Malcador

Hm, wonder if the industry will fail sometime soon then.

Have to think the big sellers get pirated more heavily than the others too.

Hm, I see what you mean, I guess they differ but not in a significant degree to me, but alright. I'm relatively indifferent to it, it hasn't wrecked the industry and is also hard to gauge the "damage" anyway (as it's hypothetical would they buy it and at what price). That and doesn't really affect me that much. Consumers getting keyed up over it does cause a chuckle sometimes.

Try wrapping your head around this chestnut: People pirating Humble Indie Bundle sales. What's special about that ? People pirating demos were the funniest thing, I found. Those two do seem to be the same thing - you want some company to make money still in either case, no ?

Hm, you'd think that revenues wouldn't be growing then in that situation.

The free stuff does include latest stuff from Reloaded or some DVD rips though, so not really mind boggling that people will go for that. As one of you lot said, the reason is that paying nothing is better than paying something for some people, simple. Ah well, usual outrage over piracy.

Graphics porn - http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/2014/06/04/dragon-age-inquisition-screenshots-show-new-environments-also-the-fade/

Malc you have to admit its always better playing an RPG where you can explore the various Romance arcs? Not really. Hardly my first run through ME2 and the romances when I bothered to try them didn't add much to it. I think I'll bump off Jack and Jacob and Legion, should make the ME3 game a little bit different.

Roberts produced something

It's that tricky to understand that for some the temptation to just get it off Kat/Demonoid exists and is enhanced if there's some BS with getting it legitimately ?

Some Firefly fan will do it, eventually, those people are loons.

On to ME2, I think I might just bail knowing Daddy Issue Missions await.

Get the sense he'd be wasting the effort if he did.

Hot weather here so saying goodbye to the idea of fresh air for a while.

We did that with diskcopy for DOS stuff, was fun to photocopy (and pay to do do this sometimes) the manuals to get the copy verification codes

Well, good for the people getting the money. As for boding well for future games... heh.

Not all bad though, technically abandonware is piracy no ? Did laugh when I saw a release of 7th Guest a while back. Kind of scratched my head wondering who could possibly be looking for a decades old game.

Dives worthy of South American football.

Not really irony in that case, just common sense as you say the risk is too great.

God, now some guy's video of virtual people getting gutshot is a social justice issue ?

Interesting how it's seen as no choice, heh. But usual growling as expected.

I never did find all the "crazy" stuff in SR3 or SR4 all that fun. Never did play SR2 after being warned off the PC port constantly, though.

Yeah, a low bar is people buying a pirated game for 30 units of local currency vs a legit version for 200 or whatever. People's aims when buying things is to get the product for a little amount as possible, after all, if zero is a convenient alternative, then people will go for that too. At least I imagine it is a similar situation like that outside of NA/EU. Hardly harsh on humanity to see people just willing to grab a game for free if it's simple enough to do. Pretty tame compared to other crap people do

Pics Actually, nah, she doesn't on closer inspection. Good thing too, hated that professor.

Well I guess not everyone in the world is as perfect as you. Seems reasonable enough that people would look more favourably at alternatives if they feel the 'legitimate' retailer is just screwing them. So they'd buy cheaper pirated DVDs, etc. My experience with people who buy pirated DVDs* is not that they're thinking "Yes, I am doing this to protest the outrageous prices for these movies before the ridiculous retailer mark-ups; I shall purchase the DVD from illegitimate means thus allowing me to strike a blow against the corporations who extort us all for high quality entertainment" so much as they're thinking "Oh, hey X-Men: Days of Future Past on DVD for $5! Now I don't have to go to the theater!". YMMV, of course. *this is excepting, of course the "collector to collector" market buyer who is typically trying to find movies that aren't available in their country through any legitimate means. Also works as well, if the legitimate price is higher than a pirated copy, not surprising people will go for that, is it ?