if you are not pirating everything?
Paying for individual pieces of entertainment that I want with money.
>>721913938I'm white and reward the labor for products I like.
>>721913938I just buy games i want to support the fees or show love to.
I am buying things I think I will enjoy
If everyone pirated everything, how would new games get made?
>>721914317Who do you reward?
>>721913938I pirated tons of game lately. I haven't pirated in a long time because everything had Denuvo, but it seems all the new releases don't have Denuvo. When did that happen?
Anything other than buying or playing video games desu. It's hard to care with 20,000 games being released every month. The hobby is starting to feel like boardgame culture and that is also gay as hell.
>>721914419probably when devs realized more piracy = more free ads
>>721913938Buying shit is unironically easier
>>721914490t 80iq zoomer
>>721913938If its not worth buying then its not worth playing.
>>721914490My brain pirates automatically there is no effort on my part.It just happens.I will need more storage soon.
>>721914614can you go back to save le vidya games reddit threads or smth
>>721913938I have about $25K sitting in my bank account I genuinely don’t know what to do with. Buying some games really isn’t a big ask when it’s my primary hobby.
>>721913938I don't have enough time to play all those shitty games so I can't bother pirating
>>721914658buy gold? instead of wasting money?
>>721914550Caring about IQ is a sign of low intelligenceif you even care enough to do an official IQ test you are peak midwit
>>721914743>buy gold>when it's ATHreddit tier buy high sell low
>>721914658You should finance a new truck.
>>721913938Buying things on steam
>>721913938If its not worth my money its not worth my time>I MUST download that game I have almost no interest in and commit time to playingWhat are you doing. I feel like people that have a need to do this need another hobby besides videogames, this is consoomer shit.
>>721914890show me a point in time where gold dropped in value for a yearrightnow kill yourself
>>721914658>I have about $25K sitting in my bank accountHow is that even possible!? are you a doctor?
>>7219149361997
>>721913938Almost all non indie games have denuvo and denuvo killed piracy. At this point I'd rather pay 2,- instead of pirating.Denuvo won. We had a good long awesome run, but its over
>>721913938I want to be part of the massive class action once a company pulls the plug and tries taking away my vidya. Can only do that if I actually bought the games.
>>721915338>something that never happeni just pirated silent hill f pre releasekill yourself jeet
>>721914658>live together with my wife for 11 years>split all the bills>dont really "want things" outside of a video game/gpu every now and then>kind of have my and hers account>had 80k>wife had 100k saved up>ok>learn money doesnt mean shit>there's only no money, money and fuckyou money>read about all the virgins on reddit suddenly priced out of gaming by a 10 dollar price hike>cant wrap my head around it
>>721915338>t. denuvo shill
>>721913938I pirated enough games to keep me busy for over a decade
>>721915015Make more. Spend less. Don't live in a place with high cost of living.
I pirate everything, but if the game is really good then I'll buy it. Even if it's a free game, if it's excellent then I'll donate to the devs.
>>721913938I just like the convenience of simply purchasing the video game and having it organized immediately in a launcher with automatic updates and all of it's relevant information on one page.
>>721913938No good games have come out since I was young enough for my parents to buy my games, so I've never needed to spend money.> Buh if you pirate it's fre-Time is not free. Time is worth more than money, since you can never get more of it. Wasting time on a bad game is substantially worse than wasting money on a bad game. You should 't do either.
>>721916214>purchasing the video gameexcept the fact that you do not and you only have a license
>>721916245it surely does take so much time to type title that you wanna pirate in russian tracker
>>721913938meh, a 70 dollar game is less than an hour's work
>>721916381He has a point though. Modding pirated games is usually a pain in the ass. some modders even go so far as to put in protections to make sure you own the game or their mod won't work.
>>721916381It takes time to play the game. The game will be shit since it's new. Therefor the time will be wasted.
>>721914743>don’t waste money>buy gold
>>721916431you are so fucking clueless it hurts
>>721916291If it becomes that serious, there are known ways to bypass steam DRM. at the very least, I could just use GOG.
