I don’t follow this as a justification for piracy. Piracy isn’t stealing but, assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game, you are still causing the person who owns the game to lose money they would have otherwise gained.
My justification is much simpler: capitalists suck, buying games supports capitalists so I’m keeping my money.
assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game
That’s not a reasonable assumption at all.
Sometimes people can’t afford the extortionate game prices and thus wouldn’t be bying them no matter what.
Other times, such as with the Denuvo DRM monstrosity or draconian anticheat systems on single player modes, pirated copies are better than bought ones.
And, as you say yourself, sometimes you just don’t want to support the capitalists ruining games in order to squeeze every possible cent of profit out of them regardless of what that means for the quality of games and treatment of gamers.
This is me tbh. I don’t value video games as part of my life to the extent that I will pay 70 dollars (or really almost any dollars) for 99% of them. I already don’t do that for games that have/had Denuvo that took years to crack. I just forgot about them and did something else. I’d probably just read more books if I couldn’t pirate games because I’m not spending that much of my income on them.
It’s also the same argument that record companies tried to use for the last few decades when a majority of the piracy stats were from countries you couldn’t even buy their albums or it was prohibitively expensive to do so. Avatar (the blue one) was the most pirated movie of all time at the same time as it was the highest grossing movie of all time. One download = one lost sale has never been true.
I don’t follow this as a justification for piracy. Piracy isn’t stealing but, assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game, you are still causing the person who owns the game to lose money they would have otherwise gained.
My justification is much simpler: capitalists suck, buying games supports capitalists so I’m keeping my money.
That’s not a reasonable assumption at all.
Sometimes people can’t afford the extortionate game prices and thus wouldn’t be bying them no matter what.
Other times, such as with the Denuvo DRM monstrosity or draconian anticheat systems on single player modes, pirated copies are better than bought ones.
And, as you say yourself, sometimes you just don’t want to support the capitalists ruining games in order to squeeze every possible cent of profit out of them regardless of what that means for the quality of games and treatment of gamers.
If you want to play a game - pay the owner.
If you can’t afford it - don’t pirate it. It’s not yours.
Personally, If its not possible to pirate something I just forget about it until it is
Sonic Frontiers my beloved.
This is me tbh. I don’t value video games as part of my life to the extent that I will pay 70 dollars (or really almost any dollars) for 99% of them. I already don’t do that for games that have/had Denuvo that took years to crack. I just forgot about them and did something else. I’d probably just read more books if I couldn’t pirate games because I’m not spending that much of my income on them.
It’s also the same argument that record companies tried to use for the last few decades when a majority of the piracy stats were from countries you couldn’t even buy their albums or it was prohibitively expensive to do so. Avatar (the blue one) was the most pirated movie of all time at the same time as it was the highest grossing movie of all time. One download = one lost sale has never been true.
Piracy is stealing and stealing is good.