Don't have to
I just love stealing and having shit for free

>>740480827
They want me to pay but I get it for free

Dev here. If you buy games you are a fucking retarded cuckold.
All games should be free.

>>740480827
I FUCKING HATE GAMESHOP

I don't want to pay for it.

piracy is only and exclusively justified when
1) the game is not sold on any official storefront/abbandonware/the game is delisted/discontinued/etc, in this case purchasing a second hand copy doesn't bring any money to the publisher
2) you are actually broke and $70 can ruin you financially but you still want to play games, just like someone would choose to steal food rather than die from starvation (not really the same but you get the point)
that's it, in no other circumstance is piracy ever justified, as a matter of fact if you are not in the above categories then you should be jailed for 10 years if you steal licensed IP

>>740480827
>it facilitates negative consumption mindset, letting gamers believe that games should be free
Citation needed

>>740480827
>It damages the industry

Ah yes, because pirating a game that is no longer officially sold by the company hurts the company.

>>740480827
>game shop
>6 books on a blanket
[saddest faggot award]

Reminded of Game Dev Tycoon where they released a version of their game onto pirate sites where your runs were doomed due to increasing piracy rates that you had no way to counter.

Pretty funny.

You'd get people on the forums asking how to stop piracy lol

>>740480998
This thread. people who pirate will keep pirating. duh. you don't need a citation for that.

Lemme watch Summer Games Fest real quick
>Remake
>Remaster
>Reimagine
I'm gonna say "I already paid for it 20 years go."

>>740480827
>it damages the industry
I was already pirating you don't need to convince me anymore

>>740480827
>1. Unable to buy game regularly because it isn't being sold
>2. No demo for me to try before buying
>3. I don't like the dev and don't want to give them money

>>740480827
I want a thing and don't want to pay money for it.

>>740481078
So no citation

>>740480827
I want to actively negatively affect most developers I pirate games from. It's a net positive for me one way or another.

>>740481135
>No demo for me to try before buying
you have youtube. this excuse doesn't fly in current year

>>740480827
if i want to play warcraft 3, without the awful remakes rework, i literally CANNOT buy the game.
if i put in my discs, and the license key, it now redirects me to the battle.net launcher instead of installing the fucking game i want.

so i pirated a copy that doesn't try call home.

same with from dust a few months back, literally unplayable, because ubisoft killed a server that authenticated it.

for newer games i like to give things a try before i buy, i wasn't going to buy pragmata, but the free demo won me over, and i had fun with it.
a LOT of indie games fall into the opposite trap, no demo, but theres some build floating around from a patreon, and i play it and its shit, and i uninstall it, or its good, and i may keep an eye on it, or buy it if its nearing the end of production.
atlyss won that lottery, because it was FUN in the older build i played, its a shame in the current steam build theres not much more of it.

but honestly, the number of BIG games i've dropped $80+ onto, and had a mediocre time with, its never worth it unless i know its good, and i cant trust reviews anymore, so i just pirate and play, then buy if i like it.

>>740481232
Nta, piracy is a demo. Ergo get fucked.

>>740480827
i want it

>>740480827
With a hi hi ho and a hi hi hey, I want all my vidya for free
The paypigs will stand in the thread and scream
>pirates are all we can see!

Meanwhile every game turns into live service microtransaction gambling slop because no one buys games anymore

>censor the game
>increase the price
>cut content to resell later as DLC
>CHUD! CHUD! CHUD!
justify buying a game

>>740481232
"just go watch someone else fuck my wife to see if she's a good lay"

>>740480827
What if I want to do all of those things?

>>740481381
"my wife's value to me is solely how well she fucks"

>if we truly love & believe in games
You feel as though you're qualified to judge who does and who does not love games? You've decided that it's your job to do that? You've decided that you're the one to define how one 'loves and believes in games'? You, personally and specifically, you?

Free stuff fucking rules

Piracy made PC gaming actually relevant. If it was never possible to just copy games for free, it would never reach every part of the globe, eventually turning former pirates into paying customers. Free advertisement and gaining new markets.
Unironically the relative lack of piracy these days is killing the industry. Big releases that would get millions of players, paying or not, used to create hype that would be more profitable than having just a handful of paypigs quietly getting their games and letting them die.

