Do you buy games legally or download them illegally?
I stopped doing the latter not only because most of illegal copies contain spyware/adware and crash often, but mostly because i play rarely and i take advantage of Steam discount special offers.
Picrelated: i bought every single one of these games for less than 5 dollar or i got them completely for free. If i visited Steam platform often than once or twice a month, i bet that i could get incomparably more decent games for decent price in the special offers, but i am a casual player.
I've been playing a couple of old games as of late so, I've been "emulating" a bunch from various systems
I usually buy newer games though
Elijah Baker
I buy them for 3 reasons: 1. I don't want to spend the time or hassle finding and downloading pirated copies and risking all the malware and shit they have 2. My job has a pretty stringent security clearance with regular background checks. Although highly unlikely, if I got charged with a crime for pirating shit, I'd lose my job and would instantly lose access to about 80% of the jobs in the industry I'm in 3. Ethically I sorta feel bad. Each vidya company is different, but pirating can hurt the individual workers financially, especially for smaller studios. I've worked at a company where all employees get a bonus based on the net income for the company each year and I'd be pissed if my bonus was adversely impacted due to people jacking our stuff for free.
William Myers
I pirate every game and have made cracks for randomass indie games I found. Stay mad devcucks
Isaac King
whenever i've got money i'll consider buying a game if it actually looks interesting enough for me to want to support it, every other time i just pirate it
James Bell
I used to pirate everything but now that I'm an adult I pretty much only pirate if I know I'm not going to play for more than a couple hours or it never goes on sale.
Connor Turner
No physical, no buy. I am not willing to pay for a download license and PC is digital only so I almost exclusively pirate. Every now and then if I pirate and old game and like it enough I'll buy a physical copy off of ebay. 5 dollars is still extremely expensive for a download license. Low cost =/= cheap.
Ethan Hernandez
Physical copy of games is a download licence nowadays too because most of them demand access to Internet for installation, and servers can be always turned off, turning your game into useless thing
Michael Thompson
>Steam >buy games You can't buy games on Steam.
Jack Wilson
>buy game from steam >download crack for it >refund game after copying files lmao
Ryan Collins
I only pirate stuff that isn't sold anymore. I'm not gonna pay with my kidney for some old used copy to some faggot.
Alexander Fisher
>You can't buy games on Steam.
You can't buy games at all nowadays:
Nathaniel Thomas
I buy games I'm really hyped about, games that I feel deserve my support and games on sale.
I pirate shit I want to just try out
John Williams
Used to buy games, now i just pirate them.
Zachary Scott
I buy games whenever I can. Pirate whenever I can't buy them.
Caleb Nelson
Steam or digital download code in a box isn't a physical copy. It is unethical to charge for a download Some indie games, very very few, get actual physical releases on PC with the entire game on disc or flash drive and without requiring Steam or an internet connection Then again >indie games
Landon Hill
Both. I tend to avoid paying for shit from EA etc specifically. But stuff I'm super hyped about I'll always pay for. But I'm not going to not play stuff just because I happen to be poor in a particular year. Fuck that economic cultural stratification.
>but pirating can hurt the individual workers financially, especially for smaller studios. It's actually the opposite, they can really benefit, although smaller devs tend to be pretty brainwashed into the "lost sales" fallacy and don't realise it. I've been a games developer for over 20 years and released dozens of things independently as well as working for studios. Whenever I'm interviewed or whatever I've always supported piracy. There are plenty of practical and philosophical arguments for it.
I buy what I want to see more of, what I want to play for sure and that I know I will enjoy. Not necessarily all of the above at the same time for a given purchase. I pirate what I think is iffy or that I have no intention of buying anyway but that might still be enjoyable - such as remakes and remasters, unless it might lead to more new games being ported.
Xavier Thompson
The former also contains spyware/adware
Blake Clark
I used to pirate a lot, but now I feel like if it's not worth my money, it's definitely not worth my time.
Hudson Roberts
I pirate everything because it's free and there's a 0% chance I'll get caught. The only thing that could force me to buy a game is online multiplayer but I don't give a shit about that. >you wouldn't download a car Yes I fucking would.
Connor Phillips
I stopped pirating native PC games years ago (broken only with Metro Exodus because I won't support that bullshit Deep Silver and Epic pulled), but I don't give a shit if I own a real copy for anything I emulate, and that includes more modern consoles like the Switch
Hudson Reed
>It is unethical to charge for a download not an argument
