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twesterm on 09 August 2008
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WessleWoggle said:
twesterm said:
WessleWoggle said:
twesterm said:
WessleWoggle said:
Dude, nothing is wrong with being a pirate. They charge way too much for the games. Well, people have different morals.

For me it's the game, not how I get it.

 

You're right, you're only taking money away from the people who put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into the game to bring you the very game you're stealing. But I'm sure you think they all lead rockstar lives, right?

Why do you think you're special enough to get the game for free why everyone pays? Why do you think you're special enough to steal the game and take away from the people who brought it to you?

Just curious, what lame excuse do you use to justify being a thief? Actually, it really doesn't matter since each one is as bullshit as the next. In the end you only do it because you're too cheap to actually pay for it and you're just being a selfish jerk.

 

Why do I think I'm speical enough to get a game free that everyone pays for? Because I'm smart enough to know how. :^)

My justification is not a lame excuse, it's not like I'm taking a peice of bread from a starving man. I'm taking away potential dollars away from people who don't need the money as much as I do, but those people have no right to complain, since they obviously live well to the world standard. There in the modern world making video games.

 

 

You're smart enough to know how? You mean you know how to use Google? Way to go chuckles. I'm still at pointing but you must be a damn genius to grasp clicking.

And I hate to break it to you but game developers do not live like rockstars. Programmers get paid about as well as other programmers do (which is good, but nothing too special), artist get paid slightly worse but still liveable and designers get paid even less. That $60 you pay (well, everyone else) is spread very thin.

So yes, you have yet another lame excuse. The people that make those games are actually working for their money, you're being a little snot on the internet who thinks they're clever. When you work 60 hour weeks on a slow week come back and tell me you deserve the game for free.

I don't think I'm clever, I just use what resources are available to me. I AM smart enough to use google, and I often wonder why other people AREN'T smart enough to use it. I wasn't implying I'm smart or clever, just smart enough.

Video game programmers aren't starving in some dirt because I didn't pay money for their game. It's not doing anything to their very high standard of living. They'd be happy to be ripped off of their games after living in a third world country.

You, need to think on a broader scale and stop thinking like a drone. (in retrospect this statrement may be too harsh)

The love of money is the root of all evil. (this probably has nothing to do with my point)

Corporations are designed to take your money, in exchange for stuff you most likely don't need. That money could be donated to the poor, but no. It's wasted. Corporations are the one's that are evil. Not me for refusing them money that feeds me and gives me a place to live.

Also, I never said they live like rock stars. I said they live well to the world standard of living, they most likely have shelter, and food to eat, and all the conveniences of the modern world.
  1. People who make games don't exactly live a life of luxery.  They live better than people that work at McDonalds or in 3rd world countries, but that's hardly their fault, hardly a life of luxury, and hardly justification to steal from them.
  2. It's nice and all to be hippy and talk about money being the root of all evil blah blah blah, but you do realize you can't get something for nothing?  It takes money to make all those games you love stealing.
  3. That's right, my money could be donated to the poor but the thing is it's my money.  I work for it so I can choose what to waste it on.  I do donate to various charities and as mrStickball pointed out so do the large corporations you seem to love to hate but I also choose to spend money on games.  It's my choice.  If I want to play games I have to pay the price.
  4. Do you donate every cent you make to the poor?  I doubt it since you have such frivolous things such as a computer, pot, and an internet connection.  Do you know how greedy that is?  While you're spending at least $30 a month on a worthless internet connection someone is starving to death.  Someone could live with that $30.  Please don't go around pretending to be so rightous when we all know you spend money on yourself too.
  5. It's funny you keep talking about the poor people in third world and how they can't afford games yet you live in California where the cost of living is stupid high, you're overpaid for everything, and since you live in the luxury of the US you should be able to pay for games.  Or would that be bad but paying for internet and a gaming console isn't?
  6. You aren't refusing some huge corporation money, you're refusing the people that brought you that game you stole money.  You're taking away from people that are giving you something.
  7. Finally, we aren't living in the dirt because you pirated one of our games because luckily there are good people that do buy them.  Still though, most developers receive some sort of royalty for games based on sales and their pay reflects that royalty.  It's kind of like how waiters are with tips (though not to that extreme).