>hurts poor people

The ironic thing is poor people aren't the ones doing the pirating.

amerimutt glowniggers defending pedophiles while enforcing copyright violations is peak clown world
pathetic country

If i read the FBI message correctly... the downloads created a potentially loss of 140 Million $. So if we every anon would download 10x Mario Kart we could kill Nintendo?

>>715332797
>be well off
>buy the nintendo switch 2 for 450 dollars, Mario Kart for 80 dollars, Online for 20 dollars
>become poor
It's over....

Fuck the FBI, release the epstine files you fucking gestapo nigger society zionist cucks.

I used to pirate video games more when I was younger, but I would eventually grab a legitimate copy later on. I've pretty much stopped once I became a wagie, but I can see other people doing the same if they were in the same position I was in.
TV/movies are a different story entirely and I'm going to pirate the fuck out of those greedy fucks

>>715332589 (OP)
i will download black ops 100 million times and cause a potential loss of 100 shitillion and drive that shittass company bankrupt
made up ass american shit

>>715332904
trvth spook

Can I sue the government or companies for imaginary potential losses too?

>>715332589 (OP)
>poor
>electricity, internet access, and a capable pc
Pretty sure it was word of mouth what made them stick around and even then Postal 3 and 4 fucking suck.
Not saying piracy and file sharing are not vital, it is just that "think of the brown people" is a dumb argument.

>>715332921
>600 dolaritos is the line between being rich or poor
I don't even pirate anymore but it's just because I've already pirated everything that mattered

>>715332589 (OP)
There are not touching piracy for anything other than Nintendo Switch games. That's it. I get it. You're poor, generally hate videog ames but for some reason you have to have the latest Nintendo game. Want to play DK Bananza? Pay up or shut the fuck up.

>https://www.gamesindustry.biz/eu-commission-no-evidence-that-piracy-affects-video-games-sales

>>715333178
Can you sue, yes
Can you win, eh....

>>715332589 (OP)
>literal "we'll pay in exposure!" excuse
Jesus fucking christ

>>715333375
>Want to play DK Bananza? Pay up or shut the fuck up.
This would had never happened if the Steam Deck shills had not shat Nintendo's feed bringing them up to date with the entire emulation scene for a flex.
/vp/ is largely responsible.

>>715333375
This is the real kicker. Plus the websites they actually got a hold of are just nothing burgers to make it look like they're doing something.

>>715333526
think before you type

>>715332589 (OP)
>poor people must have luxury goods they can't afford otherwise they'll struggle more
Huh?

I'm suing the government for wasting billions on israelistan.

>>715332589 (OP)
>>715332797
Uh, actually, poor people is an oxymoron, because the poor aren't people.

DK Bananza is coming in a few days and it will be the first ever nintendo game that nobody can pirate or emulate, it will be fucking hilarous to see all the piratefags and pcsissies seethe, scream, piss, and shit themselves over it

>>715333924
Dont you know that all those kids playing snes and genesis in late 90s early 00s where suffering in ways that they will never fully recover from?

>>715334292
I guess Mario Kart World also counts? Yeah, all Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives from now on

>>715332797
>The ironic thing is poor people aren't the ones doing the pirating.
Yes, Brazilian and Eastern European children are famously rich

Can you just not answer the door?
They defend a literal pedophile world order. Their warrants aren't legitimate. They have no real authority.
Should you even bother paying taxes at this point?

>>715334315
I definitely suffered due to ZSNES' shoddy emulation accuracy

>>715334395
>Should you even bother paying taxes at this point?

Yes, because you were born to be a dumb cattle slave that only exists to work for and give money to the almighty government, who knows what's best for you more than you do, and should never ever ever be defied. Humanity's destiny is to march into the machine of endless greed and be devoured.

>>715334395

>>715334292
You act like a DK game is anything special. It's just a reskinned mario game.

>>715332797
Doesn't most software piracy come from the third world

>>715332589 (OP)
>Paying 80$ for a video game
>Hue hue I'm upper middle class and not like those POOR people
Nah, you're just nigger rich but instead of buying JURRY (Jewerly) or rims, you buy overpriced slop for manchildren.

