Pretending that piracy is morally defendable and not just owning up to the fact that you’re greedy and want free shit

>just turn your brain off, bro. Don't rationalize the choices you make in life.

>i wasn't gonna buy it anyways so they don't lose a sale
but this is correct

There is no way to rationalize piracy lol
Anything other then “I want free shit” is an excuse, at least if the game is new

This but unironically. Rationalizations always come after the fact. People act on impulse first, and then justify it later, when challenged by someone else who had a different impulse. The honest person makes no pretense about acting "rationally".

When they stop crunching I'll stop pirating.

okay I want free shit

Buy discounted games for pennies, pirate everything else. The patrician choice.

I'm currently emulating Lunar, Skies of Arcadia, Omega Boost, and many other games that have been lost to the sands of time and are no longer available. What is the problem?

How do feel about pirating games that developers no longer get money from or games that are literally impossible to obtain any other way?

agreed, piracy is horrible. That's why I don't do it, I just take what the pirates gives to me.

So?
I’ve legally killed a crack head.
He was raiding my tool shed throwing my shit on the back of his truck.
My sister borrowed my truck it looked like no one was home.
I shot him he went down then I called the police.
Took them like an hour to get here since I live in the sticks.
Cops paramedics the whole nine showed up.
I answered some questions, they took my gun as evidence and I got it back about 2 weeks later
Wasn’t heroic or anything special I was just protecting myself and my shit.

Developpers don't actually get money from sales, they just get a contract renewal for another underpaid crunch year, maybe. Publishers get all the money.
At least for the games you faggots play, that is.

I never said it was morally defendable but it doesn't make me greedy.

I did rationalize it. because I can nigger.

No one cares if you pirate games from 1988

But you're only not buying it because you stole it.

Do you at least feel a little bad that you took a life to protect your things? Just curious.

I give literally 0 fucks about any obligation to give billion dollar corporations money.

I’m fine with that
Pic related
Yes it does

Based and respectable

Spineless and blue pilled. If you cared you wouldn't play the game at all.

>at least the games you faggots play
I play Doom wads almost exclusively these days so take that for example. Romero and Carmack made thousands if not millions on doom directly but now don't make a dime. Am I wrong for having pirated the Doom IWADs? Also fuck publishers they are all scum.

Abandonware is fair game, I wanted to play Star Fox Assault a bit back and Nintendo doesn't sell it in any capacity so if they are bothered by me pirating it, they can lick my balls.

But I always admitted the latter, buttface.

Forgot pic oof

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Piracy is based as fuck and needs no defense.
No argument can be made to refute that fact

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If I could download your mom illegally I'd do that too and fuck her in every hole frequently.

I'm greedy and I want free shit and since no one is going to stop me i have no reason not to indulge in free shit

No. I am not greedy. When I pirate it is a calculated risk in regards to my finances. The way I see it is that you are in fact stupid for not pirating.

You don't have to support the industry to like games. I hate the fucking industry but I love videogames.

not only is it morally defendable it is also beneficial to the industry as it weeds out shit products and works as free advertising for good products.

>I love the product, but not the people who made it. Because of this, I will steal product

Everything is free, you cuck.
Have sex.

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>pretending that Day One DLC/Season Passes/Lootboxes/No physical release are morally defendable and not just owning up to the fact that you’re a dumb faggot and support destructive corporate greed

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Idc if you pirate as long as you don’t try to defend it

I do not step shyly back from your games, but look upon them always as my property, in which I respect nothing.

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People that pirate games need to be genocided

kys

I don’t play shit games, user

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pristine-inner-experience/201110/not-everyone-conducts-inner-speech

Literally NPC.

He emotionally abused some kid named Daniel Kyre so hard that he took a bunch of pills and became braindead and died in the hospital.

markiplier.fandom.com/wiki/Daniel_Kyre

reddit.com/r/Markiplier/comments/5804s8/mark_clears_the_air_about_matt_and_ryan/

>Idc if you pirate as long as you don’t try to defend it

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Yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't have bought anything for two decades or so.

I genuinely don't see anything wrong with pirating, in fact, I'd say it is morally superior to buying games.

honestly, we'd have a lot less of these threads if they just owned up to it

Huh? What are you trying to say, user? Use words.
If games are so shit, why do you even bother playing them?

I'm a poorfag from a poorfag country. It's not greed, it's resourcefulness. I don't have much to give and I'm not giving a cent more than I have to. Everyone needs some entertainment, I don't have to defend shit. Sincerely to the industry: thanks but no thanks, faggots.

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i am an e-nigger. thats my rationalization you fucking bitch

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The most pirated games also make the most money. Piracy helps the industry.

>morally defendable
Don't really care about some giant corporation. I have better things to save money for and I still want to indulge in my hobby so I do.

>BUY GAMES shill
Fuck off, nigger
Also, boys, start cunny thread

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:)

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>correlation is causation

I dont care, i really dont. Im not about to waste money on dumb shit like video games.

