Justify piracy, Yea Forums

I think pirating every AAA western game since 2013 is a moral duty

because ive yet to find non-pozzed studios/developers, even if their games are good.
pirated rain world recently and its an amazing game, but not giving my money to that globohomo scum.
also this

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did you read OP's pic?

ever since crytek revealed how much money they lost from people pirating crysis, i've made sure to go out of my way to pirate games from shitty developers like bioware twenty times so that i can make them lose even more money

Don't need to. I use piracy because I don't want to pay for shit games and if I like the game, I'll probably buy it. If other people choose not to buy the game at all, then so be it, I don't give a shit. If I ever release my game for a few bucks and people still pirate it, then I hope that they'll like it.
Damn, user, you think rain world is amazing even though you're new to it? That's somewhat rare.

sauce

Thing that never happen

I'm only playing the game because it was free. If I had to pay for it I'd pass.

if your business model depends on suckering people, it's a shit game. i wasn't going to buy it anyway.

>borrow a book from a library, scan every page into a pdf file, and return the book
>the publishing industry didn't crash
>download a ton of music as MP3 files from YouTube
>the music industry didn't crash
>search "watch (movie) online free" and download a movie
>the film industry didn't crash
>but apparently the games industry will crash if people can sit their ass down to torrent like 80 GB in game files

i know a good game when i play one.
accidentally went into the sewers and got softlocked though lol

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Keki make more latte lewds you silly faggot

There's nothing to justify. I don't want to pay for video games and so I steal them.

I'll justify my own piracy:
I don't give a fuck, gimme free shit.

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devtopics.com/no-silly-piracy-is-theft/

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>negative consumption mindset

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not
my
problem

Emulation is the only permanent form videogames have for preservation.

>it damages the industry
>game shop
Most game shops are fucking leeches and don't deserve a penny

>first try of rainworld and already hooked
christ man I've tried it three times and even though I can recognize how impressive it is on some level I can't extract enough fun from it to motivate myself to keep going. All the power to you.

>justifying piracy

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No one has to justify anything to someone who can't even justify his own position.

I am not paying $500 to play unemployed ninja on the nds because the game is hard to find.

Enjoy
Free as service
Game

Just in the last month I bought elden ring after pirating it and played code vein for 5 hours and uninstalled.
To be fair I wouldn't buy it if the game doesn't have replayability

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1. that's terror
2. A pirate copy isn't a "lost sale" - no money is taken out of Todd Howard's wallet because someone downloaded a crack of Skyrim - the pirate would likely not even bother with purchasing the game were it not available to be pirated. In a lot of cases the increased word of mouth caused by pirates just talking about the game leads to increased sales vs. no piracy at all. This was the findings of an independent marketing study the games industry has, and will continue to suppress. In fact, the term "piracy" comes from shady RIAA marketing attempting to equate the sharing of files with high-seas robbery.
3. The obsessive controlling nature of the games industry means that, in many cases, a pirate copy is a more valuable piece of software due to not being bloated down with shit like SecuROM and, more recently, Denuvo, which has been shown to have a negative impact on game performance.
4. The game industry as a whole has shown itself to be not worth financially supporting - buying games makes you responsible for the continued propagation of day-1-DLC, microtransactions and lootboxes, and games like Cyberpunk 2077 somehow both taking forever and getting shipped half-finished
5. Fuck you, paypig. Deal with it.

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People who pirate weren't going to buy the games in the first place if there's no torrents available

implying I play that dogshit kek

following this logic, the act of simply not buying a product, regardless of circumstance, is amount to theft of income. if you are aware of the existence of a product, you are obligated to buy it, otherwise you are a thief. or, in other words, a company is entitled to your money (they are, in fact, not)

I don't need to "justify" anything, I just do whatever I feel like for as long as I can get away with, since I am free person.
If you actually internalized "laws" and "morals" instead of seeing those at external obstacles, you have better things to do than playing video games, like cleaning malicious control routines out of your skull. Your freedom starts in your head.

Everyone pirates but I think Yea Forums is the only place where they try to act like they're badass for doing so, who gives a shit

I only give my money directly to companies that I like. I don't pirate anymore though, I just buy keys on grey market resellers.
>b-but user that's arguably even more damaging than pirating
Don't be a dipshit then.

every game i pirate is money saved. its like im printing money. just think logically. im literally ruining the economy. just download the same game over and over again until i have millions of dollars worth of games. how could you *NOT* pirate a game? its free money

Piracy is a customer service issue.

