Also, I recently pirated Secrets of Grindea. Once I'd played a bit multiplayer with the boys, we all bought copies. In total, the game sold six more copies due to piracy. Brainlets should shut the frick up.
Also, this. Moral posturing bullshit can never beat 'lmao frick off'. I don't have to justify shit, I wanted a thing and I took it.
>justify video game piracy
Crashing videogame industry...with no survivors
>It damages the industry
That sounds like justification enough.
Also, I recently pirated Secrets of Grindea. Once I'd played a bit multiplayer with the boys, we all bought copies. In total, the game sold six more copies due to piracy. Brainlets should shut the frick up.
Also, this. Moral posturing bullshit can never beat 'lmao frick off'. I don't have to justify shit, I wanted a thing and I took it.
I just wanna say that I'm proud of you finally growing as a creator and making semi good-adjacent content instead of talking about your fetishes all the time. Keep at it, homo.
If indie developers can make the best games ever and sell them for $10 I'm not spending $70 on cod 5000, sims 2089 or whatever other shit the big studios crap out every year.
I went to a video game store and when they tried to make me pay, I told them that I don't have to pay for everything because I'm the most important person in the universe and they laughed me out of the room.
Why does everyone refuse to acknowledge my greatness? I make the world a better place just by being in it. I should be rewarded for that.
Well I don’t pirate games I know Ill love or games that are great do maybe that should get devs to think a little
I’ll pirate iffy games to see if they’re worth getting or random shit I don’t know anything about
Seems like greats games these days sell pretty well and don’t b***h about piracy. Idk maybe there’s something to… making something good…
I would pirate even if games came with free money because I'm a shameless narcissist and egotist who literally cannot see other human beings as people and I feel entitled to do whatever I want.
i dont need to. there's no case where its actually reasonable to pirate
i used to be for piracy but then i realized: if its not worth your money, its not worth your time. simple as.
People who purchased TotK for $70 say it's the best game ever and worth every penny.
People to pirated TotK for $0 say it's a mediocre game and quit within 2 hours.
Why is that?
Because no game will ever be good enough for my deliberately impossible standards. But that's okay because I don't want good games to play, I want bad games to complain about.
Because you don't have to cope, as such you can judge a game for its merits.
Piracy would be cut immensely if demos were a thing once more but most games are too afraid to put out demos because they know their game is shit.
don't know if your statement is true, but if it is it sounds like the same thing as console/brand loyalty (i.e. this is the one I got, so it has the be the best one. The platform I got or my parents got for me, this gen, can NOT have been the wrong one)
My money doesn't go to the people who actually make the video game if I pay for it in the first place. It goes to the people who marketed it to me. The devs were already paid during their time working on the game. Piracy doesn't rip off the creator. It rips off the middle man.
I DESERVE EVERYTHING I WANT FOR FREE BECAUSE I'M MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Piracy is a re-distribution of wealth from the affluent to the poor. Those who can afford it, like me, pay for their games, and subsidise the unfortunates who can't. Games still get made because my kind is a big enough market, I don't even notice the cost of the games I pay for, and the amount of people playing is maximized, increasing total joy in the world. It's a win for everyone.
it doesn't matter if you pirate or not because you're irrelevant
it's the normalgay masses who decided what games live and die and they don't pirate anyway because it's too confusing for them
Piracy is a bad thing if it gets out of control and too popular because then all the lost sales the companies cry about from piracy start existing in significant number and causing the damage that they claim. Piracy from people too poor to afford the product to begin with doesn’t hurt anyone, piracy from people who do it out of principle to stick it to the man REALLY doesn’t hurt anyone especially not the corpo, but piracy from people who would otherwise pay for the product and simply don’t because it’s easier to get it for free is a big problem.
it’s absolutely trolls either way though. This board is so fricking bad because it’s the last bastion of video game discussion that isn’t overrun and controlled by leftist homosexuals and they know it. That’s why there’s all these discords dedicated to doing nothing but ruin every single possible discussion anybody has.
Because we're one of the, like, 3-4 actually relevant boards, and therefore all the homosexuals congregate here to farm (updoots). Nobody actually believes in denouncing piracy. Not a single soul.