If it fits a linear regression model, it is true.

That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. The most pirated games are the games that are already the most popular. It doesn’t do shit but take away potential sales.

oh no they'll make a few less hundred thousand dollars to pile on top of their millions

Sure, piracy of regular commercial games is wrong, and greedy. But what about games that either aren't localized, can no longer be bought, or whose only copies can only be bought from second hand sources?

Then you could argue that isn't wrong to pirate when the company hasn't even bothered trying to give you a way to play. then you could argue that piracy is more of an act of preservation than stealing.

*Defensible

>/pol/fags hate blacks taking shit for free
>hate socialists and blacks getting handouts
>support capitalism and hate communists
>do all the same shit when it comes to video games
lmaoing at poltards rn

>oh no I murdered a couple hundred thousand puppies out of millions

As long as they are pitbulls, there's nothing wrong with that

>be a good goy and buy my games legally and fairly
>"hold on there goyim, you're only renting your game! Didn't you read the 500 page EULA that we didn't let you see until AFTER you purchased the game? Oh, and no refunds if you disagree!"
>"did we forget to mention that we can ban you for any reason we see fit, even if you did nothing wrong."
>"our license ran out for some of this content, so we're cutting it out after launch to resell back to you"
>"we have a new game coming out, so we're shutting down the multiplayer AND singleplayer servers. That'll be another 60 dollars please"
>"WTF WHY ARE YOU PIRATING YOU'RE SO GREEDY AND EVIL"

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its funny because this justifies piracy pretty well

>Pretending that anyone, even the developers them self, actually give a fuck about piracy when the gaming population has seen huge growth year after year for decades
>Thinking that anyone aside from suits in some board room that couldn't give less of a shit about games actually even discuss piracy when it comes to game sales or expected profit

No one gives a fuck, the most profitable games in the world are fucking free to play anyway, why would anyone even been looking at piracy these days???

>FUCKING FILTHY GREEDY JEWS WANTING MONEY TO GET SHIT
>FUCKING FILTHY LETIST RETARDS WANTING FREE SHIT
/pol/tards when they can’t afford something:

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No one has ever figured out if the comic is a stupid anti-piracy comic or a bizarre pro-piracy comic.

>defending a crackhead burglar raiding and trying to steal your stuff
go back to seattle

seeHow about you sell me a PRODUCT instead of a half-assed service that you'll shut down within a year?

Here's piracy rationalize: we pirate because we are cheap because we know the FBI won't catch us.

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I don’t play shit games, user

I do find a degree of respectability in people taking responsibility of their decisions even if they are shitty ones. Still, piracy deprives devs of their money, and worth games of their sequels, then again publishers manage to shit up success anyway. Whatever.

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>My 70 year old grandfather heard some noise outside one night
>Runs outside, sees two black teens trying to break into his garage where he kept a 1965 Ford Galaxie that my Father and him rebuilt in the 80's.
>Grandfather warned both to leaves.
>Teens told him to fuck off and reached for something
>Grandfather is a former military vet and had a gun with him. Shot both teens as he goes to the range after other week.
>Turns out both teens had a history of assault, break-ins, and whatnot.
>Grandfather was placed on three year probation
>Regrets killing two teens but "blackies shouldn't have been trying to steal my car".

This
I respect the chaotic evil grind desu

If everything becomes nothing but streaming service and my right to my games after a purchase stops being a thing completely, I'm going to start, I swear to God. My stance on digital is already shaky, this shit is going to break the camel's back instantly.

yes. am I supposed to feel bad or something?

>guy tasked with entertaining millions of people on a daily basis gets pushy with the schedule when his employees are not up to standard
>guy literally an heros
>this is somehow Mark’s fault

If I'm already not going to buy the game who cares?
People pay for good games.

No, but nobody will take you seriously if you pretend you’re some hero

Remove the first three and the 5th rationalization above the *the faggot* text and you get all the reasons I pirate shit

a bit isn't scarce

Yeah, I pirate shit, what're you gonna do about it ? spoiler : fuck all

Yea Forums thinks everything has a nefarious plot behind it

Idc if you pirate. Just own up to being the POS that you are

and people that buy games are heroes?

calm your shit man

>lost sale
Meme low iq post. Those that were not going to buy the game would have never done so, whether it is available freely or not. If you think restricting access to free games is going to compel people to buy them, you're in for a surprise too.

>False flagging pirates
Piracy is modern day libraries, nothing more and nothing less.
Free access to books only increased literature, and free access to the rest of media only increased media consumption.

and what makes someone a POS by pirating? because they don't feeling like giving sixty dollars in one of the multiple failing economies for a game that is probably garbage

I think one of the only morally justified reasons for pirating a game is if its some old game where the original developers won't see a dime of your puchase if you were to buy it today.

