Genuine question: Why do you buy games instead of just pirating them...

Genuine question: Why do you buy games instead of just pirating them? Why would you pay money for something you could easily get for free?

Moral reasons.

I'm pirating right now.

i dont pirate indie games

First consoles, second if they actually wanted to support the fucker who made the game. Even more so if you almost every time pirate a game, there would be that one dev that you wanna support. That one dev who really makesd real games.If you dont find that one dev, then pirate a robust rope to hang yourself with. user

convenience mostly. I don't want to deal with DRM, Russian bootleg shit rather pay the money and just get the fucking game. Unless it's GOG :^)

>don't know how to pirate
>computer is a toaster that struggles to run EU3 with out dying
Eh the games I want are cheap enough to not even bother learning.

>>don't know how to pirate

You shittin' me here?

Because I play mainly multiplayer games

Why waste the time looking for a working pirated version of a game when i can just click buy on steam and spend a few bucks?

No, I know that you need a torrent but as for finding a safe site and ensuring that my ISP doesn't send me a letter which I'm sure is the worse they can do to me it's just emulation, I never saw a point to learn it.

Less of a hassle
Money it's not a problem for me

50% I like giving money to the people who make things I enjoy
50% hassle

Christmas break ends next week for you, huh? Sad you have to go back to the cafeteria and sit all alone?

Terrible download rate.

>support the devs meme

You're giving money to the (((publisher)))

These for me.
I've only pireted maybe 3 or 4 game total throughout the years and I'm too damn lazy to put forth the effort to do it. ESPECIALLY with how long it took to even pirate BotW on WiiU.
If a game is cheap (20$ - 35$) I'll just buy it.

When a game comes out, sometimes you wanna play it relatively soon near its release cause you really really wanna play it

Because I can

online play
achievement tracking
updates
no risk of legal trouble

also developer support

I mostly pirate, but some games don't have many seeders, and finding updates can be a real bitch. In such cases, it's better to buy them during sales. Also, games with online features like dark souls are objectively better on legit copies.

Its easier duh

>turn on 50 adblockers and mbam ultra mode to find a mirror or tracker for the game
>pray for 0 seeds to turn into 1 seed
>3 days later when you finally download the game, dive back into the shadiest of websites to find a crack
>finally boot up the game and then run into creative AP like your shots not doing any damage

OR

>go on steam
>click buy
>install
>click play
>enjoy game

Which would you pick?

It's a nice feeling having money and choosing to spend it on things that interest me and that I want to have. Whether it's video games or something else. Plus if the product is particularly good and the dev/publishers don't have shitty practices and are generally just cool people then I want to pay for it.

i pirated a game years ago. it took a bunch of extra steps and patches to make it work. Well, 5 years later I move my harddrive to a new pc build and reformat. But there is still a ton of space being used. I investigate and find the game folder has survived multiple reformats and the game was never removed from the drive and was taking up tens of gigs of space. How in the hell?

Because I can afford it?

the third option
being actually competent at your hobby

I'm a cheap faggot

I only buy games I can't pirate even if I have the money

that's the first option
If you weren't competent you wouldn't even know what a tracker or crack is

I want to show support for the type of entertainment I like so I can get more in the foreseeable future

Everyone born post 1985 knows what a tracker and crack are.

I've pirated all my life, I haven't bought a game since PS1.
Only legal games I have I got for free, some 100 GB of games I have now are all pirated.

This.

most of the games I want to play require a legitimate copy for multiplayer or updates to work. also, I have a job and can afford to buy games whenever I want to.

Yeah so maybe the publisher will publish more similar games in the future.

Mostly convenience - mod support, multiplayer, constant updates, achievements, not having to worry about losing your instalation file, etc.
There are games that I can't be arsed to pay for, though. Skyrim, for example. There are literally no downsides of pirating it.

no the first option is inbetween being competent and having no fucking clue

FINE long asnwer it is

>turn on 50 adblockers and mbam ultra mode to find a mirror or tracker for the game

total exageration, also you need to find a .torrent which contains trackers, not every single tracker yourself, unless you mean a site with trackers named after it or shit like that

>pray for 0 seeds to turn into 1 seed

never happens unless you are trying to download a literally who game or an old as shit game you might aswell find a direct link for instead of a torrent

>3 days later when you finally download the game, dive back into the shadiest of websites to find a crack

always included within the package, and besides, legal sites that give cracks for everything exists since forever

>finally boot up the game and then run into creative AP like your shots not doing any damage

what the fuck is that even supposed to mean

You'd be surprised. Don't overestimate normalfags.

to support games I like. Think about it this way:

Gamefreak/Nintendo/TPC is retarded. People would go crazy over a Pokémon snap 2, but they've literally gone on record saying nobody would want it and "we couldn't innovate it enough"

But by making it one of the most downloaded titles on the e-shop, HOPEFULLY Nintendo gets their head out of their ass and mkes a sequel

I pirated a game and it raped me. It literally crawled out of my computer when I tried to uninstall it and raped me, laughing while doing it. It is standing behind me now with a knife oh god im so scared

If the publisher is happy with sales, they won't close the studio and will pay them to make more games like it
You actual retard

>What is PVP? I only play single player games.

