>>103251888
Intellectual property is not real property

>>103251902
Fpbp

>>103251888
>context is video games
Trump should ban video games until game devs quit using taxpayer money to fund themselves.

As an adult you earn way more money than as a kid and you understand more clearly how the world works so you have some more disposable income and decide to reward developers for their work.

>>103251942
>decide to reward developers for their work.
I don't believe that. It's probably just more convenient to pay.

>>103251942
As an adult I earn more money, but I still pirate everything like I did when I was a kid.

>>103251961
>It's probably just more convenient to pay.
Its not, probably only for online multiplayer/coop games only.

>>103251978
You're on the "holy shit i earn money" first job kinda, but you haven't matured neither you funded your own business so while earning more than kids you're still poor.

When I was a kid video games costed way more so I couldn't afford them but now I can
Not because I have more money now but because games genuinely got cheaper so I don't have to pirate anymore
Keeping in mind I play 10+ old video games and not recent releases which are still too expensive for me to buy
But I don't have to pirate the newer ones since there's plenty of old games for me to play until the price goes down
Also epic giving free games every week helps

For software it's hard. I don't keep up where to get safe untainted stuff without malware.

>>103251888
>Why do people give up piracy as they age? Is piracy not acceptable for adults?
they turn into a boomoid, the offspring of a quintessential boomer
everyone knows that free shit means you will sell more copies because people tasted the free shit and are like wow 15 dollars to play minecraft and mod it? sure
but boomers and their minorities can't stop the death grip of their gold gooses because they were programmed to choke golden geese to death cause they love poisoning the enviornment

>>103251902
FPBP

I pay for games.
I pirate movies and tv.
Steam "just werks" and is really convenient for me.
Netflix/Hulu/Max/Prime Video/Disney+/AppleTV+/Peacock/Sling TV/Fubo/ESPN+/Discovery+/Youtube Premium/Crunchyroll/Tubi are shit.

>>103251888
I download JC141 releases, and everything just works, no install, no setup, no nothing,
you download the thing and it plays where it is, because on linux you can mount archives and apply overlay fs on top of it,
on windows you cannot ;-)

>>103251888
i never engaged in piracy to begin with
i don't even know how to sail
and outside of a few regions with poor governance, like the Horn of Africa, various nations' Coast Guards or Navies typically suppress most piracy

>>103251888
This post is completely retarded before Steam pirating PC games was more common than buying them, Steam despite its flaws is genuinely the only reason the PC gaming market is how it is now instead of going the way of mobile gaming and being entirely Freemium casual trash. Obviously some people still pirate but its become the far less convenient and easy option thanks to Steam, before Steam it was usually genuinely easier to pirate games than to buy them.

>>103252056
Same here and this will only become more common as time goes on.

>>103251888
Gaben's quote is 100% accurate, just look at Spotify for example

>>103252056
If I could buy movies/series to download as mkv files from official sources for a cheap price I wouldn't pirate them but I don't like the idea of paying to stream something then losing access once I stop paying

>spend hours autistically tinkering in order to pirate media
>Pay 0.0000000000001 of my salary ($10 a month) and press 1 button to have access to endless entertainment
>more time available to finger stacy as i dont have to bit diddle like a faggot and can afford to stream

I can't imagine why people who value their time (Adults) pay for entertainment.

>>103252109
>losing access once I stop paying
already happens even while paying

>>103251888
They're exhausted.

piracy for privacy
steam collects everything it can about you. you can't even delete playtime, achievements, cloud saves.

>>103252056
This 10000%.
After I switched to Linux it became too difficult to make pirated games work so I just bought games from Steam and they all just werkd. Though that was also influenced by the fact that soon after I switched to Linux I got my first job and was more comfortable with spending money in general.
Streaming is a fucking mess just to figure out who has what, much less waste lots of money to keep up with shows/movies from multiple of streaming services. PIrating this shit is much more time efficient.
>>103252145
By the time you figure out which streaming service has the TV series stacy's boyfriend recommended you only to realize you're not subscribed to whoever has it and you need to give them credit card details, I've already found the magnet link and downloaded all of its episodes on my PC.

>>103251902
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>>103251888
I still pirate, I just also buy some games if I really like them.
>>103251932
he can stop it overnight. he just needs to call off the alphabet boys "counter-disinformation" program. but he won't.

