did you pirate skyrim?
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Zoridium JackL
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Jersey Dagmar
Just in time for the fiyahworks show! BOOM!
LOL, I know people who still use dial-up. I don't miss that annoying sound at all.
Halkin
pzzzztt
Nakto Guvano
PC user
Same here, I was like, "I already own it, so Bethesda, you already got my money you MILKDRINKERS, so I will get myself another copy, sorry, you already got 60 bucks, no more for you." I know they work hard for it, but they get so much from it that 60 bucks will not get them that much, so I saved 60 bucks and got it easy way for PC, bought it legit on PS3.
Balerion Blackdread
Eater of Worlds and Pie
You should also try skipping out on the check at your favorite restaurant when you order the same meal. You already paid for the same meal before. After you buy a new car from the car dealership go back there again in a few months to take the exact same model out for a test drive and then take off with it since you paid for the exact same make and model from the same dealership. If the local constables arrest you I'm sure the "I already bought the exact same thing before" defense will get you acquitted of all charges and the magistrate and jury won't look at you like you're completely batsh!t insane.
Rex Prime
Premium Airtcle Writer
While I Hate the fact, yes i pirated the game, but i want to get a legal copy as soon as i can to support Beth, I didn't pirate it for money, i pirated it because the game is not sold here, actually all sold games where i live are pirated, Expect for PS3 games, which are commonly sold for 90$ or more.
And if you ask, i live in Libya. Yes i know there was a Civil War down there, yes i experienced it myself, and i will buy it legally whenever i got the chance, because i love Skyrim and i want support Bethesda to make more games like this and even better.
And if you ask, i live in Libya. Yes i know there was a Civil War down there, yes i experienced it myself, and i will buy it legally whenever i got the chance, because i love Skyrim and i want support Bethesda to make more games like this and even better.
Nakto Guvano
PC user
THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO HEAR! THIS IS THE TRUTH! EAT IT MOTHER******! (sorry for excitement...)
Nakto Guvano
PC user
1. I am not dumb enough to try and use that for vehicles.
2. This is SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE like a vehicle, food, etc.
3. Stop assuming things jackass.
Zoridium JackL
Member
then software/hardware thing is irrelevant guys, that just changes the way pirating impacts on the industry (and I'm pretty sure the reason they call it pirating isn't to criminalize, it's more of a reference to the fact that the internet is for the most part separate to any country and as such is hard to govern by any sort of land law, pirates, both on boats or not, use this disconnection to take/do what they want without facing the consequences, plus it saves someone the trouble of inventing a new word)
yes it takes from a companies profit, not in the same way stealing hard ware does, but it still does. A lot of companies use the producer funding to make the game, they than need to pay off the producer +percentage, as well as for everything else, a lot of the time they need to give themselves back-pay, the only profit they make is whatever is left-over at the end (with hardware they also need to factor in the cost of materials, this isn't included in software but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of work went into making it and those people need to be paid), if you pirate the game than it means you are playing it without paying for it, this may/may not have an impact.
if you wouldn't buy the game regardless of anything, than pirating it causes more good than harm because it isn't cutting into the profit, and boosts the player base. If there was any chance of buying it at all, and I mean ever, even if it meant waiting for the price to drop or saving some money (I'm not just talking about the very moment it releases) than you are depriving them of one sale, and this isn't like selling hardware, they can't just keep making it over and over again and continuously charge, they sell it, and then they don't sell it to that person again (because they aren't selling materials, they are selling a license), so each sale counts a lot more than it would otherwise because there is only a certain amount of sales they can make.
so to those who genuinely had a reason to pirate it (whether it be you're so poor and jobless that you are a mummified dog f*****, or because you already owned it) I say go ahead, you ain't really hurting none. But those of you who continuously say and think piracy has no negative effects on the people involved and use that to try and justify your blatant theft (just because you didn't want to pay for it is NOT a good enough reason) I say F*** you you selfish ignorant S.O.B. when I release a game that my livelihood depends on, I expect you to pull out you're dosh and pay for that M**** F*****.
yes it takes from a companies profit, not in the same way stealing hard ware does, but it still does. A lot of companies use the producer funding to make the game, they than need to pay off the producer +percentage, as well as for everything else, a lot of the time they need to give themselves back-pay, the only profit they make is whatever is left-over at the end (with hardware they also need to factor in the cost of materials, this isn't included in software but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of work went into making it and those people need to be paid), if you pirate the game than it means you are playing it without paying for it, this may/may not have an impact.
