Just buy the dam game,people will do anything to get something for free. lol

Well, here it is again.

The piracy issue.

This threads never go anywhere.

Just this time though, I'll speak my mind.

I'm for piracy. Yeah that's right... I think it does more good than bad in the end of the day.

I don't think I could explain why fully to most of you, as my reasons are related to the fact that I live in a 3rd world country in which the prices of games are obscenely high, and also on the fact that historically, every highest software selling console of its generation was also the most pirated one. In other words, I strongly believe that the vast majority of pirates are not in fact potential buyers who don't do it because they're cheap.

I know I don't help the situation by doing what I do, but in no way it could be argued that I make it worst, as I am in no way whatsoever a potential buyer of new games.

There are a lot of people who would value free games higher than being able to play online if the Xbox 360 hacking is anything to go by.

Game backups would be fine if people were not stealing games, damn thief's. 

The combination of your troublesome circumstances and your Bruce Campbell avatar has left me sympathetic to your cause. I've read other stories similar to yours, and I understand completely, but I wasn't trying to complain about people like you in the first place, in case you thought I was calling you out. Actually I have visited several third-world countries including Nepal and India, so my feelings go beyond sympathy.

Happy gaming, brother. Maybe one day your support of the game industry will be fiscally viable.

Sony may install a background software that tracks this Jailbreak. Then when you enter in PSN you are immediately banned. It works very well.

Thank you so much for saying that.

I seriously hope that they find a way to make the prices here go down.

You see, movie DVD prices here are actually somewhat fair (in most cases anyway), so not only do I not mind buying them, I prefer to do so on the account that I like supporting the movie industry.

I'd do the same for the games industry if it wasn't for the fact that something like 60% of the price of a new game here does not go to anyone involved with the industry, it goes to the government. So in my mind it would be like I'm rewarding these fuckers for making the price of the games 3 (sometimes 4) times higher than they should be. To me that's just fucking unethical.

Não acho que a a pirataria faça mais bem do que mal. Justo quando as coisas tavam indo bem aqui no brasil...Eu mesmo deixei de virar pirata justamente pelo PS3. Compro pouquissimos jogos, mas é outra satisfação....

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I don't think that piracy does better than worse. When thing were going well here in Brasil. I'm not a pirate anymore , for example, and i know more cases of it. PS3 transformed the habits of many gamers here.

Why buy a second ps3 when you can buy the games you going to pirate.

Brasileiro!

O que eu queria explicar no meu post era que eu acredito que a maioria dos piratas aqui do Brasil, assim como eu, não são compradores em potencial de jogos novos. Isso se dá pelo fato de que somos uma nação pobre (o preço de um jogo novo é em média de 40% a 50% do salário mínimo, o que sinceramente não acredito que seja justo). Ninguém vai deixar de pagar R$10,00 ou R$20,00 em um jogo para pagar R$230,00.

O debate da pirataria é um assunto bem complexo. O fato de eu acreditar que pirataria faz mais bem do que mal é outra história com outros argumentos. O principal do meu post era o parágrafo de cima mesmo.