Your reason for being a pirate

[Hungry Friend]

I limit my downloading to old ass games that are either only available on the Vc or something(Don't own a Wii or Wii U) or games that nobody's making any $ off of anymore period, but I'm also not gonna give people shit for pirating whatever they please. For me, I've always been fascinated by emulation since using ZSNES in 1998 and quickly got into arcade emulation and all kinds of other stuff. There are countless games that can be emulated in MAME that would've otherwise been lost to history or at least close to it, and as far as console games go, I love me some fan translations. Emulation is also awesome for games I already own but that broke, are scratched up etc. It's just convenient.

Not gonna claim it's the right thing to do but downloading shit tons of ROMs sure is fun!

 

[TecXero]

I generally don't pirate. I spend a lot of money and a lot of time to be able to dump my own cartridges and discs for convenient loaders and emulators. All my ROMs I dumped myself and own the cartridges/discs of.

There is one small exception, though. I will pirate if I'm interested in a game but there's no demo or any way I can determine if I like the game beforehand. I'll generally play the pirated copy for less than a hour then delete it. If I liked it, I'll go out and buy it. If I didn't, then I'll probably never touch it again, anyway. Yeah, it's piracy, I won't deny that or try to justify it, I'll own up to it if ever confronted about it.

 

[Mr. Prince]

I only pirate games I can't get where I live and have to pay 3x the original price to import it. Probably the only game I regret pirating was 999. Such a wonderful game that I really wanted to support, but I just couldn't find it ANYWHERE where I live. BUUUT I did buy 2 copies of VLR to compensate lol.

 

[Deleted User]

I pirate games because my family almost always doesn't really have very much money left over for things like video games and stuff after buying groceries and paying bills. It's even worse right now because my Mom is the only one working because my Dad CAN'T work right now, and we're renting a house now.
I would work if I could, but I'm pretty sure I'm too young to work. in alberta at least

 

[skystealer]

I'm a broke college student, but any game that just really catches my eye I'll will go out of my way to purchase it. Most of the games I pirate I wind up playing for like 30 minutes and never touching them again anyway...

 

[V3NUS_M1NER]

There are eight people living in our house including me. My father has a low paying job, and I can't get games or better hardware. So, because I'm poor, and my parents will not let me work.

 

[The Minish LAN]

I actually only pirated (on my 3DS) AC:NewLeaf and MM3D, both games I already had and then lost.

 

[Sliter]

well that is compicated ...
I don't remind I wa svery youg but i' almost sure my older bro had a famicom (maybe a clone?) and I bet all the games we had where bootleg, the oficial nes come to Brazil a bit tardy, there was a lot of famiclones and their carts, also some that could read nes model, like phanthom system (turbogame could both fc and nes) , funny that the company that represented nintendo here from nes to Gc was the one that made this nesclone hahah

well latter I remember I had a Mega drive, then a snes, I didin't knew about pirate or originals but I think the big amount was pirate lol
the firt time I Knew I was " pirating " was with GBA emulator because I wanted to play GBa and I could not buy one+games , also had to play hidden from my father because he hates games being played on a computer :v lol so I never played that much ...

well now a days my piracy is for region free translation and hacks, if I ca buy a game I will not " hurr I can get it free, why I would buy it?" I just gonna buy it, but I don't accept the idea that if I want to play a japanese game I would need to get a japanese system, that is exactly the same of "my region" one, just some "setting" inside different? come on if was something different like a ps4 to a xone would have since to have different system, but these that are the same? bleh
I don't think piracy would break the system (unless everyone want o be an as*hole hahha), the technology changes, the way people live with it will change, the way to earn with them as well ...
One this is, if you don't have money to play games, you shouldn't be denied to play them (this is why I like used games commerce, it helped me a lot :v so much thankful lol) , you could have acess to a a kind of cheaper way ... if you have to pay the system, Tv, eletricty bill, internet and stuff it's not free, just a cheaper way to get it , they who serve the game could have made somethinge that won't let a reason to pirate, but they faled on this so yeah ... the idea of a virtual shop where you can get virtual version for a chaep price is very good , for example ...

also I blame piracy for an crisis my family get into because the family business was movie rental... it was really bad for us (even more me that was on the " teenaging crisis" so I didn't made nothing better lol) there was stuff that unti today disturbs me.... but well, lot of people got acess to movies, DVD players , computers, with this internet become more accessible (even being a expensive shit :v) , things like netflix started to come .. so well, his was bad for me? really ... but was good for a lot of people ...

