Thread 719228763

Would you stop pirating if game prices weren't so high?

>>719228763 (OP)
People will pay any price for a game, IF they feel the game is worth it to them.

>>719228763 (OP)
No. Pirated games can't be removed from my library, I can't get banned from them, and don't run worse because of antipiracy checks that get circumvented anyway.

>>719228763 (OP)
This is a question of economics. Some people can easily pay these prices, some can do it but at longer intervals, some can't pay that much. It comes down to what percentage of population is in each of these categories.

>>719228763 (OP)
I buy from Steam. I pirate from GOG and Nintendo.

>>719228879
No game is worth more than $60.

Kir

>>719228763 (OP)
I'd buy physical copies sure. Overall I think it's not worth buying digital games at all, if you don't care about achievements and aren't an autist obsessing about having a library on Steam pirating gives you a much better no bullshit experience. I wish it wasn't like that, I still have a large collection of physical games for PS4, Xbone, Wii U and various older consoles but I stopped buying games at the tail end of the PS4 lifecycle because physical is basically digital with extra steps.
As for the Switch a hacked Switch is so much better than the vanilla experience, and it's much more than just piracy, you can run homebrew, you can run emulators, you can run retroarch, you can overclock for better performance. I bought a Switch V1 on release so I was forced into piracy early on, the only game I own for it is BotW.

Kirby is supposed to be for lil kids and it's a fucking re-release. Why is it more than donkey kong?

>>719229474
>for Kids
Kids don't play kirby

>>719229180
I believe there's more to it, there is a cultural and personal element, if you are used to tinkering with your shit and pirating the media you consume you're gonna pirate out of habit simply because you can. I have a coworker who could more than afford buying whatever he wants on Steam Day 1 yet he's torrenting like a motherfucker and waits for cracks on Denuvo games.

>>719229631
I'm sure some dad would buy their kid kirby or yoshi

The only games exempt from pirate law are games I want to get achievements on to flex, and multiplayer shit my dumbass friends make me buy.

>>719228763 (OP)
No. The price is never the issue. When I pirate, it's almost always becaues I am uncertain if I'd like the game or not, and don't want to waste money, even if it's cheap. "But muh refund policy" 2 hours is not always enough, and refunding is more of a hassle than simply uninstalling.
The other times I pirate, is if the game seems fun, but I don't like the devs, or something else about the game, and thus makes me not want to support them.

I do pay for the majority of the games I play though. And sometime, although rare, if I like a game enough, I will buy it after beating it just to support.

>>719228763 (OP)
Modern Nintendo is a joke so I don't give a shit about what they make these days, but I'd rebuy their old good games if they brought them to PC without a ton of cancer attached.

>>719228763 (OP)
With Nintendos games you get the whole game instead of having to pay the a bunch extra for the full version right at launch you disingenuous cunt

>>719231439
If you don't think mkw is going to get a shitload of dlc that ends up costing more than then entirety of the base game, I have the golden gate bridge to sell you.

>>719233440
They've got the fucking tact to wait a bit first, and it will still be more reasonably priced for how much you get than what other publishers do

>>719231439
You bought a whole DLC turned into a new game with TotK though and even before that they sold an expansion for BotW

>>719228763 (OP)
Why post switch 2 prices when you can't pirate them?

>>719233950
But I didn't buy Totk because BOTW was awful

>>719228763 (OP)
I will stop pirating if they start making good games that you actually own.

>>719233898
They're among the worst at this point and there's no denying that. The sooner you wake up to that, the better off you'll be.

The only reason game prices are so low in Russia is because it's the only way to compete with piracy, so yes, people tend to buy if the price is low.
If Americans and Europeans started pirating games on a massive scale, you'd see Nintendo putting their games on sale for $40 tomorrow and begging you to put dollars and euros in their pockets, instead of suing you like you're whores.

>>719238419
regional pricing in Steam is retarded anyway
some European countries need to pay more than in US despite having lower average salary

>>719228763 (OP)
>US version
Is the Switch 2 region locked or something?

Depends on how much effort it is to pirate.

>>719228763 (OP)
No, because I pirate games that I am unsure or that I am not going to buy anyways

>>719238708
only the japanese domestic one is. I'm in japan with a US switch 2, buy only japanese carts at the yen discount and the game loads the region of your console .

>>719239024
So all over models are region free? Weird. Nintendo always does something strange with their releases.

>>719228763 (OP)
I buy Nintendo games, pirate on PC.
Third party barely interests me anymore so I usually don't even bother playing games for free anymore

>>719228763 (OP)
I only pirate slop so nope.

>>719239310
This, but the exact opposite.
I buy games on PC, I pirated back everything worthwhile from Nintendo. Their modern games have zero appeal to me now.

>>719229319
That’s how much I paid for them in Australia

>>719239156
it's because the yen is so weak, the Jap version is cheaper and jap games are cheaper. To prevent gaijin from scalping the jap domestic ones they locked it. That being said, once a hack is found the jap version's region will be unlocked I'm sure.