If I had to pirate, it means that it was the most convenient way for me to play your game
Next time, don't be a faggot

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All game
Soon be
Free as service
Game
Because
Piracy
Still
Exist

just FYI to all pirates.
you're responsible for direction of "f2p gacha" shit we're seeing.
if you're not willing to pay then companies will find ways to milk you.

You could power through, but it might be really tough, so, don't be afraid of resetting the entire playthrough if you are truly stuck. You'll be surprised at just how much better you will have gotten, which will make the early game much easier.
Also, experiment with everything you can, especially your own movement.

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Copyright is bullshit too, so this argument falls apart. If you can't establish yourself as the one true source of an intellectual property you made, and ensure it's easy enough to get your hands on legitimately that most people won't go to the trouble of piracy, you do not deserve to make money on your product.

I never believe in pirating modern games. If it's a good game, I will gladly reward you the money you ask. If it's a bad game, it's not worth the hard drive space on my computer.

Me personally, I find piracy to be completely justified if it's a game I already paid for, but I don't like them turning it into a subscription service (aka minecraft: Microsoft edition) or games on a subscription, like the upcoming playstation spartacus, or Nintendo Switch online. Also, if the game isn't available anymore, there's zero reason why I can't just download it from the internet.No, I'm not paying some scalper 500 dollars to pay for a functional copy of Chrono Trigger that isn't just a janky steam port.

>It damages the industry
I fucking wish

Piracy is okay okay for old games whose creators are probably not even in the industry anymore.

People like you cry about piracy and turn around and subscribe to game pass / playstation +

I don't typically pirate new games but I also don't typically play new games that don't have a demo. The last time I spent a significant amount on video games was that first big Steam festival where people were discovering shit like Rhythm Doctor and ULTRAKILL via demos.

>False equivalence rhetoric
No

>OH YEAH WELL HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE PIRATED SOMETHING YOU MADE
I wouldn't give a shit. I pirate stuff every fucking day. I'm not going to pretend it's lost revenue, that's such a massive cope.

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>signature
not theft, but fraud, different crime

>money
not theft, but counterfeiting, different crime

>copyright
not theft, but some other crime

A majority of people do not pirate games. Hell, a majority of that majority probably think's that they'll get arrested IRL for doing it. It quite literally does not matter.

>pirate $60 game 20 million times
>company loses $1,200,000,000 and has to file for bankruptcy
is it really that easy bros?

>make a bad argument for why piracy is theft
>argument falls apart with countless counterexamples
>"y-you're just using false equivalence"

The jews made it really hard to buy games in my country.

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Damn you not just piratefag
But a uncreative bankrupt with mental gymnastics

kill yourself tranny

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If a company is not selling it, they are not losing when i pirate it. Fuck the 2nd hand market.

>justify piracy
If I want it, I'll take it

Mad cope
Pirate =\= sharing

My justification is fuck you i want that shit for free

I dont read shitty web cartoons, i just assumed it had a trash opinion and ignored it.

Do you actually make stuff that people buy though, it's easy to say one something if you don't experience it

If someone can steal your IP and make a better product with its ideas, and distribute it better than you do, they have won the meritocracy. How well you USE an idea is as important as how well you GENERATE an idea. If you can't stick the landing, find someone to pair with creatively who CAN.

Piracy is a good thing because buyfags have already paid for my copy

>Identity theft
>harms the person whose identity was fraudulently used

>Counterfeiting currency
>harms the person who accepts fraudulent currency for real goods

>Copyright infringement
>harms literally no one and nothing

>baseless rambling with zero sources to back up any claims
looks like not an argument to me

When the government and corporations have genuinely tried to argue that adblockers are immoral, and that we should be forced to watch advertisements, then forgive me for not giving two shites about copyright.

>it damages the industry
oh no?

If your argument is that making copies of software is bad because income is lost, then anything that causes income to be lost is bad. Can you not into logic? Are you really this retarded?

Theft is unethical not because it deprives the victim of the finished product potential value, but because it removes the actual value of all materials and labor that went into that product.
An infinitely replicable (i.e. digital) product cannot lose the material or labor that went into the final product, so it is not unethical to copy that product.
Laborers are not entitled to the potential value of a product created or sold regardless of the actual value of the materials or labor used to make it. Just because you bake a cake does not mean people MUST buy it, so there is no ethical issue with not paying you for your labor and materials and replicating the final result without destroying the original.
Its literally ethically neutral which is why the law considers piracy separate from theft.

It's not copuright infringement. Copyright infringement is using someone elses' intellectual property to make money, and filesharing is done pretty much exclusively for a) why not and b) bragging rights.

I don't give a fuck about "the industry", I honestly hope it burns to the ground.