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>>740480827
I love Kass!

>>740480827
I'm poor

>>740480827
There's nothing immoral about copying lines of code. Information is not property. Copyright is theft.

>>740480917
FPBP

>>740480917
Piracy is not stealing, though.

>>740480827
Digital pirates cause zero damage to any industry. They do not destroy or take away the good from anyone, because it can be copied infinitely with zero effort and just the use of a PC. The consumption from pirates would not occur if piracy didn't exist, so the sales aren't lost, you never had them to begin with. You know what people with a pirate's mindset would do if piracy didn't exist? They either never would've got into gaming or they would only play free games, like fortnite or most gatcha (without spending money of course)

>>740481810
Correct.

It's actually slavery which is far worse.

>>740481839
Piracy is not slavery either. You aren't even touching a person.

>>740481874
Benefiting from the fruit of someone's labor without offering them compensation or choice is enslaving someone.

>>740480994
I'd call you Japanese but they'd chop off your hands for pirating defunct games too

>>740481975
Bohoo cry harder, should've make something physical instead of digital.

>>740480827
>Letting gamers believe that games should be free
But they should be free.

>artiste
>beret
Starve, filth

Why justify it? Just pirate games if you want. I used to pirate games for 25 years before I started buying games I wanted to play, because back then I was broke, and now I have money. I don't remember asking people to be ok with it, I just did it.

Piracy is absolutely a gigantic problem that affects players way more than it affects developers. It's why there are 10 story driven video games locked to consoles that get released on PC after shareholders stop caring about initial sales. It's why your 100% single player games require online to function (devs waste money to do this btw, they'd rather not). It's why 90% of your games are freemium mobile-tier garbage that everyone supposedly hates, but since it's free that's all you can really play that has functioning online modes. Just know that if you aren't buying passes, cards, crates, or whatever the fuck it is you are playing - you are the NPCs the paying customers get to play with.

But piracy won't get fixed because it's easy and consequence free. I don't really blame devs or pirates here, it's just what it is. I just remember PC gaming being a lot more creative and willing to take risks on games. There used to be 50 genres compared to nowadays we have like 10 games and everyone else just copies their mechanics. Or we just play remakes. Safe games that will guarantee profits.

>>740480827
Let me guess, xer walking simulator about depression and internalised oppression didn't sell?

>>740482112
People who claim piracy caused this are completely fucking retarded.

>>740481498
Sexual compatibility is a big factor when it comes to long term relationships. It's science bitch.

>>740481975
It would be more accurate to call it exploitation
If we were stood behind them whipping them to make more games and preventing them from leaving you might have a point

>>740481975
Somebody performing labor doesn't entitle them to control your property. If a guy gives you a haircut it doesn't mean he owns your hair.

I've honestly given up on piracy. It's reached a point for me where the kind of games I want to spend time playing are very specific and I don't really need a free demo to get a feel for them, and the kind of games I like are few and far between so I feel like supporting them. I just can't be bothered with wasting time on a game that I don't even consider it worthwhile enough to buy.

>>740480827
Did some e-celeb make a viral video on piracy or something, why is the catalog being spammed with so many of these threads

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>>740480827
I don't care if my actions are "morally justifiable", it benefits me so I do it

ITT: poorfags
the price of a game hasn't change for decades and you should have gotten a job by now.

>>740481975
You're only entitled to the fruits of your labor if they involve property. Just because you put labor into wooing someone doesn't mean they owe you sex. Concepts are not property.

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>>740480827
I dont really care for the moral debate but I’ll bite
I was never gonna purchase your product. I do not believe your game is worth the arbitrary price point you value it at. I will, however, try it out for free. If that free option is taken away from me I will simply not play your game.
You get the same amount of profit in universe where I pirate and the universe where I dont

>>740480827
I'm an incel

>>740482512
>You're only entitled to the fruits of your labor if they involve property.
INTELLECTUAL *clap* PROPERTY *clap* IS *clap* PROPERTY

Don't need to.

