Sony to answer Geohot's hack by removing other OS support ?

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yanamaster said:
^ The " i don't enjoy playing pirated games as much as those i bought" part seems really.... i don't know, full of crap? Is it the same with movies? When you watch Dr House or any other show on the net instead of buying a dvd? When you dl a song from the net instead of buying a cd at the media store?

I may sound a little crude, but sometimes you can hear such overly righteous things on the net that it seems to be more for show than anything else.

Movies are completely different than games. One lasts 2 hours, the other last 4-5x as long.

I have games I always buy and I invest as much time as I can in them because

A. I paid for them.

B. These are games I know I will enjoy as I have read reviews, played demos, have a past history of enjoying games of that franchise.

 

Many of the games I have pirated are games I would have never spent my money on, so I go in with a different approach as I do with my purchased games.

 

Also not to try and make it seem even more ok to pirate games, but if I was never recommended to download ZSnes back in the day along with a Final Fantasy VI rom I probably would have never been as big into gaming as I am now, especially with JRPGs. Since then I have purchase every Final Fantasy game as well as buying an SNES cart and the GBA game Final Fantasy VI Advance.

My personal piracy success story.

 

Call it full of shit, but it is 100% true and and back in a day and age where demos weren't available piracy helped me find out which games and genres I enjoyed and now I have spend countless thousands of dollars on them and still do today with my 30+ game PS3 collection, 20+ game 360 collection and somewhat minimal Wii collection. If you take a look at my extensive collection in my profile you would probably be amazed to know that every single title I added is a title I own a physical copy of, plus considering I don't buy used I feel pretty damn good.

I'm still guilty as charged though when it comes to handhelds, that is why that part of my gaming collection is so small in my profile, but I actually rarely ever finish games there because I don't enjoy gaming on a handheld nearly as much as a console. I like playing on a big screen.

 

 

Long story I just told, but I feel good myself knowing it is absolutely true. I'm not as bad of a pirate as people think I am and there are plenty of others just like me. You could choose to believe it or not, I don't mind, but I'm content.

 

Also, nobody can know if what I say or what Kariya said it full of shit because my experience with games I wouldn't buy or probably enjoy in the first place probably largely differs from yours.

 

@Kyliedog

Majority of the games I would pirate these days are the games I wouldn't buy from what my preferences consider as "the crap pile". Mainly Wii party titles since I wouldn't mod my 360 and my PS3 is unable to be hacked. Other than a modded PSP and a DS flashcart I buy all my games.

I also never play my Wii, even with access to any titles I want. I use it as a way to store all my gorey over the top horror flicks on a 500GB HDD and use homebrew apps to allow me to watch them.