What is it about piracy that instantly sends the wider gaming community into a collective seething rage at the mere mention of it?
What is it about piracy that instantly sends the wider gaming community into a collective seething rage at the mere mention of it?
Bucket of crabs mentality. They're mad that other people found a way to avoid being a good little paypig
because it kills the industry
The industry deserves to die at its current state. Not that piracy actually has an impact on that.
Unfortunately not true, or I'd pirate a lot more shit.
Explain how my pirating a game I would never under any circumstances pay for hurts the industry in any way
The fact that you pirate a game shows that you have some desire to play the game. Maybe you wouldn't pay $60 for it, but at some point you'd pay for it given there wasn't a way to get it for free. I'm tired of crypto moralgay pirates acting like they aren't causing harm
The only time I ever buy a game, i'll buy only if it has multiplayer, from a key reseller for less than $10 so no dev or publisher will ever get any of my money anyways.
based but keep in mind buying used is considered ethical to paypigs for some unknown reason (they're moronic)
No, I assure you, I would never pay money for the games I pirate. If I had no way to play them for free I would simply not play them. I only pay for games I'm actually interested in and want to support and I have plenty of those.
You are being dishonest
this is the crypto moralhomosexualry I'm talking about. Exactly what principal allows you pick and choose when you want to participate in the system?
This is the only board where people unironically try to justify it
>This is the only board where people unironically try to justify it
Because this is the only board where people complain about it.
>n-no you're lying
Wow, you're frickin moronic lol
I only pirate games that I would never under any circumstances pay for. If a game I would pirate isn't available for free, I simply don't play it. If piracy as an option were removed from reality, I still would only pay for games I have significant interest in and simply not play those that mildly pique my curiosity.
The fact that you have to tell yourself I'm lying is either a sign that you're too autistic to understand mindsets different from your own or too narcissistic to admit, even to yourself, that you don't know everything.
Get fricked.
What I don't understand is the value that these games have to you. If the highest price you're willing to pay is zero, then you shouldn't be interested in playing them in the first place.
What if they offered you a spoon of caviar for the change in your pocket?
>If the highest price you're willing to pay is zero, then you shouldn't be interested in playing them in the first place.
No, that's moronic. Who even thinks like this? What kind of fricking weirdo can't comprehend the concept of "I'm interested in this, but not enough to pay for it"?
I can understand "this isn't worth full price" but not "this thing I want isn't worth a cent"
Then you're moronic? Idk what else to tell you. I was vaguely interested in playing valheim but not if I had to pay for it. If I wasn't able to pirate it, I would not have played it.
Is your issue that you can't imagine having some idle desire go unfulfilled? Are you that much of a child?
>What if they offered you a spoon of caviar for the change in your pocket?
Then I'm not trying caviar unless my pockets are empty. Was this supposed to be a gotcha?
I pirate specific companies on principal alone. If there is some indie dev which I think earned the money I will pay happily.
>Maybe you wouldn't pay $60 for it, but at some point you'd pay for it given there wasn't a way to get it for free
What a moronic consoomer mindset. Does the concept of "I'll try it if it's free, but I'm not interested in paying for it" really hurt your head that much? It's a fairly common way to be, I guarantee there are experiences you wouldn't pay for but would try for free
If it's an experience that I have some desire to try, then there's some price I'm willing to pay.
I wouldn't complain about it if everyone was honest about it
>If it's an experience that I have some desire to try, then there's some price I'm willing to pay.
Then you're an idiot. I'd be willing to try caviar if someone offered me a spoon of it for no charge, but like frick I'm gonna pay for that. What a worthless consoomer mindset
Going to a friend's house and trying a game is like being offered a bite of caviar. Pirating isnt like stealing a bite from a resturant, just sayin it aint a perfect analogy. I give no shits just your analogy triggered some autism
yeah, there is no loss to the restaurant in piracy. It's more like watching a movie your friend bought vs sneaking into a theater
i mean physical loss btw, not loss of potential revenue
I hear ya. I have no shits to give. I read through these pirating threads to sway me one way or the other but it really doesnt matter. Normies outspend anything. Pirates are so cheap and broke they will work hard to continue gaining free media. Just is what it is and hasnt hurt anything. I will say that I believe consumers spending has hurt enjoyers more than pirates though. But thats a bag to unpack and I am falling asleep
You're both idiots. It's not an analogy, it's another example of an experience I'm interested in but wouldn't pay for
noun
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
>food analogy
It's always entertaining to see paypiggies cry about "muh moralgay pirates!" when they were the ones who made piracy a moralgay issue in the first place since they have absolutely no argument against piracy being a better option
literally just
>make a good game
>give me a demo or free2play option so i can try it first
>only charge $30
and i'll stop pirating
the reason I pirate is because games dont come with a fricking demo/shareware version anymore.