>>103251888
>piracy still rampant
>guess it's just poorfags
it's not just poorfags, where are the good services? games are still full of DRM bs, steam is still DRM'd, most games are full of woke cringe or shitty monetization, etc
gaben is right, the amount of piracy that decreased was from the improvements made, but there are a bunch of problems that still make piracy relevant other than just being poor

>>103251888
I've been pirating shit since I was like 5 or 6, I'm 37 and I pirate everything now. Fuck you.

>>103252167
not to mention that most games also connect to internet and leak all your personal information.
i just firewall all games i download from torrents

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>>103251888
gaming on steam comes with a fucking bloated client that takes like 1.5 to 2GB or RAM
YIKES.

what's up with that bullshit? That's why I pirate my games,
they come with 0 launchers.
you just launch the game exe and it runs

my parents asked me this once: why would pay for something you can get for free?

>>103252291
interesting,
I will break into your house tonight and steal your computer,
why pay for a new one when I can jest get one for free, amirite???

>>103252153
True

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>>103251888
>solves the service problem
Thanks for the service, fatman.

Adults have more money and less free time and so are more likely to shell out a few bucks to avoid the hassle.

>>103252316
that's not for free though, that's theft.

Everyone undersells the time investment that goes into pirating content. You have to learn where to go to get it, how to find a decent version out of a list of slop, how to download it, how to avoid detection downloading it, and how to store/access it. Games are even worse since they can be missing critical features like multiplayer or updates.
Or you can open Netflix on your smart TV and hit an instant continue button. Or open Steam and get automatic updates and ways to instantly join friend's games.

piracy is down because most modern games suck. who is going to pirate ass creed nog or dustborn or dratroon age

>>103251888
>solves the service problem
It's difficult to put into words how delusional this statement is
Is Steam usable? Sure, if you like not owning anything, if you like the idea of your digital license being revoked at any time, for any reason, sure
All the other services? Hulu, Netflix, Disney+ etc?
Ha
holy shit
XD

>>103252561
>Or you can open Netflix on your smart TV
and get 4k content delivered with a 10 mbit stream
no, thanks.

>>103252561
>Games are even worse since they can be missing critical features like multiplayer or updates.
This. The most effective antipiracy measure nowadays is to release broken, buggy, unfinished games at launch, and then release 2-3 update patches per week. Most pirates (especially scene groups) don't bother releasing updates, and hunting updated pirate versions for most games is a pain.
Launch day pirate games are basically playable demos now. There are exceptions ofc but that's how it ends up working for many games.

>>103252258
it used to be a very responsive client with less than 80 MB of RAM use before they went full retard and switched to chromium

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>>103251888
People care less about new stuff coming up and just go back to fapping to decensored Riko Tachibana 720p videos, back when kino matography meant something for japs.

>>103251888
You're mistaken.

>>103251902
FPBP

>>103251888
I pirate everything. The only thing I might be willing to pa for is Anime because it's truly quality, but even then it's probably better that I don't so the don't start thinking it's a good idea to cater to American audiences.

>>103251902
I'm in the process of making a company, if I don't protect my patents then a company in china will just make the equivalent product for a fraction of the price because they don't need to pay as much tax and salary. intellectual property is saving me from being born in Europe basically

>>103252145
You've never done any of those three things.

>>103253227
>the chinese still do it because they don't care about westerner ip law
Come on man, every product on the market has a billion chinese knockoffs.

>>103251888
I pirated when I was a kid because I have no money
When I grew up I bought a lot of the games I pirated in the past, and also started paying for new games because I had money

>>103252065
>various nations' Coast Guards or Navies typically suppress most piracy
how true is this really

After seeing the latest Cawadoody launcher it's hard to believe that is what anyone asked for

I haven't given up piracy. If anything the younger generations have less knowledge and experience when it comes to piracy. I have been doing it since the early 00s, before bittorrent, and I will keep doing it.

>>103251888
Pirating TV shows and movies is unironically a better user experience than navigating all those fucking streaming services

>>103251888
i haven't. i'm 35 and have never bought anything on itunes save for a friend's album to show support. setting up a nas server by year's end

>>103252145
>>spend hours autistically tinkering in order to pirate media
Wow it's so hard to download an mkv file and play it

>>103252167
Oh no, they have information on your Steam achievements

>>103251902
>>103251915
>>103251932
>>103252054
>>103252208
Words of Walmart employee John voting for Trump to show these immigrants.

