Pirating old games

[Ganoncrotch]

SvennoJ said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Well now, keep in mind that system comes with a selection of NES first party titles and some select third party ones like Mega Man 2 is included... but just the second game, no Metal Gear, Super C but not the first title? , doesn't even have Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde heh.

But yeah while this is a nice way to play a selection of the titles from the NES licensing issues or just lack of effort for some of the titles on that system leaves the only place to get them to play is on ebay from people who aim to profiteer from the sale of the rarity of those carts, Nintendo isn't getting cash from those transactions, in the same way people claimed that USED games were as bad for this generation as piracy I don't see why buying the Games off Ebay vendors does anything extra for Nintendo over going to .... a website and downloading the ROMs of those titles, literally no difference to the bank account you seem to think people are "stealing" money out of.

It's still an excuse. You can keep looking for a better deal or wait for a rerelease which happens when there is enough interest like high prices on Ebay. Piracy doesn't show intent to buy, used game sales do.

I don't really have a problem with occasional piracy for personal use. Just when people start listing reasons why piracy is better or even somehow defensible moralistically. By convincing other people that piracy is ok, people will take sales away from the industry.

"Piracy doesn't show intent to buy, but used sales do" To a publisher both equal zero money going into their bank account though, in fact a user might play a pirated copy and at a point because of the quality of the product go and buy a copy of the game later on (I've done this for several of the psp games I pirated, when I seen them pop up on the Vita's PSN store I bought them knowing they were good games) but if you buy a pre owned copy you are most likely not going to go and buy another new copy of the game later on because you have paid someone in gamestop or Ebay for the bits on the disc, having paid money for it means that you no longer have a moral issue with playing the game... even though that money is going no where near the original code developer or publisher, it's a strange one.

I have tons of used games in my collection btw... I'm just being the devils advocate for "why is one fine, but the other not" when neither give the cash to where it should be ending up anyway.