If you bought it you don't own it.
The people who made the game were already paid either way.
It's immoral to fund companies whose goal is destroying civilization.
It's immoral to fund foreign companies.
The last 30-odd years of western society have been preaching the horrors of religion, social cohesion, and empathy for the common man. We have replaced centuries of moral guidance with 'frick god do whatever you want and live a hedonistic, consumerism based lifestyle'.
Piracy is a natural response to being told that nothing you do matters and that if you do not possess new products you are worthless.
I deserve everything I want for free because I'm me. I'm a shameless narcissist who genuinely believes that the world revolves around me.
Every person in this thread is the exact same way. The only difference is that I'm honest enough to admit that I physically CANNOT see other people as anything except things placed in this earth for my benefit.
>height of piracy >games are good >death of piracy >games are always online live service turboslop with hundreds of dollars of microtransactions
Piracy and save editing are always ethical.
By pirating a game the company is, economically speak, exactly in the same place as it would be if I had not purchased the game.
If I do not purchase the game, all the money they spend on marketing the game becomes a waste.
However if I pirate and play the game, I am investing my time into said game. Which, if anything, is what the game developers (people who actually made the game) want.
Devs are salaried. The game selling well probably will not effect them financially.
Since those who produced the product don't benefit from my financial investment in the game and, instead those who are responsible for introducing practices which are directly detrimental to the enjoyment of game in an attempt to increase monetisation (execs) are, then it seems almost foolish of me to purchase games rather pirate them.
i don't need to justify it
but if really NEEDED to, i'd say that game prices are not adjusted well for different regional income >inb4 stop being poor
i'm not poor but where i'm from spending money on new releases takes a big chunk out of your monthly earning
Of course I am the most important person in the universe morons. If I die then the world ends literally. Personal perception is all that matters, everything else is cope.
Why do all of you feel the need to justify your greed? Just admit that you feel entitled to to everything you want for free and that you don't see other people as people. Just say it. Be honest for once in your lives.
I just want people on Ganker to be more honest and say what they really mean, but they won't, so I have to say what they really mean for them. Why can't you people just be honest?
Because piracy isn't greed. Greed is not ethical, while piracy is always ethical.
Simple as that, Raj.
I am still a greedy man that deserves free shit, but piracy is unrelated to greed.
More like >childhood: lol i get free game >adolescence: piracy is wrong, we should support the industry >adulthood: this industry is unsalvagable and needs to burn
Denaton and RWS have been legends for this reason alone. Openly encouraging piracy until you can afford to buy the game or pirating to get around BS classification laws are what makes me especially appreciate them
Stealing from someone would make me feel bad. I did it a few times as a kid and still feel guilt over it today.
Piracy doesn't make me feel bad, never had any conniption about it.
You can say piracy is stealing but my brain and soul doesn't feel that way. Therefore I will keep pirating.
A lot of games I would never pay for because I don't support the dev so if a crack doesn't exist for it I'll simply not play it and not even think about it again. They're not losing out on a sale because I would never buy it in the first place so I unironically don't see anything wrong with I'm doing. I buy games when I actually want to support the people taking my money, usually indie devs. Huge game developers are so greedy I have no sympathy for most of them. Besides there are like half a billion Indian people who will pay for and fund that slop so the industry will always be fine.
Is it piracy to borrow a friend's copy of a game?
I honestly could not tell the difference between software "piracy" and sharing a game copy between multiple people.
On some games where you'd get a cd-key to activate the game, that seems to imply that the game you purchased license-based and that your license was only for a single person/installation on a single machine.
But most console games didn't do that.
>buying game >make an account for game shop program/application >adds you to marketing emails >application tracks you and sells your info >download DRM-loaded game you can only play if online >day 1 DLC to get full experience
the devs who worked on the 10-20 year old game i pirated weren't going to see any money for their efforts if i bought it anyway. you're either paying the publisher, a completely different set of people since devs move around from teams constantly, or you're just buying it from a resaler, which by this comic's logic is evil (it is sometimes but for a different reason: price gougers who hold old games for ransom but that's getting off topic.) as for newer games? it's too much of a hassle to pirate modern games. they're either too big or if they have anti-piracy shit you have to go join some cracker's discord who is a fricking degenerate cult leader or something. also new games just fricking suck so they're not worth playing for free anyway.
