If piracy disappeared

[jarejare3]

A world without piracy would mean that Original games will be much more cheaper since piracy forces people to buy the real things. Will definitely bring prices down.

Homework will be a lot harder, since information gathering is impossible using the internet, So kids will actually have to find Real People to get information about certain things, and they will have experience in talking to adults and will have a better social status and thus avoid social issues. Not to mention more hardworking

There will be less hackers as since piracy stopped most people won't be interested in hacking as it is better to do the original way since it's CHEAPER, and goverments will not have to suffer losses to minor hacking issues.

People looking for partners through online dating will no longer be cheated as the internet demands the REAL information of the people, therefore the world population will increase.

Amateurs protestor use Facebook or other social networks to bring out the word of whatever agenda they may have, therefore with less protesting and Fake bullshit Propaganda by people or the goverment the lives of people will be more Educated and also more organized.


OR IT COULD GO THE OTHER WAY AROUND

 

[CrimzonEyed]

A world without piracy is impossible

But if it didn't exist in the first place I guess I would be much more careful with my money, buying less snacks/candy/soda/energy drinks and so on and save it all for games.

 

[Densetsu]

I don't know how old any of you guys are, but I lived the majority of my life not even knowing what piracy was.

I had never heard of the word or thought of freely downloading games, music, movies or books until I was 20 years old. Up until that time, I paid full price for everything I ever wanted. If I couldn't afford it, I simply did not get it.

When I was in college, broadband connections started to become mainstream. Then CD/DVD burners, along with better software, made ripping and burning music, movies and games really easy. Once I caught on to pirating, I didn't pay for a single book, music CD, movie or game for a period of about 7 years.

Then I started paying for things again. I realized that pirating really isn't the way to go for me. I try to curb my spending by buying games and movies when there are good deals on Amazon (I usually buy my stuff for 40%-70% off retail price).

If piracy disappeared, life would go on. If anything, life would probably be better. We'd spend less time at home watching movies and playing games and more time doing shit outside the house and *gasp* interacting with people. Not to mention, the quality of games would probably be a lot better if game companies were more motivated to put hard work into their IPs, knowing that more people will buy their titles.

And no, I don't support SOPA/PIPA. I'm against just about anything Congress tries to pass these days, those greedy, incompetent bastards.

 

[gorolink]

A world without piracy would mean that Original games will be much more cheaper since piracy forces people to buy the real things. Will definitely bring prices down.

I remember I bought SNES games for 85 US$. Do you imagine paying 85$ in 1995 (Nowadays it would be more money) for playing Batman Forever, and then discover it's a piece of sheeeeit (like would say Clay Davies from The Wire)?
And of course, you could only play the games the store wanted you to play. Forget about importing and enjoy Japanese games.

They were bad days for videogamers, and SNES piracy was just a joke.

If piracy disappears, if a game costs 60$, companies will keep it 60$. No sales for us. Because they love money, as we do. And why to earn 45$ if gamers have no choice but buying it at 60$.

 

[DinohScene]

A world without piracy would mean that Original games will be much more cheaper since piracy forces people to buy the real things. Will definitely bring prices down.

I remember I bought SNES games for 85 US$. Do you imagine paying 85$ in 1995 (Nowadays it would be more money) for playing Batman Forever, and then discover it's a piece of sheeeeit (like would say Clay Davies from The Wire)?
And of course, you could only play the games the store wanted you to play. Forget about importing and enjoy Japanese games.

They were bad days for videogamers, and SNES piracy was just a joke.

If piracy disappears, if a game costs 60$, companies will keep it 60$. No sales for us. Because they love money, as we do. And why to earn 45$ if gamers have no choice but buying it at 60$.

If we where to buy that SNES game now with today's inflation etc. it would cost roughly $200~

Thats almost the same price if not more then a new console.....

 

[jarejare3]

A world without piracy would mean that Original games will be much more cheaper since piracy forces people to buy the real things. Will definitely bring prices down.

I remember I bought SNES games for 85 US$. Do you imagine paying 85$ in 1995 (Nowadays it would be more money) for playing Batman Forever, and then discover it's a piece of sheeeeit (like would say Clay Davies from The Wire)?
And of course, you could only play the games the store wanted you to play. Forget about importing and enjoy Japanese games.

They were bad days for videogamers, and SNES piracy was just a joke.

If piracy disappears, if a game costs 60$, companies will keep it 60$. No sales for us. Because they love money, as we do. And why to earn 45$ if gamers have no choice but buying it at 60$.

We won't know man. We won't know, and i think we will never know, it's just a hypothesis of the good things that could happen if piracy was blocked.
It's a double edge sword, where there is a bad there will always be a good.

 

[xist]

Independent musicians, and the sheer range of choices we have in genre's and music would pack up almost overnight. We all would be subject to whatever is most popular, rather than being able to discover and then love random bands we'd never heard of before. So long as "piracy" isn't the only step in the chain (i.e, you purchase things based on the knowledge gained, you educate other people on how great certain things are) the war against piracy is a self defeating one.

 

[pyromaniac123]

This thread took a long time to load because I was pirating.

 

[Nujui]

I had a weird way of find out about piracy. My dad gave me a computer and said that there were a bunch of games on their I could play, I didn't know at the time that I was playing on a NES emulator at the time, but slowly I started to go back to my other systems like the n64, ps1 and ps2, psp etc. For the majority of my childhood I didn't know what piracy was.

