| vlad321 said: On the individual scale it doesn't matter, the developer doesn't get his money from me. I doubt they can give a flying damn about whether the copy is still on my PC or not.
P.S. Where is zenfolder when you need him. He provided a much more interesting debater about this issue.... |
lol, don't tell me no one has mentioned the VGI economy yet? Money changing hands stimulates the economy and benefits the developer of every game indirectly, wheather they profit from said sale or not.
Not spending any money stimulates nothing, and thus piracy gives no contribution to the VGI economy.
You mean that argument, lol?
We'll I've made it so well, and so many times in so many other thread, I didn't think I needed to repeat myself here. We know the anwser to this question. It's been determined.
The other aspect of my epic theory is that the video game industry doesn't just consist of developers. It also consists of stores who sell games, new and used, and they benefit form the sale of used games, thus, used games sales benefit the video game industry. This isn't all about a games publisher or developer, that's a far too simplistic view in a black and white world where everything is "fair," and has nothing to do with the actual argument. This is an industry wide question. You might only care that a developer makes money off a particular game, but the used game market helps keep this industry afloat. Piracy helps sink it. Period.
There I go again, lol. Making my opinion sound like a fact. It's really not.
This thread is old now, but if I'd made that post right after the OP gave us this gem, I'da laid down some butthurt, lol.
You have to add a condition in this thread title, "legality." Thus, the issue of piracy's morality is hypothetical. Societies acceptable morals are determined by its laws, not is religious beliefs or opinions. In that sense, piracy is a much greater crime. Hypothetically though, since it doesn't stimulate the gaming economy, it boils down to a bunch of amoral tweens and internet nar-do-wells trying to get something for nothing, and I'll have none of it.
How's that for cornball?
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
