Severance said: zarx said: Severance said: too bad for you i don't rent games good for you and you don't buy used ether or pirate (rich bastard lol) eh well I am glad I have no trouble with that  i did buy used games (never will i do it again because of this )  and i am far from being a rich bastard , its just that other than music my hobby is video games, if i'm really a rich bastard i'd own all consoles by now!

ha bet your rich compared to me lol (I am a poor student) and gaming is my main hobby to

Except when I buy a used game that is one copy thats being transferred to me. A copy that has already been legally purchased at some point and thus shipped to a store and made developers money.

When you dl a pirated copy the uploader is essentially distributing new copies of the games that have never been purchased. And even if the initial uploader has bought the original he does not have the right to distribute potentially thousands of versions of that game.

Besides with a used game the games store is still getting compensated and do you know what? The industry isn't just the developers and the publishers its also the retailers and thus money is still entering the video games industry. Just a different part of it.

I'm not arguing that piracy does or does not hurt games sales, that is irrelivant.

i buy used games on PS3 and i pirated the crap out of PS2 games and i dont think i ever bought a PS1 game, my PSP is hacked and i have NES,SNES,N64,GBA and Genesis emulator installed...I LOVE PIRACY