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[vlad321]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

vlad321 said:

 

The industry? Are you fucknig with me? The industry consists of 2 things, developers and publishers. End of story. You deprive both of them of money. Instead YOU gain the money they should have. You aren't part of the industry. No one benefits but you whne you sell your game. You even make money out of it so you benefit far more than if you jsut pirated the game. You are far worse than a normal pirate sitting aat home.

"Piracy is illegal used gaming is not."

I don't give a fuck about laws. I'm sure you would have been right there lynching black people since it wasn't illegal back in the day, right? Wasn't illegal after all, so why the fuck not. Stick your Laws where the sun don't shine, laws don;t reflect ight and wrong, they never have.

And youa re right, you only convinced me that selling your used games is far dirtier and morally fuced up than jsut sharing it online. You actually make money you don't deserve at all while depriving the people who do deserve it. So I guess it is different. Please step off your high and mighty throne, you are far worse than most pirates.

WOW!!! lol

OMFG, dude, you went off.

True colors FTW. The bolded parts had me literally gasping in disbelief.

 

First off, lol, the gaming industry, believe it or not, consists of developers, publishers, corporations, outlets, websites(like this one), magazines, GAMERS, reviewers, television, and all kinds of people. A lot of people here make their livelyhood off videogames, but they don't actually publish or develop them.

I highly doubt you give a shit about anyone but the developers, however you should.

Believe it or not, money changing hands between the people involved in that industry stimulates more money being spent on said industry. This is a fact. It's economics. You know it's right, you just don't give a shit, isn't that right? Upwards of 200 hundred dollars can change hands over 1 used game, 60 of which always goes to the outlet.

 

As for your disregard for the law, you're not alone. Sometimes I disagree with the law, but without law, there is chaos. Without law, everyone pirates games, and there is no videogame industry.

If everyone pirated them, no one would buy them. If everyone sold them used, then people would still buy them. More than once in fact. A pirated game will always have contributed nothing, and taken away from the economy, far more than it gave it, which is nothing.

 

You speak of "right and wrong." Well surely you think that "sharing a game with friends online" is wrong, don't you? You sure didn't act like it was, lol, but if you really believe in your morality argument, then you should. You care about developers, right? Well piracy takes money away from them, and gives no money back, to anyone.

Now, how bout the kid who rented Super Mario Brothers III from Fanks Rent to Own when he was 5. Was he morally wrong? I think Miyamoto would have been ok with that kid playing his game. In fact, I think he would be damn proud to have made that kid happy. And you know what? The kid PAID for the game he played.

Everyone PAYS for their games, except pirates. That's the major difference here and what you refuse to accept. You PAY for something. When you PAY for something, you aren't stealing it. You are buying it. When you take something for free, from a corporation that is actively trying to stop you from doing so, and when it's also illegal, it's called stealing. It's stealing. One didn't pay, one never paid, because one stole it. When you steal things, when you pirate things, you don't pay for them. You steal them.

Do you see the difference now, finally? Get over me, and my attitude, and see my argument. Do you see the difference? For real bro?

I thnk you completely missed the point. I have never argued whether piracy is right or wrong o whether used selling does the same. I'm arguing that on the individual scale they are equally bad, with used game selling being worse. As for laws, of course about the chaos.

On the individual scale, piracy taes as much money away from a developer and publisher as does selling yoru used game. I've already shown you, it's the exact same. In fact piracy would equate to giving your game away, not selling it. It all amounts to other peple playing it without paying money to the developer and publisher. It's not about paying or not, it's about where the money goes.

Piracy is also not stealing, it has not removed a copy of the game or prevented anyone else from using the original, it's jsut a copy. That's not stealing. When you buy a used game, you are stealing jsut as much from the developer and the publisher. You jsut stole it from them by paying another thief who makes money out of the theft.