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Originally posted by {White_Knight}@Oct 1 2004, 03:09 PM
Firstly you believe that I personally condone stealing a game just because I do not agree with the pricing. It also assumes that that every title released is worthy of the price tag regardless of the quality or length of the game.
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Whether a game is worth what it's price tag demands or not is irrelevant. It is what the publisher is asking for, and if you disagree with that it still does not give you the right to steal it. Period.
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I am sure you personally have never infringed copyright law by either downloaded a warez copy of a title or indeed borrowing it from a friend?
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Oh, i was quite the pirate on the Amiga and Commodore64. Hell, i don't think i owned a single legit title on the Commodore......But back then it hardly mattered. Most "developers" numbered less than 10 people, and they would have kept making games whether people bought them or not. That is no longer the case, and several good companies like Looking Glass Studios have paid the price.
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You also seem to be under the impression that people who use warez do not also legitimatley buy retail copies of games which is ridiculous.
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Where in the nine hells do i imply that?? I said that some people may steal a game on release, then buy it later when the price drops, if they bother. If anything, i imply that at some point they may ACTUALLY buy the game. But i seriously doubt that the general practice of most pirates is to use warez as an extended demo.
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I have no problem with the developers making money but something tells me that the publisher like record companies takes the lions share.
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They're not taking anything they don't deserve. You might be interested to know/recall that the average price of most games hasn't changed that much since when developers released games on their own. Back in the late '80s-early '90s companies like Sierra and Origin were developers and publishers, and the price for a game wasn't dirt cheap, in fact it was usually around 40-50$ per game. I have an old Sierra catalog where the average price is between 49.95-59.95$, with "new" titles like King's Quest 5 going for 69.95$! Long live the "good" old days when the developers could set their own prices?