Valve on Piracy

[JaggedSac]

Kasz216 said:

JaggedSac said:

vlad321 said:

JaggedSac said:

So it is justifiable to pirate games, so long as you purchase the good ones? LOL. Fucking stupid logic. People and their fucked up views entitlement.

Free market. Good ones make money, bad ones go bankrupt.

So it is your right to play each and every game for free via piracy(which I know you do), and then choose to pay for the good ones???  That would be game development via donations.  If you really cared about seeing if a game was good or not, most have demos, try it that way.

Once again, fucked up ideals of entitlement.  People now days think they have the right to do whatever the fuck they want.  And think people are oppressive when they tell them they shouldn't be doing it.

I don't pirate games... but game development SHOULD be done via donations.

Mount and Blade... is a very good example of this.

Instead we have arbitrary and freedom curtailing laws to prop up a buisness system not meant for a virtual world.

If jesus were to show up at Red Lobster... enjoy his meal.... then start making red lobster meals appear via his divine powers for free and started giving them out to everyone he saw...

Should jesus be arrested?

Depends on if he was on Red Lobster property or not.

 

Has any business system besides non-profit organizations ever succeeded via a donation system?  One game is not a system.  And all games developed under a donation based system would have graphics just as shitty as Mount and Blade.  And if you don't care about that.  Good for you, a lot of the world does.

EDIT:  He should also be arrested for breaking the Law of Conservation of Energy :)