>>721913938i am entitled to free games
>>721913938I enjoy supporting the devs of games I like with my money
I've been pirating since the PS1. No reason not to desu. It's pretty stupid to buy digital games you don't even own, but at least back then you could maybe convince yourself to buy physical. Most physical console games don't even have the full game on the disc anymore.
>>721913938How do I pirate Battlefield 6?
>>721916482you don't know what you're talking about. Some modders specifically make their mods not work on the most popular versions of pirated games.
>>721914405Niche japanese porn games
>>721913938i'm scared of malware
>>721917723sure buddy
>>721917998use rutracker
>>721913938What do you do in that situation? Would you survive if you jumped to the side? She's probably wearing heels, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njS58BL0u5w
The only reason I pirate media is that I don't have money (neet for 9 years). I would love to support my favourite artists, whether it's a niche/smaller band or an indie game.I do feel bad because pirating is immoral. I only don't feel as bad if it's a big developer or a well known artist.
>>721918941>What do you do in that situation?You get off the fucking tracks, it's not like the train can chase you sideways lmao
Telle the last game you pirated. For me it was PC building sim 2
>>721919594Indieslop doesn’t not deserve money. They are setting the bar lower and lower every year for video games but you think they get a free pass because they are “indie.” Hell no. Make those faggots work harder.
>>721919642The Sims 3>>721919823There are literally thousands of indie games. Not all of them are low effort.
>>721918751>trusting the country notorious for ransomware
>>721914302Because of Bollywood movies, they think that looking stoic and uninterested in dangerous situations is the apex of cool. That's why they're always filming themselves walking extremely close to trains.
>>721920468stay retarded
>>721913938Well number one I'm a law abiding citizen, not a brown/third worlder/autistic neet. I follow the rules of society because I'm choosing to live in a ruled society, not live in a lawless shithole that is the vast majority of the rest of the world. The day I determine living like an animal is preferable to living in a society of rules I might change my mind.And number two I actually want to support the people whose games I think are worth a shit.And number three frankly I don't give enough of a fuck to go around pirating shit constantly because as mentioned above I'm a functioning member of society and have other things to do with my time
>>721921421You're a fool to trust a pirate.
>>721921518ok ransheed calm down>>721921525but i am one
>>721915015just don't spend money and live with your parents bro.that's the real power getting to your 30's without a woman's touch gives youi have 90k invested and 100k in my bank account. i make 1800-ish a month post-tax
Excited to pirate the latest Atelier game that recently came out. Hurry it up. Also is the SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game any good? Might play that while waiting.
I downloaded some games from a previously fine website I think and now I got that PermierOpinion swimming around my pcvery annoying.
>>721914302>be like
>>721914658Why are you saving so much? This is very antisemitic behavior.
>>721914658>$25k>bank account>ever having more than a few grand in a bankFor your sake I hope you're just lying. Because that is the stupidest thing I've heard all week.You just lost at least $100 from inflation this month because you're a retard that doesn't know how to invest. Probably a lot more because inflation stats are a lie.And at least a $1000 opportunity cost in the safest shit ever.
>>721913938I'm not a nigger
>>721914658dude buy some blue chip stocks or something. make that money grow, dont just let it fucking sit and rot.
pirating is unironically too slowi buy something on steam, its ready in a minute or two
My tastes are specific enough that at best I buy 3 games a year, often less.
>>721913938You know that if everyone pirated everything, nothing would get made, right? You should be thanking people like us with incomes that support the hobby.
>>721924708Every time you buy a game, I pirate it twice. Checkmate.
>>721914389obtaining material from unregulated sources is always going to involve some sort of technical competence, theres no feasible situation in which everyone would pirate everything because the majority of people who use technology are functionally retarded. there are vast swathes of people who still try to scam, share or fleece netflix instead of actually just downloading media in bulk.imagine that. trying to find workarounds for an on demand service with pre selected content instead of just seeking out and obtaining the content you want. Not youve got people on /v/ actually advocating for spending money- not because the content is of high quality or easy to purchase, but because they think it makes them appear more white and upstanding while they try to dunk on ethnic minorities
I don't get how these fuckers are even affording vidyajust pirate you retardsthese companies have proved long ago you mean nothing to them
>>721913938People keep giving me money on steam and i need to use it
>>721924708you know what you just said is your literal headcannon?according to your own logic it is your fault that all games now are sjw riddled shit kill yourself
>>721916431you not being able to navigate a filesystem doesnt mean not having the game name with a big play play button next to it makes modding more difficult.
