What do you think about piracy?

[Anomalous ⁧ 󠁳 ⁧Anonymous]

just curious

[Boblin the Goblin]

Messaggio originale di Dracoco OwO:

Messaggio originale di SlowMango:

It isn't a problem on my side.

It's not hard to understand they want to kill the second hand market because they aren't getting any money from that.

Ironically, most of the content that's pirated(games no longer being sold or made) doesn't make them any money either.

By their own choice as well since Steam proved piracy is a availability problem. If they made those older games available(at a reasonable price) people wouldn't converge toward pirating them.

[skipper]

Dont mind old emulators etc like amiga what not for sale no more but any what are to buy is a no no.

[Mokato]

Piracy is the only way to preserve games and for others the only way to play overpriced games and consoles

[skOsH♥]

Messaggio originale di Mr Jt (Gog is king):

Ethical when it comes to denuvo

Agreed.

When companies have denuvo in their game...I don't buy it. I made one mistake and bought a game with it. I played it for less than like, 30 minutes. I don't pirate games though, I just refuse to play the denuvo ones

What's really disturbing, is that denuvo says that they only leave one file on your computer when you remove the game with their DRM in it, and they say you're free to remove that one file, but look everywhere on the internet--there is no file name for it, or where it would be in the filesystem, or even a how to on how to remove it. That's disturbing.

[TwisterCat]

Very complex subject. I, quite apparently, choose to support the developer in most cases, unless the software is quite literally unattainable in certain circumstances.

As for other people, I know very little about them. I trust their judgement, and as always, leave their choices at their own discretion, I'm not one to judge.

[crunchyfrog]

Piracy is something that's there for a reason.

Aside from the obvious "people not wanting to pay for stuff", there's the valid questions like service issues, and historical retention.

So, as some have said before, piracy can well be people doing it because you made access to your product too inihbiting in some way. Maybe you didn't make it avialable in a certain region - Valve were all too aware of this when they found out how much Russians torrented their games. Looked what happned when they opened up their market to Russia!

But there's also the history part of it too - many games are considered "lost" these days according to expert data.

Piracy can help retain and preserve such things.

Hell movies and TV shows demonstrate this VERY well. The well loved Doctor Who series would not be a thing on sell through video if it weren't for people copying. Because BBC were always notirously ♥♥♥♥ at keeping hold of copies.

[SagaxRabbit]

I suspect that piracy would have been quite a headache for the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English during the prime time between the 1650's and 1730's, but at this day and age it makes for interesting stories where treasure hunters have to search for stashed or sunken loot.
For the Somalians trying to keep the tradition of piracy alive and kicking... yeah no, they should definitely consider a serious change in their career choice. Makes for entertaining videos when they get shot out of the water though.

[Haruspex]

Necessary for the historical preservation of video games.

Pirates gonna pirate, but if the publishers can provide a better service than the pirates, the games will sell anyway.

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

I like how I went into this thread and then this game appears in my new and trending on the steam store

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/Shadow_Gambit_The_Cursed_Crew/


I LOVE ME SOME PIRATES!


Piracy of digital goods I am clearly against if you couldn't tell by my outrageous steam game count.

[couldbehope]

Messaggio originale di Knee:

Messaggio originale di Integrity Girl2009:

K. My brain is to uneducated to know what "piracy" is.

Downloading games without paying for them

Mm okay

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Messaggio originale di Integrity Girl2009:

Messaggio originale di Knee:

Downloading games without paying for them

Mm okay

It's not just games people pirate tho, movies, porn, anything digital can be pirated, you can also get on a boat and go to the 7 seas and plunder other ships.

[couldbehope]

Messaggio originale di Sarge an actual adult American?:

Messaggio originale di Integrity Girl2009:

Mm okay

It's not just games people pirate tho, movies, porn, anything digital can be pirated, you can also get on a boat and go to the 7 seas and plunder other ships.

Ppl shouldn't pay for porn cause they shouldn't look at it. Freaks..

[Sarge the Comfy Gaming Doggo]

Messaggio originale di Integrity Girl2009:

Messaggio originale di Sarge an actual adult American?:

It's not just games people pirate tho, movies, porn, anything digital can be pirated, you can also get on a boat and go to the 7 seas and plunder other ships.

Ppl shouldn't pay for porn cause they shouldn't look at it. Freaks..

Well, freewill and all that, but if no one paid for porn ever there wouldn't be much of an industry.

It makes a lot of money even with the extreme piracy that goes on with that

[Crazy Tiger]

Messaggio originale di Sarge an actual adult American?:

I like how I went into this thread and then this game appears in my new and trending on the steam store

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1545560/Shadow_Gambit_The_Cursed_Crew/


I LOVE ME SOME PIRATES!


Piracy of digital goods I am clearly against if you couldn't tell by my outrageous steam game count.

Nice shout, wishlisted!

[couldbehope]

Messaggio originale di Sarge an actual adult American?:

Messaggio originale di Integrity Girl2009:

Ppl shouldn't pay for porn cause they shouldn't look at it. Freaks..

Well, freewill and all that, but if no one paid for porn ever there wouldn't be much of an industry.

It makes a lot of money even with the extreme piracy that goes on with that

That's unfortunate..