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SvennoJ on 24 April 2017
Ruler said:

In my opinion emulating is okay, but so is pirating modern games like on your PC etc. depending of your financial situation, espacially if you are not living in a first world country. The only thing that bugs me is if people bash you for actually doing the legal thing, calling it a waste of money if you buy the original hardware and games on console.

To protect your basic human right to be entertained any way you deem fit? :)

If you can afford the hardware you can afford the games. If you have the time to play the games, you have time to find a job! It's all a bunch of poor excuses. Yet I've been in that situation too where it was considered a waste of money to pay for games. Piracy devalued the games completely and paying 80 Guilders for a game seemed ludicrous at the time. Escpecially when consuming over a dozen pirated games a week.

There are plenty cheap and free to play games, blaming your financial situation doesn't fly anymore. Although maybe you buy bootleg versions of the streetcorner to play on a 15 year old windows 98 machine and could afford a few minutes in that internet cafe in the main town 20 miles over to make this comment :)



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Barozi on 24 April 2017
SvennoJ said:
Barozi said:

I'd say it depends entirely on the country.
In Germany, you're not only entitled to make a copy for yourself, but also a copy for up to 7 close people (family and friends)  if there's no kind of DRM involved.
Though it's not allowed to download a copy from the internet. It must be a copy from your own CD/DVD/cartridge/file.

About PCSX 2 though, since when does it require a DVD? An image of the game used to be enough and I don't think that has changed.

My bad, I'm still too trusting :/ I thought pscx 2 required game discs yet it seems to support ripped versions too.

This form of emulation is still shut down regularly
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-24-red-dead-redemption-gta5-mod-shut-down-after-three-year-development

At least on older versions of PCSX 2, there was no point in playing the PS2 discs from your drive as that would negatively impact your framerate by quite a bit. Also I remember PCSX 2 (or one of its plug-ins)having a feature to rip your PS2 discs without having to use a different program. If that isn't facilitating piracy, I don't know what is lol



dgboweniii on 24 April 2017

I do a lot of emulating, of all platforms. However, I have supported the heck out of every console generation since the NES. Why mess with holding on to old hardware when you can boot up an emulator in a few seconds?



CladInShadows on 24 April 2017
Ruler said:

In my opinion emulating is okay, but so is pirating modern games like on your PC etc. depending of your financial situation, espacially if you are not living in a first world country.

Uh no.



CladInShadows on 24 April 2017
SvennoJ said:

This form of emulation is still shut down regularly
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-04-24-red-dead-redemption-gta5-mod-shut-down-after-three-year-development

That's not really emulation, though.



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Cloudman on 24 April 2017
archer9234 said:
Cloudman said:
Well, I feel it's at least better if you've at least bought the software yourself before.

Becareful with that wording. That opens up people trying to download a game for another platform. Than the one they purchased it on.

Yeah, personally I wouldn't use any emulations myself, but some people will still do it anyways.



 

              

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VGPolyglot on 24 April 2017

I don't know what's up with me, but the last few times I've read the title I keep thinking that it says emasculating!



Ruler on 24 April 2017
CladInShadows said:
Ruler said:

In my opinion emulating is okay, but so is pirating modern games like on your PC etc. depending of your financial situation, espacially if you are not living in a first world country.

Uh no.

which one no?



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AsGryffynn on 24 April 2017

Yes, provided the console lacks support. Since often emulators will only drop by the time the console is nearing it's life cycle, it's almost always a given that people who emulate couldn't buy it if they wanted to.



Ruler on 24 April 2017
SvennoJ said:
Ruler said:

In my opinion emulating is okay, but so is pirating modern games like on your PC etc. depending of your financial situation, espacially if you are not living in a first world country. The only thing that bugs me is if people bash you for actually doing the legal thing, calling it a waste of money if you buy the original hardware and games on console.

To protect your basic human right to be entertained any way you deem fit? :)

If you can afford the hardware you can afford the games. If you have the time to play the games, you have time to find a job! It's all a bunch of poor excuses. Yet I've been in that situation too where it was considered a waste of money to pay for games. Piracy devalued the games completely and paying 80 Guilders for a game seemed ludicrous at the time. Escpecially when consuming over a dozen pirated games a week.

There are plenty cheap and free to play games, blaming your financial situation doesn't fly anymore. Although maybe you buy bootleg versions of the streetcorner to play on a 15 year old windows 98 machine and could afford a few minutes in that internet cafe in the main town 20 miles over to make this comment :)

Would you consider pirating this as a poor excuse, for example? http://www.ebay.com/itm/PANZER-DRAGOON-SAGA-SEGA-SATURN-MINT-CONDITION-COMPLETE-/232248724889?hash=item36131a4d99:g:nbsAAOSw2gxYrRlt

What seems affortable to you maybe isnt for someone else. It applies to modern games just as much.



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(2015) Question for PS4 owners: if the situation would be reverse? would you still play on PS4?

(2015) The "I don't care PS4 is the most powerful console" thread