Demographics: Pirating

Do/Why You Pirate.?

  • Review: To demo a game. Then buy if good.

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Price: Too expensive, but buy later on sale.

    Votes: 7 14.6%

  • Capability: Because I can. Why pay if I don't have to?

    Votes: 3 6.3%

  • I don't ever pirate.

    Votes: 21 43.8%

  • Other/Grue/Write In

    Votes: 10 20.8%
  • Total voters
    48
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sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

When a guard at a nearby prison was caught, naked, in the pig barn... the consensus was that he would have gotten away with it... but a pig squealed on him.
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

I think the only games I actively pirate at this point are the Sims games every year or two when I get the itch to play them again, and that's mostly because I don't want to spend a few hundred bucks for The Sims Experience. Like a few others have said, it's much easier to hop on Steam and know you're getting something that works, is virus-free, and won't need to be pirated again if you want to re-install someday.

I don't really pirate e-books, either, but I'm sorely tempted to pirate the new Ken Follet book when it comes out in a few weeks. Paying $9.99 for a new release? Okay, fine. Paying $20 for an e-book? Fuck that shit.
 
Jay

Jay

If anything in 2012 in gaming thought me is that be real careful with what you buy.... not everything ends up being anywhere close to being as as awesome as Skyrim.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Yarrr, it be many a year since th' last time I buckled me swash. 'Twas before Her Majesty the Queen ceased giving letters of marque for the Spanish Main.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Jay said:
If anything in 2012 in gaming thought me is that be real careful with what you buy.... not everything ends up being anywhere close to being as as awesome as Skyrim.
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Generally speaking, any game developed by Bethesda (and not just published) is awesome. This is because they only need to release one game ever 3-4 years to break even. DLC is how they make profit.
 
Jay

Jay

I wish every game company followed Bethesda's business model, short of the lackluster Q/A in certain games.
 
Espy

Espy

AshburnerX said:
Generally speaking, any game developed by Bethesda (and not just published) is awesome. This is because they only need to release one game ever 3-4 years to break even. DLC is how they make profit.
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And their DLC tends to be worth the cost since it's not just a stupid weapons pack or an extra character thats worthless.
 
Frank

Frank

Jay said:
I wish every game company followed Bethesda's business model, short of the lackluster Q/A in certain games.
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All games. Lackluster Q/A in all their games.

Their pS3 version of Skyrim is nothing short of criminal.
 
Espy

Espy

Frank said:
How many hours did you put into it?
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About a billion. Whatever the total amount was I played a LOT over 5 months and finished almost everything. I was told to not have a billion save files so I only kept about 3 or 4, which I believe is what may have caused some people's problems?
 
David

David

I pirated The Sims 3 but legally purchased Sims Medieval.

As far as I'm concerned, EA and I are even on that front.
 
Frank

Frank

Espy said:
About a billion. Whatever the total amount was I played a LOT over 5 months and finished almost everything. I was told to not have a billion save files so I only kept about 3 or 4, which I believe is what may have caused some people's problems?
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Nah, it was a memory issue for almost anyone who's single character went on for over 40 hours. The game would begin to bog down and eventually become completely unplayable. The fact that you seem to have had apparently no problems is weird since it's an issue Skyrim's engine has with PS3 hardware.
 
Espy

Espy

No idea man. I must have a couple hundred hours logged on there. The only thing I've done different from other people is the save file thing. I saw a couple random glitches but nothing game shattering. Weird. I wonder why I didn't have that problem?
 
Frank

Frank



This. Bethesda knew this would happen. It's part of the reason they're so mad at Obsidian is because Bethesda was being hush hush about it and Obsidian let people know exactly why the problem occurred. There's no way to fix it either. It's a problem with the engine and the memory it uses.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I pretty much pirate games only if I A.)Don't have the system or B.) God damn expensive. It's usually B because I like a lot of obscure titles.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I have pirated roms of games that they never imported to the US. Tales of Phantasia comes to mind (at the time I played it, there was no legal english language version). I fuckin' loved that game.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Jay said:
Roms... shitloads of roms. No way I'm breaking our my old gaming rigs and setting them up.
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I just keep them set up and use a hub to switch between the various RCA setups. But you really do need a fairly large entertainment center to do this.
 
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