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There are eight people living in our house including me. My father has a low paying job, and I can't get games or better hardware. So, because I'm poor, and my parents will not let me work.

well ma I have an ex.. someone I knew that t get money and buy their game stuff , made a lot of drawings commissions ... there could be something that you are good with that you can use to earn money, not really having a job for it ,...
I know this is not easy, I still trying by myself hahaha

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

I pirate stuff because I'm a NEET with no money.

 

[The Minish LAN]

well that is compicated ...
I don't remind I wa svery youg but i' almost sure my older bro had a famicom (maybe a clone?) and I bet all the games we had where bootleg, the oficial nes come to Brazil a bit tardy, there was a lot of famiclones and their carts, also some that could read nes model, like phanthom system (turbogame could both fc and nes) , funny that the company that represented nintendo here from nes to Gc was the one that made this nesclone hahah

well latter I remember I had a Mega drive, then a snes, I didin't knew about pirate or originals but I think the big amount was pirate lol
the firt time I Knew I was " pirating " was with GBA emulator because I wanted to play GBa and I could not buy one+games , also had to play hidden from my father because he hates games being played on a computer :v lol so I never played that much ...

well now a days my piracy is for region free translation and hacks, if I ca buy a game I will not " hurr I can get it free, why I would buy it?" I just gonna buy it, but I don't accept the idea that if I want to play a japanese game I would need to get a japanese system, that is exactly the same of "my region" one, just some "setting" inside different? come on if was something different like a ps4 to a xone would have since to have different system, but these that are the same? bleh
I don't think piracy would break the system (unless everyone want o be an as*hole hahha), the technology changes, the way people live with it will change, the way to earn with them as well ...
One this is, if you don't have money to play games, you shouldn't be denied to play them (this is why I like used games commerce, it helped me a lot :v so much thankful lol) , you could have acess to a a kind of cheaper way ... if you have to pay the system, Tv, eletricty bill, internet and stuff it's not free, just a cheaper way to get it , they who serve the game could have made somethinge that won't let a reason to pirate, but they faled on this so yeah ... the idea of a virtual shop where you can get virtual version for a chaep price is very good , for example ...

also I blame piracy for an crisis my family get into because the family business was movie rental... it was really bad for us (even more me that was on the " teenaging crisis" so I didn't made nothing better lol) there was stuff that unti today disturbs me.... but well, lot of people got acess to movies, DVD players , computers, with this internet become more accessible (even being a expensive shit :v) , things like netflix started to come .. so well, his was bad for me? really ... but was good for a lot of people ...

EDIT: Here you go!

I don't remember all that well. I was very young, but I'm certain my older brother had a clone Nintendo Famicom/NES (and I bet all the games we had were bootlegs) seeing as the official NES came to Brazil a bit tardy, there was a lot of Fami-clones with their fair share of fake carts, also some that could read out-of-region NES games, like the Phantom system. (TurboGame could both read Fami (JPN) and NES (EUR/USA) carts.) Funny that the company that represented Nintendo over here from NES, to GC, was the one that made this NESclone!

Well, later on I remember I had a Mega Drive, then a SNES. I don't know the exact amount of pirated from not pirated ones, but I think we had more pirated carts.
The first time I knew I was pirating with 100% certainty was with that GBA emulator, since I wanted to play GBA games, and I couldn't afford to purchase to system and it's games. I had to play when my father wasn't around, seeing as he hates any games being played on a computer, for some unknown reason. So I never really played that much.

Well, nowadays my so-called "piracy" is for region free translations and game hacks. Honestly, the whole region exclusive practise is idiotic. I can play NTSC games on a PAL PS4, Xbox One, PS Vita, but not with Nintendo systems!
I don't think piracy will affect game sales that dramatically. Because as the industry changes, so will the way people deal with out-of-region games and horrible $60+ games.

I am literally going to fix this message to it's utmost grammar-and-spelling-y ness. It's going to take me while...

 

[darkangel5000]

No particular reason.
I mean, I'm a broke ass NEET, but other than that? Because I can.
I don't want to spend my non existing (and if existing then hard earned) monies on shitty movies und video games at release, when I know that I can't enjoy them properly due to depressions.

