Poll: Your feelings of game pirating.
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I honestly do not have the money to buy games, movies, or music. On the very rare occasion I do I will go out and buy a new game. But frankly they're expensive, far too expensive. I have no source of income whatsoever. Any money I do receive is usually a gift from friends or family.
Now a person might say "You have no money? While isn't that just too bad. You could just go without the games." That may be true. I could go without them. However I can not work and do not have any source of in come. If I chose to "go without" as it were I'd /never/ get them at all. EVER. The developers, producers, etc would still never receive any money from me.
Now anyone who knows me might also say "But Xana, you play World of Warcraft don't you?" I do. And as everyone knows it costs $15 a month... I don't pay that. My friends and family do. Again Blizzard doesn't receive any money from me but from my friends and family instead.
So of course I pirate a PC game, an old SNES ROM, or some ancient computer game no longer sold anywhere... Because I'd never really be able to buy it they never honestly lost any money (from me). Does that make what I do any less "wrong"? No I suppose not... But it does justify it to a degree.
Now a person might say "You have no money? While isn't that just too bad. You could just go without the games." That may be true. I could go without them. However I can not work and do not have any source of in come. If I chose to "go without" as it were I'd /never/ get them at all. EVER. The developers, producers, etc would still never receive any money from me.
Now anyone who knows me might also say "But Xana, you play World of Warcraft don't you?" I do. And as everyone knows it costs $15 a month... I don't pay that. My friends and family do. Again Blizzard doesn't receive any money from me but from my friends and family instead.
So of course I pirate a PC game, an old SNES ROM, or some ancient computer game no longer sold anywhere... Because I'd never really be able to buy it they never honestly lost any money (from me). Does that make what I do any less "wrong"? No I suppose not... But it does justify it to a degree.
What do you mean you can't work? Sorry to say, but that sounds like a weak excuse to me. If you have the capability to post on a forum, you have the capability to get some kind of job, in my opinion...Xanadeas said:
If you absolutely can't work, then I'm assuming you're probably waiting on a Disability Hearing. Which translates into "Good luck, I hope it works out for you."
Because actually getting the hearing is just about the most impossible thing in the world.
Because actually getting the hearing is just about the most impossible thing in the world.
You realise that the music and film industry have been more lucrative in the last decade than ever recorded? In one of the worst economic downturns scince the great depression, look at Avatar highest grossing film of all time netting over 2.4 BILLION released just over what a month ago? Or the games industry, which in the last few years has also grown exponentialy the wii renovating the market with new untaped target audiances, giants like activision-blizzard, EA buying out and renovating old developers.kampori said:
Bring proof to the table or just wallow in a hole of speculation you're call evidence points to the industries being far from "dead"
It's a touchy subject for me. I've done and occasionally still do it if I can't seem to find the game around town. Really, my issue with it comes from the EULA we all agree to when we buy a game that says, basically, "you don't own this."
I'm just not ok with that. As far as I'm concerned if I buy something, I own it and can do what I please with it, but apparently I cannot. I don't torrent even close to as much as I used to (perhaps one game every few months now) and I would never consider torrenting a small, indie game that needs to sell well. Actually, that's not entirely true, I did pirate torchlight but immediately fell in love with it and bought it.
I'm just not ok with that. As far as I'm concerned if I buy something, I own it and can do what I please with it, but apparently I cannot. I don't torrent even close to as much as I used to (perhaps one game every few months now) and I would never consider torrenting a small, indie game that needs to sell well. Actually, that's not entirely true, I did pirate torchlight but immediately fell in love with it and bought it.
I mean I can not physically go out to say a store, restaurant, office, or other such place because I have a growing number of health problems that limit my ability to do so. In all technicality I could probably work from home... However I know of no such jobs that would allow me to do so and still work around a very unusual schedule that I am forced to keep.Flare Phoenix said:
As far as games are concerned, I voted no because it best represents my 'feelings' towards game piracy. As long as the games I want are available to me legally, I won't pirate a copy. Games aren't so expensive that buying them is a financial hardship, nor so important that I feel I must steal what I can't afford at the time.
That said, I have on occasion downloaded emulators and ROMs for games that simply don't exist any more.
That said, I have on occasion downloaded emulators and ROMs for games that simply don't exist any more.
*cough*Inflation*cough*Nmil-ek said:
EDIT: Whoops, wrong chart. Worldwide inflation-adjusted figures are not available.
But also, tickets to Avatar cost 33-100% as much as the average film history, so, yeah, their gross figures are going to skyrocket.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2667&p=l.htm
I've only ever downloaded old n64 games I already owned, and I see no problem with that, since I've already supported them. Pirating new games is something I'd never do though, I'd just wait for it to get cheap or something.
I hate this constant argument that gaming is an expensive hobby. No it isn't. It costs me 50 dollars every time I want to go to the firing range and that's for a one time use of ammunition. A game you can keep for a much longer period.
Pirating is just videogame natural selection.
You make good games, people buy them, you make money, make more games...
You make bad games, people pirate them rather than spend money on them, you don't make money, go work at McDonalds.
You make good games, people buy them, you make money, make more games...
You make bad games, people pirate them rather than spend money on them, you don't make money, go work at McDonalds.
You are likely correct with advertisements paying, in addition Youtube has evaded any legality issues because it is their stand people are uploading their own music by however means acquired and they cannot control who happens to click upon the link. It is incredibly difficult to prevent music pirating in comparison to video games.Valiance said:
Only If the game isn't out anymore, but if that company releases the game as a remake or the original on Seam you owe them money.
I've had warnings about piracy mailed to me before (GTA IV and Fallout 3, and only because they were censored in Australia), so nowadays I buy most of my games though steam, and have only pirated a couple of older games such as GTA II, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and a few others from the late 90's/early 2000's I can't remember.
Is downloading TV shows considered pirating? I downloaded Top Gear because they cut down the Australian version to fit more Ad breaks in and I wanted to see the full show.
Is downloading TV shows considered pirating? I downloaded Top Gear because they cut down the Australian version to fit more Ad breaks in and I wanted to see the full show.
