Confessions of a pirate

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twesterm said:
Actually, as bitchy as I am about pirating I'm fine with used and borrowed games.

With used games, you're still paying for them at least and the game is still getting a sale. That sale at least tells the developer it's still popular and people like the game. True, I would much rather you buy it new but I can completely understand buying used games. Buying used games is no different than buying second hand furniture or anything like that.

As for borrowing games, I don't have a problem with that. With borrowers, I assume it's between two people that both regularly buy games. Again, I'd much rather the person just buy the game but I completely don't mind people borrowing.

Now making copies, that is completely different. There's a fine fine line and that is crossing it.

 

Are you saying used game sales appear in charts such as Vgchartz's and NPD's??

 

Onyxmeth said:

Hawk said:

marciosmg said:

I pirated 95% of my PS1 games, 100% of my PS2 and now 100% of my 360 games. To me it is as simple as if I don´t buy pirated games I won´t buy real ones, so no company is losing real money because of me. Games here are so expensive it is impossible for 95% of the people in my country to buy.

What a classic excuse.  I do agree with stof, that pirating games is not the biggest sin in the world, but I still do not appreciate the people that do.  And if you wouldn't have bought the game in the first place, then plain and simple, you shouldn't have it.

I'm not condoning the act of piracy here, but you really have no place as an American to tell someone from Brazil whether they should pirate games or not. Brazil gets screwed royally up the ass in game prices and I personally give anyone from that country my blessing to pirate, because they don't have the same priviliges Americans have with game prices.

 

Agreed... People who are pirates today may become buyers tomorrow, when they have the money and possibility to start buying games. But of course, this won't stop the guys who look at bittorrent sites and go "OMG, we're losing billions". It goes right back to what I said about piracy not being equal to stealing. Let's all stop pretending it is.

I'm pretty sure the used games market hurts the industry more than piracy. It's just a hunch, but a pretty likely one.