have you ever stolen a game IRL, /v/?

No why

>>714118327 (OP)
No, I pirate instead

>>714118327 (OP)
Post Gavin's mom

Ive stolen nintendo club codes from game boxes since fucking gamestop kept them in the display boxes.

I once got Luigi's Mansion 2 sent to me in the mail and the guy's I bought it from didn't think it got to me, so they gave me a refund, even though I still got the game.
$30 physical game for scott Free.

Does that count?

>>714118626
I don't usually find jaundiced Simpsons characters attractive, but there's a couple I would

>>714118327 (OP)
I pirate games all the time

>>714118327 (OP)
no but once I bought an used copy of SINGULARITY and it did not work. went back to the store and the hot cashier test the game, saw it didn't work at all and gave me a brand new copy because she didn't know any better. Never mentioned my copy was used.

>>714118327 (OP)
no, physical stores have nothing but worthless AAAslop

>>714118327 (OP)
stole a copy of vice city

>>714118885
what pirate software do you use?

>>714119232
limewire, duh

I used to bring in printouts of websites for rival retail stores with lower prices when everyone used to price match, and I would edit them to be cheaper but not so cheap that they were not believable.

Nah, never had an opportunity since even when I was a kid in the 90's every store had empty boxes and locked display cases. Only way I could have stolen a game was if I stole a friend's copy, and that's some straight up nigger shit.

>>714118883
it's a shame all simpsons porn is so fucking terrible

>>714118327 (OP)
I rented Black Ops for the PS3 and then the store closed down while I still had it

>>714118327 (OP)
my sister stole a gameboy pocket with pokemon red and that was our first vidyagame machine.

>>714118327 (OP)
I stole like a ds cartridge or two from a friends house as a kid but otherwise no

Sure did! Witcher 1 and impossible creatures, good shit.

>>714118327 (OP)
No but my brother invited some Mexican kid he barely knew over who stole my Xbox 360 and just about all of my games.

>>714119595
Oh, and like 15 pre-paid wow subscription cards. Dumd assholes at the mediamarkt didn't even have the cartridges sealed.

>>714118508
This is cope. I don't know why piratefags can't just accept that they are thieves. Don't want to be compared to niggers or something?
I don't give a shit or anything, I just find it amusing.

Back when Walmart had PC games in boxes, yeah.
>steal one whole box
>rip open a bunch of other boxes to get the CD keys
>burn copies of the game to sell at school
Shit was SO cash. But then I got arrested for stealing Robitussin and realized I should probably stop.

>>714118327 (OP)
I always feel a bit guilty when I don't tip.

>>714119747
just pirated 5 copies of Code Vein. seethe

>>714118327 (OP)
Yeah I stole Halo on the original Xbox
I also tried to steal F-Zero 64 by taking it to the homewares section and trying to bash off the protective security case with a hammer. It did not work. The case was friggin tough

>>714118327 (OP)
My dad bought me the Thief reboot cause he thought I would've liked it but when we got to the car he realized he forgot to pay, we both said fuck it. Turns out it wasn't even worth stealing.

>>714118327 (OP)
No, Agent, I haven't...

>>714118327 (OP)
I stole The Simpsons Game for PS2 once (accidentally). I was leaving the shop with my mum and she noticed the game in her handbag when I thanked her for buying it. Turned out she didn't buy it, I had just put it in the bag. Unfortunately she took it back to the shop.

>>714120669
bold strategy, should have waited until later to grab it

I've never stolen a game, but I've had a few games stolen from me. Namely Pokemon TCG for the Game Boy (little rat kid from down the street tried to take it, but my mom noticed he was pocketing it and smacked the shit out of him and kicked his ass to the curb) and Pokemon Conquest (one of my nieces or nephews probably stole it during the 4th of July party we had at our house back in 2012, it was in my DS that was on the charger in the kitchen that morning and wasn't there at the end of the party). Funny how they were both Pokemon games.

>>714118765
I had a similar thing happen, too. I bought a game on ebay and it didn't show up for a month, and the tracking hadn't updated for about 3 weeks, so I messaged the guy, he apologized and refunded me. Then I bought another copy of the game from another seller and both of them showed up on the same day.

