Pyrian said:
Aren't the arguments that (A) the evil megacorps must be opposed and (B) that piracy is good for the product, contradictory stances? Clearly you must oppose the evil megacorps by not pirating their games! Anything else just feeds into their lust for gold.
I had little sympathy for software piracy in the past and none whatsoever anymore. Times have changed. The amount of free content is overwhelming. Nobody has any excuse to grub up what they're unwilling to contribute for. Don't want to support the evil megacorps? Then don't play their games. You'll never hurt for new things to play. It won't necessarily be the latest and greatest - although in most cases one or the other is available - but it's not like there's nothing worth playing.
As someone who made arguments defending piracy to a degree, I don't think I ever touched upon "megacorps". I do also only buy games from the devs whom I like. Thing is, whether a "megacorp" makes a game I love or not is my main criteria for whether I like them or not. So, for example, I do indeed not play any activision blizzard games, cause they don't make any games I find interesting. As for EA, I like Dragon Age, quite a bit, but that's kinda it. I never had much of a thing for their other offerings. The main evil corporation I'd not wanna support is Gamestop lol.
Pirating a game instead of buying it when you very well can buy it and the game is a game you'd genuinely love to play, just to stick it to the corporation and not because you actually have some form of reason to pirate it, is indeed nonsense and hypocrisy, I'll gladly join hands with you to condemn it. The type of piracy I had in mind was the one done to fix games who are being sold to us in some form of wrong state, like the USA version of Tokyo Mirage Sessions.
There's a patch for that game that reverts it to its original form with all the cut content (and pelvic bones) added back to the game (basically if you don't know about this case, the game is like persona with regards to dungeons and it had an entire dungeon that had elements of Japanese gravure modeling photoshoots and that entire dungeon as well as a bunch of smaller things were removed completely or altered significantly). This is significant because the wii U was region-locked so if someone did actually speak Japanese, they'd still need to import a second Japanese Wii U on top to be able to experience this content. They also added subs to the patched pirated version of Mirage Sessions for the people who don't speak Japanese which made that version the definitive USA version of the game.