Game demos should be a common thing again.
In ye olden days disk demos were usually bundled with other shit or with other games to entice people to buy the product.
Nowadays demos should be even easier to distribute to the masses; if you're on steam they could put a "demo dlc" or something for free that links to the game.
It would also solve the issue of those using the excuse of "trying before buying" with piracy and only leave those who just want shit for free.
I pirated the first Dark Souls game. I liked it so much that I bought a legit copy so I could play with online features. Had I never pirated it initially, I never would have played it at all and jever would have bought and played any of the other games in the franchise. Lost sales are a falacy and piracy benefits everyone, ultimately.
I love frogposters because the second I see the green frog I know I can safely ignore the post. It's much better than having imagelets trick me into thinking they have anything of value to say.
Why do you pretend the devs aren't compensated regardless of the results? Unless indie, they're salaried workers who were compensated for their work while they were working and the only thing sales numbers grant them is satisfaction of producing a popular product and maybe a monetary bonus.
Like sure, you're welcome to cite legitimate reasons why piracy is bad, but this pretend pity party over "BUT THINK OF THE DEVS" has always been dishonest dogshit.
How many times do I need to pirate a game to drive the Rimworld dev to bankrupcy and then suicide? Also how many times do I meed to buy Stellar Blade to kill the entirety of the female sex?
I mostly play old games.
I literally can't buy the games i play coz they're out of print.
Even if i could, the developers wouldn't see a cent of the money anyway.
this image is misleading. the guy selling the games should be a bunch of mentally ill homosexuals that call you a chud for not wanting propaganda flags plastered all over your game.
It can unironically be justified if the dev/publisher tries to take my game by removing it or taking it offline. I'll just pirate it back because I paid for it and it's MY game. >b-b-but piracy doesn't need justification!!!
Okay, thief.
It's the other way around. My story: >I made a porn game in RPG Maker >gave people the option to give me $1 for the game >three dollars after 3 months >someone created a thread on a huge piracy forum >comments in the thread were favorable which aroused curiosity >$150 in the fourth month >$300 in the fifth month
I don't pirate new games, the few that I play I'd rather just get legit because it's easier and I'm not poor. Games that aren't being sold any more though, I don't feel bad about pirating at all, I'm not going to pay some jackoff on ebay $200 for a cartridge that looks like it was chewed on by a dog.
I only pirate games that I've legally bought, or can access for free legally, like fangames and freeware. Sometimes abandonware if it looks like the devs will never revisit it. But yeah, if you want to get paid for your work, we can agree on that. But you don't have a right to take my purchase away from me after the fact, and the proliferation of DRM and GAAS subscription services is disgusting.
>bought Sega Mega Drive collection on steam >Sega decides to take away the sonic games that came with it, without compensation >however, I already made backups of every single rom so they can't take it
Now go on and tell me what wrong has been committed here.
Your pirating is bad. If you pirate, it means your money isn't going to game companies, which means they have less funds and incentive to produce the games I want to play.
My pirating is good. It allows me to play all the games, not just the ones I can afford.
Piracy and in particular torrenting is pure communism because it's the embodiment of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" (minus the pennies you pay for bandwidth). As any artgay on twitter will tell you, capitalism is evil and must be destroyed, therefore according to such framework piracy is not only morally justified, but also morally superior to buying games since you're putting up resistance against the wretched bougie scum who oppress the toiling masses
Also, piracy is open defiance of copyright law, which is a government institution, which Ubisoft despises because they don't want the government forcing them to give people offline versions of The Crew. So why defy the government regulation?
I don't NEED any of this shit. I hardly even want it. I'm just trying to prod and piss off the butthole into doing something heavy handed against a bunch of other homosexuals that already hate them. Either the butthole gets smacked down, or weak homosexuals pay the price for being weak homosexuals.