>>714119747
>Have game in closet
>Don't want to run on native hardware
>Pirate and play
>This is theft somehow to the antipiratefag
Piracy=/=a copy not sold
>This is theft somehow

>>714118327 (OP)
Yeah, a kid stole my Turok for GBC, which I didn't even like, so I stole his Pokemon Silver with 220+ Pokemon in the Dex

>>714118327 (OP)
not stealing but i traded a copy of gta san andreas for my friends gba sp with pokemon crystal and mario deluxe which was pretty scummy i guess (ds was already out but he didnt have one)
eventually gave it back to him when i bought a backlight model from another friend years later
also gave him a copy of pokemon ruby but they were still very easy to find at the time

>>714118327 (OP)
In 3rd grade, I stole a whole GameBoy Color with Pokemon Gold in it from a kid in 2nd grade. Grades 1-4 shared a building and some of the kids would bring their GBs so they could trade Pokemon. We all had a hall on the first floor to hang up our backpacks and jackets and shit. No lockers or anything.
I knew he kept his GB in his backpack so at one point when no one was around, I snuck down and just took it, including the game.
A ton of people had access to the building, so it was basically impossible to find out who it was without going through everyone's shit, so the teachers couldn't do anything.
Never seen a kid cry as much as he did. He was devastated for weeks and no one was allowed to bring any games with them to school afterwards. I felt so fucking bad about it, but was afraid to give it back.

Didn't tell anyone about it and kept it hidden from my parents. Only played it in my room.
I 100% got away with it, but I felt tremendous guilt for years. Still do.

>>714118327 (OP)
No, I refuse to listen to Sonic the Hedgehog

>>714118327 (OP)
Kinda? A store was selling the Pokemon Sword + Season Pass bundle for the price of the season pass alone and I obviously knew it was an error, when they sent me only the season pass code I opened a complaint with the support and not only they sent me a code for the game but also refunded what I paid, so I got the game and season pass for free

>>714121025
Do you live in a black neighborhood?

>>714121221
how black are you?
if you really felt bad about it you could have sneaked it into his bag again tyrone

>>714118883
LOOK AT THOSE MAGUMBOS

>>714119321
you need to watch more

>>714119747
Because its not the act of thieving, officer

42 year old boomer here
Never stole a game outside piracy
But back when I was like 14-15 I used to put porn mags inside vidya mags at the newsagent when the staff wasn't looking, then take them to the counter and buy the vidya magazine with the porn magazine inside it.

You zoomer fucks had no idea how hard it was to acquire porn back in the day

>>714121516
I just stole some from my uncle's stash

>>714121345
This was in Europe some 22 years ago, so no.
That said, the kid was a Polack immigrant, and you know what Haiti said about them, right? The blacks of Europe.

>>714120048
I was about to call you a fag but then I realized I didn't read "reboot" at first. Justified. Wouldn't even be worth playing if someone paid you to do it. I'd say you still got ripped off getting it for free.

My entire physical DS library is stolen from the same store

no, but some dumb nigger working in a retro store accused me of it

>>714118327 (OP)
Closest thing was that I borrowed Kirby Air Ride from a friend and never gave it back, but it turns out he didn't want it back so it basically became mine.

>game rental store opens up in my town about 2004 ish and includes PC games
>steam had just come out, not many people know how it works
>rent HL1/opposing force/blue shift/CS/team fortress pack
>keys activated on steam
>free games
felt bad but w.e. the games would still install not on steam for others.

>>714118327 (OP)
When I was a kid my mom would take me to flea markets and I was often tempted to pocket any loose gameboy games I found
I never did though, but goddamn I wanted to

Kinda stole from Nintendo during the final days of the Club Nintendo when /v/ found out about the Wii Mini exploit, I managed to figure out the pattern of the serial codes so I spent the whole night making accounts, redeeming the Wii Mini serial and getting games, that's how I got all the Mario games for the 3DS, I also scammed one femanon into sending me pics of her boobs in exchange for a code of Mario Party, but that was after the site closed and I didn't had any code remaining, sorry

>>714118327 (OP)
I once subbed to Gamefly.
I'm sorry, officer.

>>714118965
>look up this game
>$10 on steam
was it any good when you played it?

yes, I used to be a drug addict piece of shit and I shoplifted a bunch of ps3 games

>>714118327 (OP)
I once tried doing a full on department store heist with a friend. Was the dumbest thing I ever did as a kid.

kind of? got my copy of red alert 2 back in the day by finding a sealed copy by the side of the road, right outside the store, and I just yoinked it and speed-walked home
its was apparent someone had bought it, put it on their car roof while loading other items and forgot about it, and then it fell into the ditch as they pulled out, for me to stumble upon it

>>714118327 (OP)
I took a pic of a game key code inside of a StarCraft 2 WoL box when it came out and redeemed it at home

>>714118751
I worked in claims at a retailer and had so many returns from retarded parents that thought 3ds games worked on the DS. I redeemed every code and felt like a pimp

>>714118327 (OP)
I stole copy of Sonic and Knuckles from a thrift store because they were selling the console with the still game inside and I knew they wouldn't just sell me the game because they take unpriced things away from you if you take them to the register

Around 2007 I opened an unsold copy of Oblivion in a Gamestop and pocketed the paper map while my girlfriend kept watch. I have no doubt the Gamestop sold that copy to somebody and so they never got the map they rightfully paid for. That map is long gone but I will never forgive myself.