>>103253265
IP laws are respected in EU and NA (though Trump will accept Saudi and Russian clones when he can). Even if a company produces a clone in China it is irrelevant to the American and European markets my low income conservative friend.

>>103252561
You're massively overstating the time it takes to pirate content

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>>103251888
I pirate everything except for music. Used to be a Steam buyfag, but regional pricing stopped being reasonable a while ago, so I'm back to piracy.

>>103252167
>t. Brave MAGA user who shares his browsing history with every Saudi and Israeli company in existence worried about Steam sharing his achievements with Shrek

>>103252561
I am on every private tracker I need to be on so it's not my problem. They are harder to get into than they were when I got in. I sometimes had friends invite me. You might not have as easy of a time but again not my problem.

>>103253574
I even pirate music still.

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>>103253595
>A is easier than B
>A is a lot harder to get into and setup than B
>A requires a vast array of many people and invites to get through before even being able to set it up
>A is easier than B

Greetings from Texas Oblast. I have no money.

>>103252200
>it became too difficult to make pirated games work
How is it any more difficult running a game through Lutris than Steam?

>>103251961
It's this. I used to pirate, started making money, and then decided it was more worth my time to pay steam than fiddle around with pirating, cracks, and maybe getting a virus.

>>103253570
I'm really not. My ex used to use streaming websites and at least half of the streams were shit quality, buffering constantly, broken files, the list goes on. We'd get food and I would be mostly done by the time she found a working stream.
I personally torrent everything but I spent a long time figuring out which sites have real content and which uploaders make good encodes. If I didn't know I'd still be going to one of the thousand fake piratebay sites and trying to figure out why I can't leech off anyone.
>>103253595
>I put in the work already so it's not my problem
That's entirely my point, people who say "just pirate" put time and effort into pirating, the kind of time and effort that isn't worth it if you're making a lot of money.

>>103251888
The deal I made with myself when I was a kid is that I would stop pirating when I could afford to buy all that shit.
I've followed through for the most part. I still have a seed box in a dark corner to grab things I can't find through legitimate means.

>>103251888
Most people become jaded as they age and dont care about the waste of what is relatively small amounts of money for convenience and i can understand that but I've bought way too many boxes of shit over the years to fall for that and still pirate basically everything.

Occasionally I will buy a game if i really like it, but its still a case by case basis for me, usually after pirating it or playing it elsewhere and being sure i will enjoy it and always has been, i wont pre order anything and i wont just buy a game on a whim, i only have limited time to play games so im not wasting time or money on garbage which is 98% of what most studios shovel out.

>>103251888
>Launch steam
>Takes a gorillian years to start
>Doesn't kill games sometimes (forced to sigkill the whole namespace)
>Can't launch games directly
Ya, na. Only thing they solved was having a noob friendly way of downloading and launching wine/proton distributions.

>>103251942
I buy games since it's more convenient, I have more money than I know what to spend on, and I don't want to have viruses on my computer. If you don't give a shit about 10 minutes to find a torrent and download/get it running, don't have money, or don't care/are oblivious to potential viruses, then no wonder you pirate. I used to pirate games when I was in high school.

>>103253567
I never said I was American Kamalafag.

>>103251888
I'm a poorfag and I still don't pirate because theres no game worth pirating. If the game is good it'd be worth it's asking price. If it's not then I just won't play it. I don't HAVE to play every new shitty game. I have enough games already to play the rest of my life, why would I waste my time pirating games? Because they're new? Who gives a shit. They'll be old and forgotten just like all the others in time.

>>103251888
shit isnt even worth pirating

>>103253670
When I was making a lot of money I still pirated. It meant I could spend that money on other things. I even stole my neighbor's wifi and used it as my home internet connection. Just because you have more money doesn't mean you should treat it like it's worthless to you. Time is worth something too but it's always going to be worth less than money. Patience is a virtue you know.

>>103252056
Government isp services can censor your Google. Truly 4chan is the only way to fight against g*d

>>103251888
For me it's a couple things: I don't want to play new games constantly so there are only ever a handful I come across each year that I want to play (I don't mean new releases necessarily, like this month I started giving a shit about HoMM games for some reason), and $50 or whatever just isn't worth as much to me as it was in high school.


But that said I still get a bad taste in my mouth imagining paying for streaming content lol, so I will take the time to pirate media. Occasionally I'll buy Blu rays of what I like if they're cheap just so I can have some kind of collection, and having a physical thing helps me not forget something I like exists.

>>103251902
you wouldn't mind your code, book, music, etc. being stolen?