You (the game provider) has failed to provide me with a suitable method of acquiring the game I want to play, so I will be taking it.
"Buh but buh!"
Service problem. Don't include DRM, always online features, high prices, 3rd party software requirements, shitty launchers or a billion versions. Satisfy my DEMAND with your SUPPLY and I will purchase as a consumer. But until that day... I'll be taking my games, thank you.
Legality has nothing to do with it. I can download it from the internet right now within the span of 5 seconds. It is not restrained by the limitations of physical scarcity. You are effectively trying to argue that the end of scarcity is a bad thing.
AAA games are 90% bloat, so piracy primarily harms parasites. They're also creatively bankrupt, so pirating them doesn't harm anyone doing anything interesting or valuable. The market is also sufficiently vast that the number of people willing to take the modest risk of piracy isn't substantial enough to meaningfully impact anyone's bottom line.
Outside of AAA, it's still fine to pirate if you're poor enough that you shouldn't be spending money on video games in the first place. If you were behaving optimally you simply wouldn't buy it, so again it doesn't meaningfully impact anyone's bottom line.
And of course, if on the off chance, you discover that what you pirated was worth rewarding with money, you can always correct your wrongdoing by buying it later. Lastly, and perhaps most salient, anything you get away with that improves your own position is in an absolute objective sense, justified.
>It damages the industry
That's a good thing.
Zased
BEST post
I deserve everything I want for free because I'm me and society refuses to acknowledge that.
The industry should be damaged.
Also, I recently pirated Secrets of Grindea. Once I'd played a bit multiplayer with the boys, we all bought copies. In total, the game sold six more copies due to piracy. Brainlets should shut the frick up.
Also, this. Moral posturing bullshit can never beat 'lmao frick off'. I don't have to justify shit, I wanted a thing and I took it.
I just wanna say that I'm proud of you finally growing as a creator and making semi good-adjacent content instead of talking about your fetishes all the time. Keep at it, homo.
Why are they wearing femboy stockings?
I'm not the artist, wait for him to post in one of the drawgay threads and ask him there
>pic rel
Good. Frick the industry
If you don't own a game by purchasing, then you aren't stealing a game by pirating.
real answer
Frick you for remeinding me about brad neely. His shorts were so kino, but china Illinois was mediocre and his other show was god awful
He wrote a comedic history book recently
prisoner Christmas > all
is it good though?
I already paid for the internet, I deserve free games.
If indie developers can make the best games ever and sell them for $10 I'm not spending $70 on cod 5000, sims 2089 or whatever other shit the big studios crap out every year.
I went to a video game store and when they tried to make me pay, I told them that I don't have to pay for everything because I'm the most important person in the universe and they laughed me out of the room.
Why does everyone refuse to acknowledge my greatness? I make the world a better place just by being in it. I should be rewarded for that.
Good games aren't affected by piracy.
Why do the not-mes keep refusing to do what I want?
Why doesn't all of the everything belong to me?
Meeeeeeeeee meeeeeeeeeee meeeeeeeeeee meeeeeeeeeee meeeeeeeeeee?
>botter uses the same exact image three times
good to know filthy frogposters are still the Black folk of this site
Don't get mad at me, I'm just saying what everyone else is saying without the bullshit.
I only pirate older games also devs got paid already and publishers can fluff my hog if they want my money
Well I don’t pirate games I know Ill love or games that are great do maybe that should get devs to think a little
I’ll pirate iffy games to see if they’re worth getting or random shit I don’t know anything about
Seems like greats games these days sell pretty well and don’t b***h about piracy. Idk maybe there’s something to… making something good…
Me. Me, me, me, me, me. Me! Me, me, me! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
(You)
A person that pirates isn't a potential customer in the first place thus even if a game weren't pirateable they still wouldn't be buying it
Yoho!
If more games had demos I wonder if that would reduce piracy.
I would pirate even if games came with free money because I'm a shameless narcissist and egotist who literally cannot see other human beings as people and I feel entitled to do whatever I want.
i dont need to. there's no case where its actually reasonable to pirate
i used to be for piracy but then i realized: if its not worth your money, its not worth your time. simple as.
