View Poll Results: Do you pirate games?

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  • No

    14 60.87%
  • No of course not

    2 8.70%
  • I would never do anything like that!

    3 13.04%
  • The only pirates I know of are the ones on ships

    3 13.04%
  • Who's asking?

    5 21.74%
  • I want my mommy... I mean lawyer

    2 8.70%
  • The number you have dialed is no longer in service

    6 26.09%
  • Only on days that start with L

    4 17.39%
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    I use to do it for some games, but I never ended up playing those games anyway. I've always been more of a console gamer than a PC gamer, so there wasn't a whole lot of incentive.


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    Not often. I used to, but these days things are so convenient that I very rarely feel any need to. These days I rarely pirate things, pretty much only doing so if I'm genuinely unsure if I'll like it (or in the case of yearly iterative games, to see whether the updates are enough to justify it) - in which case I'll either delete or purchase once I find out, which doesn't take long.

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    Used to, but not anymore. We have steam sales now.

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    Only rarely. When I didn't have a reasonably good income, I did it a lot. Nowadays, I buy way more games than I have time to play, so pirating things just seems like a waste cause i'm unlikely to be putting a lot of hours into it anyway.
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    I never pirate console games.
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    >>> Depends on the console, some PS1 and PSP games are impossible to get..

    Oh yeah, where is the "Hell yeah Im a filthy Pirate of games!" option in that poll??.
    >> The black orb glitters ominously... but nothing happens..

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    Not usually. Old games that I can emulate, then yeah, sure, them games are hard to find now.

    The only other exception are those blasted Sims 3 Expansion and Stuff packs. I'll gladly purchase the game itself, but I'm not willing to fork over x amount of money just so I can have the rain and snow in my game!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
    Not usually. Old games that I can emulate, then yeah, sure, them games are hard to find now.

    The only other exception are those blasted Sims 3 Expansion and Stuff packs. I'll gladly purchase the game itself, but I'm not willing to fork over x amount of money just so I can have the rain and snow in my game!
    YOU pirate games? I'm pretty surprised.

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    Pirating expansions and DLC I see as less of an offense, but I'm not the law, so eh



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    The only thing I can think of that I pirated and that I've used a fair bit and not ended up purchasing was the Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3. I had already purchased the game and 2 other DLCs and it was direct dl only. If they sold it in store I would have got it at the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
    Pirating expansions and DLC I see as less of an offense, but I'm not the law, so eh
    The law says you pay 100.000 dollars per infraction/DLC and up to 2 years in prison. So let's disregard the law, because it became silly.


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    I wish I could copy and pirate games. LOL!


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    No, games going digital made things so much easier and cheaper.

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    Mostly old school Japan only titles or old PC games that have dropped off the face of the earth. I've also got some of games I actually own but like checking out fan translations, but again, it's usually old school titles from back in the day when localization was the last thing developers thought about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Vyk View Post
    Pirating expansions and DLC I see as less of an offense, but I'm not the law, so eh
    The law says you pay 100.000 dollars per infraction/DLC and up to 2 years in prison. So let's disregard the law, because it became silly.
    I was just saying, with regards to anyone looking down their noses at pirates of games, they can probably look down their noses a little less when it's not the base game. It's just a moral stance. I wasn't suggesting ignoring a stop sign on a country road because nobody is coming. If it were literally up to the law, you can get the same charge for printing up a cover for a friend who lost the case to one of their games, and if they give you a dollar for your trouble you just sold copyrighted material *Massive ooo'ing and aaahh'ing*



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