>>103253928
>Time is worth something too but it's always going to be worth less than money
Get older and you'll see how ridiculous that statement is.
>When I was making a lot of money I still pirated
I make plenty of money and still pirate. I setup a full automation system so anyone at my house can enjoy free media too. The only reason I don't have streaming subscriptions is because my stack still works, if the whole p2p concept died overnight I wouldn't bother finding a different way to pirate and just pay for what I want.

I agree to no terms or laws. I steal.

>>103253979
When I was in my teen years I dedicated all my time to pirating and started a scene group. In my 20s I was working so I had less time but I still just pirated everything and put a lot of effort into saving money. I spent my money on going out to eat and buying retro gaming shit instead of media. I made friends with the same interests and we exchanged info about pirating live TV which was useful because I got more into watching sports. Now I'm in my 30s and I'm very knowledgeable on all kinds of things because of the time spent. I value that more than simply paying for a service and mindlessly consuming. I work less and make less money but I have enough to survive and lots of free time to pursue whatever I want. Pirating isn't just a means to an end but a part of my lifestyle.

>>103253670
>people who say "just pirate" put time and effort into pirating, the kind of time and effort that isn't worth it if you're making a lot of money
Most people begin pirating before they start earning a lot of money, and maintaining the required knowledge is no effort at all

>>103253730
>Takes a gorillian years to start
Have you considered upgrading from your Pentium 2

>>103251888
u will own nothing und be happi

>>103251932
>until game devs quit using taxpayer money to fund themselves
I don't know if you got the news in your trailer park, but video games are the most profitable entertainment business.

There's nothing worth pirating. I have all the roms I want. I own the cartridges. If buying the games isn't ownership then downloading them isn't theft. I'm not a thief. I'll play whatever I damn well please but if you want my money, sell me a game. Simple as. I'll buy whatever I want. I'll then play them however I want. After the transfer of money, you no longer get to disagree with how I choose to live my life. If you want to go to court, I'll simply tell you that a forced contract isn't a contract. I never sign anything and if you imply that I did by any means, it's duress. Misrepresentation and fraud and terms that are impossible to satisfy. You can eat my whole ass. I'm a man, you're a corporation. It'll happen in my court.

The best solution for buyfagging video games that doesn't involve piracy is not playing video games
Grow up.

>>103254216
Growing up is overrated. Being a manchild is more fun.

>>103254216
If growing up means leaving the things I love and value behind, then no. You're welcome to be miserable however you want. But fuck you and the horse you rode in on faggot.

>>103254201
ok sovereign citizen

>>103254228
Video games are child/nerd toys and have no value.

>>103254249
Everything I said had legal prescidence. There's no such thing as a sovereign citizen. I'm a sovereign man. I have status and standing and it's filed. Good luck in your endeavors. Stay poor.

>>103254253
Have you seen the price of Paper Mario 64?

>>103254279
$0 after I lock the nerd selling it in his locker.

>>103251888
disposable income
sensitive information on pc -> don't run bins from questionable sources

>>103254292
Assault, battery, and unlawful imprisonment. Enjoy 30 years in prison.

>>103254295
This. I always wondered if they contained malware. Like can a sfc file break out of snes9x?

>>103254272
>prescidence

>>103254322
It's probably possible. But you can look at the dat-o-matic database to make sure the checksum matches before running it.

>>103254326
Noun the condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank.

>>103254334
I'll just use my legally ripped roms of the physical carts that I legally acquired.

>>103254311
You didn't include theft, because video games have no value.

>>103251942
Eh, kinda, but it still depends on the service. I have gone to paying for video games (mostly multiplayer, but the occasional singleplayer game), but I have never stopped pirating films, tv shows or music. For those, pirating is still much more comfortable / simple for me, and it keeps me a lot more self-sufficient in a way, as the only thing that could stop me from enjoying my library of things to watch / listen to is a power outage.

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>>103251961
I don't think I'm in a minority when I saw there basically the showing off factor.
I like to have all my games on steam, with achievements and all so I can basically showcase how long I played em and what I did inside of them. It's both to showoff to others but also to keep track.
I used Xfire when it released to track how much I played Rangarok Online and Call of Duty.

There is also the "Slav" factor. What do I mean I didn't own a single we called them "original game" basically non pirated game in my life until I was like 17 years old. So from 7 to 17 a whole 10 years everything was just pirated CDs. As the picture shows my room was always covered in CDs and later DVDs.