>justify piracy
Game developers tend to be my enemy
Everyone who isn't me is my enemy.
People who purchased TotK for $70 say it's the best game ever and worth every penny.
People to pirated TotK for $0 say it's a mediocre game and quit within 2 hours.
Why is that?
Because no game will ever be good enough for my deliberately impossible standards. But that's okay because I don't want good games to play, I want bad games to complain about.
Because you don't have to cope, as such you can judge a game for its merits.
Piracy would be cut immensely if demos were a thing once more but most games are too afraid to put out demos because they know their game is shit.
don't know if your statement is true, but if it is it sounds like the same thing as console/brand loyalty (i.e. this is the one I got, so it has the be the best one. The platform I got or my parents got for me, this gen, can NOT have been the wrong one)
Buyer's remorse
I'm not a cuck
No such thing as game ownership, therefore no such things as game piracy.
its a prank, lighten up a bit
no
Don't need to.
I want thing. I get thing. if i can get thing for free, i will.
Look at the prices of retro games, that's all the justification you need.
>my game failed because... Pirates!
Your game failed because no one wants to play it, hypothetical game developer.
My money doesn't go to the people who actually make the video game if I pay for it in the first place. It goes to the people who marketed it to me. The devs were already paid during their time working on the game. Piracy doesn't rip off the creator. It rips off the middle man.
I DESERVE EVERYTHING I WANT FOR FREE BECAUSE I'M MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Piracy is a re-distribution of wealth from the affluent to the poor. Those who can afford it, like me, pay for their games, and subsidise the unfortunates who can't. Games still get made because my kind is a big enough market, I don't even notice the cost of the games I pay for, and the amount of people playing is maximized, increasing total joy in the world. It's a win for everyone.
it doesn't matter if you pirate or not because you're irrelevant
it's the normalgay masses who decided what games live and die and they don't pirate anyway because it's too confusing for them
Why is Ganker the only board with any real anti-piracy presence anyway? Never made sense to me.
It's just trolls. No one would legitimately think that free shit is bad.
Piracy is a bad thing if it gets out of control and too popular because then all the lost sales the companies cry about from piracy start existing in significant number and causing the damage that they claim. Piracy from people too poor to afford the product to begin with doesn’t hurt anyone, piracy from people who do it out of principle to stick it to the man REALLY doesn’t hurt anyone especially not the corpo, but piracy from people who would otherwise pay for the product and simply don’t because it’s easier to get it for free is a big problem.
it’s absolutely trolls either way though. This board is so fricking bad because it’s the last bastion of video game discussion that isn’t overrun and controlled by leftist homosexuals and they know it. That’s why there’s all these discords dedicated to doing nothing but ruin every single possible discussion anybody has.
>real
It's all just contrarian shitposting anon. 90% of every opinion you see here is fake.
Mostly contrarians with a few people that genuinely oppose piracy due to them being corporation worshippers
Because we're one of the, like, 3-4 actually relevant boards, and therefore all the homosexuals congregate here to farm (updoots). Nobody actually believes in denouncing piracy. Not a single soul.
As the other anons said it's mostly contrarianism.
If you bought it you don't own it.
The people who made the game were already paid either way.
It's immoral to fund companies whose goal is destroying civilization.
It's immoral to fund foreign companies.
The last 30-odd years of western society have been preaching the horrors of religion, social cohesion, and empathy for the common man. We have replaced centuries of moral guidance with 'frick god do whatever you want and live a hedonistic, consumerism based lifestyle'.
Piracy is a natural response to being told that nothing you do matters and that if you do not possess new products you are worthless.
Just for you, OP, I'm not gonna buy any more games this year. have a nice day
I deserve everything I want for free because I'm me. I'm a shameless narcissist who genuinely believes that the world revolves around me.
Every person in this thread is the exact same way. The only difference is that I'm honest enough to admit that I physically CANNOT see other people as anything except things placed in this earth for my benefit.
Free games
>height of piracy
>games are good
>death of piracy
>games are always online live service turboslop with hundreds of dollars of microtransactions
Piracy and save editing are always ethical.