>>714125324
And you all dogged on BeatEmUps for thinking the Switch 2 packaging would confuse grannies at Target. Non-gamer parents in the video game aisle are as clueless as a woman in an auto garage.

>>714126043
why steal only the map

>>714126146
because I pirated the game on PC and the map was from a xbox360 copy

I'll occasionally pirate a ROM or an ISO to an old game, but I prefer to own my media physically. I'm thinking of starting an UHD Blu-ray collection, really going in on a nice TV, get a good shelving case for it, read up on acoustics, good audio equipment, maybe renovate the walls a bit or add some soundproofing, good lighting, etc. A dedicated home theater room if you will. I could probably set up a shelving unit with various HD consoles and some sort of cable management system for them, along with something that helps facilitate heat.

Maybe get some surgery for my eyes too, feels kind of pointless to put all that effort in and still have inferior vision. And of course I'd have to actually look into all that audiophile and videophile stuff so I can actually appreciate minute differences and things like color depth.

>>714118327 (OP)
My buddy shoplifted a PC copy of Fallout 4 and a carton of Newports on the same day

>>714118327 (OP)
Not stolen, but a friend of mine gave me her copy of Okami for Wii and then she only talked to me a couple times after, and now not at all. But I still have Okami

>>714127076
the buddy is out of control and a bad influence

>>714126927
I think Game Grumps had an entire homemade and centralized system for quickly swapping display output between different physical consoles and also different emulator/controller pairings in their home theater/gaming room, that sounds pretty cool and something I'd also like to do someday.

I wouldn't recommend eye surgery, though. It'll permanently scar your eyes and shut you out of certain professions, on top of there being a pretty high chance of your eyes just becoming worse over time again and this time they'll be scarred AND bad. Why not just get glasses?

>>714118508
>theft removes the original
Try to use this line in court and see what happens, punk.

>>714118327 (OP)
stolen and dumped multiple switch games before street date

>>714118327 (OP)
no unless you count roms

>>714121453
>I am travelling, not driving, therefore the speedlimit doesn't apply to me
>wtf I'm a private citizen, you can't touch me!

>>714127312
I've had glasses for over 20 years, I hate them. Nobody wants to wear glasses, everyone wants perfect peripheral vision. I hate contacts, they're a bitch for me to put in and I've had bad experiences. I've watched a video on reversing myopia, but I don't have the patience or time to do it, I think I'd rather just get the surgery, because my eyes aren't getting better as they are now.

>>714118327 (OP)
i'm white so i've never shoplifted in my life, even at self checkouts

>>714119747
I buy a drawing of a stick man. I copy it to another piece of paper, and willingly give it to someone else who asks for it. You consider this VIOLENT MORALLY BANKRUPT THEFT!!!!

Also kekking at the classic anti piracy seethe of
>implying someone who's pirating a copy of a game would have bought it full price if they didn't have the ability to pirate it

>Especially funny when the statistics show that piracy causes people who wouldn't have bought your game to purchase it later down the line after pirating it

The WORST result of piracy is someone who was never going to buy a copy of the game continues to not purchase a copy of said game. Cry more, faggot

You have a retarded take, anon!

>>714127558
I hate glasses too and I really wish surgery didn't have the drawbacks that it does, but if you're sure, then go for it I guess.

>>714118327 (OP)
As a teen, I had no clue how to play games on a computer. Xbox 360 baybee... But I got all my games for free abusing a game stop loophole. I would "buy" a couple of used games, play them for a couple weeks, return them for a full in store refund, and then get different used games. People really hated those 6 hour games in those days but I liked them since they were free of charge for me. Played hundreds of games for about 30 buckeroos, and I could always get games like mw2 whenever i wanted a safe pick, played plenty of stinkers in my day believe it.

>>714127446
Comparing piracy of video games to sovereign citizens shows you have no case to back up your claims and no ability to engage in a real argument. Also shows you either deny reality or are simply retarded.

>>714127353
How you felt saying that

>>714118327 (OP)
Nope, I'm a good lad.

>>714118508
This is good bait, excellent bait

>>714118327 (OP)
I never returned the games I borrowed from friends.

Obviously people in the Pokémon universe fuck Pokemon. People fuck animals all the time in real life, why wouldn't they fuck a Pokemon?

>>714129254
Whoops wrong thread

>>714128648
I took three large tote of video games that belong to a friend when he left and joined the military. I told his parents that I was just to hold on to them until he came back. I never heard from him again. Fucker had everything from NES to PS2.

Yes, I stole a blockbuster video card from a person's house and went and rented Final Fantasy 3, Spiderman Maximum Carnage and a few more games.

