Yea Forums give me your best argument as to why it's okay to pirate/emulate brand new games with no intention of ever...

But what if you eventually get caught?

>cumbrain has to look at an anime girl EVERY 10 seconds or he will become impotent

Because I’m a fucking asshole, now pissoff!

Here you go.

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Just cool people having fun B)
Dont seethe ovee it boomer cumbrain.

Very very low chance of that ever happening. People have been pirating music for years and when have you met someone who's actually been caught for doing that. Not to mention people can mask their IPs or do other shit if they want to add another layer... but honestly the police and big corps have more important things to waste resources on than some poor neckbeard pirating Spyro.

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Because I can

It's not on my preferred platform, if everything came to PC I'd buy them.

This is already a stale pasta

I only pirate under two circumstances.
1) Game is in another region and the company won't spend the money to localize/support it. Usually Japan.
2) Game is vastly underprinted and you can't find a copy of it without buying it above market value on a site like ebay.

Basically, I only pirate when the company doesn't support the game.

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I can do it and you can't stop me.
>why it's okay
Who cares?

>But what if you eventually get caught?
People get in trouble for distributing the thing they are pirating. Not only do they hand out their IP to everyone during a torrent, but they are technically distributing the game to dozens/hundreds/thousands and that's how those $50k lawsuits happen. Don't be a moron with your torrents.

If you're not even planning on buying it anyway, then they haven't lost any money from you pirating it.

>Who cares?
Small and medium developers who can't make their next game because not enough people bought the last one.

This is the catch 22 of pirating. High budget games get a smaller percentage of piracy, because everyone buys into the hype and expects it will be good. Smaller games where every sale counts end up getting a higher percentage of piracy, because people want to "try it out first." Since the game doesn't have millions in advertising and hype. This is why high budget IPs keep getting bigger while smaller IPs keep dying.

because OP is a shitbird

>actual hardware is piss weak
>could be playing that game at 60+ fps at native res with AA
>if it's an FPS it could be played with a keyboard and mouse

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Piracy is a better customer experience. When you buy a game you spend money only to have to wait in a stuffy game store or wait for shipping or wait for a long inefficient download. When you pirate you just download from your own source, load it onto your hardware (which can usually be customized) and play on your terms. You don't even own the games you buy anymore, even physical games you're just buying a license to play the game and receive updates. You never have to search for the best price, because there is no cost. You don't have to worry about lawsuits because game companies can't possibly sue everyone and anonymous services exist to mask your identity. You can continue to play pirated games even after retail games receive mandatory updates than can effect gameplay, and yet you can always choose to update a pirated game, again on your terms. The only reason I ever buy games are for physical collectibles.

tl;dr DRM and corporate greed ruined the premise of buying a game

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I mean, how many people pirating really care if it's okay to pirate or not? I don't need to justify myself to you. It's a bit silly to think that people pirating, or even just most people pirating, are doing so because they have some sort of internal justification for doing so.

For me, I just pirate porn because I'm not going to be paying for porn. I don't pirate modern AAA games because they're too litigious about such things and because the games are pretty shit anyways. I don't pirate modern indie titles because I can spare $20 if I really want to play the game that bad. If you somehow want a reasoning behind it, there you go. But I'm not going to start buying games off DLSite JP because you think you can guilt trip me into caring about the small time developers.

Do you have any sources to back up those claims, because I'm pretty sure small games receiving a larger percentage just means that no one is buying it in the first place and large games get more piracy but because of their scope they technically have a lower percentage because of the huge difference in sales.

I never said you needed to justify it to me. I was just answering someone who asked a question. And my post got at least one person to think more about it.

I wasn't going to buy it anyway so they aren't losing a sale

Also because I can

It's not about guilt tripping. It's about if you want a series to continue. If you really like a game, porn or not, then giving the developer money is the only way they have an incentive to make another game. If you don't care about getting more games from them, then you might as well pirate it. But the people out there who pirate a series like Suikoden or Viewtiful Joe, then bitch and moan when more games don't get made have only themselves to blame.

To be fair, purchasing either of those series today isn't going to encourage anyone to make more of them. It's sort of a limited time deal. If you weren't playing Viewtiful Joe when it came out, then how much you liked it or want to purchase it now means little.

Because I can. I don't need a reason

Define "okay."

I'm not saying people need to purchase it today. They needed to buy them back when they were released, yes. I just used those examples because they're old enough for people to recognize them. And they have a small but strong fanbase who cry about not getting more sequels. Same as Mother. But the vast majority of people played these games through emulation. They didn't buy it. And they're still confused why more games don't get made? Fucking idiots.

What if God smites me with thunder next time I go to buy soda?

Because Tim already paid for it for me.