By pirating a game the company is, economically speak, exactly in the same place as it would be if I had not purchased the game.
If I do not purchase the game, all the money they spend on marketing the game becomes a waste.
However if I pirate and play the game, I am investing my time into said game. Which, if anything, is what the game developers (people who actually made the game) want.
Devs are salaried. The game selling well probably will not effect them financially.
Since those who produced the product don't benefit from my financial investment in the game and, instead those who are responsible for introducing practices which are directly detrimental to the enjoyment of game in an attempt to increase monetisation (execs) are, then it seems almost foolish of me to purchase games rather pirate them.
i don't need to justify it
but if really NEEDED to, i'd say that game prices are not adjusted well for different regional income
>inb4 stop being poor
i'm not poor but where i'm from spending money on new releases takes a big chunk out of your monthly earning
Is this the same artist who makes comics about how gamers ruin his life and draws glasses that look like mustaches?
Of course I am the most important person in the universe morons. If I die then the world ends literally. Personal perception is all that matters, everything else is cope.
>justify video game piracy
Crashing videogame industry...with no survivors
Why do all of you feel the need to justify your greed? Just admit that you feel entitled to to everything you want for free and that you don't see other people as people. Just say it. Be honest for once in your lives.
we get it, you love yourself very much
I just want people on Ganker to be more honest and say what they really mean, but they won't, so I have to say what they really mean for them. Why can't you people just be honest?
take your meds moron
Because piracy isn't greed. Greed is not ethical, while piracy is always ethical.
Simple as that, Raj.
I am still a greedy man that deserves free shit, but piracy is unrelated to greed.
Cause I don't really care teebeeheich
Sometimes I buy indie games when I really like them
>Cause I don't really care
About anyone who isn't you? C'mon, man. If you said it, I wouldn't have to say it for you.
No. I care about my girlfriend and my brother. Everyone else can eat shit though.
>It damages the industry
That sounds like justification enough.
Why pay for something when I can get it for free with no drawbacks?
>childhood: lol i get free game
>adolescence: piracy is wrong, we should support the industry
>adulthood: lol i get free game
More like
>childhood: lol i get free game
>adolescence: piracy is wrong, we should support the industry
>adulthood: this industry is unsalvagable and needs to burn
>Good indies dont give a flying frick about piracy
There. Justified.
Denaton and RWS have been legends for this reason alone. Openly encouraging piracy until you can afford to buy the game or pirating to get around BS classification laws are what makes me especially appreciate them
Sharing a game with your friend isn't wrong
Stealing from someone would make me feel bad. I did it a few times as a kid and still feel guilt over it today.
Piracy doesn't make me feel bad, never had any conniption about it.
You can say piracy is stealing but my brain and soul doesn't feel that way. Therefore I will keep pirating.
If there is no god, anything is permitted
:^)
Piracy is true ownership
It can't be taken from me and I can make as many copies as I want
Can buycucks say the same?
A lot of games I would never pay for because I don't support the dev so if a crack doesn't exist for it I'll simply not play it and not even think about it again. They're not losing out on a sale because I would never buy it in the first place so I unironically don't see anything wrong with I'm doing. I buy games when I actually want to support the people taking my money, usually indie devs. Huge game developers are so greedy I have no sympathy for most of them. Besides there are like half a billion Indian people who will pay for and fund that slop so the industry will always be fine.
Frick the nobleman. simple as.
Peasant uprising now.
Is it piracy to borrow a friend's copy of a game?
I honestly could not tell the difference between software "piracy" and sharing a game copy between multiple people.
The only difference is that stharer isn't your friend.
I dunno.
Bro is letting me borrow his shit for free. Sounds like a friend to me.
On some games where you'd get a cd-key to activate the game, that seems to imply that the game you purchased license-based and that your license was only for a single person/installation on a single machine.
But most console games didn't do that.
I guess, but that's just reminded me of COD4 where you'd just look up cd-keys lol
When you go to a website, you are pirating the content on that website. Do you think you're doing something wrong when you go to websites?