>>714127725
You're made from the same cloth, delusional thief.

>>714118327 (OP)
I won't buy your remake that removes the soul and adds troonslation

>>714119747
>>714128098
>>714127353
>be me
>virgin intellectual, 27, living in a 1-bedroom apartment that smells like wet dog
>decide to better myself by buying “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck”
PDF from a Romanian website hosted on a Minecraft server
>horny for knowledge
>transfer it to my phone via Bluetooth, making a copy there while leaving the original copy on my PC
>don’t even read it, just want it there like a digital trophy of my shame
>5 minutes later
>pounding at the door
>think it’s Uber Eats
>open door fully naked except for a bathrobe
>12 heavily armed officers breach like it's Fallujah
>“Step away from the phone!”
>one tases my dick for "resisting copyright enforcement"
>another kicks me in the jaw and yells “THAT’S FOR DAN BROWN, BITCH”
>they zip-tie my wrists with HDMI cables
>phone confiscated and sealed in a lead-lined box
>one guy whispers “we saw the Calibre library, you sick fuck”
>apparently pirating an eBook in 2025 is now a Class A war crime
>they waterboard me with Monster Energy and recite the DMCA in Latin

only according to publisher interpretations of the law

>>714118327 (OP)
Stole a Steam copy of Skyrim back when they still sold physical copies with the activation codes inside the box.

>>714118327 (OP)
No, just star wars cards.

>>714118327 (OP)
I did this, but I never played it because I don't like RPGs

>>714133039
I bet that sounded funnier in your head.

>>714135226
*you're

>>714119747
I used to pirate and buy if I enjoyed the game, but games have gotten so cheap nowadays compared to my earning power and steam has a pretty flexible two hour refund window that I dont go through the hassle anymore

>>714124484
I miss being able to get girls to send pics of boobs, none of them are genuine anymore. It was a lot harder to fake complex timestamps in 2005.

>>714118327 (OP)
I dont remember but ive stolen code from video games before

>>714119747

>>714118327 (OP)
Yeah. The original Unreal had the jewel case outside of the box. I just grabbed it and left.

I stole from this guy who always invited me over, he had to move one day and on the day he was leaving he invited me over to play some games, and after we were done I sneaked into the family's van and opened a box of his stuff and took some of his copies of battlefront 2 and ssx tricky

>>714118327 (OP)

I used to get fucking HYPED to go grocery shopping with my mother just so I could liberate the PlayStation and PC Gamer demo discs from the wrapped magazines.

>>714118327 (OP)
I stole a copy of halo combat evolved for the original xbox via a game trading website. I was a kid, I offered a brain age ds game in exchange for the halo game, they sent it to me but I never sent brain age to them.

that episode of the simpsons where it implied that homer subconsciously wanted to fuck his own son.

>>714118327 (OP)
The most I have done is mistake the price of a game and think it was less. I didn't tell them to prove it or even to change it. They just did it. I later realized that I had made a mistake, but I kept the game.

>>714136886
what the fuck

>>714118327 (OP)
yea

>>714119747
I am a pirate and I am a thief.

>>714136398
I dont care if you steal from stores but I'll never trust you, I think piracy is fine because fuck corporations but if you steal from your niggas you are fucking dead to me. I grew up and had a lot of shit stolen.

>>714129306
>>714129254

Best post in the thread

>>714137145
Sorry for stealing your shit

>>714129254
What was the right thread??

I assume you mean video games but if we just mean games then yea, I used to steal the shit outta Magic cards from Borders. The idiots kept them out on the shelves with the books, I'd just stuff my pockets and shoes full of them, I even stuck them under my hat. After a while they started putting the little stickers on them that'd go off when you went through the front, but obviously those were easy as fuck to see so I'd just peel them off and continue stealing. Eventually they figured out they could put them behind the counter and the jig was up. Nabbed hundreds of dollars worth of packs though, shit was so cash.

>>714118327 (OP)
no, why would I steal when I can pirate?

>>714118327 (OP)
I'm not even sure how you'd do it. From the late 80s onward, I never saw games just sitting on a shelf that people other than the employees had access to.

>>714118327 (OP)
There was a time where my mom had a friend who had a son my age and we would stay at each others' houses while they partied on the weekends. One day at their place I think I needed a pen and went over to their junk drawer for one and found Magi Nation on GBC. I took it without saying anything but honestly believed that I would be back next weekend anyway, but for some reason I never saw them again.
If you're out there, sorry about that, Justin.

>>714118327 (OP)
The other day I bought a game I already pirated so I could get the latest update quickly and I felt really bad afterwards. This must be what Bart felt about stealing.

>>714137862
I loved the show as a kid

>>714118327 (OP)
I've never stolen a game but I pirate games all the time because they've stopped selling games.