>>715334576
A reskinned Mario game where you can blow shit up with your fists, never has been done before aside from that one Hulk Game.
I mean sure, PCfags and Pirates can talk about how much they hate Nintendo, but they seethe to death when they aren't allowed to play their games for free

>>715334705
Jewelry is not an experience I can have while I immerse myself into a world full of fantasy and action, so yeah, video games are more valuable to me than a shiny gemstone that will do nothing but sit down there and then get stolen eventually or something.

>>715334606
correct. this is a third world seething thread. they also afford a switch 2. south america, india, southeast asia, east europe cry out in piracy pain as their 12 year old PC builds due from malware AIDS and back door crypto mining executables.

>>715332589 (OP)
>Paying for media ever.
Lmao at all the retards ITT.

>>715332589 (OP)
no problem i wasn't a direct download fag anyways

>>715334896
forgot your pic, third world country pirate.

>>715334896
Your money is not coming with you when you die, so why try to be so stingy about it as long as you're also actively saving while also having enough to spend in whatever the fuck you want?
The only people that complain about shit like this are poorfags that live paycheck by paycheck...

>>715334997
Your president just showed to the entire world that jews own your ass and they couldn't care less, humble yourself mutt

>>715335154
>arabs be like
And whyt people own your ass, so by proxy you are a servant of a servant.

>>715335245
>Lost against rice farmers
>Lost against sheep fuckers
Again, humble yourself goy

>>715335154
Third world PC gaming piracy time!

Marketplaces?
Were these sites where people were actually SELLING the pirate shit?

>>715335493
Soulful

>>715335493
How well does a 30fps keyboard work?

>>715332589 (OP)
i mean there was a study done in EU(that was covered up) that proved(i think) that piracy does in fact boost sales

>>715335636
very low polling rate

I copy games I wouldn't have bought.
And for the games I enjoyed, I almost would have given them money if they hadn't included trannies.
So fuck them all.

>>715333924
if you could duplicate luxury goods for free then they wouldnt be luxury goods. why are video games considered luxury instead of mass produced mindslop for the cattle?

>>715335636
It’s referring to the chair

>>715335667
https://www.pcsteps.com/14512-software-piracy-eu-study/

Yeah, I remember, I paid for it.

>>715334997
I have more assets than your entire family nigger keep spending your Walmart wage on vidya though.
>>715335020
Spending all your wealth before you die is the ultimate pleb thing to do.

>>715333570
Yuzu discord trannies publicly gloating at every opportunity to play Tears of the Kingdom 2 weeks early is what done in Switch piracy.

>>715335846
That's a pretty resilient gaming chair, able to handle thirty farts per second.

>>715335493

>>715332589 (OP)
I guarantee you the large majority of people who pirate are not poor.

>>715335951
>Says he has more money than everyone here
>Somehow he still cries, pisses, and shits himself in anger over people spending their money on their beloved hobbies
How mentally retarded are you?

>>715336161
No, what did it in was the Yuzu devs being retards who were both pirating and sharing games amongst their staff prior to release in order to make them playable ASAP so they could get more patreon money.

>>715336393
>Instead of staying humble and lowkey, piratefags make sure to be as loud as possible about them pirating new games that just came out so everyone and their mother know what they're doing, where they're doing it, and who are doing it.
Fucking karma lmao, if only piratefags weren't cunts about everything, they could have kept their shit

>>715332589 (OP)
>it sucks because
>I can't steal companies IP for my own profit
>lol poor people are also crying with jesus YOU GREEDY MONSTER

>>715336502
Are you retarded? Did you not read my post yet chose to respond to it anyway? It doesn't matter one bit that they weren't humble, they could be going to Nintendo's offices and waving their dicks in Miyamoto's face and it wouldn't have mattered if they hadn't been sharing leaked games which gave Nintendo the grounds they needed to go after them.

>>715336635
Of course a golem would defend corpos

Im in favor of anti-piracy laws for two reason.

1) although there are good arguments that duplication is not theft since its not taking away a physical item. those arguements don't make piracy okay. it just means that since this is the first time in human history were confronted with such a situation, it needs to be addressed on it's own terms. if it needs to be explained to you why taking something for free that you're supposed to pay for is wrong, well you're a nigger and unfit for civilized society.

2) my father always told me to follow the law, even the ones i disagree with. like for example, i think I should be able to slap my wife when she pisses me off. but that is illegal, so i do not do that. instead i just yell at her and tell her to shut the fuck up.

>>715336732
Don't mind me, just pirating your keys.