if you wouldn't buy the game regardless of anything, than pirating it causes more good than harm because it isn't cutting into the profit, and boosts the player base. If there was any chance of buying it at all, and I mean ever, even if it meant waiting for the price to drop or saving some money (I'm not just talking about the very moment it releases) than you are depriving them of one sale, and this isn't like selling hardware, they can't just keep making it over and over again and continuously charge, they sell it, and then they don't sell it to that person again (because they aren't selling materials, they are selling a license), so each sale counts a lot more than it would otherwise because there is only a certain amount of sales they can make.
so to those who genuinely had a reason to pirate it (whether it be you're so poor and jobless that you are a mummified dog f*****, or because you already owned it) I say go ahead, you ain't really hurting none. But those of you who continuously say and think piracy has no negative effects on the people involved and use that to try and justify your blatant theft (just because you didn't want to pay for it is NOT a good enough reason) I say F*** you you selfish ignorant S.O.B. when I release a game that my livelihood depends on, I expect you to pull out you're dosh and pay for that M**** F*****.
Balerion Blackdread
Eater of Worlds and Pie
And yet you're obviously too mentally challenged to understand the use of sarcasm to show the general stupidity of your moronic attempt to justify pirating software. It doesn't matter if its software or hardware. It doesn't belong to you and all the pathetic excuses and morally retarded arguments in the world wont change that fact.
I admire people like Jersey who have the honesty to acknowledge that they pirate and there is no actual moral justification for it unlike people like you who spew out the arguments of an ethically inbred imbecile. It's not that big a deal if you pirated it but deluding yourself into thinking there is any rational justification for doing it other than self interest is truly idiotic.
I didn't assume anything. Sorry if pointing out the obvious made you all butt hurt.
Jersey Dagmar
Just in time for the fiyahworks show! BOOM!
A thousand times, THIS^
Seriously, how many times do we have to go over this debate?
Zoridium JackL
Member
I think the question is how many times have we ALREADY gone over this entire topic.
piracy is theft, I think we should leave it at that.
D0MIN0
Member
And why do you say this? Your statement seems to be accusing me of lying.
SilverRhythm
Member
Skyrim is like an endless RPG to me. For the length of time consumed in this game to complete most quests and still there is more.....is very worth it for me.
In fact, I tend to tell my friends Skyrim was underpriced at 60 bucks for a game that can consume hundreds of hours.
In fact, I tend to tell my friends Skyrim was underpriced at 60 bucks for a game that can consume hundreds of hours.
Thomas Liu
tyl089
spent $60 for the game, and $340 for the ps3 console. By my estimate, about $1.50 an hour for the whole kit and kaboodle.
Totally worth it; especially since I don't have to deal with lags and glitches anymore.
Totally worth it; especially since I don't have to deal with lags and glitches anymore.
Gandalf The Boss
Pupil of Nienna. Defender of Middle Earth
Piracy is wrong. The end. I bough Skyrim to my 360 and then I downloaded it (Illegally) for the PC. And after about 2 days after I downloaded it I bought it on steam. Just because its against my morals to steal things that companies works ages and ages to make. And it is Stealing no doubt about it but sometimes it gets way to serious. Today you can kill like 5 people and still get a lower punishment than if you download some files.
What I think would be a fitting punishment would be that the person that downloaded would need to pay ALL the original cost of the things he downloaded not freaking jail. Thats just absurd.
What I think would be a fitting punishment would be that the person that downloaded would need to pay ALL the original cost of the things he downloaded not freaking jail. Thats just absurd.
Gehenna
Dazed & Confused
It seems that most everyone who is anti-piracy is also so pro-game developers, that they never seems to realize that the ways various game companies try to protect themselves against piracy also trump the legitimate user's right to keep a backup copy of games they have paid for. In the US, it is not against the law to make a copy of your software. You just can't pass it around to other people. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
I guess I'm just sick of everybody going "boo-hoo, poor game companies," when they do things like invade our privacy or limit the number of times we can install games we've paid for, or require us to install garbage on our systems to run their games. People shouldn't pirate and game companies shouldn't burn their legitimate users so badly that they turn them into pirates.
I guess I'm just sick of everybody going "boo-hoo, poor game companies," when they do things like invade our privacy or limit the number of times we can install games we've paid for, or require us to install garbage on our systems to run their games. People shouldn't pirate and game companies shouldn't burn their legitimate users so badly that they turn them into pirates.