Don't sign your posts, stupid

Don't sign your posts

All that is mental gymnastics. You still want the game, you still play them, then you justify your piracy by saying the game is shit. You go into every game with negative expectations coming and try to pick apart its flaws and confirm your views. That's why you don't enjoy anything in life anymore user.

This. Videogames make more than music and cinema combined today and were doing so since 2013 or maybe even 2011 and yet the corporate drones still cry that "pirating" is going to kill them any moment now.

youtu.be/0Qkyt1wXNlI

>Buyfags
>Too broke from spending too much money on games
>Too dumb to learn how to torrent
>Prone to sunken cost justification, sheep mentality
>Willingly acts against their own interests to defend multi-billion dollar corporations

>Piratefags
>Makes better financial decisions with the hundreds of dollars saved not buying video games
>Researches how torrenting works, proving superior intelligence
>Doesn't owe multi-billion dollar corporations shit, is willing to think for himself
>Plays games weeks before they're even out
>Makes buyfags SEETHE for decades

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Except I have a library of games I legally purchased from devs that don't treat me like garbage. Its almost as if treating me with respect is the best way to get my money.

Fucking pillaging murderers
>get literally anything they want for free by stealing money
>smart enough to avoid police, shows superior intelligence
>work against the corrupt human race as a whole
>go against sheep mentality

>$90 for a video game not including DLC

Get fucked. I'm going to play it for free until it drops to a reasonable price. I feel like Canada should get special prices like Russia because this shit is retarded.

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lol

Modern day libraries still only allow X amount of people to rent content and until someone returns said content you can't get it back. Your argument would only hold water if you could pirate stuff but until X amount of people uninstalled the game others couldn't use it.

I don't buy new games any more, I just get them a year or two later when the price is significantly dropped.

I don't have any friends to play multiplayer shit with anyway so whatever.

>game doesn't have demo
>pirate it
>like it
>buy it
Did this for Dying Light

Morality is a human construct

There's nothing wrong or right with pirating or buying. At the end of the day, it matters what you have and get away with. The only thing to fear in life is retaliation that makes your life harder.

If it's easy to pirate it's the fault of the medium, you literally can't download a car but software and media is easily downloadable. If the merchant can't tank a small percentage of people pirating they should not have gone into that business to begin with.

I just bought dying light and played some of it. Solid game but it feels it's going to be a slog further in. Is it fun the whole way through?

What if I admit I am a greedy shit but also do want the company making the game to go bankrupt?

robots pls

As long as you delete if I’d you dislike it

It gets better when you get to the old town

I don't give a shit if it's morally defensible or not. I like free shit. If that makes me an asshole, oh well.

So full of shit. I'm sure the majority of people who pirate lie to themselves and once they're playing it they just finish it and never buy it. I don't believe you.

>white knighting for huge corporations that push faggot shit and pay no taxes
Into the oven you go

wasn't he just WAL-MART store brand Pewdiepie?

If piracy did not exist, publishers would have absolute power to kill games and whitewash history. The corporate bootlicker drone sees no issue with this

what if the game is out of print?

If there’s no other way to play, do it

Games have gotten so shit I don't even pirate anymore.
Pirated yakuza but it was actually good so I ended up buying it. It's a rare event nowadays though.

yes i am a cheapskate, what are you going to do about it?

Depends on how poor you are. I pirate and buy but only if the game has soul or isn't full of Californian non white signaling.

Human life is one of the few things we can infinitely
"life is sacred" is pure sentimental belief with no rational basis in reality now that we have a population in the billions. My life is worthless, so are all of yours. Doesn't really change anything. but I don't get choked up over it.

I'm not going to pretend it's a moral act. But at the same time I can't say i feel too much sympathy when that companies next Microtransaction will bring in more revenue than I'll make in my entire lifespan.

>lot's of shit games with low to zero QA/testing
>pirating everything
>buying only stuff that is fucking awesome, or at least more fun than broken
The only way to support and guide game industry. Whoever screaming "piracy is wrong" while buying all that shit under "supporting the lazyass developers" flag should fucking kill themselves.

Richfags and corporations cheat the system with tax evasion, corruption and slave labor.

Poorfags cheat the system by pirating.

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*infinitely reproduce

I did rationalize it, I just don't discuss it online :^)

it allows me to play games i wouldn't have bought in the first place.
think about all those ps2 or whatever games from yesteryear that you only got to when you were able to get them for free

never would have played this since i never even knew it existed until long after the ps2 was dead, thank god for the internet

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no demo
no buy

imagine a situation where you go to buy a car and they just give you the mechanically functional parts of a car but there's no seats or steering wheel (you have to rotate the column yourself), etc.
now imagine they let you buy crates that have a chance to contain the car part you're looking for, like a seat
now imagine people just decide to steal whole cars
this is piracy in 2019, yes it's fucking defensible

ms paint comics win every argument, i concede

Stay mad

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