>>715337010
>why taking something for free that you're supposed to pay for is wrong
Because you're taking it away from the rightful owner. Which isn't the case with "piracy".
>17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
>18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

>2) my father always told me to follow the law, even the ones i disagree with. like for example, i think I should be able to slap my wife when she pisses me off. but that is illegal, so i do not do that. instead i just yell at her and tell her to shut the fuck up.
>I don't hit my wife because it's illegal, not because it's immoral
Oh wait, it's satire.

>>715332589 (OP)
i think poor people should die praise jesus

>>715337379
>Which isn't the case with "piracy".
i literally explained why that doesnt matter. piracy is not taking from an owner, it is duplicating and using something that you do not own, did not pay for, and it should be illegal. and if you disagree with that you are unfit for civilized society

>>715332797
If you grew up poor or raised by parents who grew up poor it's difficult to unlearn the poorfag mentality. Symptoms include being super frugal with money, hoarding garbage in case it's useful in the future including a hilariously large assortment of plastic bags, mailer boxes and glass containers, gathering every single recyclable plastic bottle to get .5 cents rebate per plastic bottle, falling for even minor discounts, never paying for software or games opting to download everything or copying a huge stack of CD/DVDs if it's the 90s/00s, not moving out of my parents house coz I would be crazy to waste so much money on rent.
I still have the poorfag mentality but ever since I got a job with a decent income (for my country's standards anyway) I've found myself splurging myself on more shit and buying Steam games (more convenient than trying to make repacks work on the Steam Deck), but my parents still question me about shit that comes to mail and scold me if they perceive it to be "a waste of money".

wait what sites are they shutting down?

>>715337834
A site nobody ever used. This is only used by losers to polfag outside of /pol/.

>>715337621
>the federal reserve pirates, i.e. prints, 3 trillion dollars in less than a decade
>that's how the economy works.
>you are not fit to live in society.

>>715335493
><$150 smartphone
a retarded normalfag made this image

>>715334380
They are lol.

>>715337834
It's the garbage that would come up in search results if you were to Google "[video game] download". None of the good sites are down.

>>715337913
nothing like a good old fashioned false equivalence. the ultimate way for a midwit to argue about something totally different from what we're actually discussing. here let me break it down for you one more time

theft: person A has a TV. person B breaks into A's house and steals the TV. person A no longer has the TV. person B does.
piracy: company creates and sells digital object (game, music, movie, etc). person downloads digital object without paying. company has not lost ther digital object because digital objects can be copied infinitely. however person has still committed a crime by gaining a digital object for free that is meant to be paid for.

you can OBJECTIVELY say that piracy is not theft. that however does not make it legal. it is still illegal. because in our society, gaining an object that is for sale, that you did not pay for is illegal. it being a physical or digital object is irrelevant. since when does saying that because X crime is not Y crime (piracy is not theft) mean anything?

>>715335493
>my headset broke so I used tape
You're damn right I will. This shits expensive.

>>715336326
Not at all, unlike you because I didn't do any of that. Since you're mentally handicapped I'll explain: I'm not angry, I'm laughing at you.

I used to pirate games when I was a kid, I mean I still do, but I used to.

oh no, they took down a couple of websites, the horror

>>715333924
You actually can make an argument that you need to be online and consume slop so that you can be part of a community.
Cutting people off games is cutting them out of access to modern culture and dooming them to isolation, which is torture by definition.

>>715333924
Yeah, you should accept the $0 in lost sales (since they wouldn't have bought those games anyways) in exchange for poor people not rising up, killing all the rich people, then collectively starving half of us to death, because it turns out that Communism didn't work for the 17th time.

>>715334395
Yeah, weird how a little pirate website is easy to take down than the "world order". Maybe the "world order" is called that because it's big and powerful, you retard.

>>715337037
Pirating somebodies key is fine, it's what you are doing with it afterwards that's the issue, you idiot.

>>715332589 (OP)
>marketplaces
Sounds like those weren't piracy websites, but the thing where they buy game-keys with stolen credit cards and then resell those keys.

>>715332589 (OP)
I mean yeah.
>>715332797
lol
lmao even, in my country there is a thing called playstation split, three people share one account and split game price.

>>715343369
I thought PS had banned having the same account active on multiple devices.

>>715332589 (OP)
Why don't these pirates just set their website in russia or india, or something? They never seem to do that.

>>715335493
I think the third-worlders play on 1080p now, actually.

