Is is wrong to pirate games during a time of war?
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.... !!!! Take that back! or better yet, give me all of your Square Enix games!!!!! i loves me some Square Enix.
LOL made my day ^^Katana314 said:
also, it's not just right to pirate games of the opposing nation, it's MANDATORY - or should be, at least - for every patriotic gamer, and there should be severe punishment (see your nation's penal laws for further information) for actually buying these games, as that is high treason (supporting the enemy? son of a...!)
Um... I know this makes me unpopular but I believe it's wrong to pirate games because artists and programmers have a right to make money off their intellectual property.thaluikhain said:
The one case where I can see bending my stance on this is for games no longer in production, like old Commodore 64 games - sometimes piracy is the only way to GET some of this IP.
i don't think it really matters what country a game is from. if it's good, then you should play it. and besides, if you buy another country's game, then you're not saying that their games are better, just that they're good. still, the last good FF (in my opinion)was IX. X was okay, good gameplay, but bad story and characters, but X-2 was an abomination and XII was medeocre at best. i haven't played XIII, but i don't hold much hope and definately not for XIII-2 which i've heard rumours of. XIV isn't even worth discussing.Dr. McD said:
here's hoping people come to their senses soon.
Please allow me to answer your question with another question. Are you personally responsible for your government's actions? Didn't think so, so why hold a video game company responsible for theirs? The people there work just as hard to make a video game as the developers in other countries. Honestly the only time I can justify downloading a game you don't own is if the game is so old that it is completely out of print and can't be found in stores.
Can we end these topics. Lets get this straight:
1. Pirating is always a crime.
2. Pirates are not out there to eat your kids.
I hate how escapist has this trend of looking at pirating with wide eyes, like it's some big black monster in the corner of the room. Pirates, me including, most likely don't have money to buy games, often they don't even have a way to buy (game digital distribution is surprisingly accessible to me, so I use steam on occasion), but if I want to buy movies/music/books often importing is the only option and that is expensive (how can anyone be surprised of pirating, when the price is highest in lowest income areas, is beyond me).
1. Pirating is always a crime.
2. Pirates are not out there to eat your kids.
I hate how escapist has this trend of looking at pirating with wide eyes, like it's some big black monster in the corner of the room. Pirates, me including, most likely don't have money to buy games, often they don't even have a way to buy (game digital distribution is surprisingly accessible to me, so I use steam on occasion), but if I want to buy movies/music/books often importing is the only option and that is expensive (how can anyone be surprised of pirating, when the price is highest in lowest income areas, is beyond me).
That was... a pretty brilliant, I would say. ^_^thaluikhain said:
Those taking the default 'piracy-is-bad-at-all-times'... for Cthulhu's sake, people kill each other at times of war and decimate entire civilizations. Like anyone would adhere to (relatively) petty moralities of copyright laws at such desperate times.
The video game industries support their respective governments through taxation, and a warring nation will try to hurt its opponent through any means necessary.
DISCLAIMER: Not promoting piracy here.
Anyone remember the trade sanctions against Iraq and how they weren't allowed to import PS2s from Japan because they are powerful enough to be reprogrammed into military computer for missile launch centers, etc? Hell, if you're actually in the center of "real" war (as in, on the bad side of it), and you can get stuff like this on the black market, then no super-morality of international copyright law can possibly justify itself in the face of thousands of people starving to death and being denied medical care because some rich ____ is fighting with some other rich _____ somewhere else in the world. The lack of existence of morality behind copyrights in the face of war is absolute bull, and elitists who don't experience war should try living under extreme conditions before they criticize the victims for such a non-offense. What doesn't kill people... doesn't kill people.