Why do you pirate?

[Maz7006]

Depends what it is really.

If i want to pirate DS games...well i do it and never look back

but i tend to buy most of my Console games, and from time to time PC games.

 

[Raika]

I pirate because it's fun, and that I like pirating and breaking the law and being a rebel mwahahahaha

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I do it for a few reasons:

1) Free games!

2) I'm not gonna pay outrageous prices for import titles.

3) Translations and other hacks

4) Most games that weren't a great success usually get bumped off the shelves at stores for the next round of shovelware. You try finding Tokyo Beat Down in your local Best Buy or Gamestop.

 

[Hop2089]

To try before importing usually when a game doesn't get many previews and available screenshots, I don't want to regret paying 60+ bucks to import a game and it sucks donkey balls. So it's insurance in case of a terrible game that seemed good.

 

[Placeholder]

I pirate the expensive things I'd never be able to afford. Take a look at the cost of these basic apps (and OS) for a PC:

Windows 7: £150
Photoshop: £615
Microsoft Office: £120

Those are basic applications I use on a regular basis. With the money I'd have to spend on those, I could buy myself all three of the latest consoles. Or I could buy myself a new computer. I could go on a nice holiday. I could hold a massive party. I could even get a car without too much trouble.

DS games are £30 a cart. The majority of games I come across are not worth the money. If I were to have bought all the games I currently have on my MicroSD, I would have spent £3720. Ridiculous! Now, because these cartridges are so small, I would have lost around 20 of them. That's £600 completely gone, but that's a different issue... Consider what you could do with £3500 you didn't waste on half decent DS games...

Of the 109 games on my MicroSD, I have paid for about 10 of them. I don't even think they're completely worth £30.

Computer games aren't too bad. I don't pirate them because I can buy them at reasonable prices on Steam. I've paid for 21 games on Steam. They range in cost from £3 to £20. I don't mind paying out for them because they last longer than DS games, have better graphics, and the "worlds" are much more expansive and detailed. The games would have cost a lot more to develop than average DS games.

If I was unable to pirate any of the above games/applications, then I'd just have to go without and do what most people my age do. Hang around on street corners throwing custard at buses or whatever. Businesses should just take notice of how ridiculous prices are, then we wouldn't pirate them, and the dumb poor people will buy the games rather than cans of custard.

 

[mrfatso]

I do it for a few reasons:

1) Free games!

2) I'm not gonna pay outrageous prices for import titles.

3) Translations and other hacks

4) Most games that weren't a great success usually get bumped off the shelves at stores for the next round of shovelware. You try finding Tokyo Beat Down in your local Best Buy or Gamestop.

5. Games that will never arrived in my country due to them being unknowns, still trying to find black sigil.

6. If i already spend a few hundreds of my saving on that darn console, like hell, i will spend 30 ~90+(i remember, my friend saw KH, 368 on sale at around 90 dollars) on a ds cartridge and those 30 bucks cartridges are usually that retarded imagine series ....

7. and also, i am broke as well

8~10: has already been mentioned in the thread a couple of times.

 

[Raichy]

Because I can.

 

[ricky23i]

because Nintendo games are mostly crappy and don't deserve my $$$$
I respect MS for there games they create not crappy not I love My Pony games for wii (third pary)
Also i hate how nintendo just remakes every old game to to every single new console I sick and tired of the god damn game get some ideas and make new ones.
only pirate nintendo games but in the end i waste my verbatims on shitty games and throw them out

 

[Domination]

Also cos I bought the flashcart for a reason.

And that my country is one of those countries that are hard to find games.

 

[DBlaze]

To see if the game is worth the 50€ you have to spend on it.
If not, then I might buy it later when the price dropped.
And if the game truly is sh*t as hell, I remove it.

 

[Deleted-167431]

Because there's not much in the stores, when you can get it from internet.

 

[watex5]

I pirate because, lets say you go on holidays, you bring your ds and a crap lode of games, and if you lose them your screwed. On the other hand if you bring a flashkart, you lose about €30 if you lose it and you have all your saves backed up...well i do anyway

 

[YayMii]

i pirate for bragging rights.
"I have over 50 *coughpiratedcough* games on my Wii!" lol jk
Actually, well, I normally pirate games because I usually buy something like 1 game every 6 months, they are so damn expensive these days (I'm not paying $50 CAD for a DS game just to find that the game sucks).
I also pirate other things for 2 reasons:
1. too expensive (photoshop)
2. get stuff before released to the rest of the world (hello Windows 7 RTM

)

 

[Placeholder]

Windows 7 isn't pirated though

They give it free on their site. Same for Office 2010. Same for Panda Antivirus.

I basically got me a complete working system with the basics for free. (For now... Dx)

 

[frazzledazzle]

I wouldnt pirate as much as i do if nintendo actually brought some games out earlier over here. On the other hand i never pirate wii games

 

[Maktub]

Overpriced games just as grocery is. If I could skip paying the distributors/whatever they've pulled out of their ass to make software nearly as expensive bought online as it is to buy it on a CD, I'd defly. buy more and pirate less (I do enjoy having a few original JEWELS).

Also, because there's no differente between a copy and an original most of the time. So, if I know I'm getting a great service/extra when I buy an original (i.e: battlenet) I do buy an original.

I would have bought only around 20 games from the NDS catalogue of OVER 9000 (not really, but u get the point) games after knowing what they were like. That's also why I pirate.

 

[Berthenk]

1. Overpriced stuff... Seriously...
80% Of the DS's game-library sucks monkey and donkey balls...
Imagine this, Imagine that... I'd say that each company ($ony, Micro$ and the big N, etc.) should start selling homebrew dev kits/SDKs.

2. Convenience. Tell me, who really wants to take a 30 minute ride to the shops to find out the game you came for isn't in stock anymore? Or to find out that (while it is there) you lost your wallet/don't have enough money in it?

3. Half of the time I don't have enough money to buy a game, and when I do, I try to find a good one 'n buy it 'n be broke for another month (which is most of the time do enjoy

)

4. People don't want the shell out 60 bucks to find out you can't return it when it's crap.

5. It's too damn easy to pirate things. Most copyprotections suck monkey and donkey balls bigtime.

 

[DsHacker14]

I agree with everything Berthenk said and also I do it because I'm cheap and I don't think wasting my money on overpriced games is going to get me anywhere. I'd rather pay for a car and more important things than games

If there's a way to get it free, ill do it.

 

[Excellentnuke]

I don't have money. Or a job.

 

[YayMii]

Windows 7 isn't pirated though

They give it free on their site. Same for Office 2010. Same for Panda Antivirus.

You're talking about the beta/Release Candidate versions. I'm talking about the full version, released to manufacturers on July 22 (the same version that will be released in October).
The Windows 7 you pay $200 for when it officially comes out (I have it, didn't pay

).
Plus the Beta/RC versions have expiration dates (the RC will expire in March 2010)
About Office 2007 and Panda Antivirus, those are 1 month/60day trial versions.
Office 2010 is a very early alpha