>shtarer
They want to bump up the price of video games again
Inflation does that.
no, corporate greed does that.
that's why the people who actually make the games are getting paid more, right?
They just bumped it up recently, one of the appeals of video games is that their prices lagged way behind inflation.
this comic is right, piracy harms all
Hope it hurts the shills most
>piracy increases overall happines
>and that's bad!!!
explain the double dtandards, bike cuck
>buying game
>make an account for game shop program/application
>adds you to marketing emails
>application tracks you and sells your info
>download DRM-loaded game you can only play if online
>day 1 DLC to get full experience
>pirating game
>download game
Make better games at better prices and I'll buy them.
the devs who worked on the 10-20 year old game i pirated weren't going to see any money for their efforts if i bought it anyway. you're either paying the publisher, a completely different set of people since devs move around from teams constantly, or you're just buying it from a resaler, which by this comic's logic is evil (it is sometimes but for a different reason: price gougers who hold old games for ransom but that's getting off topic.) as for newer games? it's too much of a hassle to pirate modern games. they're either too big or if they have anti-piracy shit you have to go join some cracker's discord who is a fricking degenerate cult leader or something. also new games just fricking suck so they're not worth playing for free anyway.
Me at the top
>Justify video game piracy Ganker.
No.
There's too many bad faith actors for me to really care.
YA YO YAAAA YOOOO
What's with the froggays lately?
People are training AI to shitpost
AHEM
the crew
It benefits me more than it hurts studios
Game demos should be a common thing again.
In ye olden days disk demos were usually bundled with other shit or with other games to entice people to buy the product.
Nowadays demos should be even easier to distribute to the masses; if you're on steam they could put a "demo dlc" or something for free that links to the game.
It would also solve the issue of those using the excuse of "trying before buying" with piracy and only leave those who just want shit for free.
I like free stuff
Why should I? I like free stuff and don't give a shit about some gay shareholders.
I pirated the first Dark Souls game. I liked it so much that I bought a legit copy so I could play with online features. Had I never pirated it initially, I never would have played it at all and jever would have bought and played any of the other games in the franchise. Lost sales are a falacy and piracy benefits everyone, ultimately.
I can
I love frogposters because the second I see the green frog I know I can safely ignore the post. It's much better than having imagelets trick me into thinking they have anything of value to say.
Why do you pretend the devs aren't compensated regardless of the results? Unless indie, they're salaried workers who were compensated for their work while they were working and the only thing sales numbers grant them is satisfaction of producing a popular product and maybe a monetary bonus.
Like sure, you're welcome to cite legitimate reasons why piracy is bad, but this pretend pity party over "BUT THINK OF THE DEVS" has always been dishonest dogshit.
So were all the layoffs due to video game piracy?
How many times do I need to pirate a game to drive the Rimworld dev to bankrupcy and then suicide? Also how many times do I meed to buy Stellar Blade to kill the entirety of the female sex?
I mostly play old games.
I literally can't buy the games i play coz they're out of print.
Even if i could, the developers wouldn't see a cent of the money anyway.
No.
Meposter has been much less subtle than usual itt which is a shame because he's usually at least pretty funny
this image is misleading. the guy selling the games should be a bunch of mentally ill homosexuals that call you a chud for not wanting propaganda flags plastered all over your game.
It can unironically be justified if the dev/publisher tries to take my game by removing it or taking it offline. I'll just pirate it back because I paid for it and it's MY game.
>b-b-but piracy doesn't need justification!!!
Okay, thief.
Pirating a game is like fricking a married woman
You're only in trouble if the person with exclusive reproduction rights catches you doing it
>he only thinks about getting in trouble
insect
It's the other way around. My story:
>I made a porn game in RPG Maker
>gave people the option to give me $1 for the game
>three dollars after 3 months
>someone created a thread on a huge piracy forum
>comments in the thread were favorable which aroused curiosity
>$150 in the fourth month
>$300 in the fifth month
Piracy is marketing.
I would buy games if I owned a bugatty
>piracy thread
>nothing but thirdiefrog spam
Yeah makes sense
the second you can't own games, games stop being produced, or become a fraud it is morally wrong not to preserve gaming.