Then my friend broke my PS2, leaving me with most of the games I was playing, I couldn't finish because we didn't have the money to afford another ps2. Couple days later, I found out about a n64 emulator, and started playing Super Mario 64 all the time till I got another ps2. Then years went by and I started doing that more, learning about how to mod a psp, ps2, wii, xbox, etc. I've pirated and barely paid for anything. Though recently now that I'm almost old enough to get a job and money of my own, I've wanted to start buying again, because I missed the feeling I had when I only had like 1-3 games for my system and played the crap out of them, and then how happy I was when I got a new game, instead of now where I have unlimited access to pretty much any game known to man for free.

 

[Telal]

I'd have to disagree with all of you; I grew up in a time when you had to pay for $10 for a cassette to hear one song, or later $20 for a cd for the same thing. You'd pay $18 for a VHS tape of a movie that you find out actually sucks. People would get away with doing this over and over again because we had no real alternative. The same can be said for all the shitty NES and SNES games I purchased...
Now I have the option to pay for one single song, or watch a movie online before I decide whether or not it was actually worth my money (The same can be said for gaming). Look at all of the small developers who get overlooked and then make a ton of money simply because people pirated their game and then liked it and paid money for it later.
I have pirated many many games over my life, and have purchased all of the ones I actually enjoyed (Many of which I left unopened for months because I had already played and finished the game) the same can be said for movies: I have well over 300 dvds in my collection (Which I'm now repurchasing in Blu-ray) and most of these movies were movies I wasn't able to see in theatre so I watched them online.
If I were to imagine a world without piracy; I would imagine a place where there was a huge mark-up on garbage media and people had to pay it or be left unaware as to whether or not it was something they would actually enjoy. Small indie groups would start to die out because nobody would recognize their names and be willing to shell out money on such a large gamble. Why wouldn't they charge $100 for a game? If there is no other way you're getting your hands on it, what's to stop them?

This is why I appreciate artists and designers who say : 'Pay us what you think it's worth', this forces them to constantly strive to make better media and widens their fan-base whilst still bringing in money. Bottom-line: Piracy stops people from getting away with making money off of half-assed products and forces people to make better stuff if they want our money.

 

[Lube_Skyballer]

Im a pirate. I used to pirate most of my games, but the last couple of years I buy most of my games (even on PC yeah).
Hell, I even started collecting games for a lot of (older) game systems (from Atari 2600 to PS3 and from Gameboy to 3DS). Fellow collectors know how it feels to have the actual, physical package.

 

[AlanJohn]

If piracy would disappear then I would feel a lot safer when traveling near the west of the Indian Ocean.

 

[Telal]

Alan John: You sir, are a champion!

 

[Zetta_x]

I feel that the popularity of games/music/movies would go down quite a bit. While they may make more money in the beginning, the amount of people playing games being so much lower would be a huge turn-off.

 

[nunavat2010]

I am a clean pirate (as oppose to filthy one). I pirate movies, not to watch just to collect, hoping to watch it one day. My pirated/used ratio is something like 20:1. I pirate games, just because I hacked my wii; in there pirated/used ratio is 15:1.

I am in Canada (but the province is more American than some of the American states) downloading movies and games are not illegal. I think we are going to have a law pretty soon to curtail everything including electronic/digital lock breaking (hacking).

 

[Erdnaxela]

Less piracy don't mean more sales, people who pirate game mostly don't have enough money to buy it, or even if they have, wouldn't buy it anyway.

 

[ScarletCrystals]

Exactly, I buy most of my 3DS games from craigslist.

 

[nando]

if piracy disappeared, lots of people would have more time to do better things with their lives. i would probably go back to drawing, practice music and maybe start playing soccer again.

what would not happen in my case - i wouldn't start buying any media i didn't buy before.

 

[Shadow&Light]

if piracy disappeared, lots of people would have more time to do better things with their lives. i would probably go back to drawing, practice music and maybe start playing soccer again.

what would not happen in my case - i wouldn't start buying any media i didn't buy before.

It isn't just a matter of lifeless ppl who watch their screen the whole day... I think it'd no change at all, okey, the prices would go up, since there will be more demand, but, it also could be the oposite, price would explode at a point wich we would have to slave ourself to buy everything that we want(maybe even that could be something vital... No, im not talking about downloading just a game it is vital, i mean about educational problems, like getting a book too expensive)... In any case, the piracy it's just a way to say "I am free, i can choose my options", Laws like S.O.P.A. just want to make those options less... free.

It could be something good, just as all could go to hell

 

[PriMieon]

i used to pirate... i stopped... i only buy now... i even collect them now... if i buy a game used i NEED box and manual..but i only pirated games to test if they were good... like dragon quest 9, golden sun or ghost trick
i liked them and then i bought them... i got like over 40 pokemon games at home ( not pirated )... my last games i pirated were final fantasy V and VI ...fantastic games... i am trying to get them on ebay... so they even made money with me pirating games.. but like i said i stopped
games i bought be cause i pirated them: ghost trick, dragon quest IX,
-zelda: wind waker, twilight princess, spirit tracks, phantom hour glass, skyward sword, links awakening(eshop)and ocarina of time 3d (i only pirated twilight princess... that was the 1st time i played zelda and i fell in love with it...but i had not pirated twilight princess i would not play zelda) -
PLANTS VS. zombies ds, final fantasy IV gba and i think that is it... but they made money with me pirating them