Are you a pirate?

[Deleted member 546149]

Sorry

 

[SAIYAN48]

Yarr. I were in this fine game. A bear stole me glory.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Do you pirate video games

In extreme cases where the game is basically impossible to find yes.

 

[wownmnpare]

Yes! but i also buy legit games that i enjoy to play, especially Monster hunter

 

[CompSciOrBust]

I use to Torrent ubuntu

 

[AncientBoi]

Arrrrrh Matey Not! If someone does "Make 'em walk the Plank!"

 

[ZeroFX]

Every single soul here in this forum make use of "piracy" aka friend sharing daily.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Is that what pirates do now and days? Play video games? I thought pirates sail seas, on a boat with a talking bird and lots of beer and rum. Captain Morrigan or cap'n crunch. Pirates of the Caribbean, Shantae and the pirate curse MR.KRABS.

Nope, Not me. Only pirate like thing I ever done was watch sailor moon on robot chicken.

Does it count if I say ARG!!! a lot?

 

[AncientBoi]

Is that what pirates do now and days? Play video games? I thought pirates sail seas, on a boat with a talking bird and lots of beer and rum. Captain Morrigan or cap'n crunch. Pirates of the Caribbean, Shantae and the pirate curse MR.KRABS.

Nope, Not me. Only pirate like thing I ever done was watch sailor moon on robot chicken.

Does it count if I say ARG!!! a lot?

Did you say "Beer"? arrrrh

 

[Seriel]

As far as the limits of my fragile memory go, I don't believe I've illegally obtained a PC video game. Maybe I did ages ago and forgot, who knows.

Now consoles, those are a little different. Thing about console games is that they tend to stop being sold firsthand after some time. Take the DS library for example, I would have to expend effort tracking down second hand sellers and probably pay a largely varying amount of money for the privilege. No thanks, I will take my downloads and be content. Not like any publisher or developer would see that money anyway so what is the point?

Even the 3DS library, except that one carries the exception of still being available in digital form. That one is mostly laziness: for reasons never made clear to me Nintendo removed the ability to pay using a card on the European eShop. That was odd, and incredibly frustrating.
Back in the day I did make my own legitimate backups of the various 3ds games I owned physically, for conveniences sake. Anything new gets downloaded because I have passed the point of caring about paying for that system. I already give extortionate amounts to Nintendo for overpriced Switch games so what does it matter.
If my Switch were able to be hacked I think I would still buy some games for it. The ones that really hold my attention enough to uphold the hefty cost they carry these days. There are however some that I would relish in being able to play without that worry. These games would likely not have been purchased anyway.

Am I committing software piracy? Very likely. Does it bother me? No, because I keep it under control enough for my own morales to be happy with the choice.
And I think thats the most important part, if you are content with whatever you are doing in full knowledge of how it might (Or in most cases, might not) affect the creators then by all means keep at it. Just don't be a dick.

 

[Tarmfot]

Given that I download a thousand and perhaps use one. I'm not a pirate.

 

[Deleted User]

Pirates from hundreds of years ago: used eye patches
Pirates of today: Downloads patches

 

[AncientBoi]

Pirates from hundreds of years ago: used eye patches
Pirates of today: Downloads patches

truth be told. LoL

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Notice how the main question doesn't have a plain azz "NO" on it?

 

[JFizDaWiz]

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[Minox]

I mostly stick to paying for games because I have a job that allows me to do so. For some older games that I have a hard time finding I may opt for piracy though.

 

[Kanakops]

A lot

If I can and it is virus free : I pirate it.

Only games I buy are onlines game I cannot pirate or games of my favorite franchise

 

[Lunar]

For PC games, I don't like to pirate because they're usually <30 bucks plus I get all of Steam's features. For the Switch however, I'm not paying 60 dollars for a game that was released four years ago...

 

[Kolina2901]

Arrg, I be sailing the seven seas plundering treasures and Nintendo Dabloons, don't ask about me penguin or else yee be walking the plank!


Legit answer is hell yeah, Started with music technically if you count those old YTMP3 sites, then Emulator on an old crappy netbook to try and get some use out of it, then went on from there.

 

[CeeDee]

Honestly, not as much as I used to be. I haven't modded my Switch because I like playing online, and it's my primary gaming console. Older consoles, especially with games only sold on the secondary market, are usually fair game IMO though.

 

[Taleweaver]

"I'm not pirating. I'm taking a short position on AAA-studios."

Wall Street logic.