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REMercsChamp posted...

pinky0926 posted...

REMercsChamp posted...

Why? It's 0 cost to the company because these guys weren't going to buy the game anyway. And like others have said, the games are too expensive. They can lower the prices if they want more people to buy it.

Content creator: *makes thing*
Content creator: "Ok guys, here's the condition if you want to enjoy the thing that I made. You just have to pay X. Since I made this thing, I feel it's ok for me to set the terms of its use."
Customer: "Well, I don't want to pay X."
Content creator: "Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that, but that's what it costs."
Customer: "Nah. I'm just going to enjoy the thing that you made, but not pay you for it."
Content creator: "But...that's not the deal."
Customer: "What? You haven't lost anything out of this. I just want to have it. Give it to me."

^Pirating games in a nutshell.

And what about people who want to play the game but can't afford it/don't want to pay for it? They're just pathetic pieces of shit according to you, right?

I want lots of things I can't afford. Turns out I don't just get to have those things because I want them.

And bullshit, to be honest. Most pirates very much can afford the games they pirate, and frankly if piracy wasn't an option you can bet people would be buying a lot more.

Now if you had made the argument that games companies and the industry were not providing a great service that can compete with the convenience of piracy and that their anti-consumer tactics of DRM are plain unethical I could see your point, although that's largely done away with thanks to Steam and changes of recent years to much of this. But we both know that's not really why you pirate, and neither does financial solvency.
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