What are your thought about piracy in videogames?
Lestat asked:
I live in Ecuador, and illegal copies of DVD movies and videogames, also called pirate copies, are practically legal here; there has recently been some police actions destined to decomision copies from the major stores that sell them. But its far from disapearing. What are your thoughts about piracy?
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I live in Ecuador, and illegal copies of DVD movies and videogames, also called pirate copies, are practically legal here; there has recently been some police actions destined to decomision copies from the major stores that sell them. But its far from disapearing. What are your thoughts about piracy?
I personally love it, i know what some people may say, that i ‘m damaging the industry of videogames if i don’t buy real copies, but if i don’t buy them, i would not be able to play them at all, 50 dollars might not be too much in developed countries, but here it is a lot of money. I love piracy cause i can buy 30 ps2 games with a little less than 50 dollars(1.5 each), and the quality is almost the same(some DVDs might be damaged but still only cost 1.5). And eventhough it is not giving money to the developers; Sony, nintendo and microsofts sales of consoles receives major benefits cause with piracy, they sale much more consoles in third world contries.
Elsie
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Vernon
Well $50 is a lot of money here in the US too. And if you own pirated games then you are being illegal, wherever you live and whatever it is. Save up your money like many other kids have to.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Matthew
Sometimes I think it is okay. Like with those PC games they have on and. They want $19.99 for a game you play in 1-2 hours. I don’t think it’s worth it and I usually pirate them. For bigger games (higher MB). I usually do save up or use birthday/Christmas money to buy them. As a treat for myself. It’s sometimes nice to have the box and original instructions.
For songs, if I really like an album, I’ll buy it. If I just want one song, like a “one hit wonder” then I may pirate it.