>>721924043the fact you think paying for products makes you more white when your suburban white neighbours are pirating netflix shows in droves is sort of pathetic
>>721914302India is like Humanity's version of the mosquito
>>721925307Faggot I pirate almost everything and have been doing so since the days of fucking Unreal Tournament. You've obviously never tried to mod games that get frequent updates. A lot of the time you can't even get the older versions of the mods that worked on previous versions of the game.
>>721913938I only pirate woke shit
>>721925285>according to your own logic it is your fault that all games now are sjw riddled shitYou have it backwards. People with your specific tastes not buying enough games that cater to you are why things are shit (to you)
>>721913938I make too much money to risk viruses
>>721925551Why do you play woke shit at all in the first place?
>>721915685>>read about all the virgins on reddit suddenly priced out of gaming by a 10 dollar price hike>>cant wrap my head around itkek, it's because most gamers are either underage, third worlders, or deranged freaks who just love to complain
>>721925661that is why you pay for literal malware?
>>721925503>youve obviously never tried t-youre a retard and thats okay. suddenly shifting the goalposts to "specific game versions". just dont update the game. >b-b-but the game auto updates to be able to p-how is that my problem, stop shifting the goalposts. GOG even lets you downgrade versions of games from within the launcher.
>>721925782What the fuck are you even talking about? Have you ever tried to use mods on a pirated version of a Paradox game, for example? Sure, for some games it's not a problem at all, but for some it is.
>>721925776I bought D2R because I didn't trust the cracked versions, where's the malware?
>>721925704because south of midnight was surprisingly good
>>721925771>bootlicking and being happy to give more money because "10 dollars isnt alot of money" and you want to get one over on "third worlders">jesus christ it fuckin worked, all you have to do is tell white people they must be poor or brown and theyll give you anything
>>721926015>"10 dollars isnt alot of money"I make $80/hr after tax. $10 is nothing.
>>721924708Nope the dreamcast got pirated to hell and back yet sega still one of the biggest companies in the world
>>721925864what did i just tell you, why are you still shifting the goalposts. now its only "some games". motherfucker we both know some games explode when you dare to even change the texture resolution or turn the shadows lower than High. "some pirated games can be hard to mod" is a fucking nothing statement
>>721913938When I was young I was pirating because others were paying. Now I'm paying so others can pirate. It's a natural order of things.
>>721926126>giving an additional $10 from your wages for media products because you were told to is nothingI mean sure but you dont set the limit and eventually when it reaches a price youre not personally willing to part with nobody will give a fuck because you didnt care until it hit your price point.You understand why it might be tiresome to talk to people like you because eventually you always just admit you dont care about any widely contested issues, never did and want the whole thing to collapse anyway
>>721926381so you are basically saying that it is your fault that games are all sjw shit and run like shit? kill yourself
>>721922428>1800-ish a month post-taxYou're getting paid 12 an hour in your 30s (assuming 40 hour work week), what the hell is wrong with your life? I get paid a thousand a week.
>>721926435>so you are basically saying that it is your fault that games are all sjw shit and run like shit?no
>>721926385Inflation is bigger than your video games bro
>>721914658I've been sitting on $70k USD cash since 2019 because I was waiting for the market to crash.
>>721926435What fuck kind of implication is this?
>>721926568than you are not enabling anythingit is either that or nothing faggot
>>721926198Are we talking about two different things? What goalposts am I moving faggot? Like I said, I pirate almost everything, but it's difficult to mod some pirated games. That's been my point from the beginning
>>721915685>>read about all the virgins on reddit suddenly priced out of gaming by a 10 dollar price hike>>cant wrap my head around itPractically, it isn't a lot to ask. But A) if you buy a lot of AAA games because you're a retard I assume the cumulative costs add up. I have zero idea on how much AAA games the average player buys a month, but I do know that more than two/three can add up. Especially with all this GOTY and DLC, making it so people who want the full product has to spend more on a game. B), if no one else advocates for prices to go down, who will? There is no group who cares about game prices increasing except gamers. If we don't voice our discontent, then the industry will push a bigger and bigger price. I don't think we can successfully stop them, but we can stop them from making too rapid of a price hike at least.
