Why do you pirate your Games? How you justify?

[deso2y]

You won't get it, it's a sigma male thing

 

[topsikrets]

I'm not gonna pay for something I can get for free. Only a sucker does that.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Honestly, at this point I have so many games I pirate to see if it will be a game I'll actually play long term or not. Even then I tend to wait for a fairly deep sale unless it really grabs my interest like Rimworld or Oxygen Not Included.

 

[Road Work Ahead]

I really only pirate retro games. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for old cartridges (that the devs wouldn't even get a cut of any way), and I'm not going to buy digital releases because my autism compels be to play on original hardware with a CRT television like God intended.

 

[Coldgrip]

Fuck you, that's why.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Resident Evil 8 Pirates Claim That Removing DRM Fixes PC Problems [Update: Patch Released] - IGN

Update: Capcom has released an update for Resident Evil Village on Steam, which it claims optimizes the game's anti-piracy technology to prevent a persistent stuttering issue.

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Oh no, what is this?

Nothing new. Denuvo makes increases the file size(much more apparent with Sonic Mania) and fucks with performance. Octopath Traveler and Trials of Mana are the only time I've experienced little to no Denuvo related problems. Final Fantasy 15 was filled with stuttering.

Even the main developer of Special K will admit Denuvo has problems when he isn't having slap fights and calling people pirates for hating Denuvo.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

because money is for drugs and hookers not vidya

 

[Cod of War]

I like The Sims but I'm not going to spend a grand for the whole game. EA can kiss my ass.

 

[GentleMaledomRapist1488]

I like The Sims

girl detected

 

[cummytummies]

I used to pirate with the excuse that it's easier than buying. Then the digital storefronts got a lot better, and consequently I mostly stopped pirating. For me simply having the auto-updates, cloud saves and Steam workshop is worth paying for. It's not a moral stand, I legitimately feel like I get a return for my money that I wouldn't get with a pirated copy. Admittedly I tend to buy games on sale years after release so I rarely pay more than 15-20€ for them, and that's usually including all DLC.

My personal autism is that if a game has DLC/expansions I want to have it all. If I'm going to play something I want the "full" best possible experience. Some devs are really scummy with their pricing (Total War series, The Sims, some Jap games) and that's when I pirate. I have no moral excuse, it is stealing. But I also don't really have any qualms about stealing from corporations, especially when I know I'll get away with it. If it's a small indie dev I'll gladly pay them just to support their work. I give money away on Patreon/Gumroad too for things I could get for free. It feels good to support some niche project you know will genuinely benefit from your contribution.

 

[Tripping Nice Clown]

Because I'm not fucking up the discs for the rare games I have. Because I'm not spending money to emulate Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Because I'm not paying EA so that I can play The Sims 2 and its expansions. Because none of the games that I want to play are on modern consoles and I'm not touching my PS3 for anything other than YouTube. Because I want to cheat on the games that I emulate.

And finally, because I can. Thank you.

 

[ZMOT]

I used to pirate with the excuse that it's easier than buying. Then the digital storefronts got a lot better, and consequently I mostly stopped pirating. For me simply having the auto-updates, cloud saves and Steam workshop is worth paying for. It's not a moral stand, I legitimately feel like I get a return for my money that I wouldn't get with a pirated copy. Admittedly I tend to buy games on sale years after release so I rarely pay more than 15-20€ for them, and that's usually including all DLC.

My personal autism is that if a game has DLC/expansions I want to have it all. If I'm going to play something I want the "full" best possible experience. Some devs are really scummy with their pricing (Total War series, The Sims, some Jap games) and that's when I pirate. I have no moral excuse, it is stealing. But I also don't really have any qualms about stealing from corporations, especially when I know I'll get away with it. If it's a small indie dev I'll gladly pay them just to support their work. I give money away on Patreon/Gumroad too for things I could get for free. It feels good to support some niche project you know will genuinely benefit from your contribution.

to add to that in the end you gotta support the stuff you like, else it stops getting made. sure, EA doesn't care, but that small indie dev notices the contribution much more.
so if I honestly enjoy something and "get my money's worth", I don't mind giving the creator money in exchange for the entertainment he/she provided.

 

[Korpon]

I pirate shit from certain companies like EA, Ubisoft, etc. that deserve it (or buy from a key reseller). I don't pirate smaller studios/games that I really like because I feel they deserve the money and can benefit from the support. Emulators are also fine in my book. Honestly, I mainly pay for games just because I'm autistic enough to give a shit about achievements and having something (Steam) that holds all my games and keeps track of playtime, along with cloud saving, updates, etc. I had an old co-worker that would tell me he pirated literally everything and never spent any money on games, which I can appreciate, since at the end of the day, it's not a big deal. I have way more respect for him than I do for the retard shills that buy a game from EA on launch day and buy all the overpriced DLC's and get mad at people pirating shit.

