a developing house charge for a title to return their budget spent in creating it. one of the questions then would be how much should i pay per hour being entertained by the game ? R45 like a short movie ?

I find it f***ing amusing that PC gamers are bitching about game prices. Your games are half the price of those on consoles.

point is that raven is like the other fools in south africa feels they deserve for free what they should have work and paid for. you going to have a lank time convincing someone like him/her/it to the proper etiquette.

some of us mature along the way and see our faults in just pirating and that 'ceaser' should have his coin if you are going to visit the entertainment- in the end of they are taking someone else's well earnt sweat from their brow with their retardnessness.

they are the true killers of creativity.