Why do you buy games?

[Deleted-379826]

I buy games because there is some sweet, sweet special edition for a game I really want. Another reason is when the game is so, amazingly good, I just have to own it! Lastly, 90% of the time it's because I cannot pirate on the system.

 

[pustal]

I usually buy games if:

a) I really enjoy them, I like to see them in my shelf;

b) I find them really cheap. I believe games these days mostly have and absurd price. I remember the time before PlayStation and Nintendo 64 where I could buy a game for 1/10 or 2/10 the price today. Here a game usually gets launch for around 1/10 tge minimum wage, wich is ridiculous. If I see a game that is good, old or not, at what I consider a fair price, I'll pick it up.

On a sidenote, I believe if games were still sold at a decent price 'piracy' would not be an issue.

 

[Deleted-355425]

The CD research never stopped progressing.
CD's from 20 years ago are a lot flimsier then CD's produced today.

Not to mention that in 100 years, there will be plenty of different ways to access the original content.

Absolutely there will be a way to play all content but what im saying is that huge collection you have paid for and kept for so long is going to all just be expensive paperweights lol, not in thousands of years we are talking in our lifetimes.

 

[DinohScene]

Absolutely there will be a way to play all content but what im saying is that huge collection you have paid for and kept for so long is going to all just be expensive paperweights lol, not in thousands of years we are talking in our lifetimes.

Average person lives for ~80 years.
Say you're 20 now, I highly doubt that in 60 years you're still concerned with how your collection is.
Not to mention that if you're an actual collector, you wouldn't take it out of the box for collecting reasons.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

Depends. Most people don't even know how to pirate a game and even more don't know what piracy is. At most I have ever done was pirate some old games from older console's but stopped. It takes away the appreciation of buying the game.

I don't buy games to support the developers,I can give 2 shit's about them as long as the geam is good. I don't go " oh look a game by such and such let me throw my money at them" I instead go " oh that game looks good let me buy it just like any other thing I have bought such as food or clothing". It takes no brain to know how the world function, you want something to u can't produce than you buy it or trade for it otherwise it's stealing and wrong.

 

[cvskid]

It's not just piracy. Buying used games also doesn't give the developers any money, and i don't think a lot of people are willing to pay $60 dollars everytime a game comes out.

 

[Deleted-355425]

Average person lives for ~80 years.
Say you're 20 now, I highly doubt that in 60 years you're still concerned with how your collection is.
Not to mention that if you're an actual collector, you wouldn't take it out of the box for collecting reasons.

Id only buy a retro collection knowing they work or would last, Cartidges yes.. cd's hell no.

 

[sarkwalvein]

There is no point on using magnetic media!
That shit loses data with time and becomes useless!!!!

Looks at C64 collection from 1986.
Fucking floppies still work and still take a fucking loadcrap of time to load! Throw those shits away they are a PITA to use!!!

PS: Also cartridges break, I wonder how long would data on modern cards flash memory last? 16 years?

 

[spotanjo3]

i was sitting near my friend as he saw my steam library. He asked me why do i buy games instead of pirating them, you still get the same product, right? I didn't even know how to answer this question.
Can someone tell me why do most people buy games instead of pirating them?

That's people's opinion. That's why I mind my own business with whatever I want in my life like you do. Some people are telling you a no-no and they actually have it ? Don't buy their honesty story. Most people here won't admit what they are doing and keep minding their own business.

 

[FAST6191]

It's not just piracy. Buying used games also doesn't give the developers any money

The right to resell your games has been present since around the time software came unbundled from the machines it came on (and would probably have existed before that).
To that end second hand games not supporting devs seems about as useful as not donating money to the developers also means they see less money than if people did donate.
Actually having a resale value probably could be said to go some way to making the initial ticket price easier to swallow so there is that too.

 

[markehmus]

heehee i wish you guys would quit buying every game and supporting developers of the many crap games out there ... sifting through the garbage games to find a good one is becoming unbearable ;-P

 

[_Chaz_]

I don't.

 

[SomecallmeBerto]

More of a digital guy myself. I don't care about the art books, cases or any of that crap.; I find it takes up too much space. Anyways to answer the question I don't steal because I like to support the devs. Besides I own a lot of games that I have yet to play yet so why would I steal something and NOT play it.

 

[JacksonS]

When you buy games it gives it more value because you, the purchaser/player, feel the need to justify that purchase.

This is the biggest thing to me. I feel much more incentive to play the game for a certain amount of time if I've bought it.

 

[vinstage]

Rarely do I buy games, and when I do, it's probably FPS.

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[LittleFlame]

Rarely do I buy games, and when I do, it's probably FPS.

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[vinstage]

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[McWhiters9511]

I'm not one who will go and say "I buy to support the developer" because one purchase wont do a whole lot. I buy games (preferably in physical form) to play and build up my collection.

 

[DrkBeam]

Games that I care about I get it physical, but where there is an offer of $3 games that I like, I'm into it, I can transfer to another system the games I've bought if the previous console stop functioning, that's a burden in Nintendo's side if your 3ds is ruined you're fucked, besides some games are free by a limited period of time, those are considered "bought"

 

[Dark_Ansem]

why isn't it worth sometimes?

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also i don't think that most people care if its illegal or not

Because you have to scour for it every time, while on the other hand if you buy a game, it stays on your platform forever.