>>740482614
No it isn't. Ideas are not property.

>>740482692
So you don't own your own thoughts? You believe, for example, it's fine for the government to compel you to reveal what is in your mind in case you have wrongthink?

>>740480827
I was never going to buy it anyway, so it's not a lost sale.

>>740482784
The government compelling you to do things is slavery. No, nobody owns thoughts.

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>>740480827
A pirated game is not a lost sale
There's shitloads of games that I had a passing interest, pirated it, instantly regret and simply deleted from my computer. Games that I would have never paid for in the first place, and if I even paid for, I would have refunded or made a fuss in the refund tickets until I got my money back, actually making negative money from the sale
Latest example: Gods of defense Mina the hollower
tldr you're not entitled to my money

>>740482827
>The government compelling you to do things is slavery.
Only if it involves property and there's no property involved here.

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They don't care, why should I?

>>740482928
The property is your human body. It's why forcing anyone to perform labor is slavery.

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I also don't really need to, but sure.

According to every single game developer out there and the companies who distribute their games, I don't own the game I buy. It's just a license they can revoke at any time. I've taken nothing but the fantasy of profit I already wouldn't have given them, with the benefit that I might change my mind after playing it, and/or promoting the game for free through word of mouth.

>>740480827
>Justify
No.

>>740483056
They're not doing anything with your body. They doing things with your thoughts and your thoughts are not your property.

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>Big Chief Many Game say games should be free, like buffalo.

>Once game see two seasons pass, it belongs to the ancestors. No one may make claim, it is like water flowing in river. Belongs to all, a part of the great spirit.

>>740483370
Bro you just said they're forcing to share your thoughts. e.g., they're forcing to to perform actions. Your analogy would only make sense if thoughts were physical objects you could take without enslaving someone. The analogy does not work.

>>740483494
The government can compel you to do all sorts of actions for all sorts of reasons. That's not considered slavery.

>>740483683
It is, military conscription is slavery. The government taking your money via taxes is theft too. We're talking about ethics here, not legality. Something being legal does not make it moral. Something being illegal does not mean it's immoral.

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>NOOOOOOOO VIDEO GAMES ARE DYINGGGGGGGGGG

>>740483769
>We're talking about ethics here
No, we're not.

Shit like "military conscription is slavery" and "government taking your money via taxes is theft" are moral arguments, not ethical ones.

>>740483863
Bitch, ethics are a system of morals. Yes we are talking about ethics. Nobody is disputing that piracy is illegal. It's a pointless statement and not an argument.

>>740483846
>shit more slop in my mouth daddy

>>740480827
Recently sims 3 has been completely broken by shit updates, I pirated an older version for my GF cause she was sad. It runs perfectly and no DRM killing performance

Thas literally it, the paid version DOESNT work. The pirated version does. Its necessary to pirate sometimes. The current version on EA literally crashes after 30 mins.

Also if buying is owning, piracy isn't stealing.

COPE AND SEETHE

>>740483932
>ethics are a system of morals
Nope.

>>740480827
Why would I care about an industry that doesn't care about me as a customer?

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wasn't there a study by the EU that actually showed there piracy didn't really have a significant impact on sales and got suppressed because corporations got spooked and went against their interests
though i think there was also more context to it, like Denuvo legitimately works to ensure greater release sales to grab people who really want it for the cheapest (free) price available but eventually falls off and that piracy can also typically help improve sales afterwards due to updates, rewards, wanting access to online play, etc

>>740480827
growing up means you don't have to justify yourself to children

>>740484050
nta but what do you think the difference between the two is

>>740484640
>wasn't there a study by the EU that actually showed there piracy didn't really have a significant impact on sales and got suppressed because corporations got spooked and went against their interests
Nope.

There was a study commissioned by the EU that showed piracy had significant impact on sales for everything except video games but only if that video game had exclusive content locked behind online only that pirates couldn't access otherwise it did impact the sales.

