If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing

[Evaccaneer Doom]

True…

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

That is the main reason I don't actively support Switch emulation. A lot of people using it to pirate indie games on android phones and other under powered systems since they're a lot easier to emulate. I'm also not actively going to go against emulating the Switch, but it's like really, you're doing that to pirate Indie games which are often very small teams just trying to make ends meat.

Personally I don't emulate a console that is still being sold in store, that's my only limit.

Yes, I could, theoretically, if I wanted to, emulate even the Xbox One, Xbox Series, PS4 and even the PS5 to some extent but I wouldn't.

Even the 3DS is still fairly recent to me but I'm slowly starting to emulate games I can literally not get.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Conglomerates are greedy what else is new?

 

[What's His Face]

That's better than "the customer is always right".

Uhg. That's where Karen's came from. Customers are NOT always right, and companies do NOT have to cater to their customers, too. But companies who don't make the attempt (aka "give them the pickle") tend to fail as the customers go elsewhere.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Uhg. That's where Karen's came from. Customers are NOT always right, and companies do NOT have to cater to their customers, too. But companies who don't make the attempt (aka "give them the pickle") tend to fail as the customers go elsewhere.

This quote is too often taken out of context:

The actual saying is: "the customer is always right in matters of taste".

 

[Goshikk]

YOU WILL PAY 80 DOLLARS FOR AN UNOPTIMIZED GAME THAT DOESN'T EVEN RUN ON A 5090 AND YOU WILL ENJOY NOT ACTUALLY OWNING IT

YOU FILTHY RAT

 

[Retro Doomer]

For Legal reasons I have to contemn that statement but on a personal opinion level

Sailing the seas is good for your health I suppose so join the navy earn your money and.....buy those games.
I do despise when I buy something and get forced to sign a contract or user agreement after I bought that cursed game and not before especially games you can't refund like on the ps3 and Ps4 if that is not a scam I do not know what is.
And of course when I buy something I assume to own the game its called buying for a reason and not renting we have a language and words for a reason and the words should mean what they mean and that also on a legal level so if I buy something I better fucking own the game I am not renting I am buying.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

But please, give money to indie devs if the game is good.

I mean if the game's bad I'd uninstall it too.

 

[Dyne]

Sharing is caring.
Selling something that is inherently able to be easily duplicated and then demanding nobody duplicates it to share is stupid.

 

[MrYesterday]

Sharing is caring.
Selling something that is inherently able to be easily duplicated and then demanding nobody duplicates it to share is stupid.

I respect GOG for demanding all games posted to their store to be DRM-free

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But please, give money to indie devs if the game is good.

I mean if the game's bad I'd uninstall it too.

True dat, though. (most) Popular indie devs deserve all praise they get

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I respect GOG for demanding all games posted to their store to be DRM-free.

I like sharing some to close relatives but not to random people online.

I'll steal that meme.

True dat, though. (most) Popular indie devs deserve all praise they get.

If the game is good obviously. If I don't like it I could delete the game anytime.

So far I've only pirated Deadlight, World of Goo and Rogue Legacy but at the end I've bought the first two and deleted the last because I didn't like it that much.

 

[nathman]

 

[Adachi_08]

Pirating a game can be like a free trial, to check out if you like the game or not. I did that a couple of times. Probably the best example is Armored Core 6 Which i just fell in love with. Completed pirated version for all three endings and then bought the game and completed another 6 times, that's how much i loved it.

But i digress. Technically speaking you dont buy programs as is, like a car or a house, just a lisence. But what trend im seeing nowadays is that subscription models are being showed EVERYWHERE. And any of the stuff you buy isnt your property according to big corpo.

 

[NOTthatHARD]

truer words have never been spoken.

 

[Goshikk]

if that is not a scam I do not know what is.

pyramid schemes maybe

But please, give money to indie devs if the game is good.

the thing is. i don't pirate games because of some philosophical allignment... i just pirate the ones i cant afford lol

AAA games also take a while to make and buying them does pay developers. i buy what i can afford, that's it

So far I've only pirated Deadlight, World of Goo and Rogue Legacy

you've only pirated 3 games? like in your LIFE?

I must have pirated over a thousand games... from buying multi carts for the SNES in the 90s all the way to today

 

[χKai]

Killing isn't murder

 

[Guinea]

Nintendo: The digital future...

Sony: Will always belong...

Microsoft: To us....

Pirates: *takes a mighty chug of rum* ....nay, it belongs to us.

 

[DanCalibur]

Pay your house subscription!!

 

[NOTthatHARD]

Killing isn't murder

Not if you are killing a spider or a roach, in that case it becomes JUSTICE.

 

[χKai]

Not if you are killing a spider or a roach, in that case it becomes JUSTICE.

I love spiders 🕷

 

[NOTthatHARD]

I love spiders 🕷

So you are one of "those" people, I see.

 

[χKai]

So you are one of "those" people, I see.

I love everybody.

 

[Guinea]

I love spiders 🕷

I do too, but not just any spider, tarantulas.

I had a rose-haired tarantula that lived to be seven years old. She had a house made out of half a coconut, and ate crickets every day (with the occasional random bug I'd find outside)

Tarantulas are cool. They aren't scary. They chill in thier coconut, come out every once in a while to eat a bug, then go back in their house to chill. Tarantulas are the only spider that doesn't freak me out despite them being big af. In fact, my tarantula, Rosy, NEVER BIT ME, even though she still had fangs. Ugh, I swear, spiders get a bad rap just because they have a buncha legs.

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

Blame the WEF and their cronies for the cruel enshittification of practically every faucet of life
"You will own nuthin' and eat ze bugs!'
I'm seriously losing my patience with those MFs! >:(

 

[DragonMals]

This is common knowledge. At last there's GOG, which actually lets you keep the games you own. And there are still some people who use GOG to this day!