>>721914658Retard hereSame but 4x more. I literally don't know what to do with it.Everyone says to "invest" it but never in what, and more importantly, how.
>>721914658I have 40K, what the hell am I supposed to invest in? Stocks/401K? I'll probably kill myself before I hit 65 so I don't see the point.
>>721927130>>721927059>>721926757>>721914658Why is this so prevalent? I'm starting to think the economy is in the worst state it's ever been.
Honest question to pirates: Outside of seeding torrents, why would you want more people to pirate? The whole reason you can do it in the first place is because not everyone does it. Having paypigs that buy the games you're pirating is literally in your best interest. If everyone pirated then corporations would go down even harder on piracy than they're already doing.
>>721927263I'm an incel who lives with my parents, how can I blow tens of thousands of dollars?>>721927364I don't.
>>721926545not US, it's actually slightly above average wage for my country
>>721927581Use £ or whatever symbol your country uses next time, you confused me.
>>721927364Pirating should be MORE DIFFICULTbut it's already too complicated for the average computer user. Hell a lot of people don't even have computers anymore, they just do everything on phones or tablets
I have a decent amount of savings but I still pirate all the games/books/movies/tv shows I can. Occasionally, if I really love something, I'll purchase a legit version. I never seed.
>>721913938>if you are not pirating everything?To be fair, every single pirate network and website wanted me to actually BUY Silksong. And they fucking never stand up and tell people to actually buy instead of pirate.So yea... I brought because Team Cherry somehow earned pirates respect by not overpricing their game.
>>721927947you could do the infinite game pass trick and play it there for $1 albeit
>>721927364>why would you want more people to pirate? I don't. Back in my day we used to call piracy la cosa nostra (roughly translates to "our thing")
>>721914658>25k is a lot of money to /v/jesusdrop by /biz/ sometimes, you'll be laughed off the board for not having six figures
>>721927059if you dont want to play the stonks game you have 2 options>invest in index funds>pay a guy do invest for you
>>721913938My government rapes my asshole if they find out and I don't trust (((VPN companies))) enough.GabeN won.
>>721929038there's some site/chart that compares and tests all VPNs on the market that i can't remember the name of. also you could just DDL
>>721913938how do i pirate stellar blade?
>>721928514Averaged net worth of a /biz/tard is negative 6 figures
>>721914302I'd rather be brown than a muscovite.
>>721913938india wants their flow back
>>721913938I only pirate old games. New games aren't even worth pirating lol
If people didn't pirate every game for 25 years would we actually have better games rn? I personally think not
>>721929810I think things would be even worse without piracy, hard to imagine I know.
>>721929810HAHAHA NOOO SHUT UP
>>721913938Calling you a nigger.
Why the FUCK would i want to waste my drive space or bandwidth on downloading shitty fucking AAA games or mobile slop? Theres been like 5 10/10 games to come out in the last DECADE AND A HALF.
>>721913938Why would I pirate F2P games?
>>721913938i took the pirate pill last month because I didn't want to buy Cyberpunk again and it just kind of snowballed and I ended up downloading a bunch of games that I wanted to play but not enough to buy at full price. How do you get around multiplayer not being available?
>>721930294Stop being a faggot that cares about multiplayer
>>721914389Who cares? There's already a life time supply of games out there to enjoy and almost everything after 2010 is trash anyway.
>>721930375I wanted to mess around with the Bleach slop fighter a bit
>>721930529Then get bleach slop fighter money you dirty poor.
>>721930612>pay for games you know are going to be shitlole!!!
>>721915685AAA games being $70 makes no sense and we're 2 years away from Sony's plan to make $80 the gold standard. You don't get more for spending that much, it's just the companies behind these games are so large, and the development costs are so high, (for literally no real reason mind you) that the end consumer gets fucked. In a world of p2p AAA games with microtransactions and absurd deluxe/ultimate/turboassfuckery editions, it makes sense to ask for more money up front when these companies are raking in so much after release. You're paying more so they can continue to make record profits and ass fuck you with less content overall and more content paywalled post release. So, of course people will complain, because if no one does it then these companies would feel even more comfortable raising prices on a faster schedule.