There is absolutely no evidence the study was suppressed by corporations and no reason to think they would want it suppressed because the conclusion of the study largely supported their position that piracy is bad. And it was released publicly so the idea it was suppressed is kind of bullshit anyway.

The idea the study said piracy has no impact on sales is something completely made up by people who never read it.

>>740484640
yes, but companies and developers are rarely rational and rather emotion driven

>>740480827
>people still post bike cuck comics
lol

>>740484640
Yep

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A lot of modern games are so shit I don't even bother pirating them, blaming piracy for the decline of the industry is a cope.
Same with tv shows and movies, it's slop that's not even worth my time, let alone pay for it.

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Way too much slop, too many times burned on a purchase.
I'm willing to bet that's why 95% of people who aren't actually poor pirate, they got pretty burned on some sort of purchase and decided they weren't gonna take a risk buying shart anymore.
So many games I pirate end up having 3-4 hours of playtime from me before I deduce it's not a good game, had I bought it I would've been burned. I still do buy stuff occasionally but it's pretty rare now

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>>740484640
>>740485128
Both wrong.
The study showed piracy boost sales in every field except for the movie industry on day 1 cinema releases (which is now irrelevant since cinema is more or less dead).
Thats why it was suppressed.

People really should have learned by now that "muh piracy" is just corpo cope to tell stockholders on why their dogshit product didn't sell.

The study was in 2001 by the way, there was a second study in 2005 aimed to refute it but it turned up with the same results.

>>740485128
>lying
I think I'll start by saying the study was corporate sponsored, and the EU "conveniently" forgot to publish it until someone dug it out by happenstance.
Piracy does not affect videogame sales. The study did not find any quantifiable answer. Those are the facts

>>740485128
Holy reddit faggot. The double space lining, the straw man argument, the contradictory statement within the first paragraph.
>Nope, but actually yes the study did show that.
It's actually so perfect it might be god-tier bait, congrats if so, rope if otherwise.

>>740485290
>The study showed piracy boost sales in every field except for the movie industry on day 1 cinema releases
It absolutely did not.

And again, it was never suppressed. It was publicly released. That's how we all know it exists. This wasn't leaked to wikileaks or something.

>>740485320
>Piracy does not affect videogame sales.

You would think this would be obvious considering you cannot quantify you a hypothetical negative. Pirating a game doesn't take anything away, its not -1 sale. The logic is that if you would not pirate you would buy (if not -1 then its 1), but that cannot be proved. Conversely its possible to pirate something and like it enough to buy it anyway (0+1 = 1).

But people are vermin.

>>740485425
The study was not talked about and forbidden from being mentioned in EU council sessions until it was dug out by some journos back in like 2004.

>>740480827
Too expensive. I don't want to spend more then 20€ in a new game and no more then 5€ in old.

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>>740480827
I wish piracy unironically damaged the industry and took money away from companies. Let the thing collapse already.

>>740485461
While it's clearly not likely every single incidence of piracy is a lost sale and claiming it is is retarded it's equally retarded to claim every incidence of piracy is not a lost sale.

And at the end of the day it doesn't matter anyway. Piracy doesn't suddenly became legal if you weren't going to buy it anyway. The actual answer there is you just don't get to play the game.

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>>740480827
>we realized

>>740480827
what is it about piracy that normal people don't even feel it, if you are not a nigger, just go and try steal a pack of gum, you won't be able to eat it, it just doesn't feel right, but piracy is like everyone is indifferent towards it, is it because nothing goes away when someone pirate

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Indie devs have proven to be dislikable twittertards and AAA conglomerates to be rats who feast off your money in exchange for dilluted experiences catering to retards and normies. There is no inbetween as I have realized that given enough time devs will disappoint you and squander your money and make something that wastes your money and time. The only solution then is to exchange time instead of both money and time.

>>740485515
>forbidden from being mentioned in EU council sessions
You just completely made this up.

>dug out by some journos
They didn't have to go into some dingy warehouse and open up a wooden crate or something. It was available to everyone. It's just nobody cared to read it. But then one journalist did and wrote an article about it. And then all the other journalists plagiarized his article and didn't actually bother to verify anything about it because that's how "journalism" works.

