I think Jim Sterling of Destructoid had one of the best summations of this argument. As for what I do, well it depends on the situation. If the game's out of print or the publisher's defunct it's probably not going to hurt anybody if you download the game instead of buying a used copy off eBay, obviously. If you're…
word I buy games so hard now I can afford it, I feel guilty for even getting games on the cheap when they haven't sold so well. edit: to keep on topic and not derail, I don't really know anyone who pirates games any more either. I know one guy who plays homebrew on psp (does this count???) but as far as I know, no one who…
Actually, thats pretty funny. I'm curious what a hardcore gamer with tons of pirated games would do if you just deleted everything they 'owned' and 'worked for'. Irony is awesome!
I really don't understand the lengths some people will go to pirate games. Seriously, GFWL is such a pain in the ass at the best of times, I can't even imagine trying to work around that on cracked versions.
I think company's like Blockbuster and what not are worse than pirates. They buy copies of the game for 60 bucks, rent them out for like 5 days to people for 5 bucks. After about 3 months they start to make a profit on these games. At least pirates arnt making money off the games they steal. As for friends who do the whole…
I dont do anything... what can you do? Its not my responsibility or job to try to stop people from pirating games. Thats up to the authorities and head honchos in the gaming industry to figure out.
I wouldn't call it pirating but it causes the exact same problems for the game industry. But pirating isnt 100% bad. There are people who use it as a demo service to help them decide which games to buy, and if they didnt have this demo then they just wouldn't buy it. It also helps increasing the fan base and popularity of…