>>715336732
That should technically say "imagine if your car was copied during the night, but was still there in the morning"

>>715337037
the key is useless. you can take it
what you can't do is take someone else's (real, physical, tangible) property, which 1s and 0s are not, or access anyone's accounts

>>715332589 (OP)
Publishers don't even talk about piracy anymore now that games are live-service slop.
The ye olde abandonware games are not going anywhere either. The live-service slop that RWS and SKG want to preserve are still here. The games they want to preserve are all slop, nothing like the oldie goldies.

Really, the only pirate community that actually contribute to their games that they steal are coomers. F95 is carrying that mantle, there's even porn devs that use their forums for feedback and tech support.
I don't see any other pirate group engaged in such a coordinated manner that RWS condones. It's all silent leeches.

Also, videogames are certainly not a poor man's hobby
In fact, vidya is an escapist's opium for the wage slavery. If anything, they shouldn't touch it at all.
Keep vidya for the competitive and intellectual that have time to afford.

>We deserve free shit because we have moral standing!

>>715345956
you're an indian

>>715345832
>Also, videogames are certainly not a poor man's hobby
Nowadays, a computer you can literally find in the trash can play most videogames ever released. Even poors can videogame, that is as long as they can afford electricity and an Internet connection.

>>715345832
>yeeeeeeeeeeeees goy, just consuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuume. buy the latest slop. waste $2500 on a computer that will be obsolete in 2 years, then do it all over again
I will not consume
I will not throw away working hardware
I will not support jewish practices

When I started creating my dating sims, I thought I would need to spend a third of my time promoting my work, according to the videos by "experts" I saw on YouTube. But I always suspected that was bullshit, so I decided not to do any promotion. After all, I think posting on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Facebook is a pain in the ass. I don't even have accounts on those sites; I don't even know how fucking Instagram or Facebook work, to be honest.
So I just decided that I would spend 0% of my time on promotion, and guess what? It worked. Where do people who pay me come from? I have no idea, but it's definitely from piracy, since I have zero presence on the Internet.

>>715335493
That is peak comfy gaming.
First world people would not understand.

>>715347586
>Nowadays
That's been the case for decades. Poorfags worldwide would get a cheap PC and then could do whatever they wanted: pirated Windows, pirated Photoshop, pirated games, anything was within reach. I think PC gaming wouldn't be as popular and prosperous without piracy.

>>715332589 (OP)
Is abandonware even a legal thing. It seems like a made up internet term.

>>715334380
poor gypsies and poor macacos can barely afford a phone lol

>>715350313
All terms are made up anon and it's not surprising a computer term would get made up on the internet. If you are asking if it's a legal term, no probably not. Does that mean it doesn't mean anything? No it still has an accepted meaning that people use. Copyright doesn't work like that though. It can't just be "abandoned".

the most deranged thing is the FBI actively covering up bigger crimes and doing shit like this

>>715333924
>Want to try out my game? 100 bucks please.
>What, you're not buying? LOL POORFAG LMAO
>What the fuck why is my game not selling? People must be tired of video games these days...

Game of Thrones is the most successful TV show of all time. Its also the most pirated one.

>>715332589 (OP)
It seems so unhinged to say it's good people steal our games because maybe some people will buy them. Where's the logic there, where is it?

>>715350648
100 people being aware of your game translates to more sales overall than 10 people buying your game.

>>715335786
you're not supposed to steal them

>>715350723
Except if the game wasn't pirated it would be 110 sales, instead it's just 100. Piracy is lost sales, that's what piracy IS. Just sales you do not see a return on.
>>715350597
Imagine how much more money would be obtained if it wasn't pirated to kingdom come.

Pirating represents people who weren't going to pay for your game anyway. CEObrains can't comprehend the idea that you can't just force everyone to pay $80 for everything.

>>715337689
>poorfag starts to make a little bit more money
>immediately wastes it on entertainment
did you know that the majority of poorfags are actually middle-class in their own country, but they stay poor because they keep buying luxury products?

>>715350807
>Except if the game wasn't pirated it would be 110 sales
No it wouldn't. Those 100 people would think the price is too high, they have no way of testing the product and they ignore it.
>Piracy is lost sales
No its not. Pirates were never going to buy the product anyway, so they can't count in as lost sales.
>Imagine how much more money would be obtained if it wasn't pirated to kingdom come.
There wouldn't have been more money, because Season 1 was still relatively obscure. And if only HBO cable owners would've watched it, it would've never become as big as it did. Again, tapping the grapevine and the mainstream consensus is more important for making money than selling a couple of copies to couple of people.