As for other things like TV shows, Movies, anime, etc. I pirate all of it. Fuck ever spending money on any of that jazz, none of your money is going to a good place, and streaming services are such massive bullshit that you can dedicate a whole massive post discussing their nonsense shit. I have a friend who for some reason thinks spending money on shit like Crunchyroll or Funimation actually supports the severely underpaid animators of anime, and I can't wrap my head around it.

Also sidenote: I do wish demos were a common thing again, because it's pretty bad you have to pirate the damn game just to experience a "demo" of it before deciding to buy it. Yea you could watch some let's play or some retard hype nigger streamer play the game for a bit, but that just isn't the same as experiencing the game completely blind and coming up with your thoughts on your own.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

I haven't pirated since I stopped being a NEET in late 2020. My reasoning is not legal or moral; I just can't help myself when there's a Steam sale.

 

[Cool Username]

If you live in a poor country you don't need a justification for pirating. Most people understand that leisure activities like videogames and movies are superfluous necessities. Idiots who belittle those who pirate stuff are mocked. Is piracy still a bad thing? Yeah, sure. But people have more important things to worry about.

 

[Hard Toothbrush]

Why not?

also lmao nigger faggot spic kike, hello glowies

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Unless you have some massive financial difficulties or under the age of 18, there is absolutely no reason to pirate (and even then there's the question why f how you can afford a gaming rig to run modern games but not the games).
Price too high? Either wait a few months or buy the myriad other, better old games.
Hate the dev? Don't give his games your personal time.

 

[L50LasPak]

I've purchased almost the totality of my game library using Steam sales where the games were marked down to almost nothing, sometimes even as low as a dollar a pop for an otherwise $20 game. Before that when I was a console fag, Halo 3 was the first and only game I bought brand new. Everything else was purchased used.

Eventually I just did the math and figured these people are hardly getting any money from me anyway. And just how much money actually goes back to the game designer in the first place, after all of the numerous other organizations take their no doubt very generous cuts for distribution, advertising, etc? Most of the games I own don't even have functional studios attached to them anymore!

I can wait around and buy everything legit, sure, yeah, or I could just... not. What do developers really make off me in the end? $20 every couple of years? Maybe? Its so much easier to download and run a cracked game too. No login requirements, no checking for automatic updates, no forced online bullshit, no launchers, I don't even have to open Steam if I want to play a game. Look at Starcraft: Brood War for example. That game is now free to download officially, but that version of it comes with a bloated multiplayer and update component that runs slower and takes up way more space that the original did. I still play my pirated copy of that now 100% free game because it just straight up runs better. If I want to revisit a level or something out of nostalgia, I don't need to wait five minutes for the game to initialize and check for updates and load its extra-bloated aero menu GUI that it doesn't even use, or load the data harvesting spyware that literally everything has in this day and age.

I pirate out of sheer apathy. I have literally no strong reasons to not pirate, because I'm a demographic games have never catered and they have no interest in doing so.

 

[Jason Wynn]

The only games I pirate are old retro console games from the NES, SNES and Genesis era. Not gonna spend tons of money building up a collection of 30+ year old games when I can just load the ROMS onto a Raspberry Pi. Better than buying some shoddy chink made everdrive

Older PC games I buy through GOG

 

[Billy Beer]

to add to that in the end you gotta support the stuff you like, else it stops getting made.

Sorry buddy, but i supported the console era from Master System to PS4 and none of my games are being made any more. Hell, my kind of games stopped being made somewhere in the middle of the PS360 gen.
And then we get the odd gem like Kingdom come deliverence, which came under fire because of a lack of niggers.

Putting money in to these companies is pointless when tossers on Twitter have more purchasing power than my money.

SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST

Also sidenote: I do wish demos were a common thing again, because it's pretty bad you have to pirate the damn game just to experience a "demo" of it before deciding to buy it. Yea you could watch some let's play or some retard hype nigger streamer play the game for a bit, but that just isn't the same as experiencing the game completely blind and coming up with your thoughts on your own.

The reason demos were stopped is that EA and Acti conducted a poll that showed that customers were 80% more likely to buy a game based on a flashy trailer at a show like E3, than they were if they played a demo of that same game.

Think about that. These companies that want your money KNOW that their games are so boring and shit, that a flashy, fake, bollox trailer is the only way to sucker people in to buying it, and demos destroy that illusion.

Piracy will kill the industry they said. Let it die, i say.