>>721930932this is why silksong got a lot of shit from publishers>HOW DARE YOU SHIP THE MOST HYPED GAME OF THE CENTURY FOR ONLY $20 YOU'RE KILLING (((OUR))) INDUSTRY
>>721930740Nigger are you retarded?
>>721931116woah hey now watch your language
>>721931116
I pirated Silksong.
>>721915015bought a home in 2016 already paid off. Making 100k, no debts. I have to find shit to spend on and already funding my 401k. This is just single adult life. Good thing is my investments should have me retired in 10 years so I can NEET the fuck out
>>721929394you have to be a Russian tranny to gain the power of breaking Denuvo
>>721913938Why would I pirate everything when 99% of new games are shit?
>>721930091so you just come to /v/ to talk about how much you hate video games or what
>>721914302>uses the phrase "be like">Thinks he isn't their equalYou'll be turned away in whatever ethnostate you support if you keep talking like an animal.
>>721932193>Be me>Pirate hearts of iron 2/3 atleast once every few years when I upgrade PC>Tfw nothing else even comes close>Mfw my face when no games to even buy since they all suck dickNot my problem
>>721932237Mainly to watch idiots talk to other idiots. Some times its to much and i have to respond.
I only pirate games if they put woke shit in them
>>721913938Because everything sucks.
>>721914658keep it anon, and save more for your retirement, maybe put some of that in a time deposit, you can get a little extra due to interests rates and without chances of losing it all, just careful of the taxes though
>>721932470I remember back in the day when the holiday season rolled around and I had to pick and choose between which games I was going to pick up even though I had enough disposable income to buy a few. Now you get a few a year, if that.
>721929558lucky you then
>>721913938I bought Silksong out of respect for someone only asking for $20 on a game these days. Will go back to pirating the next time I feel like playing something.
>>721924314Christ on the cross, is this real?
>>721934412Yeah but it's a boring a cheap way to do it. To make a proper bonsai cat/kitten you have to grow it in the jar, so it takes on that more aesthetic shape.
>>721913938i dont trust crack dealersits okay as a 3rd worlder cause youre poor but if they find out you have money theyll try to steal your information
Another thinly veiled racist Indian thread
>>721935216look jeet, the entire world might hate you but not every thread is about that hatred. you paranoid dumbass
>>721915338>denuvo won>just dont look up how to activate your games offline and then refund on steam
and there we go, abandon thread!
>>721913938Because idk how to pirate dlc for games I own, and make them work with games I own. Tldr I am retarded.
>>721913938I'm not a thief.
>>721913938Spending taxpayers money on games I don't play.
>>721913938I like to support things that I enjoy
>>721919594>Richfags don't know what to spend money on>Poorfags have identified every societal problem they would fix with money if only they had itKek this is like every YouTube comment section.If you want to support developers, get a fucking job retard
>>721913938I spend money when I want to support the creator(s) and pirate if I don't. If it's too much of a hassle to support a creator, or they no longer exist, pirating it is.
>bro silksong are le humble only 20 lololI've to hear this when there are games around <4$ just as good. Granted some are ports. well the price is average not the second coming of christ frfr. ._. A few years ago it'd pass for a normal price. heck it's more expensive than a flash game. Given the shilling, they are doing well and rich. I'mma pirate this.
>>721922428I'm hella jelly. I only make 2.1k Clownadian dollars and can only save a quarter of that a month because of the retarded ass rent prices.
>>721941160just build your own house and stop paying rent
>>721927263>Why is this so prevalent?The biggest money drain for men is women.If you're a man who doesn't have a girlfriend, or whose girlfriend lives on her own or with her parents, that cuts down immensely on your costs.As such, you see a lot of men with excess disposable income, and now a lot less to spend it on since every corpo in America fell for the "women are the big spenders" meme and decided to pander heavily to them.This is also why you see an increase in men dumping thousands on gacha and figures and shit.
>>721913938Who are you talking to? I don't remember the last time I bought a game.
>>721938845This. Though if the company is scummy enough (*cough* Nintendo), then I'll do it regardless.