>>715337010
This is premium bait
I might pirate this one actually

>>715351029
B-but they said they'll buy it if they like it!

>>715350209
>That's been the case for decades.
Not quite. 90s machine are much weaker than 00s machines which are much weaker than 10s machines, however 20s machines aren't that much stronger than 10s machines. This is the first time in history where even 10 year old components are strong enough to render modern games. The only thing newer hardware offers you is the ability to play 4K triple digit fps, or double digit fps if you turn on memetracing.

>>715350648
Why do you think grocery stores give free taste examples of new food every now and then? Because otherwise people would let the new product rot in the shelf.

>>715351247
Sometimes they do but that's always been a stupid justification for pirating which doesn't need justification. Regardless of if someone buys it later or not, people pirate things they don't want to pay for. They're not going to suddenly be willing to pay for it if they can't pirate.

>>715332797
It was pretty funny to see LeBron James get caught watching on the same pirate sports stream site that I use.

>>715333375
I am compelled to download the latest Nintendo game and not play it, erase it from my hard drive, then redo the whole process.
I do this multiple times to ensure I’m STEALING money directly out of those Nintendo employees living in poverty.
SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!

>>715332589 (OP)
>Epstein? Who's that? Why are you still talking about him?
>Anyway we just shut down a bunch of literal who pirate sites third worlders used.
Glowniggers showing us where their priorities are.

>>715332589 (OP)
Props to Scissors

Everyone just should give up their rights and trust big corporations and the government who always do the right thing.

>>715351247
Some of them do, not all of them. Just like with F2P games only 10% of players actually buy something from the in-game shop but thats still making more money than forcing everyone to pay. Pic related would have never gotten an anime show and would've died in obscurity if not for /a/s piracy.

Piracy of intellectual property is the biggest fucking grey zone and you can thank their own system created to protect those rights being abused.
How many cheaper alternatives have been discovered throughout recent history that has been gate kept by larger organisations to prevent the innovation of fellow mankind.

The gate keeping occurs because they want to maximize profit for the market they have created for themselves and dominate in.

People are forgetting the innovation and rapid development of video games in the golden years from 2D to 3D. The market eventually achieved a monopoly by a few companies, here's looking at you EA that did the apple thing crushing competition and talent effectively cock blocking anything good to come out for 20 YEARS.

Then you want to debate about their rights? Fuck off. Gaming isn't where it should be and you can blame these studios for their sloppiness and laziness despite sitting on a goldmine of technology and ideas.

>>715334606
Mostly and I don't blame them sucks enough living there let them have it

>>715333924
I forget, is it envy or jealousy when someone who already has X gets upset when someone else also gets X that changes nothing about the X the original person had?

>>715351196
I know what you mean where poorfags take loans to buy iphones or expensive cars or travel to random countries for their instagram stories and miss their payments or whatever but I've spent at most 10% of my total income on "luxuries" and even today when I want to spend 5 yuro for a Steam game on sale or some electronic components from AliExpress I still cringe at myself for spending it.

>>715351746 (me)
to further add. Game development taking 5+ years is internal politics. It is a weakness of their organisation and company vision. The DEI games of AAA quality that DONT SELL are the products of companies that have been corrupted from the inside and are being daily incompetent to do their job. Marketing teams that have no idea what gamers want? Leaders that just want to churn out a dollar? Fuck all of them. If the repercussion is piracy then I am all for it on top of ignoring the fuck out of them and not buying any of the low quality crap they call 'GREAT' in a brain washing campaign.

You have to bat for your own team.

Developers get as little as 30% of the price of a game. The rest goes to publisher and platform owner.

The publisher and platform owner don't care much about you, or the developer. Why would they? They are self-interested, and so should you be. Otherwise it's an uneven playing field. I will never willingly/voluntarily give my money to them.

>>715332589 (OP)
Kind of hard to dispute this when the currently most profitable games are mostly played by f2p players that spread the word but are financed by whales

>>715351715
I think it survived because of /a/ and not the piracy.
I can't recall any major pirate community that supports games

>>715351936
Mario kart world has a 8 year dev time
donkey kong bananza has a 6 year dev time

Does Nintendo have a weakness of organisation and company vision?

