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irstupid on 27 January 2010
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ChichiriMuyo said:
irstupid said:
Twistedpixel said:
ChichiriMuyo said:

AnthonyW86 - If those people couldn't afford to buy the game then it didn't impact sales. You're assuming those people could have actually bought the game which is a huge mistake. Even assuming they had the money, it's a mistake. One in four people in the Western industrialized world (which already only makes a tiny fraction of the whole pirating pie)

Yep and if they can afford a pc to play advanced 3D games they can afford to pay for the games. But you can't pirate hardware, which is why they can 'afford' the PC but not the games.

yea thats a moronic excuse.  if you have a computer that can play these games you can afford a game.  hell there is never and excuse to pirate a game.  they are just cheap crooks, who think digital media is fine to steal. 

 

some say that they woudlnt' buy the game in the first place anyway, or just like to demo it first before buying to see if good.  Ha.  Can I go to the movie theater and get into a movie for free if I tell them that I didn't really want to see this movie, I just have free time and you have open seats.  I'm not hurting anybody now am I.  Or tell them I want to see the movie first before I decide if I want to buy the movie when it comes out. 

 

There is no excuse to pirate, not even if the game isn't brought to your country, or whatever reason you feel you have the right to pirate a game.  You can always find a way to buy a legit copy through the internet.  And if you are able to pirate that means you have an internet connection. 

I have a dual core laptop with over 2 gigs of ram and can play most games on it.  I got it for free.  Really, any kid with a half-assed understanding of computers can "fix" a PC that the computer illiterate would throw out for being "broken." 

Does my having a free, but relatively powerful, PC mean as a certainly that I can buy PC games?  No.  You are yet another person leading a relatively priveleged life if you think that it's perfectly natural to pay for everything out of your own pockets (or mommy's and daddy's, for some people).  For a very large portion of the population, especially in the "3rd world" countries, bartering plays a major role in daily life and most things are traded for.

i'm sure those 3rd world countries are just trying as hard as they can to play these high end graphics games in whatever means possible.  And you are smart enough to fix up that pc, yet you can't manage your money well enough to figure out how to buy a $50 game at most (no pc games are more than 50) 

I dont' know what you consider a good amount of games to buy in a year.  I at most buy 5 gmaes a year because it just gets to spendy thinking of spendin over a 300 a year on games.  Could I if i wanted buy 30+ games in a year, yea sure I could.  But then yes I would seriously be starting to get into trouble. I woudl ahve to ask my parents for rent money, grocery money, gas money, need to work more hours during the school year and would have to cut back on going out on the weekends to like nothing.  THen maybe i would see the awesomeness of the online community, because I would basically be stuck inside all the time cause no money and would only be able to hang out with online friends. 

 

So if your thinking that you need to have some 30+ games a year or even more than 10 and your bitching about not having money, that is your own problem and is not any right to start pirating.  You have to give and take, if you want more games you have to give up something else, if you can't give up something then you have to give up on buying those games, you can't just steal them.