Someone please post that walk cycle from the "you are a pirate" animation. I wish to pirate it.
The justification is that it is free. I want free shit.
I don't pirate new games, the few that I play I'd rather just get legit because it's easier and I'm not poor. Games that aren't being sold any more though, I don't feel bad about pirating at all, I'm not going to pay some jackoff on ebay $200 for a cartridge that looks like it was chewed on by a dog.
I only pirate games that I've legally bought, or can access for free legally, like fangames and freeware. Sometimes abandonware if it looks like the devs will never revisit it. But yeah, if you want to get paid for your work, we can agree on that. But you don't have a right to take my purchase away from me after the fact, and the proliferation of DRM and GAAS subscription services is disgusting.
>bought Sega Mega Drive collection on steam
>Sega decides to take away the sonic games that came with it, without compensation
>however, I already made backups of every single rom so they can't take it
Now go on and tell me what wrong has been committed here.
Good. I can and buy for games I want but the game industry needs a course correction.
sage
The frick is wrong with the frogposter? Is he a game dev?
Your pirating is bad. If you pirate, it means your money isn't going to game companies, which means they have less funds and incentive to produce the games I want to play.
My pirating is good. It allows me to play all the games, not just the ones I can afford.
My justification is that I don’t care.
Piracy and in particular torrenting is pure communism because it's the embodiment of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" (minus the pennies you pay for bandwidth). As any artgay on twitter will tell you, capitalism is evil and must be destroyed, therefore according to such framework piracy is not only morally justified, but also morally superior to buying games since you're putting up resistance against the wretched bougie scum who oppress the toiling masses
Also, piracy is open defiance of copyright law, which is a government institution, which Ubisoft despises because they don't want the government forcing them to give people offline versions of The Crew. So why defy the government regulation?
I don't NEED any of this shit. I hardly even want it. I'm just trying to prod and piss off the butthole into doing something heavy handed against a bunch of other homosexuals that already hate them. Either the butthole gets smacked down, or weak homosexuals pay the price for being weak homosexuals.
No, frick off.
It ~~*damages*~~ the industry. If anything I should be paid for my piracy as I'm making the industry better for it.
You (the game provider) has failed to provide me with a suitable method of acquiring the game I want to play, so I will be taking it.
"Buh but buh!"
Service problem. Don't include DRM, always online features, high prices, 3rd party software requirements, shitty launchers or a billion versions. Satisfy my DEMAND with your SUPPLY and I will purchase as a consumer. But until that day... I'll be taking my games, thank you.
I'd steal this gays games then beat him to death with the sign.
>Game isn't available and will never be available
What argument do anti-pirate gays even have against this?
>b-but they might bring it back one day
>w-well you're supposed to buy new product!
>rentals and sharing with your friends is wrong!
You're not entitled to play a game. If it's not available suck it up buttercup.
But it IS available.
If it's not legally available it's not available. Stop being a Black person and think you're entitled to take things.
Legality has nothing to do with it. I can download it from the internet right now within the span of 5 seconds. It is not restrained by the limitations of physical scarcity. You are effectively trying to argue that the end of scarcity is a bad thing.
>If it's not legally available it's not available
but it is still practically available.
AAA games are 90% bloat, so piracy primarily harms parasites. They're also creatively bankrupt, so pirating them doesn't harm anyone doing anything interesting or valuable. The market is also sufficiently vast that the number of people willing to take the modest risk of piracy isn't substantial enough to meaningfully impact anyone's bottom line.
Outside of AAA, it's still fine to pirate if you're poor enough that you shouldn't be spending money on video games in the first place. If you were behaving optimally you simply wouldn't buy it, so again it doesn't meaningfully impact anyone's bottom line.
And of course, if on the off chance, you discover that what you pirated was worth rewarding with money, you can always correct your wrongdoing by buying it later.
Lastly, and perhaps most salient, anything you get away with that improves your own position is in an absolute objective sense, justified.
>piracy rips off creators hard work without compensation
that's all I needed to hear