Red_Avatar: In other words, you'd pay full price for any item even if it was utter crap?
Dude, cmon, there are reviews, gameplay videos, forums with user opinions all over the fucking place. You can get at least an idea if youll like the game or not just by searching a bit. If theres a game im not sure about, i just wait till it gets a price drop of buy it cheap second hand.
Red_Avatar: Western civilization and its economy is built around the right to try before you buy OR to get the chance to return it if you're unhappy. The software industry along with, in some countries, the movie industry, has made it so you CAN'T return games any more. Buy a game, you keep it even if it's shit. That's called taking a gamble - and all this because they're greedy fat cats who would rather take away our rights than to lose a dollar - the second hand market is dying because of them as well.
Yeah it would be great to have demos for every game. Unfortunately it doesnt happen. But that doesnt give you the right to pirate it.
On the other hand, the return system just wouldnt work with games. We know there would be a lot of people that would exploit it by buying a game, finishing it, and then returning it. So yeah, it would be possible to play the game for free. Return would never work.
Red_Avatar: It's called TRYING a game you dolt. I don't play it for more than hour or two tops - if I enjoy it, I'll want to keep playing meaning I'll buy it. If I don't enjoy it, then why was it worth buying in the first place? Maybe that's too complex for you to understand (especially considering the ridiculous point you made above) but trust me, it makes sense. The industry has tried to take away our right of trying before buying so I'm simply taking back what we deserve.
No matter how much you try to convince yourself that this is trying before you buy, its still PIRACY. Unless laws in UK are different, its piracy, period. I think this is too complex for you to understand, but if youre downloading a game you didnt buy or have the rights to, its technically piracy. If you want to try before you buy, get a demo, if you download the full game, its piracy, period, it doesnt matter how much time you spend on it or if you buy it later.
Red_Avatar: Besides, learn to read first - I clearly said all this (in less words, but still) in my original post.
I think youre the one who has to learn to read first. Ive said that downloading games you didnt pay for is piracy, and im right about that, no matter how much you deny it. I didnt criticize you or attacked you in any way, still your posts just seem to be rude agressive attacks towards me.
Im not even discussing moral issues around it. For me it doesnt matter. Some people think its ok to pirate, some dont. I do pirate sometimes myself when theres a game thats impossible to find anywhere and no one sells it anymore. Even though i have no moral issues with that, its still piracy.