 

[DaFixer]

Becase i'm married and I want to save some money to buy good Belgium beer

 

[JoostinOnline]

Because I don't want to pay for my own sugar cane, tobacco, and spices.

 

[osm70]

I started pirating back in 2004 with GBA games. When I first found out about GBA emulator and roms, I used to download 100s of games and hardly play any of those. The trend continued to xbox, wii, ds etc.

But!

Since 2012ish- I stopped pirating. Whatever rom I download, I purchase that game too. For example pokemon games.

Ever since I stopped pirating, I have started to finish every game I own and actually enjoy it.

I understand not everyone can buy games so they resort to pirating, but I think there was a thread about the 'pirating effect ' a while ago where people said that they don't put effort into games anymore because they pirated it. Or something alone the lines.

Something like this happened to me. But it was exact opposite.
I bought a game and I didn't like it. It was the worst game I have ever played, but I played it anyway. I suffered until the end, because I paid for it and I didn't want to have my money wasted.

 

[RustInPeace]

Because it's free. I can't really sugar coat it, and I know it's wrong. The punishment from ISPs is ridiculous, throttling internet speeds and all, because when all is said and done, I'm paying for their damn service. Customer support, they should support me in that respect, by throttling internet, they take the MPAA over the customer that pays for their service. Even if it's wrong on a civil and/or moral level, it's my privacy, they're fucking with it.

It's file sharing. File sharing involves, well, sharing. Sharing is caring, no matter how illegal it is claimed to be, and how people are exploiting that for money. Namely premium filehosts and whatnot. Still, sharing is caring, and I've done file sharing myself, not just downloading. It costs me nothing to share, I make no money from it, and that's that.

Besides it helps with obscure movies and music, building a fanbase for these things. Troma knows the score, Lloyd Kaufman supports file sharing, and unlike most movie studios, Troma films put up a lot of their stuff for free on Youtube! That's file sharing in its own right, its beautiful, it helps the company because then fans will buy their merchandise, their movies with extras.

That's something I've gotten into recently, buying DVDs and blu-rays for the extras, especially the commentary tracks. If pirates shared commentary tracks in videos, then I wouldn't be buying some of these products. There is some, it's rare though. However, there's also the physical media aspect, which I still love in video games, and with some of these movies, I'm down with it. Especially how companies spruce up their blu-ray stuff, such as Arrow films. Frankenhooker, that blu-ray looks amazing, with a reversible sleeve, loads of extras. That's worth buying, and filesharers don't bother posting up all that.

Regardless, I'll still pirate. I make some money, but not enough to build a massive movie collection, and with pirating, I can watch as many movies as possible, and definitely consider buying anything involving the good ones, in the future.

 

[Cylent1]

KIDS! Need I say more?

 

[BadJuju]

I used to pirate because I had no money. Now I have a job so I can just buy what I want. Games that I buy I actually finish since it cost me something.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Because Halloween is coming.

 

[Hiccup]

So I can fiddle with games that I own .

 

[mightymuffy]

Pirating roms for emulators: Guilty as charged, but I'll only play games that I used to play back in the day. It's still wrong, but I don't feel THAT bad about it..

GBA Roms back in the day: Try before you buy lads.... I had a GBA back then too, but almost always grabbed the rom first. It's still wrong, but Nintendo definitely got MORE money from me as a result: Wario Ware (2 games) & Advance Wars (2 games) I'd almost certainly never have bought otherwise...

Recent nefarious activities: I'm a massive Picross fan, and loved the DS 3D game. No mention whatsoever of a Western release of 3D 2, so what can ye do... It's still wrong, but if they're basically not letting me play the thing anyway.. (sales of the first were poor so a release seems unlikely)

Various other 3DS titles: Mario Kart 7. Smash Bros 3DS. The Pokemons. Animal Crossing. I've got 4 people in my house, and 4 3DS machines - I've bought all these games once, why the fukk should I have to buy 3 more copies in order to get maximum enjoyment from them? Pokemon in particular... the rest you can play one at a time, but you've only got one save on these! I USED to buy 4 different copies of Pokemon - had 2xDiamond and 2xPearl - but I'm not getting shafted no more with them I'm afraid. Turns out my youngest who has both 3DS legit Pokemon titles can only battle or trade with one of us (I'm not gonna buy more than one Sky3DS), but meh. It's still wrong, but... ahh fukk it I've lost interest!