Let's say i refuse to buy anything new, replay older games i've bought and play f2p games while leeching off of the developers without buying mtx or skins or whatever. How is this any different?
Let's say i go and buy C&C Generals right now, i want that money to go towards new RTS development but we know EA won't invest in that, so i'll use the cracks i already have. I was in diapers when it came out so i couldn't buy it brand new to fund the development of C&C 3, Red Alert 3 and the eventually cancelled Generals 2.

>>740486058
>i want that money to go towards new RTS development but we know EA won't invest in that
How would you like it if your employer told you "I'm only going to pay your income if you stop wasting it all on video games and porn because I just don't like you spending it in that manner."?

Of course you have absolutely no say in how the money is spent and thinking you should is beyond retarded.

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>>740480827
>"It's okay when we do it because it's not stealing, it was always a license and you never owned it in the first place"- corporate stooges and their paid shills

>>740480827
>It's free
>I save money
>I actually own my games (more than buyfags at least)
>Don't need to look at steam storefront every time I launch my games.
>I don't need to close Steam after every time I close my game.
>Slightly faster game startup because it doesn't have to verify my license.
>Games get stored where I want them, not some arcane steam directory.
>No fake desktop items.
>I cuck big corporations out of stealing my money.
>I get a small petty victory over the big corporations that make everything miserable.
>Piracy is easier and less convoluted than buying games because you just download files from the internet and then maybe copy-paste in the crack or run Steamless over the exe once.
>Big corporations can't steal all my games if I say "Nigger" once.
>Keep my games during WW3 and the zombie apocolypse.
>Makes me morally superiour to buyfags.

>>740480827
devs are fags

>>740482784
if you want your thoughts to be yours, dont share it anywhere, keep them in your mind
the moment you share them, they are not yours anymore

>>740486489
that's true, but the sentiment is clearly more about the philosophy behind transactions and publishing, rather than the legal state of purchase and piracy
what moral impetus do you have to denigrate pirates of golden era blizzard games in the modern day, besides appeals to legalism?

>>740482692
The total destruction of the modern patent and intellectual ownership laws is based in principle, but you gotta have less wisdom than a child to argue it in your moronic way. As in a literal child will tell you that it's not fair when one attributes another's efforts to oneself, which is precisely the domain of ephemeral ideas.

>>740486489
>How would you like it if your employer told you "I'm only going to pay your income if you stop wasting it all on video games and porn because I just don't like you spending it in that manner."?
Then I would have a valid claim against them for breaching the employment contract I have with them.

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>>740480917
This.
Watching modern day "pirates" try to justify why they're pirating in the first place feels like pic related. They've been brainwashed by big corpo, who are trying to undermine the piracy scene by forcing ethics on them.

>>740485417
>double space lining
Nta but you're a Newfag.
His line spacing is just text formatting. It is not reddit spacing. Lurk moar

>>740485547
Buy whichever 3A slop available
Let it simmer, keep it under the automatic refund period
Refund game
Do this en masse
Convince a thousand other retards to do the same

>>740486507
Gavedevs wholeheartedly agrees
It's publisher that shit themselves of beign accountable to the downsides, like with paying their studios or their taxes

>>740487595
I hate so much how double spaces are forbidden on here.
I usually adhere to the rule 95% of the time unless am forgetful, but it makes my longer posts look so fugly and difficult to read. Double spaces just add readability like paragraphs in a book. Double spaces should be allowed, darn it!

>>740481381
You pay to have a wife?

>>740488193
i dont even have a wife, i just get paid to fuck other peoples wives to prove their prowess

>>740481054
They added this mode into the base game eventually because people wanted to try a challenge run to win even with piracy.

>>740487162
Because you would never have a sales contract that says your employer has the right to decide how you spend you money, right? Because that would be fucking retarded.

So what makes you think it's reasonable to have a sales contract with EA where by you can decide how they spend their money?

>>740480827
>believe in games
el oh el

>>740488115
Until you're hitting character limit, there really isn't any need to split your text by paragraphs. And if you are actually making a big thoughtful post, nobody with a brain will begrudge you for le double newline.