So when I finally got money I started buying everything. Because for a good 15 years I coudn't buy anything. I got a DS, 3DS, Vita, PSP, PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch. I switch my PC every 3~4 years to have the latest and greatest and I also buy all the games these days. I don't really play 70% of them buy I still buy em. Physical always if possible.

>>103254335
precedence

>>103252065
>>103253387
It’s not true at all. Yes, if you directly torrent from your home PC, many western countries will get you, but that’s as dumb as shoplifting openly.
Get a VPN or better yet, a seedbox in another country.

>>103254346
It wouldn't be relevant, that's a civil matter. I'd go after your estate for financial damages.

>>103254216
Yeah come and post about video games like this guy, just don't play em. Hes been here since 2004 probably.

>>103252145
>spend hours autistically tinkering in order to pirate media
If you need to “tinker autistically” for hours to pirate media, you’re just genuinely tech illiterate and / or completely stupid.
If I want to download a film, it takes me literal seconds to find a source and then I just wait for the download to finish (depending on the size, it can take a moment).

>>103252258
>gaming on steam comes with a fucking bloated client that takes like 1.5 to 2GB or RAM
>YIKES.
Oh no! That’s like 3% of my RAM! How will I ever cope?

>>103254343
You should check those against dat-o-matic to make sure nothing went wrong when you dumped them. Maybe even start submitting checksums yourself.

>>103254378
bro has 66GB of ram lol...

>>103251888
>Why do people give up piracy as they age?
They dont lmao.

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>>103252145
Sorry your movie is not available Netflix
Sorry your movie is not available Amazon
Sorry your movie is not available HBO
Sorry your movie is not available Hulu
Sorry your movie is not available Disney+
Sorry your movie is not available Peacock
Sorry your movie is not available Paramount+
Sorry your movie is not available MGM+

WHERE THE FUCK IS IT?

Apple TV+

Yeah anon I'm sure you pay 0.000000000001 of your salary to watch everything you want.

>>103254380
I accept your concession. Your point is retarded as you simply cannot be poor enough that 1-2GB of RAM is an issue.

>>103254402
That and there's a chance the unhinged retards running these services will fuck with the movies, like cutting out the Drumpf scene from Home Alone 2

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>>103254379
They play just fine. I will load them onto picrel when it comes. If it has illegal roms on it when it arrives, I'll make sure to erase them. Like I said, I only play games I legally own copies of. I used to use something else for CRC. I've had them for a very long time and have them backed up to multiple locations locally. I know without a shadow of a doubt that the games I have are from real sources because I purchased them from physical stores new when they came out. The N64 was the hardest to do and I'm missing a few. I refuse to back anything up that I can't cry l verify as real. There's so many repros out there that it's hard to figure out. I paid a friend of mine to keep an eye out for real copies of specific games I'm on the hunt for. I've purchased SNES games that ended up in the trash due to them simply being fake. I won't simply borrow a game either. Yes I know I can do it and I'm 99% sure roms on the web are probably fine. But I'm not 100% certain. I also don't share the roms with anyone. It's not like you cant find complete romsets via magnet. I suppose if push came to shove, and I had something extremely rare, I would sell the physical game and copy said rom to a USB drive and then delete it from my drives. If someone else wants to break the law, they're welcome to it. I'm not a pirate. But I don't disagree with others who do it. I respect them actually. Where I take issue with is say Nintendo saying I have to play games on their specific bullshit hardware. No thanks.

>>103254423
Hate Trump or love him, that shit is retarded.

>>103252145
you earn 1 trillion dollars a year?

>>103251888
Adults are also supposed to socialize, work and have sex.
I've always been a failed adult.
>>103251902
Fpbp
>>103253966
I open source everything

>>103254475
It's all overrated. Let's be frens. Let's play vidya together! Let's be happy. Sex is gross. Talking leads to arguments. Let's just play bing bing wahoo and enjoy what little time we have left! Forget women. Forget socialization.

I only buy games below $10 so I usually pirate most games. It's either reasonably cheap or free.

>>103254090
Mobile games don't use taxpayer money retard faggot. what are the AAA games from 2024 that you deem successful anyway?

>>103254507
Oh, now it's mobile games. Except they don't.

>>103254590
>playing retarded
I already called you out doing that. No need to do it again. To be fair, offline mobile games are basically unprofitable in the long term thanks to the faggotry of Android and iOS.

