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[x2yzh9]

Ok, i figured this was the right place to put this topic so-
What do you think of pirating?
Personally, i have to rant a bit. I believe that the company should sell their game however they see fit, even though i do dislike it sometimes, i dont go to the low of pirating. If you just payed $60 dollars for a crap game, it was the companys choice to make the (Crap)game sell for 60, even though almost all new games cost that much. If you feel like you were cheated out of your money, why dont you read online reviews/the back of the case first? I hate pirating, so.
On a side note, i believe the pirate bay got purchased by a swedish telemarketer company

[Rilder]

Pirates of the burning sea is a good pirate mmo, bit of a grind fest though.

Oh wrong kind of piracy.

(BTW toady doesn't want people discussing torrents and what not IIRC)

[Wooty]

Piracy leads to raised prices leading to more piracy, cycle continues until companies are charging $60 and most of us couldn't buy new games if we wanted to. That's one excuse anyway.

(It should be fine as long as we're only talking about it legally and morally wise and not mentioning any specifics or admitting to doing it)

[Neonivek]

I will put my vote in that this Topic will end badly right now. It is destined by the stars!

[Ivefan]

Ooh. i sense a flamewar.
Games has always been rediculously expensive to buy even if the price might have increase somewhat.
If piracy completely stopped the sales might increase slightly but I do not belive it matters much at all.
Readin the back of the case is rather stupid, It's made to scream "BUY ME" to whoever reads it. It's the same as asking a fanatic if his beliefs are any good.

And i'll add my vote to Neons

[Zai]

I enjoy watching swashbuckling pirates engage in fisticuffs.

I will put my vote in that this Topic will end badly right now. It is destined by the stars!

Yes. QUICK. LOCK IT! NOW! BEFORE ANYTHING EVERYTHING BAD HAPPENS!

[Karlito]

I enjoy watching swashbuckling pirates engage in fisticuffs.

If they're swashbuckling, then they aren't engaging in fisticuffs.


And our last 3 pirating discussions ended in a horrible blazing fireball, so it might be wise to kill this one quickly.

[LegoLord]

I know people in the book business, so naturally I view copyright infringement of any sort (unless some crap has gone wrong with a legitimately obtained disk) as one of the most evil economically oriented acts the common person can do.  More people need that income than the company CEOs, after all . . . the employees get payed by that too.  Even janitors, I imagine.

But yes, this thread probably won't last long. [leaves discussion forever]

[Deon]

Yarr dirty ninjas! Your shanengans won't last long!

[Anfold]

[x2yzh9]

Hum, well, i just wanted to put this topic up here as is was thinking.. I'm helping program a game with a team right now and i finally realized my end of it. Albeit i won't accept any income from the game, it's a sci-fi space MMO though, can do stuff like[once its finished]walk around, ships need to have a crew to actually participate in combat(most of the time, unless you just rotated your ship and ran to the tactical console) anyway, it's fairly weird to think a MMO can be pirated. at the end you can go into a RTS mode on planets and place roads, buildings that actually have uses, and you can walk around... pretty complicated. Going to cover a large portion of the milky way galaxy, as databasing and coding the whole milky way would take years.

[Deon]

it's fairly weird to think a MMO can be pirated

Ultima Online, Lineage, Counter-strike, half-life series, Warcraft, WoW, a lot of other examples.

[Jackrabbit]

Yargh, matey. Them bastards what stole our name deserve to walk the plank and no mistake! I'm sure you'll agree.

[Zai]

I enjoy watching swashbuckling pirates engage in fisticuffs.

If they're swashbuckling, then they aren't engaging in fisticuffs.

Bah! Real men swashbuckle as they engage in fisticuffs!

[kcwong]

Ooh. i sense a flamewar.
Games has always been ridiculously expensive to buy even if the price might have increase somewhat.

I disagree... compared to most other forms of entertainment for a per hour price, game prices are dirt cheap even when you only play through them once. Big game titles take over years to develop... think how much the development team's salaries cost alone.


People (as a whole) are scum; if they can get away with pirating, they will do it regardless of price or if they can afford it, and in the process make all sorts of excuse to justify the stealing. It's human nature; you can see the same with drug abuse, excessive drinking, gambling and smoking.

Piracy can never be stopped completely, but only reduce it by criminalizing piracy and actively hunt them down and send them to jail. The moment you stop hunting them, piracy returns in full force.