>>715351280
Games used to be more flexible with their requirements, tho. The ones you could run without an accelerated card got huge in poorfag countries, strategy games especially, like Heroes 3 in Russia or Starcraft in Korea. Even 3D games could run on poorer hardware in software mode in funky resolutions like 320x240. Now nobody can optimize worth a fuck now.
And I'd say it got harder to get outdated but still decently new hardware on the cheap now (I bet it's thanks to crypto and proompting). I also don't see moderately powerful entry-level GPUs like GT 1030 anymore, at least as far as NVidia's concerned.

>>715352615
>I think it survived because of /a/ and not the piracy.
How do you think /a/ was reading it? Psychic connection? Someone scanned and fan translated it online. Thats piracy.

>>715332914
I wonder how they estimate that. Do they think we'd be buying these games if we couldn't get them for free or something?

>>715351247
Some pirates reform. Perhaps most of have once games became really easy to obtain legally (piracy is said to be a service problem after all). You can hop on Steam, and find stuff at a high discount instead of torrenting at 30KB/s or looking for cracks and keygens on shady sites. F2P also made piracy less viable since you can play for free but can't pirate the mtx.
I wonder if the market is suffering because of lower piracy rates, actually. If hundreds of thousands of poor bastards pirated Concord and populated the servers, maybe it would stay alive long enough to sell a few more copies?

>>715353352
>He doesn't know about the telepathic web

>>715353840
Pretty much. Anti pirates believes each download is a lost sale.

>>715332589 (OP)
No it doesn’t, it hurts the companies
Less people will buy games as a result of this
They also only went after current consoles as far as I’m aware

>>715353352
I think distributing and translating raw scans for an outside market are different from pirating gaming titles that are easily accessible on Steam.
But again, I just can't think of a pirate community that benefits gaming, let alone AAA titles.

>>715354606
>I think distributing and translating raw scans for an outside market are different from pirating gaming titles
Its not from a legal standpoint.

>>715354640
I'm averse to that kind of trickery.
Practically, they are different.

>>715354731
>Law is trickery.

>>715332797
yea, poor and rich people do it.
anyone can engage in criminal behavior, dipshit.

>make game putting in countless hours of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars at minimum
>stop supporting it for one reason or another
>third worlders and neets think this means that they're now entitled to your work for free
That's nuts

>system updated to 12.50 so now i can't play pirated gravity daze 2
Bros i so wish i could've slapped my past self into oblivion before

>>715350313
No, it's a terms made up by internet pirates as an excuse for pirating. Doesn't matter if your game has been off the shelves for 60 years, you own it, n o one has the right to distribute it.

>>715354773
>Anon thinks he can trick a judge
Shalom.

>>715334380
Well poor people are typically stupid and you would have to be stupid to pay for (bad) emulation as a service from nintendo

>>715333375
Weren't like half the sites they took down for PS games though?

>>715354970
> Doesn't matter if your game has been off the shelves for 60 years
Actually IP law means you do have to use it if you want to keep it after a certain amount of time

>>715354859
>Sell a painting.
>One day walk to your customers house and take it away because they lost their painting license.

>>715345563
>Dude I just pirated your house!
>Oh no, its still there don't worry :)

>>715351196
>immediately wastes it on entertainment
"You won't have any fun! You'll just work, go home, and rest so you can work some more!"
Lol, what a stupid view. Entertainment is only a bad thing in the eyes of retarded neocons who think everyone should work for the good of the sacred nation (which, in their view, is Israel, not the US, by the way).
Your mind has been polluted by people who see you as slaves. Stop being a faggot and don't be afraid to spend time and money on books, games, and these things that cost basically nothing but will fulfill your need for entertainment for weeks, months, sometimes years.

>>715355545
It's more like:
>buy a monitor displaying a painting, requires constant network connection to receive painting updates
>Server goes down
>Painting "stolen" (you still have the display)
You're the retard for buying something requiring a constant connection to a server.

>>715356110
>Consumer misleading good
Theres the jew.

