I don't care if people pirate games. But games fall in price, budget versions gets released, sometimes stores gets shipments of old games and selling them almost for free and let's not forget reused games. So i think it is stupid to not buy games, no matter if one is a pirate or not.

And a pirated game can generate sales.

i didn't :D

I'm against piracy but it is true that in many countries, an original game costs more than a months salary. I have a friend that saved 6 months just to buy a second hand console. And that's really saving like not buying food and squatting at parents not to pay rent. I doubt he'd be able to afford buying games... I mean... I don't think he'd be able to afford buying games... In fact, I know only a couple of shops that sell original games and it's rarely got more people than just me in there at times. Not to mention that for example... MGS4 would cost approximately $99... for example.

If we all start just being second hand people we could:

*Kill a lot of evil companies

*Make the poor developers crawl in the dirt, eating maggots

*Make the nice vertical fund benefactors poor by not buying their wares and by this make people all over the world starve like the politics of Mao, Pol Pot and Stalin combined.

*Grow big beards

and all this with good conscience!

Not just that, but in the USA the game costs $60 dollars to a minmum wage of $5-7 dollars an hour (8h/day*7days*4weeks = minimum of 1000 dollars) while in zambia the games costs 150-200 dollars but the minimum wage is much smaller than 1000 dollars.

So not only the cost is higher but the purchasing power of the consumer is even smaller.

I really don't have a problem with downloading software from torrents or the emulation crowd because nobody's making any money off it, so it's not "piracy."

Piracy is not so much the "stealing" of movies, CDs or games (most pirates have never stolen a thing in their lives) but rather the SELLING of games/movies/CDs that they have aquired through illegal means, I.E.:

The people who film movies and sell bootleg DVDs on the streets for $5-$10

Or those who sell burned copies of CDs or PC games, or those "100-in-1" game pak knockoffs that you sometimes see at mall kiosks.

That's the stuff the entertainment industry needs to focus on and they do for the most part... Nintendo for example is notorious for busting up companies selling pirated or bootleg merchandise. The movie and music industries also like to go after the occasional guy who uploads massive amounts of movies or music on torrent sites to try to keep them in check.

I've never purchased something that was bootlegged or copied and never will... if I'm gonna spend my hard earned cash I'd rather just buy the actual DVD/CD/game in question than give it to some loser who sits at home and burns CDs all day to supply his drug habits LOL.

And yet, it's your fault for pirating games. You should just have to do without since your country and gaming companies combine to screw you royally in the ass and mouth. Twesterm what say you to these kids from the other countries that get these kinds of prices handed to them?

I actually never buy Music and I don't feel guilty about it either.

just watch "Cribs" on MTV and you wont either.

So you're arguing that this guy's random birth location means he can never play video games?

He was born into an unfair situation and it's his job as a human being to fight his way out, and if he steals some entertainment, why do you care?

He is not hurting the developer's wallets.  For him it's either steal or never play.

Game reviewers never pay for games, and yet they play a part in advertising and helping other people make decisions.  What's the difference between being a game reviewer or a pirate?  Either one of them gets games for free and then tells all their friends which ones are good, and I'd even argue that pirates help good games more than reviewers do.  HOOHAH.