Name: Thomas
Location: Eudlo, Australia
Age: 17
I play any game I can get my hands on, but I have a very short attention span for them.
Some of my favorite games are:
Half Life 2
Metal Slug Series
Gears of War
Guitar Hero Series
Odin Sphere
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
Super Smash Bros Series
Elite Beat Agents and Ouendan
I'm also trying to develop a taste for retro games, but it often takes more patience than I'm capable of. I joined this site to meet like-minded gamers, so if you want to hear another Australian on Xbox Live or hear bullshit stories about kangaroo riding, add me.
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I'm Aussie too, so I know your pain.
Besides, there are a lot of ways to obtain used games. You don't necessarily have to go to a shop who makes a profit on these games. If you've bought it from someone, it enables them to buy a new game for their own if that's their preference.
Substitute FBI for whatever your country has.
When it comes straight down to it Piracy is stealing. Would you walk into a store and steal? Would you walk into a strangers house and steal? Probably not, so why does that make stealing on the internet any "less worse"? It doesn't. So if you have to choose between buying used and pirating, you should buy used.
I think the R4 is something Nintendo should have released but didn't.
well actually it is less worse.
if i stole from a store, or stole a car etc somebody loses out because i stole from them, and they no longer posess what i stole. if i download a game or a movie, the owners and creators still have their product, but i have a copy of it. since i wouldn't pay for most games and movies i download, most copyright owners are never going to make any money out of me anyway, so nobody loses, and i win.
piracy = win.
on top of that i buy games and movies that i really like even after i pirate them. if i bought second hand then the developer or whatever would never see a penny of my cash.
It'll all be moot anyways, once everything moves to digital distribution though. PC is well on it's way there, and I guarantee it'll be a focal point of the next generation of consoles.
There is no way around this. When you pirate a game you are taking something from someone. People make themselves feel better about this, and blanket their guilt, by trying to tell themselves that they aren't actually taking anything from anyone so it's "not bad". That's just a plain out straight lie.
Look if you are going to pirate a game I can't stop you. Hell I used to pirate all the time back in the day when I was younger and poor. But don't try to sugar coat it and act like pirating is a good thing or that "pirate=win", because that is just not reality. Pirating=stealing.
If you tell me you have never once had a pirated copy of anything, you are lying. Your friends will have sent you an MP3 over MSN, you'll have watched a copyrighted clip on Youtube which isn't by a user licenced to broadcast it. That's piracy. Everyone has done it atleast once, even unintentionally, so no-one has a right to take the moral highground. I bet record executives who try to sue torrent sites and such even have pirated materials on their computers. It's largely unavoidable.
When I'm going to buy a game that has been out for a while, I always aim to buy a new copy, I recently bought Odin Sphere, There was pre-owned for £10 and new for £20. I bought it new because it supports developers and I'm getting the game in better condition. I want to buy Zone of the Enders 2 and Final Fantasy 6 Advance, I'm not going to buy those brand new because they're incredibly hard to find brand new, and if you do find them, the prices are extortionate. Why should I pay £60 for a game I can probably get at around £15 if I find the right place? Would I pirate ZOE2 if I had a chipped PS2? Probably, but I don't so I won't. Would I pirate FF6 Advance if I didn't have it on the PS1? Yes, because you don't need to have played it to know it's legendary.
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