>>715332589 (OP)
>Go to grocery store, pick up and look at various items, walk out without buying or stealing anything
>Smirk as I just cost the business THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of non-purchases
>Do this daily, store closes from the pressure
>It's that fucking easy to bankrupt companies

>>715351862
Don't listen to that faggot. Entertainment is important because it feeds your soul. You should only feel guilty if:
>the money you're spending is putting your financial situation at risk
>you already have a bunch of games waiting to be played, but you're still buying new games thinking that this will entertain you even more

>>715356616
Yes I bet they have to throw out all that produce if your stank wafts past it

>>715332589 (OP)
Maybe poor people should try getting a job.

>>715356783
>jew rat posts impotent rage
lol

>>715332589 (OP)
>Switch
>abandonware
What? It's right there, I never got the point of pirating current gen systems when the product itself is readily available.

>>715333924
>Digital product you can get for free, in infinite numbers, across the globe, as long as you have an internet connection that even turd worlders can afford
>Luxury
Luxury is a fucking several thousand dollar watch. Luxury is suits that cost more than people's educations. Luxury is sports cars that have more horsepower than WW2 tanks.

>>715356110
>You're the retard for buying something requiring a constant connection to a server.

Never heard of cartels, the main industry leaders band together and decide "we are going to push live service, because it benefits us, fuck the consumer".

>but muh indie alternative

That's the build your own bank or build your own tweeter argument

>>715351437
With the hoops you have to jump through for sports shit and the awful UX you'd have to be retarded not to pirate that

>>715356872
Must be why you are so paranoid, you see jews everywhere, your thoughts and vision corrupted by your own fetid miasma.

>>715357164
You seem em everywhere because they glow in the dark and they keep emerging from the shadows that kept them safe. Maybe they should fuck off.

Reminder that it was the fault of all the retards that went online to social media to brag about pirating shit, don't fucking paint a target on yourself retards.

>>715332589 (OP)
its either
>oh nyoo....Im doomed because I cant pay for my bing bing wahoo fix...
>im worried about le game preservation in the era of worldwide readily available internet
do these people even hear themselves

>>715350807
>Go to car dealership
>Looking around at a bunch of cars
>I like that one, and that one...And that one
>That one is a little too expensive though
>Satisfied, leaves car dealership
>They lose a million dollars that day due to lost sales
Lol

>>715350807
>Piracy is lost sales
The amount is negligible. Most people just won't play it if they can't pirate.

>>715356107
>everyone should work for the good of the sacred nation
Yes. Stop wasting your time and income on worthless trifles, you mentally deficient cretin
Any endeavor that doesn't lead to profit is a waste of not only your time but everyone else's.
Now get back to work you clown.

>>715354859
>Make game after countless hours
>Boss fires your White ass for jeets
>He even fires those jeets and replaces them with other jeets
>This jeet-hire-fire cycle continues a bunch
>Literally nobody in the whole company even remembers or has played the game you made, it's not even SOLD anymore
>Some nobody puts your game up for free on a website because the only people who even remembers the game is you, and about ten autists
>Somehow this is upsetting to you, and not the jeet-hire-fire cycle that killed your game

>>715357567
They think they're doing free advertisement when AAA corpos already pay millions to get their brand across the clear net.
Pirates are really quixotic.

>>715357567
No? It's the fault of richoids who think each time someone downloads Enter Sandman it takes $1 out of their bank account.

>>715357002
It's just a bunch of faggots who are assmad that other people got have for free.

I have hundreds of physical games I've purchase over the decades. I literally do not care if someone on the other side of the earth, or even my fucking neighbor, downloads it off the internet and plays it for free.

If I want to replay an old game I own, I don't pull my old console out of the closet and dust my copy of to play it. No, I fucking pirate that shit and emulate it.

Do I have to? No, but it's easier and faster.

Should I get mad if someone makes a perfect Switch 2 emulator and someone pirates the no good games for it? Why the fuck do I care.

Stop giving a shit about what other people are doing. Do you really care that someone got to play a game that you loved and is now talking about how great it is with you and didn't pay a dime?

These companies are not your friends and you should not be financially invested in them to the point that you ostracize your fellow gamers.

>>715359001
OY VEYYYYYYYYYY anti-semite! you will get whipped for this post goy

>>715332797
I only pirated when I was young and had no money, once I had have money I bought games instead

not only I don't want to waste times pirating. because time is more precious for me at that point in life but is unlikely that I will ever have all the free time required to even play all that I can pirate.

>>715359217
>Lars Ulrich really is of jewish descent
Huh.