Because I don't play on PC like a fucking moron

tell that to EA

huh

I like actually having the game, either in the form of a physical copy (which means I'll always have access to it until its destruction) or access to a place to download it, complete with access to patches and updates. It is far easier to just buy the game on Steam, download the game from Steam, and play the game off Steam than it is to prowl a bunch of sketchy websites, spend two days downloading the game because it's in multiple parts and the ad-filled download servers take eight hours to complete, patch the whole thing up only to find that it was actually Goat Simulator again. I mean, if we're talking about something I would never pay money for (namely, porn) then I don't mind as much, since I was never going to stick Custom Maid 3D in my Steam library anyways. But when it's a matter of spending $10 or ten hours downloading from uploader, then the $10 isn't really that bad.

Also, support the developer/publisher/etc. Nintendo is both so countering that point won't work. Plus, I'd rather publishers see that a bunch of smaller/older/less shit games can still get sales, giving them a message, rather than trying to pirate a AAA game on some sort of "principle". Hell, if I think the game is bad enough to not purchase, then it's going to be bad enough to not waste my time with either.

I don't trust websites distributing pirated copies
I'll just stick to emulating older games and buying the few new games I wanna play

The devs already got paid however a game not reaching certain milestones works against them and makes them getting hired again more difficult since publishers will not see them as a worthy investment.

I've literally never been able to finish a pirated game. I just lose interest. I don't know what form of jewish curse I'm under.

Multiplayer
Or supporting devs, not often though I usually pirate shit

I always pirate everything I play, the only exception are games I really like because I want physical media.

>tfw supporting my hobby

please fuck my wife

I managed to go back to single player only for a month and half in autumn and it was fucking great

Multiplayer games are a joke but I can't stop playing them

I buy deserving indie games I enjoyed

> Why wouldn't you do something bad or illegal if you can get away with it

Because I'm a decent person and I'm not that poor.

I pirate if it's a shitty dev though.

I'm not poor and I don't pay more than 20 dollars for a video game, it's really not an issue for me.

Anyone else a rental master race?
>motivation to finish games instead of hogging them
>no need to suck crackers' dicks
>legal
>convenient
>not as fast as buying from store, but still get to play early enough to participate in discussion
>cheap deals on buybacks if I really like the game

I'm from Eastern Europe. Everyone I know pirates games and very few actually buy stuff. I used to pirate everything as well, but nowadays I rarely do. I don't know the exact reason why I changed, but I guess I just want to support the devs of games I like and if say the game is on Steam it's nice to just have it in one big library. Not to mention consoles like PS4 and Switch aren't hacked yet, so you can't even pirate on them. Online games are out of the question as well.

She white and got a big butt right bruh?

I'm not a poorfag
I'm not from a 3rd world shithole
I have a life so I don't have sit on my ass playing games all day
I'm not a nigger

No one cares about developer support stop pushing this meme and acting like goody good boy we buy things for our own convenience. Do you buy eggs thinking "ooooh I am supporting chickens hopefully there will be more eggs" even if you are you are doing it for yourself, that you would get more eggs and at cheap.

It's a hassle and it's not always guaranteed that they work

>food analogy

>Supporting chickens
That's like saying you're supporting unity or such by buying someone's game. Chickens are just what's used to make eggs. The farmers are what you're supporting.

ever since demonoid died torrenting has been ultra shady. It's almost impossible to join private trackers now and Piratebay has gone so downhill that you are risking a lot pirating games.

It's just a million times more convenient to quickly buy games on steam and download them once you actually have money in your life and you arent a loser.

I literally do not own a PC

>being this retarded
Chickens will always lay eggs. Game developers will make more good games if they get more money.

