What would stop you from pirating? - Games

[QUOTE=Mcdougle69;14731883]Bringing the price down of said game.[/QUOTE] Or change the price from fucking Euro to USD, that change was horrible, and ruined a lot. [QUOTE=DragonGenX;14742474]When you give me a demo that doesn't rip me off. Or actually give me a fucking demo. IS IT THAT HARD TO GIVE ME A 60 MINUTE TRIAL?[/QUOTE] Yeah, if every game had a proper demo, I wouldn't even have to pirate at all, if most of the steam games didn't have a demo, I would either have to pirate them, and use those horrible servers with Russians, or simply, NEVER playing the games. And now, I can't just buy a game on steam and just say, "Well well, not such a great loss, just 49 dollars, I'll get over it-", now it's 49 Euro, which my country doesn't accept outside the main airport, which makes it a 29% increase in price for every game, and that's not little, considering they already cost a bit.

[QUOTE=Dank Dave;14746418]wow you sure won that argument now didn't you[/QUOTE] Yes. Nothing I said was wrong.

Steam is probably the only successfull DRM, there are ofcourse some cracks for it, but if you use the crack, you end up playing with some Russians that I wonder if are hired by Valve to make the pirate's gameplay as miserable as possible. The other attempts at DRM have always been cracked 15 minutes or one week after the official release, while steam games have only been cracked in ways so they can only can be played with cracked servers, which usually suck if you read the above.

Its bad.

[QUOTE=Mcdougle69;14731883]Bringing the price down of said game.[/QUOTE] It's mostly prices and shitty anti piracy (oh the irony)

If pirating over the internet got serious, like with internet ships that shot viruses and transexual porn at eachother and there were famous pirates like demonoid mc flinegan that went around sinking the netherlands' servers and such.

While I do pirate occasionally, I do buy games when I feel they are worth paying for. Too many games nowadays are just a generic game with new graphics plastered on top. I couldn't care less how a game looks, I want something that is fun to play, not fun to look at. Once companies stop spending 50 billion dollars to make their game look photo-realistic, the prices of the game can come down too. I'd rather pay 30 dollars for an innovative game like World of Goo, than 30 for a generic shooter like Crysis.

Also no one deserves to be payed for games like WaW and mirrors edge so Shanethe has a point here. If you make a good game, then I shall pay you for it. If you do not, then I will take it for free as you do not deserve my money.

I'll download games that I can't buy without being carded

The FBI.

[QUOTE=LeonSKennedy;14747007]Yes. Nothing I said was wrong.[/QUOTE] wow you're a douchebag holy crap

The only thing that would stop me is if the game I'm pirating is by a respected developer, or if I could get caught and persecuted somehow.

Well, to stop me pirating would be demos, so I can check if my computer can run stuff, that is the biggest reason I download demos.

Quality games? I remember ten years ago we would go out to the store and get five or six games every couple of months for the computer and they would be [i]good[/i] games, decent at worst. They also cost 30 bucks each. Nowadays, we pay 50 bucks or more for new titles that don't offer much at the table as far as gameplay is concerned. Some games come with game-breaking bugs still in the game or bundled with crapware ( steam, MS Live, and what-have-you ) that shouldn't need installed to play the game, or even their own little rootkits to protect their shareholders from legitimate customers. I think a fair amount of piracy is due to people not finding value in purchasing a game outright but still wanting to try it to see if it is actually worth buying ( and then slippery slope into never buying it since they already have a copy ). Maybe if the games were good again, we wouldn't have as much of a problem.

I don't like Steam as DRM. The reason for this is that it forces me to install it in one partition, which fills up faster than you can say "digital rights management". If only Steam would allow me to install wherever I want it wouldn't bother me so much and I could actually buy Dawn of War 2(not to say that I have pirated it, because pirating is wrong and I don't really do it.). Also I would like to play my games without Steam. Also companies will never get rid off DRM, there will always be DRM as long as games are sold. We can only hope that DRM becomes less intrusive.

Make a service/product that is more convenient when bought legally, whether it be convenient in terms of Price, availability, or services.

gonna quote myself from the 'stop illegal downloading' thread: [quote]Oh yeah, i'm TOTALLY gonna spend 700 dollars on a single program..... And like many, I download games as try-n-buy. If I don't like the game, it can go fuck itself. If I like the game, I'll buy it. I download movies, solely for the purpose of getting back at movie distributors. By the time most moves hit the cinema here, I can download a good clean dvdrip from the internet in 20 minutes. I am fucking sick of distributors screwing us over, hence I download movies. And music is the easiest reason: Try to find a decent music store around here that sells metal or that is able to let me discover new bands.....plus, my music taste is highly unstable[/quote] Basically that.

if system requirements were actually a true representation of what is required to run the game if piracy wasn't so easy to commit and get away with. if there was some sort of benefit for buying the retail that you wouldn't get if you pirated such as an inability to patch and get additional content on pirated versions (that's what made be buy gal civ 2 gold edition, it was actually worth it since the patches weren't a fucking hassle to install and they added features recommended by users and even now it continues to receive some updates).

The only reason I've pirated games is because of their outrageous price. I literally have [b]no[/b] money to spare on a new $60 game. When I get a job, then yeah, I will more than likely purchase them. But when it comes to software...that's a different story.

Lower the price for low quality games (Spore), don't release rushed games, [b]No drm![/b], release dates that aren't unreasonable (Sims 3).

[QUOTE=SparkDog;14731964]free video games. EDIT: By making torrents legal and replace pirating with commandeering.[/QUOTE] Or [b]better[/b] free games. And they should bring the price way down, like steam. By the way, what's up with steam lately?

[QUOTE=General_Nonsense;14750853] By the way, what's up with steam lately?[/QUOTE] lately????? dude it truly sux balls, it fails more than Xfire, and Xfire rox Steam has only ONE good point, and that is that it gives you the chance to laugh at people who waste their money on steam :D

If I download a game and it's good enough, I'll buy it.

I'll stop pirating games when it stops being so easy to do and get away with... I don't really try to justify it or anything.. it's wrong.. but I can get away with it so I don't care so much.

Pirating, like all forms of stealing, will never become obsolete. There are always ways around security features and ways of avoiding the law.

[QUOTE=Akayz;14751684]lately????? dude it truly sux balls, it fails more than Xfire, and Xfire rox Steam has only ONE good point, and that is that it gives you the chance to laugh at people who waste their money on steam :D[/QUOTE] Elaborate.

A penalty of death.

honestly, I don't pirate video games, but I do occasionally pirate movies simply because they are so incredibly shitty that I don't think they deserve payment, but I still want to see them for other reasons.(ex: cyborg 2, virus, doom the movie)

[QUOTE=Figgis Fiddis;14751999]Elaborate.[/QUOTE] Probably means the over-pricing in Euro regions.

Well if everyone would sign their games onto steam, Pirates would go down!