this
also expected value from a game is every $1 should get you 10 hours of gameplay.
i'll gladly buy a $90 game if I know it's good enough for me to dump 3000 hours into
i'm not buying a $90 game that's only 3 hours long
>wtf why is every game open world with a ton of worthless filler
The novelty of that wears out fast. If your game has 3000 hours of filler, it'll never last past 20 hours, and that's being generous.
fricking love open world games
wtf i love piracy now
i don't know. when an musician whinges about piracy all their fans laugh at them but with vidya THE FANS do the whinging
Because it's literally not even worth talking about
Pay for things you want to support
Or don't
Its entirely irrelevant
But of course you want people to applaud you for downloading a torrent of some shitty game made by overworked homosexuals with blue hair and piercings
This self flagellation is just obnoxious man
>I'm so handsome and based for downloading a furry porn game exe file onto my computer
Nobody cares, the outrage is a meme
Shut the frick up forever
homosexual
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there was a gif/webm of gold face dropping through the ceiling of a theater and sucking/pirating the movie that was playing
does anyone have it?
>lol, gatekeep the trannies.
>NOOOOOOOO JUST BECAUSE I PIRATE DOESN'T MAKE ME A FAKE FAN EVEN IF OBJECTIVELY I KILL GAMES
Simple as.
you can be the real fan and i can be the fake one dude, i don't give a frick, i don't make being a gaymer my entire personality. boring homosexual.
>LOGH
you pay for that box set Black person?
>i can be the fake one dude, i don't give a frick, i don't make being a gaymer my entire personality.
why play if you don't like them then.
Do music and movie pirates base their entire personality around being pirates the same way video game pirates do?
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Yes. My neighbor has mountains of pirated music and film. Backs it all up on tape drives. Always is pushy about giving me flash drives full of movies I dont care to watch. Says he is prepping end of the world entertainment.
I don't know nor do I care. What I do care about is a good N64 emulator. is Projekt64 still the best, or do we have a better emulator now?
Look up 1964
mutts have been trained into perfect Black personcattle golems by their israeli masters
Because corporations lobby and abuse people's morality to oversell revenue shortcomings as a crisis and scapegoat declining product quality that they themselves introduced as cost saving measures all the while computing power only increased thus far
Why is Ganker the only board that has a problem with piracy?
Golem mentality
paid shills CONSTANTLY spamming
corporate identity
Yar
Pirates are the vegans of gaming community.
The the similarity of lack of self awareness is staggering.
Only bothers chronically online individuals. Never met a single person that gave a shit irl.
They're probably just rightfully telling you that you can't comment on their games because you didn't play the real version.
slave morality
>movies are free
>music is free
>books are free
>NOT LE HECKIN' GAMERINOS HOLY FRICK THINK OF THE BLUE-HAIRS IN THE INDUSTRY!!!!
why are zoomers like this?
Because "game community" is just a bunch of pozzed dev and twitter people who think that playing flappy bird on their phone qualify them as "gamer". They rather spend time arguing whether a game is racist because the only black guy in the game is the one copy pasted enemy you beat every single stage rather than playing game themselves.
It's basically just a virtue signaling group to make themselves feel hollier than thou.
Like seriously, I am not going to pay 60 dollarido for a digital copy of a game that came out 10 years ago.
Which is why if you don't give me a physical copy, i will pirate it. Or at least cut the damn fricking price.
What I never pirate? Inti Creates and brand new Nintendo games. The rest deserves it.
I pirate everygame, especially those who are made by americans because I know they are filled with mental ill dialogues like they/them.
Because there's nothing to discuss about it. Got the game? Alright, talk about the game.
>MWAHAHA I GOT IT THROUGH HIGHLY ILLEGAL MEANS BY GOOGLING AND CLICKING A LINK FROM THE FIRST PAGE, I'M RADICAL CHADMAN
It looks like the cope of some miserable poorgay who can't buy anything, you are not cool at all.
It's just n*ntendo fanboys and asshurt r*ddit posters that get mad about pirating.
The entire board is full of both.