I like to think I'm tech savvy but when it comes to pirating games I'm a noob
I'm honestly worried about downloading/installing viruses and malware plus a lot of modern games rely on updates to fix them
I don't mind downloading the odd old game though, usually they're now shareware like Alicesoft's games before Rance 5D and stuff
I'm pretty happy with purchasing from a company that makes decent titles though I almost always buy second hand because you never can tell with day-1 buys any more... looking at Lollipop Chainsaw here

why is sonic forces there

All devs try their best for their game to be good, no one makes games purposely bad. a lot of "bad" games are just made for different kind of people or exhaustion. Take street fighter v as example they tried to attract a different kind of audience and people say capcom is generally exhausted since all the good ideas are out and there are already a loy of people in their circle so it naturally be impossible to satisfy a lot of people since ideas don't come easily

because i want to play with other people

Street Fighter V is probably one of the worst examples you can list as "not intentionally making a bad game." I mean, I won't disagree that they tried their best at making some aspects of the game. But everything from the missing content at release, to some of the poor mechanics, to nerfing some of the characters, involved making the game noticeably worse on purpose for some very specific reasons.

Being honest? I feel guilty for pirating recent releases. I feel like the majority of companies do put a lot of time and effort into their games and it feels morally wrong. I feel it helps support developers and keeps them afloat and promotes more games in the series/translations of future games.

With that said, if a game's quality is questionable enough I will pirate it to see how it is, or wait for a drastic sale. On the flip side of things, I don't have a issue pirating older titles that are two generations behind since the only people making money off of it would be used video game shops and publishers trying to overprice digital releases. I also have no qualms with refusing to support certain releases if the publisher or developer have ethical or moral issues I disagree with, or are jackasses (Like Phil Fish, Jonathan Blow, EA, Ubisoft, etc). I will also refuse to support a game if it makes a drastic change to the core formula that pretty much destroys the premise of the series (Stuff like Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Color Splash, Dead Rising 4, etc).

As I stated for different audience
But they failed unfortunately since from lime light all non anime air dashers fighting games look same

I like to support people who make things that I like in the hopes that they continue to make things that I like.

>All devs try their best for their game to be good

Not really

>pirated games are usually a hassle
>official downloads are much quicker
>don't want to use a vpn every time I download something
>only play games that last for over 20 hours so performance more important
>have a decent amount of disposable income so I can buy stuff on sale without any real impact
>multiplayer games usually don't work
>generally only buy games which have a good publisher/developer for anything close to full price

Fitgirl is the only way to go desu

Why go throw the trouble of dating when you just can pay for sex?

and if it's an indie game on steam?

Why would I pay you for sex when I can sneak into your house and just pirate it? I'm not taking anything away from you so it's not theft.

I've had a few series I like die out and I don't want that happening to other games I enjoy.

It really depends. Multiplayer focused games are a given, can't play those pirated and even if you could, you get locked in a very small subset of the population.

There's also convenience, you got games that are constantly being updated and have things like workshop support, which can be affected by how often the updates go out for pirated copies and whether or not anyone cares to grab the mods off the workshop for pirated copies. It might not be a problem if the game is popular enough, but for more niche games, it can be an issue unless you don't give a shit about those things. Not to mention that it's harder to find a torrent for much older games, even in the confines of private trackers.

There's also supporting the devs, but I guess that only really affects indie devs.

>pirate indie games
>buy AAA EA games
anyone else?

Yeah, plenty of people suck dicks out there.

>"I am very concerned about my money and expenses!"
>pirates the $5 indie title
>pays for the $70 game + $50 DLC pack

They're moralfags that's why.

That's nigger mentality
>ayoo why get stuff if I can take it from whitey

Please take your racism to Sup Forums.

t. emotionally and intellectually stunted manchild
go tell your mom about it. not even a Sup Forumsirgin's time is so valueless as to warrant reading your posts

>not even a Sup Forumsirgin's time is so valueless as to warrant reading your posts

>He types this as he's read my post

got a green (You) that i couldn't bother reading

Because I have money and gaming is like the cheapest hobby there is. Not worth the hassle when I can just spend money.

>gee, GAME: The Video Game really didn't sell well, I guess the market doesn't like it
>Are you sure, the developers say people really liked it and it got great reviews
>Probably just a niche game, cut down on its funding and try to push those things the focus groups found if we give them another shot
You are supporting the devs by telling the publisher that this is what you want, this is how capitalism works
It's the exact same thing with your egg example
>Here's some money farmer, I want those eggs!
>Wow, a lot of people want these eggs, I better get more chickens

I do pirate games I'm unsure of.
for games I like, I buy because that amount of money is not much of a factor for me, and I'd like to support the types of games I enjoy.
the real question is why do you care how people get to play games? pirate or no.

>If you weren't competent you wouldn't even know what a tracker or crack is
EL OH EL

>ayoo why get stuff if I can take it from Blackey
there I fixed it for you so you can have equality

>"alright we fixed this for free, you g-go-guys know how to spend ou-your money"
>game is still unfinished

most black people are sonic fan strangely enough