>>103254499
It's unreasonable to expect high budget games to cost $10

>>103252145
>click request movie/series in jellyseer
>couple minutes to an hour later sit down and watch it
You really just don't know how easy piracy is in 2024. But personally I would NEVER do such a thing

>>103254622
Where's the evidence, tubby? You sound like a sped.

>>103254961
>evidence
Where's yours in your original reply?

>>103251888
In my 20ies and early 30ies I thought it was worthwhile to spend hundreds on hardware+electricity bill to setup a torrent box to sneed to private trackers.

This + setting up nextcloud etc. is simply too much of a pain, given how little goyslop I actually consume.

>>103255049
>In my 20ies and early 30ies
who the fuck says this instead of 20s and 30s

>>103251888
the become fags

>>103255093
because it was mostly his early 30s and not his entire 30s

>>103251888
For me, I discovered Linux. Foss software for the most part does everything I need for free and doesn't come from some shady sources. I can view the source code and verify that it's fine. The problem with piracy is that the cracks often times contain malware. Couple that with Windows itself becoming spyware, moving to Linux just became easier than trying to pirate it, remove all the spyware, fight with updates, disable all the bloat, only for some random update to roll those changes back... I'm not saying Linux is perfect, far from it. If Linux fucks up, it's maybe 5 minutes to fix most issues, 15 minutes to reinstall. On Windows it can take hours to fiddle fuck with, only to have to reinstall which can take an entire afternoon. Windows has always been kinda shit in this regard, with like 7 becoming good by sheer coincidence. Microsoft just doesn't know how to let it just be good. They can't help themselves. I guess that's what you get by hiring retarded pajeets and boomers not giving a fuck.

I once got busted for torrenting because I sneeded for 0.1 milliseconds and the cucked German government gave the hollywood jews my ip address. got a lawyer and still had to pay $600 in the end. I have since stopped pirating. I have also stopped watching movies altogether, stopped going to the cinema. They will never get another cent from me again, hope it was worth it

>>103251902
And property is theft

>>103255349
>>103255349
Bro, you are literally Hitler. You can't starve jews of money! That's like a literal holocaust!
Enjoy getting bombed by Americans.

>>103255349
Good.

>>103255366
Fuck around and find out then

>>103251888
It's not "when you age". The fact is, Gen X is just a better generation than you worthless sacks of shit.

>>103255366
sex refusal is theft

>>103251888
they don't that's a retarded proposition

I used to pirate but I just use steam now because it supports Mac / Linux and I don't want to download dodgy binaries

>>103253632
Some fitgirl repacks just didn't werk under Linux. I had better luck with Dodi repacks and finding the original cracked version but that became too much of a hassle and Steam just handles compatibility on its own anyway. Also I had disposable income for the first time at the time, so it was easier to justify going buyfag.

Probably because our favorite pirate sites fade over time and we dont go anywhere near fitgirls infested malware repacks. Its a dude btw.

>>103251888
They start earning money and don't need to pirate as much anymore.
However, I'll still pirate any game that costs more than $40 and is subjectively worth less than that

>>103255980
You have to go back to your containment board proud cuck.

>>103255666
>fitgirls infested malware repacks
lol

>>103256013
that's right this is /g/, and no racism outside of /b/ allowed :)

>>103252032
>because games genuinely got cheaper
Big games in Germany cost 80-90 DM in the 90s.
So triple A titles today should cost 40-45 EUR, but they don't. They cost 60-70 EUR so don't give me that crap about things becoming cheaper.

>>103256146
Germany is a niche example
US prices are lower, as well as in Australia and probably other places

>>103251888
sometime around 2015, I realized that this shit wasn't even worth the disk space it's on nor the bandwidth it takes to download & seed it. Sure, I haven't given them money since the mid-00s but now I don't want to give them my intellectual and emotional energy either

>>103256205
and yet you're still posting about it almost 10 years later

>>103252720
>Release broken product for full price
>Fix it step by step in the future
That's illegal in the EU, UK and AUS/NZ.

>>103251888
As I age, I have more money but less time. I play fewer video games and care less for the hassle of pirating them.

>>103254402
>personally I subscribe to 20 different television services because I watch tv 45 minutes every day
https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8?t=1239

>be adult
>realize how jewish the world is and how gayniggers and women try to take my money
>continue pirating just to save money
eat shit, fucking jews.

