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curl-6 on 22 June 2014
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osed125 said:
curl-6 said:
osed125 said:

Again, from personal experience I can tell you that most people who pirate are collage students, with a $500 PC that they use for their studies or work, and play pirated games on medium settings at best. You don't need a $1500+ PC to play ALL games, and in all honesty many don't give a fuck. 

In my experience also. They're also entitled brats who think they should have a luxury without paying for it.

There is a difference between your personal experience and mine. I live and have lived in countries where you can buy pirated console and PC in a freaking mall, and I'm not talking about poor malls either, I'm talking middle and even high class malls. In central and south America piracy is HUGE, till this day I haven't meet a single person who didn't own (or still owns) a pirated PS2...and I'm not joking. 

Till this day I also haven't meet a single person who doesn't own a pirated PC game (myself included), with Steam that has changed a little bit, but piracy is still insanely huge. 

Developing countries are a whole other beast when it comes to piracy. This is a store in a mall in Brazil, and all those games you see on the shelves are pirated.

And in the case of Brazil specifically, games have insane taxes, meaning that for the common folks, gaming is literally almost a luxury. Can't really blame "poor" people when piracy is basically the only means they have to play games.

To clarify, I was referring primarily to piracy in developd countries. I should have made that clear.