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I'm a game dev, I genuinely don't fucking care about piracy and I never really understood the whole hysteria around it.
I don't see how making my games harder to access is gonna change the mind of people who weren't gonna buy them in the first place, but I can sure fucking tell that it's gonna change the mind of people who planned on buying them.

There has only one game I felt bad about pirating and it was the Henry Stickmin Collection

I didn't really want to pay for a game that was 60% old content I already paid. And the dev became comically rich because amogus. But I felt bad anyway.

>>740488757
Already played**

>>740480827
piracy is the biggest reason every game is always online or live service
it both acts as anti-piracy and serves as a way to profit from browns who are used to free games (it's f2p teehee, buy the mtx)
look at phone games, and how quickly they fell into that, when you have a market of people who are used to free or $2 games you gotta find another revenue source

>>740488614
>people who weren't gonna buy them in the first place
LMAOOO this retard fell for the meme

>>740489034
Alright, bring out the numbers for people who bought a game because they couldn't pirate it.

>>740489108
me

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>>740480827
I want free fare, I jump over turnstile
I want free games, I would pirate

>>740489165
YOU SON OF A BITCH! MY GAMES!

>>740489189
Based engineers and doctors

>>740489240
MY games now :)

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I don't love and believe in games anymore

>>740489346
You uncopy them right now, you sick bastard! Those 1s and 0s are rightfully mine!

>>740489108
>>740489034
If it wasn't for piracy, I would probably have never went out of my comfort zone and tried new games that could potentionally have not been for me so I would still just be playing my childhood games.
I would never have payed for Dark Souls because I would have been scared that I could be filtered by the second boss and waste my money, but because I could try it for free, I found out it's nowhere near as hard as the memes say and ended up loving it.
Same with Cyberpunk I only played it as a joke because the internet told me it's a funny shitpost meme game and I would never have paid $60 for it, but I ended up unironically loving it because it was seriously underrated.
Point is, piracy lets you try out new games outside of your comfort zone and you lose nothing if you don't end up enjoying them.

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My real issue is old games. Let's take Mass Effect 2: it's 30 bucks. The game is 16 years old, 16 fucking years, and is priced as a new bigger indie game.
Prototype: 2009. 20 bucks.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced: a remake for a 90s game. 20 bucks.

If you want to try out older games, then besides giving a kickback to GOG to incentive them to release old games there is zero reason to actually buy games. They are so grossly overpriced and the original developers aren't getting a kickback. So what incentive is there for me, besides funding your next yacht?

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>>740489481
Technically that's what demos are for.
But unfortunately they're not always available and sometime they differ vastly from the actual game, so they're not entirely trustworthy.

>>740489553
No one makes demos.

>>740480827
I want your game.
I don't want to pay for it.
Seethe and mald.

>>740489481
>Point is, piracy lets you try out new games outside of your comfort zone and you lose nothing if you don't end up enjoying them.
I mean, yeah
nobody is arguing piracy is bad for the person doing the pirating lmao
it's free games

>>740481232
I don't play Sony games

I'm poor and I can play more games if I pirate.

I don't justify it.

>>740489716
Sony what now?

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>>740488115
I find that most use of double spacing to be inappropriate. Or rather, the very use of spacing.
E.g. >>740485128: a long sentence for each line that could have been a paragraph. At the very least it could have been a paragraph.
To prove my point, here's my post. There's a single new line, to show that there is a clear separation of ideas: the top paragraph is evidence, and the second is frustration at the problem. If I were to remove the double line or make this one paragraph, it would lose it's rhetorical punch and readability.
But that is a rare occurrence. For most posts, you don't need this. In fact, I would argue that shorter posts that get to the point are generally better, due to the dismissive culture of the internet.

>>740489618
The ones most invested in having you buy their games are the ones that dont want demos in the first place

>>740489738
You don't actually get to know what a game is like to play from YouTube unless it's a "cinematic experience" (Like a Sony game)

>>740488115
>I hate so much how double spaces are forbidden on here.
I like it because it forces you to be straight and concise if you don't want your post to be unreadable.
That being said if you really can't avoid making multiple paragraphes, just fucking do it, ignore the fags who complain about it.