>>719239756
this for me. I've never given Nintendo a penny of my own money in my life. their last product I had was a Wii my parents bought, and a 3DS I bought used this year that i obviously hacked
fuck those greedy cocksuckers, and their modern games are dogshit. I've also only played 3rd parties on the 3ds. I think the last first party I played was wii sports, kek

>>719240078
What 3rd party games are good on the 3DS?

>>719240078
Nintendo has been pretty weak lately. Even with a hacked console I find few first party Switch games to pirate.

>>719240142
so far I've played or atleast installed
>smt 4
>smt 4a
>radiant historia
>Senran kagura 2
>all fire emblems (maybe this is technically 1st party? idk)
>devil survivor and other smt spinoffs
>etrian odyssey series
>final fantasy theathrythm
also Ive played some DS games like DQ5 and the DS FE's
>>719240174
in the past few weeks I finally emulated switch for the first time to play Fire Emblem despite having a good enough pc to emulate from the beginning

Yes but my definition of low prices are weird apparently. I saw 90% off games on steam and I still wouldnt buy them for that price. Last game I bought was mobile suit baba for 4 bucks

>>719228763 (OP)
how has this image been reuploaded enough times to get this cooked? it's just the first page of walmart search.

>>719228763 (OP)
For the most part, these days I only pirate games that don't have good ports to modern platforms. If a company bothers to make their games available and they do a good job of making it a really good product I don't mind paying for it if I have an interest in playing it

>>719240351
>>all fire emblems (maybe this is technically 1st party? idk)
That's first party Nintendo, yes.
Have you played Attack of the Friday Monsters yet? it's a short and sweet RPG, you'll probably beat it in an evening but I really enjoyed it.

>>719228763 (OP)
No. Price has never been what has caused me to Pirate because I live in the UK and we have something called a "second hand game market" as well as Amazon rarely sticking to the RRP as many Switch 2 games are currently available for less than £40 despite the RRP generally being around the ballpark of £60-70.
For me piracy has always been about convenience. For example: why shell out the money for an N64, N64 controller, Transfer Pak (which will likely have worn connector pins for both the part that connects to the controller and the part that connects to the GB cart), Copy of Pokemon Stadium and a Gen 1 game when I could just download the roms and use Rosalie's Mupen GUI to facilitate the same thing much more conveniently with no hardware issues, speed up, save states so I can stop playing whenever needed AND play the games in 1080p?
At most all I would have to buy is an N64 style USB controller and even then, that's only IF I want to, otherwise I could easily just use something I already have lying around like a PS4/5 Controller or Switch Pro Controller.

I don't pirate games. I simply refuse to engage with any game I cannot purchase for under $10. I also refuse to play P2W slop.

>>719228763 (OP)
No, because I believe that I deserve everything for free.

>>719241446
Based
I haven't paid more than $5 for a game in I can't even remember how long and my library on pc is huge.

>>719229319
$50*

>>719235856
>source: my gaping asshole
Where's the paid dlc and mtx for Mario Odyssey? How about Wonder?

>>719240078
>and their modern games are dogshit
>typed by a retard who's never played them

>>719240492
I know that IS is owned by Nintendo but I didn't know if it was considered first party, guess I have played some them since I've marathonned the series and finished 9 of the games over the past month or two
I will grab that game on hshop, I've never heard of it
I will legitimately buy a switch 2 and new fire emblem on Amazon and return them after beating. fuck Nintendo

>>719228763 (OP)
Nintendo games aren't with pirating

>>719241976
And yet they're the ones most clamoured for by pirates.........

>>719241895
>t. cum gargling mongoloid, manchild

>>719242047
Poorfags gonna poorfag, I find 'tendo games shit too, wouldn't pirate them if they paid me for it

i dont play games anymore but when i did piracy was always more about convenience than saving money so no

>>719242047
source: it came to me in a fever dream
I see you fat retards constantly saying people are "seething" about not being able to play MKW or DKB but I've never once seen this supposed seething. I only see people laughing at you.

>$80 games
Tendies still trying to tell me nintnedo isn’t the greediest kike company out there.

>>719243145
they're so delusional they actually believe it when they say it

>>719228763 (OP)
It's interesting how Nintendo, a video game company who primarily makes games for children, is completely pricing out parents who buy toys for their children. The video game parts of their IPs are meant for the man children at this point. The kids are just supposed to buy the toys and watch the movies. It's grim.

>>719244238
No other sane person is giddy to be paying more for stuff. Tendies are though. It’s so bizarre to see.

>>719244353
I will let my kid play games on my PC like God intended

>>719228763 (OP)
>80$
What the fuck, are tendies really paying so fucking much for fucking Mario cart?

