Is emulating acceptable?

[Ruler]

SvennoJ said:

Ruler said:

In my opinion emulating is okay, but so is pirating modern games like on your PC etc. depending of your financial situation, espacially if you are not living in a first world country. The only thing that bugs me is if people bash you for actually doing the legal thing, calling it a waste of money if you buy the original hardware and games on console.

To protect your basic human right to be entertained any way you deem fit? :)

If you can afford the hardware you can afford the games. If you have the time to play the games, you have time to find a job! It's all a bunch of poor excuses. Yet I've been in that situation too where it was considered a waste of money to pay for games. Piracy devalued the games completely and paying 80 Guilders for a game seemed ludicrous at the time. Escpecially when consuming over a dozen pirated games a week.

There are plenty cheap and free to play games, blaming your financial situation doesn't fly anymore. Although maybe you buy bootleg versions of the streetcorner to play on a 15 year old windows 98 machine and could afford a few minutes in that internet cafe in the main town 20 miles over to make this comment :)

Would you consider pirating this as a poor excuse, for example? http://www.ebay.com/itm/PANZER-DRAGOON-SAGA-SEGA-SATURN-MINT-CONDITION-COMPLETE-/232248724889?hash=item36131a4d99:g:nbsAAOSw2gxYrRlt

What seems affortable to you maybe isnt for someone else. It applies to modern games just as much.