>>103251888
piracy is for people with a lot of time and no money
buying is for people with a lot of money and no time

buying should only for the basics and things you can't pirate because theres no seeders or its too old and the last resort
pirating is for things you can get and is available with seeders

>>103256303
what if you have a lot of time AND money?

>>103256313
Buy shit and upload it to pirate sites

>>103256317
based

>>103251902
fpbp

>>103253979
>Time is worth more than money
>That's why I waste my money in which I invested a ton of time at Mr. Shekelberg's office
New level of retardation.
When you invest your time, you're investing your time.
When you invest your money, you're investing your time which you spent making someone else money.

>>103255349
They didn't give your IP to any American party, they gave it to the German rights holder.
When in Germany, stop downloading German shit. If you're in Germany and you download stuff from a US rights holder, they won't sue you across the Atlantic, as that's more expensive than what they get from you under German law. (Capped at 500 EUR)

>>103251888
>solves the service problem
>steam forces to update itself every time you run it
>sends data back to valve all the time without your consent
>client needs retarded permissions making it hard to properly sandbox it
>games force to update themselves
>games can force uninstall themselves without your consent
>can't downgrade to earlier patch
>steam DRM
>forces you to use proton on linux, coupled with DRM it makes it even harder to just run the game on plain Wine
>older games frequently are not the original retail versions, but pre-patched with some random "improvements" or hacks (for Windows 10 compatibility etc.)
meanwhile
>pirate a game (for older games, it's the original retail version)
>run it in sandboxed Wine
>wala

>>103256387
None of these things you list are relevant to people who actually play games except maybe downgrading to earlier patches. Conversely, getting updates for a pirated game is often much more difficult.

>>103256532
>getting updates for a pirated game is often much more difficult.
not difficult at all. some cracking groups continue supplying some updates for some games but not all do this.

>>103251888
Gaben was right, its a service problem. I could easily pirate, but I'm willing to pay like 10 bucks or whatever to have a PC game in my steam library for instant access, no online issues, no worrying about getting the latest patches and cracks, etc. Also having proton in Just Werks tier without any extra mucking about.

For console games I still pirate everything

>>103251888
still waiting to see some of that "good service" from steam

I am literally worth 8 figures and I still pirate movies and software.

>>103256792
*not because I'm greedy but it's more convenient. A lot of the cracked software I use runs better because they're cracked because they run without protection dongles and have better startup times (mostly VST plugins).

>>103254416
it's a fucking launcher!
A program that downloads files and executes an .exe file.

it is fucking inexcusable for it to be so fucking bloat.
you are a dumb zoomer you cannot understand

reminder steam "sells" games that use scene cracks on them lmao

>>103256850
I am likely 10 years older than you, but ok

>>103251902
fpbp as always

>>103256183
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."
FYI that's a quote from monkey island.

>>103251888
Paying for things is often more convenient, especially that DRM has won the arms race, and basically requires real low level knowledge and a lot of time to crack.

Piracy is only really worth it for emulation or obscure media (and if its obscure, there's a chance there are no seeders).

>>103253979
>Get older and you'll see how ridiculous that statement is.

>Be me.
>Want to watch movie.
>Spend 60 seconds looking up movie online and click the magnet link.
>It downloads while I do other things like play games or make dinner.
>Movie finishes downloading in between 5-10 minutes.
>Enjoy movie having spent 60 seconds of my time pirating the movie.

It takes just as long using one of those websites that shows me which streaming service a movie is on. (If it's even on one)

>>103256212
culture is an important component of society, if it's currently a cesspool

>>103251888
You get a job and then have money to spend on things you like, when you're a kid you don't have a job so you're limited to whatever allowance your parents give you or whatever they buy for you when you ask for it.

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>>103258691
$20 in 1990(release date of monkey island)
is now worth $49.55

>>103251888
Piracy is rampant because pirated games are better their DRM ridden versions sold on stores.
Because oh yeah, I totally want kernel level malware running on my machine so they can be sure I boughted the goddamned game.

>>103258783
No, return to monkey island was adjusted for inflation and it's 24.50$

>>103252316
is the game gone after you "steal it"?

>>103258784
If your cpu doesn't gave popcnt some games only start with the cracked version, not a big problem cause most cpus have it, but still a weird artificial limit.

>>103251888
I've never pirated as much as now at 30yo, mostly because I have fiber and basiaclly unlimited storage.
not even a decade ago 30GB would take days if not weeks to download...
I live in the "first-world" btw which was even more depressing.