>>740489746
I do doublespacing all the time as a courtesy because it's easier to skim read the post.

I stopped reading your post after just a couple of sentences because I didn't want to actually read it properly and it's not appropriate formatted for a quick skim.

>>740489918
This post made me seethe with rage and tear out half of my hair. I probabyly lost 10 years of my life over reading it.

>>740489918
how about you do the world a better courtesy and throw yourself outta the window

>>740489918
>The buycuck is trying to justify reddit spacing
I am shocked, SHOCKED

>>740489918
Hey buddy, I think you've got the wrong site, Reddit two blocks down.

I haven't pirated a game in forever because none of these AAA games are even worth it and the games I have an interest in are cheap as fuck or you can emulate them.

>>740489189
Based legal US citizen

>>740480827
those devs makes millions for making bad games
why should i care about them?
nintendo is all that matters now

>>740480827
> Justify video game piracy, /v/.
nah. wanna cry about it?

>>740490373
*publishers
Only lead devs make a decent salary, the codemonkeys get throttled by milestone pay

Piracy is sacrificing solo games for gacha games. There's no piracy for gacha and therefore more incentive to create

The more people who emulate and experience good old games the better

>>740490463
why do codemonkeys matter when they're literally imported from india?
the peanuts they get are enough for their family to lord over a village there and even fill the next village over with rape babies

bla bla bla all bullshit people pay for good games or drug addiction games (mmoniggers and gachas)

Jarvis, pull up that piracy study. You know the one

>>740487573
it's weird seeing retarded posts like yours over and over again. someone justifying software piracy or not is completely irrelevant. you can do it, you can not do it, it doesn't matter. the only important thing is that people pirate information to their hearts content.

>>740481975
Are free samples in a mall slavery too?

>>740490531
>those devs makes millions for making bad games
?

>>740490531
Indians cant be used as codeymonkeys in small scale teams because they cant do anything. In massive corpo environment yes

>>740488404
Right, I don't have a contract with EA saying I have to give them money, so I can just not do it for any reason I want.

>>740490531
>implying rape in india costs anything

>>740481839
What is worse being a slave to gacha games or a slave to pirates?
The latter doesn't cost you money nor you even have any conscience of it happening.
Even better pirates provide grass roots marketing.

>>740480917
White people be like

piracy is a service problem
if you give me the option between no game/movie/tv show or watch it for free, i will do that
if you put denuvo which kills performance by 30% i will not buy your game/wait until you remove it in a few years
if you want to remove piracy, you give a superior product to the consumer at a fair price
shrimple as

>>740490675
This!
Cumskins BTFO another victory for us Niggerkings!
Nigger shouldn't be considered a slur but a compliment because us niggers aresuperior to cumskin crackas.

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>>740480964
This.
Devving games? You should do it for free!

>>740480827
I have more important things to spend money on.

>>740487573
Why are you in every single fucking piracy thread. I bet you're the one making these threads. Fucking schizo freak.

Buying isn't owning the copy pasting files from online isn't theft. Now justify licensing over set of codes.

>>740480827
We just take whatever we want. It works flawlessly in America and Europe so far.

>>740480827
i cant.
i used to get them from fitgirl but my pc started acting weird, not sure if it was malware or anything related though. anyway now im earning $$ so got a new rig and play it safe, only buying on steam. supporting devs is nice too i guess

When they start letting me refund beyond Gaben's 2 hour window, I'll stop pirating.

>>740480827
Most games suck donkey balls.
I do buy if I thoroughly enjoyed a game.

>>740489918
There is an element I agree with, but an element I do not on your own biases. Your original and this post has one lined sentences that are far, far too long to be skimmable.
If I were to edit your posts, it would be

>I doublespace because it's easier to skim.
>I stopped reading your post because it's not formatted for a quick skim.
Now that, that's skimmable. 46 words to 20, a 43% reduction of words. Word count (and more important clear language) makes stuff way easier to read.