FayeC said:
vlad321 said:
Wonktonodi said:
vlad321 said:
Another point.
Pirated copies of ANY media are far superior to the originals. They are better in EVERY way. I can make as many copies of them as I want. If I delete it to save room I can always get it again, at any point of time without any limitations. I can get a song in 30 seconds, a movie in 30 and a game in an hour WHILE cooking, cleaning, or whatever around the house. I have no restrictions on the copy whatsoever and I can do with it anything I want.
Funny, seems like the end product is far better when I get it for free, and infinitely superior than if I get legally and pay for it.
So... where's my incentive to pay for them? I'm basically getting a vastly inferior service and copy for more money. Somehow that seems VERY wrong to me.
Basically the companies expect me to pay for something with ridiculous restrictions, that is far more inconviniencing, and overall a worse product. Yeah... free market rules the best product wins, and pirated copies are far better than the legal ones. They could at least try to compete witht he feautres before they start bitching about the lsot sales. Maybe then I can show some sympathy.
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So at what point do they stop making product because they have no incentive to just give it to you? I'm sure there are many great games that never get made because of piracy. I don't have numbers who can when you put an ulimited supply into a market for no cost you can't get numbers. Or games that sucked could have been better if a company could have put more time into it. We don't know all of this.
I agree that companies should make it easier to enjoy the product however, you do understand that they can't make it as easy for you as the free copy because they don't want people to just keep making free copies and giving them away.
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Until they start giving me the same benefits as those pirated copies, they won't get any sympathy from me. They whine and moan and bitch yet they aren't even trying to compete with this new form of "distribution." I'm not saying make it free, I'm saying make it at least as good, if not they can stick their legal copies with restrictoins aand crap where the sun don't shine.
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Exactly. I'd support companies thay help make it worth my while to buy instead of pirate. I typically pirate psp titles but I bought Prinny because they included a stuffed Prinny as a bonus. Something I can touch and hold. Something more than data. I'll buy Persona for PSP for the same reason.
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How can they give you the same benefits as the free copy? It's not economicaly viable for them. For me once I've bought a copy of something I"m all for useing it how I want. The law might not agree in that regard but if I've bought it I feel no guilt downloading it as well if I want a copy without restrictions. I want there to be more good games so I pay for them. For those that think only bad games make studios suffer and not piracy they are fooling themselves. Bad games contribute but loss in revenue can contribute to a game being bad.
They are competing. There are many that are going to digital distribution only and those of us who used to be able to sell a game after having played it once or many many times. We can't do that with Digital distribution and some of them are far harder to pirate. So it makes me a bit less likely to get a game unless it will have a very good replay value or low price
