WHY DO PEOPLE PIRATE??

[Revolution89]

i cannot afford to buy original games,for example x360 n ps3 games cost about 80$ and above($100) at my country.

 

[prowler]

i pirate because i dunno.
16 and no money = pirate.

http://www.cristgaming.com/pirate.swf
this explains it all.

 

[zuron7]

Because I don't have enogh money to buy games worth 50$.
And try converting them to INR and seeing for yourself how expensive it becomes.
2500 bucks.
Who's going to pay that much.
DS games are more cheap but I don't even get those here.
Plus we have to pay export tax.

 

[Prophet]

Because the reward outweighs the consequences.

Period.

 

[CockroachMan]

The average price for a Wii/PS3/360 game over here is 200BRL (around 100USD). Only really rich people can afford something like that over here.

When the price is fair, I buy it.. I buy most of my PC games nowadays thanks to Steam where they are sold with the US price. Which is still a little expensive to my country's reality, but affordable to me.

 

[knl]

because it's fucking convenient. I have ~7 games on my DS, and I don't even need a carrying pack for it because everything in one single cart means a carrying pack would be superfluous.

also, what cockroachman said, though it's rather pointless because a job would solve that. if you're living off your mom/dad, they're obviously not gonna spend that much money buying games for you; they'd rather pay bills. any job that you can get with a college's degree should be enough to pay the bills and buy you a few games per month

 

[Guild McCommunist]

WHY DO PEOPLE WRITE THEIR TITLES IN CAPS LOCK????

WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK WHY PEOPLE PIRATE???

WHY DO PEOPLE CARE??

People who pirate because they're "anti-coporation" are just a bunch of douchenozzles. People pirate because the games are free (well, at most, maybe $1 for a DVD) and because they're cheap sons of bitches, plain and simple.

And yes, I'm a cheap son of a bitch.

 

[watex5]

Because I live in Ireland, and its nice to get American games before they come out here

 

[megawalk]

Funny i am the exact opposite...
I Pirate because the economy where i live loves to double prices....
where other places games cost like 20 or 30 dollars ?
they double that count in euro's
20 x 2 : Euro = 60 dollars = 40 euro's
i don't like that

in that opinion even importing might be cheaper

 

[Veho]

This is piracy:

Whatever I do, it's not piracy.

 

[Demonbart]

Funny i am the exact opposite...
I Pirate because the economy where i live loves to double prices....
where other places games cost like 20 or 30 dollars ?
they double that count in euro's
20 x 2 : Euro = 60 dollars = 40 euro's
i don't like that

in that opinion even importing might be cheaper

Nope, they just replace the $ with an €. American wii:249$, European wii:249€
American dsi 100 points card:10$, European dsi 1000 points card: €10

 

[Sephi]

I'm quite poor. Not to mention it's much easier, and more convenient to do DS piracy.

 

[Chopders]

I'm pirating because there is too many games out there to buy them all. But since I'm downling them, I never bought that much of games! I have 27 NDS games, the last time that I had that amount of games was during the NES era. Owned

 

[Ducky]

dude.. WE PAY FOR THE INTERNET WE USE . We use the internet to download the game - Therfore we paid money to get the game.

 

[Blaze163]

The TC reminds me of this Dash Jr. clown over at gamefags.com and theres no reason to drag out this dead horse every quarter is there?

Ah yes, Dash_Jr. Whatever happened to him? He kinda just admitted defeat after my last great crusade against him over on Gamefaqs (also as Blaze163) and nobody's heard a peep from him since. There was one recently called LawlietL, again on the DS boards. But he got suspended twice over the same KH Days topic then vanished into the aether. There's one called SSJ Trunks 2 or something along those lines too. But he seems more childish than trolly, to be honest. He was going on at great length about how breaking street dates is illegal (not that anyone cares) and how pirating games is killing the industry. Yeah, 'cause Nintendo's bank account is really suffering.

BTW, the kids in my street choose to pirate for three reasons:

1) Thanks to the 'credit crunch' their parents have lost their jobs and thus they have no choice but to pirate to get any new games, such is the case with Callum.
2) They all got CycloDS Evo's because they copy anything I do for some reason.
3) They're only kids and they can still see the financial benefits of piracy. Pay £30-35 per game, or make a one-off payment of £45 to get a CDE with a 2GB memory card, thus having every DS game ever created. Simple logic, really.

EDIT: Another damn fine reason to turn to piracy, translations. If I want to play ASH, Soma Bringer, etc, piracy is my only option. The developers have no intentions of releasing these games in English, ever. The pirate community is willing to do so. There's no profit in it for them, they do it simpy because they can. The pirates provide a valuable service that that we would otherwise be denied. The makers of Soma Bringer should realise that there must be pretty high demand for their game if people are willing to translate it for free. Take that as a sign and release the damn thing in English officially, so those who want to play it but aren't prepared to turn to piracy will be able to. I'm pretty certain an English version of Soma Bringer would sell pretty damn well.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

I pirate because I'm poor. I can't afford games, thus I pirate. Besides, it saves money. And a lot of games aren't worth buying anyway.

 

[Scorpin200]

Because all these companies are thieves.

I pirate because I'm poor. I can't afford games, thus I pirate. Besides, it saves money. And a lot of games aren't worth buying anyway.

thank u you it really shouldn't be that obvious to some people though.

 

[ninchya]

Because it saves money instead of buying expensive games that arent work it like imagine games waste of money and terrible game. And i mean out of the majority most people buy their games anyways while only people who are on this forum do it. It aint hurting the company since their rich anyways.

 

[CheatingSoi]

Once you start, its like an addiction. Theres no stopping it. I mean, if youve got a computer, and internet, its avaible. I could never buy a game at this point because I could never tell myself to spend 50 bucks rather than paying nothing. This is why I have not modded my 360, I don't pirate on it, don't feel the need to pirate and the games are more fun because of it. (However it also has to do with not knowing what i'm doing, having to buy dvd dual layers and the ban waves

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[iFish]

and to flash it you have to open it