>>719244508
they do it with a smile on their face too

>>719228763 (OP)
Game prices are only gonna get worse.

>>719229319
t. poorfag

>>719244660
Zoomers are spending less and less money on games. Well, they can increase price to 100$ but none is going to buy it

>>719229319
Especially no Nintendo games with their indie tier scopes and budgets.

>>719243145
Hasn't Playstation and xbox been doing it longer?

>>719244776
This, most of the tendie whales nowadays are Millennials that are attached to the brands they grew up with. Gen Alpha will probably buy even less since they're familiar with the clones on Roblox and not the actual games.

>>719246548
See>>719244353, Nintendo in 2035 will be an IP holding company with video games as one of their products, not a video game company.

>>719228763 (OP)
The first HumbleBundle proved that you can pay a penny and people will still pirate that shit.

At least Nintendo games are finally worth buying. None of you remember the dark Iwata days when the best we got was a shitty gimmick or rehash with two hours of gameplay for $60. Each of the $80 games have 100+ hours of content. You may not like it, but you get what you pay for. I have wasted so much money on $70 standard-issue /v/ slop on PC just for it to be utter slop.

>>719246896
Which Iwata games are you talking about?

>>719246937
The ENTIRE Wii era. If you’re old enough to use this site, you know what I’m talking about.

>>719247386
Wii Music was an embarrassment even at the time and basically destroyed Miyamoto's internal power at Nintendo. No more flipping over the tea tables after that one.

>>719247386
I think all consoles in that era were the beginning of the downfall of the medium. There was a couple of good games on all the consoles, like there innevitably always will be, but the Wii/360/PS3 is where I started to dislike games again.

>>719247386
is this the level of revisionism that switchies have sunk to?

>>719228763 (OP)
I'll stop pirating when games
>stop being made by people who hate me
>stop cramming woke shit in them
>remakes and remasters stop being censored
>localizations stop being butchered
>devs stop cutting corners and implementing dogshit mechanics so the only way to get a good experience is through modding
>prices actually match what the game has to offer

>>719247704
You weren’t around then.
You didn’t have Nintendo Power.
You didn’t see the downfall.

Even investors agreed with me that Nintendo alienated its core audience by moving to granny shit. Every major franchise was improved by ditching the Wii. Every Zelda, Mario, Kirby, DK, etc. game is improved tenfold over earlier Nintendo eras. People don’t understand that you don’t need to buy a new game every month anymore because these aren’t bad games. (You) will splurge $70 a month on AAA ghetto slop and complain that games are a waste of money. You probably spend more than the average tendie. How’s Monster Hunter Wilds treating you?

>>719248172
I don't think any of the Wii games were 70USD.

No, game devs deserve to suffer.

>>719228763 (OP)
no? I only pirate games I dont wanna pay for
no matter how cheap they are.

>>719229241
why? doesn't steam take a buttload of that money and only leaves scraps for the devs?

>>719228763 (OP)
Unironically, yes. Many more people would and we saw it happen with music.
>>719229319
No game is worth more than $50. 60 was already pushing it. 80 in fucking retarded.

>>719248451
Good, I care more about Steam than the devs

>>719246896
Lmao
>$80 6 hour Kirby game
>$70 DK tech demo
Tendie cultist.

>>719248701
DK isn't some 5 hour game like you faggots are trying to meme it as, it's actually longer than Odyssey in some instances despite being more streamlined.
Odyssey only beats it in the completion area since it's bloated with shit moons.
Kirby's DLC being $20 is bullshit though, there's not nearly enough new content to justify the price and grouping it with the performance update is scummy.

I have a job so spending money on videogames is not an issue regardless of the price. As >>719228879 said, I would spend 80€ without any second thought on the next mainline EDF for instance
The sole things I pirate these days are music albums because I'm not a fan of the whole streaming shit, and raw mangas since they limit the digital purchases to Japan only.

>>719244508
lol nope, I have only paid 60 at most for every switch 2 game I’ve bought

>>719228763 (OP)
I stopped pirating a long ago.
I'm not buying either.

>>719246646
That already happened in 2015/2016.
They started clearing out mods and fangames to make way for pure shovelware like Samus Returns at that point. Literally no confidence in their own product.
>>719247587
6th gen was the beginning of the downfall.

>>719252668
You forgot the important part those mods and fangames were begging for money

>>719228763 (OP)
The answer is law of convenience. For people on here it is more convenient to pirate, to an average schmuck it is more convenient to just pay the price. The price is a scale, but there will always still be people on both ends.

>>719228763 (OP)
Switch 2 has no games, so nothing to pirate anyway

>>719252862
Nah, that's just Nintendo copium. Many of these projects were not monetized.

>>719228763 (OP)
>consoles
I stopped buying them when I realized I only really buy a handful of games every generation
So I just end up emulating any games I'm interested in
>PC
Just because I feel like it
When I do buy stuff it's because I liked the game enough from pirating it