>>715332797
It's more like kids with no income rather than poor people

>>715332589 (OP)
Extremely based of this studio to point out that piracy doesn't hurt developers, and the engagement pirates generate is valuable.

>>715358229
You're not a human being, you're a human doing.

why does this have higher priority over arresting jews that rape children?

>>715332589 (OP)
Which domains got raped?

The internet should have taught people that copyright laws over information is just choking out human innovation and growth. The internet's peak was when people were openly sharing pirated content with each other and creating more from it. Meanwhile everything is locked down now and that same creative culture is no longer to be seen. In the end piracy does not matter, it's only hurting the potential money that corporations think they would be getting. If piracy was that damaging we have denuvo that is uncrackable and most game companies are choosing to not adopt denuvo because piracy does not hurt their games in any perceivable manner.

>>715358229
I will only stop playing video games and reading my pirated e-books when a politician proposes a plan for the independence of my nation and my race, which will necessarily include the exile and extermination of neocons. Until that happens, just cry some more.

>>715335493
>some faggot gloating about giving daddy corpo a bunch of money for a smart phone made this
holy cringe

>>715332589 (OP)
>poor people...
Video game is a luxury, not basic necessity
>abandonware
Switch 2 is backwards compatible with Switch 1, if anything Nintendo will be happy if you're buying all Switch 1 game to play in your Switch 2, there's no abandonware here
>funding
Muh le heckin Epstein, what next we should forbid police to solve neighbors quarrel too because there are murderer out there that still not get caught yet because it's more important and need more attention right?!
>boogeyman
Piracy is a real problem
>we pay with exposure
Genuinely KYS

>>715360376
>Video game is a luxury, not basic necessity
Even the fucking romans figured out entertainment is just as necessary as food and shelter.
Imagine being so fucking retarded that faggots in 0BC know more than you do.

>>715353840
>buy gamecube in 2003
>play it a million times
>steal ~50,000,000 from nintendo by not repurchasing the gamecube every time i want to play it
more accurate way of looking at this.

>>715360740
Unironically what hollywood studios were trying to argue in regards to VHS.

Reminder they're never making an actual good faith or moral argument, the only thing they care about is maximal profits and infinite growth. If they could force you to buy the game every time you wanted to turn it on they would.

>>715360376
>Piracy is a real problem
reminder that piracy study showed that it doesn't really affect sales and has surpressed

>>715357079
No cartel is forcing you to purchase slop. It's your own fault. You don't need the government to make you make less retarded decisions.

Quit buying slop.

>>715332589 (OP)
fitgirl still winning

>>715361067
>Just ignore every major game company doing the same anticustomer business practices
Lol, lmao
Let me guess?
>Just make your own bank!
>Just make your own government!
>Just uhh, make your own nation, GOYS!

>>715359371
yea it has nothing to do with the fact you dont even know how to pirate anymore or use the internet cause you are a phone posting faggot

If someone spends all their disposable income on buying games.
And then when they've got no disposable income left, they fileshare a game.

In this scenario. How did the people selling the game lose out on any money? There was no lost sale. The person in question had no disposable income left.

>>715332589 (OP)
>Poor people will struggle more.
Good. If you are poor and the problem is videogames you deserve to struggle.

>muh study said piracy good
You do realize 99% of studies are complete bullshit

>>715361250
Unironically yes yes and yes, fag.

>>715354970
>Doesn't matter if your game has been off the shelves for 60 years, you own it
Except abandonware is when no one owns it. Not just when no one is doing anything with it. People will often cite the latter as abandonware even in instances where it's not.
But abandonware is where the rights evaporated and no one picked them up.

>>715361823
You do realize that anecdotes are way the fuck worse than studies, right?

>Works for 6 years on my dream game
>Passion project, working day in, day out
>Expect that at the end of it, my mountain of efforts will be rewarded by just, deserved profit
>Some smarty pants favelado then has the gall to say that he is entitled to have the fruits of my labour because "piracy isn't stealing since the original product is still there"
One is not stealing the product itself, but is stealing something, that is, labour, effort, passion, in exhange for nothing. Everybody knows deep down you're doing something you're not meant to do, but you do it anyways. If you were a dev you would feel it in your bones how pirates are just as bad as thiefs.

>>715335493
WTF third world gaming is SOVL?

Twitter screencap thread, literally. You people disappoint the fuck out of me every time you bump this kind of crap off page 10 or immediate archive.