Torrenting Games

Redeemer and Destroyer said:
1. Torrenting is only fine for out of print games: Wrong. Also good for downloading banned literature that can't be found if you have an exceptional internet under a regime (e.g. China or some shit).

2. Buying the game and playing the cracked version: Fine.

3. "Fighting the system": LMAO nobody is fighting shit. Employees at EA still get paid. They're a multi-million dollar corporation and the number of torrenters does not even come CLOSE to outweighing the vast number of people who buy the game legitimately. Nothing is being shut down and you're fucking stupid for entertaining the thought.

Nobody is doing any bullshit "moral good" by torrenting by the way, but I'm not gonna support the stupid shit they do. TS2 and their expansions were worth it. $400 worth of expansions for TS3 is not worth it. $20 for a Murphy Bed that kills you in TS4? Get the fuck outta here.
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3. EA will have zero qualms killing a studio that doesn't meet its sales quota and that would cost the positions of the employees of that company (as we've seen repeately in the past). Yes, some of the money will go to EA but you'll still support some branch of EA that isn't total shit.

Like I said, it's your money but don't pretend it's a completely black and white decision. Also, arguing that it won't make a dent because a lot of people will buy the game regardless is completely inconsequential to whether it's justified.
 
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Rebel Wilson said:
Torrenting beats downloading 50 2mb zip files like it used to be.
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I used to download the rips because it was fascinating what they did to get it down in size. Recompressing audio, textures and everything else, having voices and FMV as a separate pack etc. I don't remember what the size limit was for the base game at the time, it might have been 120 megabytes for the base rip. It might have been Rune(2000) where a group compressed the textures to DXT without any loss in quality and the game ran better as a result while taking up way less space.

There are things to like about piracy that isn't about getting something for free.
 
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Cod of War said:
Getting pretty /v/ in here...

I recently torrented The Sims 2
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The Sims 2 is an example of a game that cannot be found through any legal means. EA doesn't care about the game anymore and if you want to "legally" play the game the best thing you can do is buy a used copy. Since the company isn't going to make money out of a used copy you might as well torrent/DDL it.

If you are into old videogames (especially the underdog ones) you're better off torrenting collections of isos/roms than buying the badly optimized versions sold out there. GOG gets a pass but GOG also has very few games tbh.

They don't even sell the DOS version of the first Fallout anymore (my personal white whale when it comes to gaming).
 
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Redeemer and Destroyer said:
Greedy corporations with shitty business tactics? Not giving them a single cent. Hard to find games that can only be found on a torrent? Sure. DRM bogging down your PC? Just wait for a crack. It's not just games either. Foreign TV shows paywalled behind an equally foreign website? Can't find it on Youtube? I could go on.
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Imagine wanting to consume the product of a corporation so hard, despite that corporation openly despising you, that you're willing to break the law in order to do so.

Maybe get a hobby that doesn't require you to break the law to suck a CEO's dick.
 
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I have no problem admitting I'm a pirate. Most of the games I've torrented were newer ones that were cracked for people that don't have Steam (or for people like me who just flat-out refuse to use it). The latest one being Sonic Mania, which surprisingly works on my potato, but the "& Knuckles" mode when playing as Knuckles crashes for me when I get to the final boss (probably a WINE thing since I use Linux).
 
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Back in the day when irl pirate shops where you can buy games for dirt cheap were already closed and online shops were yet to become useful/popular I used to pirate a lot, since there basically were no way to buy a game in my small town.
Now I torrent only when I want to play sims. Sims is 2pricey4me.
 
Slap47 said:
Doesn't really feel necessary since Steam added the refund feature. They pretty reliably do it.
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It's kind of interesting to me that the biggest factors in combating piracy haven't ever been DRM or new copyright laws. It's been the most simple quality of life considerations like that. I can't remember the last time I pirated a new game, with a couple exceptions that I knew were bad games.

I tend to yar har games I no longer have the physical copies to after fifteen or more years or just old games that are hard to get. Very rarely I'll do it for a game I know is garbage but want to experience firsthand, like ME:A (especially since I wanted to experience the utter shitshow that was 1.0) or Sonic Forces (though that one I probably could have bought and then refunded in the time it took me to wring the hilarity out of it, which isn't any better, really). Those games are hilarious in a trainwreck kind of way, but fuck paying for the experience.
 
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