It seems that you're using an outdated browser. Some things may not work as they should (or don't work at all).
We suggest you upgrade newer and better browser like: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera

×
Community
General discussion (archive)Is Piracy REALLY THAT much of a problem nowadays?(53 posts)(53 posts)
(53 posts)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
This is my favourite topic
Posted June 19, 2011
I remember i used to have a hacked ps 1 back then since some of the jrpg games never got released in europe and i mostly had to import them or buy them at the local gamestore where they sold us released for 40 % more then the european game releases. The only thing im pirating now are anime series since none of them come to europe.
Post edited June 19, 2011 by hercufles
Posted June 19, 2011
avatar
StingingVelvet: Not to be Mr. Pro-Piracy but if you bought the game on GOG and sent EA some cash I don't think you're really being much of an asshole if you download the expansion elsewhere. If GOG ends up selling the expansions instead of giving them away you can just make up for it and buy them then.

The key for me is that you support developers and publishers. As long as you do that I think you're morally in the clear. For instance I bought Alice back in the day and I just paid full price for Alice Madness Returns. Because I wanted a box though I don't have the remastered Alice in my version, which is frankly BS. I don't think it would be morally wrong of me at all to download that remastered version somewhere because I supported both games with full price purchases and will buy the remastered version if it ever comes out separately.
In GOG you support publishers (right holders is a more correct term) rather than developers. There are some exceptions like the Broken Sword games, but that´s not the case of any of the EA games... Anyway I´m fine with it.
Post edited June 19, 2011 by tejozaszaszas
Posted June 19, 2011
avatar
StingingVelvet: Not to be Mr. Pro-Piracy but if you bought the game on GOG and sent EA some cash I don't think you're really being much of an asshole if you download the expansion elsewhere. If GOG ends up selling the expansions instead of giving them away you can just make up for it and buy them then.

The key for me is that you support developers and publishers. As long as you do that I think you're morally in the clear. For instance I bought Alice back in the day and I just paid full price for Alice Madness Returns. Because I wanted a box though I don't have the remastered Alice in my version, which is frankly BS. I don't think it would be morally wrong of me at all to download that remastered version somewhere because I supported both games with full price purchases and will buy the remastered version if it ever comes out separately.
avatar
tejozaszaszas: In GOG you support publishers (right holders is a more correct term) rather than developers. There are some exceptions like the Broken Sword games, but that´s not the case of any of the EA games... Anyway I´m fine with it.
More correctly, the law supports publishers rather than developers.

He who has the capital has the greatest ability to generate more capital as he holds the big end of the stick.
Post edited June 19, 2011 by Magnitus
Posted June 19, 2011
avatar
tejozaszaszas: In GOG you support publishers (right holders is a more correct term) rather than developers. There are some exceptions like the Broken Sword games, but that´s not the case of any of the EA games... Anyway I´m fine with it.
True, with GOG most of the time you are supporting publishers for their IP control more than anything. That said publishers invest in new IP on the basis of knowing that will happen down the line, so it still spurs development.
Posted June 19, 2011
avatar
Aliasalpha: Bollocks its not, a very quick search found xbox version of la noire, alice 2 & crysis 2 as well as the ps3 version (not that there's any other) of infamous 2.

When people say there's minimal piracy problems on consoles it just shows they haven't done the research. I strongly suspect that the only reason the PS3 seems to have less piracy than the 360 is because the cost of the equipment & media needed to burn bluray isos is more expensive than its worth
avatar
Nisei: Oh come on!, you know what I'm talking about. You know as well as I do that to play copied games on a console you have to go to the trouble of hacking it (or have someone else do it for you which is going to cost money) and after that you're risking to lose your online account. Only way to get around this is by buying a second console to use for online gaming and having a hacked one for playing copied games. Not quite as troublesome as downloading a cracked PC game is it? How many people do you know using a hacked console?
Consoles are really cheap and the PS3 can be software hacked. So it's really easy and free (obviously not the console, but PCs aren't free either). Most console piracy allows you to play games right off the hard drive so you don't need to burn media. Console piracy is through the roof and a second console these days is only the cost of about 3 new games so a pirate doesn't have to risk his online account at all.

I won't even go into handheld piracy, it dwarfs all PC piracy by an order of magnitude.
Post edited June 19, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted June 20, 2011
I only went scrounging for this trading card game because it's no longer sold anywhere.

After torrenting the entire thing in under a minute (damn, I wish I could get torrent speed from Steam) I came to find that most of the files were incomplete or had no bytes what so ever.

I tried several times over and over only to keep getting incomplete files (and racked up about $30 bandwidth charge in doing so =/ ).

But from what I've seen, this is pretty much the gist of attempting to sneak software off the net - it's a big run around that results in wasted time and viruses.
Posted June 20, 2011
avatar
carnival73: I only went scrounging for this trading card game because it's no longer sold anywhere.

After torrenting the entire thing in under a minute (damn, I wish I could get torrent speed from Steam) I came to find that most of the files were incomplete or had no bytes what so ever.

I tried several times over and over only to keep getting incomplete files (and racked up about $30 bandwidth charge in doing so =/ ).

But from what I've seen, this is pretty much the gist of attempting to sneak software off the net - it's a big run around that results in wasted time and viruses.
Not really...you just need to know where to get what you want beforehand, and also invest in unlimited bandwidth. ;)
Posted June 20, 2011
avatar
carnival73: I only went scrounging for this trading card game because it's no longer sold anywhere.

After torrenting the entire thing in under a minute (damn, I wish I could get torrent speed from Steam) I came to find that most of the files were incomplete or had no bytes what so ever.

I tried several times over and over only to keep getting incomplete files (and racked up about $30 bandwidth charge in doing so =/ ).

But from what I've seen, this is pretty much the gist of attempting to sneak software off the net - it's a big run around that results in wasted time and viruses.
avatar
GameRager: Not really...you just need to know where to get what you want beforehand, and also invest in unlimited bandwidth. ;)
That would work but he's in NEW ZEALAND. They fuck you up the ass, in both ears and every single pore you have for moneys with bandwith. I fucking hated that about NZ.

Australia has just recently FINALLY made unlimited feasible (money wise) but I've heard many complain that the speed actually drops so I suspect it isn't quite "FULLY UNLIMITED" - more they simply gave you no limit on cap but made you slower so you can't really do that much r.e. raping the bandwith.

Shrug.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
This is my favourite topic
Community
General discussion (archive)Is Piracy REALLY THAT much of a problem nowadays?(53 posts)(53 posts)
(53 posts)