[–] 13170750? 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
If you pirate you are depriving the developers of their rightful compensation for their work, as well as their rights to control their work.
It doesn't matter if it is too expensive, they have the right to ask for outrageous prices. And you in turn have the right not to but it. You do not have the right to take their intellectual property.
Neither does it matter if they are cultural marxists or zealots, or pieces of shit like Ubisoft. Just because you hate them you don't get to steal from them.
Pirating is based on the idea that you deserve things for free, which is not correct.
However, I believe that allowances can be made for the poor. They are still stealing, which is not only directly harmful to the creators but to society. But they aren't depriving the creators of money since they wouldn't have been able to pay. And they are poor, which is really really bad.
Apart from that, it is always immoral. Pirating is not a victimless crime, as you can see in the music industry. Musicians except for the top 0'0001% earn next to nothing, and if it weren't for festivals many would be dying of hunger. As well as not making more songs, which ultimately hurts the consumer and the pirate.
Piracy is a selfish and immoral act which might only be excused by the harshness of poverty.
[–] Wahaha 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
Developers are contractors. They get compensation up front, maybe in the form of a salary. What they don't see is money from the game sales. And what they don't have is rights to their work. To this day, we do not even know the name of the guy that created Castlevania, for example. Castlevania is owned by a company, not by it's creator. Just like most games since the creation of games. It works similar with game studios. Even if you made a studio, you can still get to do contract work and then not have much say about what you do and what you earn after the game's release. The studio gets paid up front in this case and won't see money from sales. To actually see money from sales, you not only need your own game studio you also need to do everything else yourself. Like selling your game.
If you want to preach at least get your facts straight.
[–] Mechanicalmechanic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This really needed to be said. It paints a better picture for independent studios/developers that are more intimately involved in their product. I am thinking of games like Rust or The Forest. I firmly believe in paying people a fair price for their work. When it comes to being a developer though I think most would be heartbroken if their work was rejected. It seems that most developers are artists, and they just want people to want to play their game.
[–] 13171061? 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
By creators I mean everybody involved in the creation of a game, including the company. And if the developers exchange the rights for the game for a salary, then it is right that the game studio gets the intellectual rights they have bought. Game studios and publishers are not bloodsuckers who only exist to take the rights from the developers, they are a necessary part of the ecosystem, and if you hurt them the others get hurt too.
If people do not buy games because they don't care that Ubisoft or whoever loses money, then they can't pay the programmers and artists as much, so you are still taking money from them. Maybe I don't have complete knowledge about how the commercialisation of games is done, but the end result is the same.
If you want to preach at least get your facts straight.
Somehow answering a question and explaining the reasoning behind my answer is bad. How about you stop nitpicking on issues inconsequential to the argument made.
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[–] Wahaha 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Using the word stealing is one of their shenanigans to foster empathy.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=OWPfcEOr2Yg
It's not stealing, it's sharing.
[–] scoopadoop 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
If you want that particular part of the economy to function and thrive you have to invest money into it. morally speaking if you don't pay, its bad because eventually it will die and then no one gets it.