What did they steal tho? Does the game files disappear on the dev's computer when people pirate it?

too poor to afford games

too stupid to pirate them

tough combo

Anon Babble pretending to be anti-piracy just to be contrarian

you hate to see it

And thats why the design games for zoomers instead of millennial NEETs

whens Romero gonna swoop in and imply that Peterson is wrong and also a faggot

jesus makes a bazzillion copies of a piece of bread and some fish so people who had no food could eat

NOOOO STOP HIM HES STEALING!!!

Lol. This fag's mythos add on for 5e is utter trash. Its not even worth $25.

If you're anti piracy you're a cuck. Simple as.

What's worse is that John Romero admitted that stealing/piracy is fine just to dunk on Sandy Peterson. He's an absolute retard.

oh youre against piracy what about this fictional character in my childhood book who can perform magic huh????

Do you see this horseshit on any other board? does Anon Babble act like this?

Don't mind me, just pirating this cat

This but unironically, this is the type of greed they talked about in the bible

You could be completely right and justified and I still wouldn't care. At the end of the day if I can get something I want at no expense to myself I will get it

Yeah bro, now dont be greedy and share your credit card copy, you can be like jesus!

every board does

Never forgive
Never forget

Hope he suffers more for allowing programmer sock wearing "people" into the industry

People claiming they're losing tons of money from piracy are either lying or coping about why their game failed. Down to earth devs generally don't care much.

your metaphor doesnt work anon give it up

you're a zoomer if you don't pirate

Maybe try getting a job you communist deadbeat. Just like Romero you're a filthy communist. Yes Romero shills Hbomberguy so i can say that.

Recently Microsoft changed their Game Pass Ultimate subscription charges. You could buy three years of Game Pass and convert it to Ultimate for $15.
In some cases it came out to $1 a month with access to three hundred games.
A dollar spread over dozens of developers is more insulting to developers than pirating.
It probably cost more than a dollar to download all the games to fill up a 500GB or 1TB hard drive.

Your credit card number can be used to deprive you of a resource (the money in your account). Piracy does not.

They're fags for following e-celebs.

can make infinite copies

can give a ton of people bread with these copies

Be jesus and give me bread by making a copy

Is cache stealing?

I wonder who's behind this post

I'm sure it's because they don't know how to pirate.
Outside of PC, it's harder to pirate console games now than last generation.

Then call the company and say its fraud and you lose no money, funny you say deprive you of a resource while you deprive developers of their resources they used to make a game

I don't think the ones wearing programmer socks are the problem. I don't trust the sockless fatsos.

What resources?

can make infinite copies

what?

Pajeet_Nation

kys

Shut up and pump my gas Romero. Make yourself useful instead of pretending intellectual properties aren't real. Or probably believing property just doesn't exist in general.

I wouldn't play their game if I couldn't pirate it so I'm not depriving them of anything

Intellectual property is anti capitalist as it exists today.

The ones used to make the game

had Ukraine flag in bio for a while

hates piracy

gives interview to Russian site where you can pirate Doom

is he literally the most hypocritical man alive?

While true that fat faggots deserve a mass grave also, it's just that there's no putting the genie back into the lamp now

Then dont play it

In my defense, MK9 is not available on any digital stores. What exactly am I supposed to do? Buy a second hand copy that NRS, Sony, and Valve won’t get money off of anyway? I might as well just pirate the game since no one is fucking interested in bringing the game back.

Why?

You'd think at this point Peterson would stop trying to claim anything as fact because every time he does Romero crawls out of the woodwork to explain that hes wrong

PiRAT uses mental gymnastics to justify his theft

Same as it ever was.

Games will cost 60$ - 80$ now.

Also to get the complete game, you need to pay 200$ for the Gold edition or you get a butchered version

Also we will give Streamers a copy 3 days early so they can spoil everything to you second class peasant gamers.

Also we will cut off content of the game and resell it to you for another 50$

Also we will add Denouvo and always online DRM that makes the game worse.

Also games will get more expensive after early access to induce fomo in you.

Also you need to wait for a sale and then buy all the games you need at once or you will have to pay a higher price for them.

Gamers need to get used to not owning their games.

W-WAIT!!! WHY ARE YOU STEALING OUR GAME??? W-WE DID NOTHING WRONG Y-YOU EVIL T-THIEF!!!

Romero didn't state anything but an opinion. That is wrong mind you, it's possible for your opinion to be wrong.

sandysisters, our response?

Why is it wrong?

WHY ARE THESE DEVELOPERS PANDERING TO NORMIES AND ZOOMERS AND DUMBING DOWN THEIR FRANCHISE

NO IT CANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM ACTUALLY BUYING GAMES MEANWHILE THE "FANS" JUST STEAL IT

lmao pirates are like black people wondering why their local stores are closing after they all do mass looting

Don't forget that they've started artificially delaying games and charging you extra if you want to play them "early". Probably the most significant legacy starfield will leave behind.

shithu

But games are failing

because...just don't okay!?

hurr durr it doesn't fit with the literal definition of stealing

Now you're doing exactly what out of touch boomers do applying shit that doesn't match to modern concept. It's not yours to take or make a copy

If you didn't pay for a game that is associated with a price tag then it is theft. Video games development isn't a charity, the operating costs of working in a studio require monetary compensation.

game company is hugely successful

starts filling their games with gay nigger shit

UMMM IT MUST BE BECAUSE OF LE PIRATES

and now their games are flopping
guess more people are just pirating the games now eh?

It' more like a demo though. If you cat longer than two hours you can't get a refund.

I bet there is a ton more I have forgotten.
Being a pirate is just so much more chillax. You don't need to worry about fomo, waiting for sales and scooping up as many games as possible, DLC, eraly access pricing, different editions or DRM.
You just need to manually update your games from time to time and downloads are a bit slower. But you can just do anything else while the games download.
This lets me fully focus on the games themselves or my real life activities.

How is it theft if I'm not depriving the developer of anything?

credit is inherently usury, something christ opposed

Fun fact, credit is older than cash. Not trying to make a point about any topic itt, I just find it interesting

If you are really against piracy then you should also be against emulation and for companies shitting out soulless remakes of old games and selling them again for full price.
It's their IP right? Do as they wish with it, so releasing it again 20 years later just to milk their customers? Fine!

I have a strange feeling most of you aren't against emulation though. Fucking hypocritical fags. Piracy for me but not for thee.

if I'm not depriving the developer of anything?

Other than depriving someone of a salary, in which you could have provided if you had paid the price of admission.

Games run like such hot dog shit now, it's hard to buy any fucking game on release. Some even purposely save the more taxing graphical parts until after your refund period expires. I'm looking at fucking you Indiana Jones. Literally 3 hours into the game is when you get to the more ray tracing intensive parts that can grind the game to a halt. Glad I didn't pay for it. I would be fucking pissed if I did. Every game needs a fucking PLAYABLE benchmark ala Hitman 3.

I don't owe them a living though. They decided to take the risk of working as a creative, I didn't employ them. If they can't make a game that people are willing to pay for that's their problem, especially since other devs are flourishing despite piracy.

they don't design games for zoomers, they reprogram zoomers so that zoomers will accept the games they wanted to make anyway

You haven't proposed a way to continue accessing my goods without emulation, so I will continue to emulate until the service problem is fixed. The only option is remaster which you also hate.

I'm not sure I like the current reality we live in where game developers are likely to find Anon Babble shitposting being posted by pahjeets on their twitter feeds.

Pirate cunt. You aren't allowed to decide that. It's my IP!!!!
I'm calling the police.

If piracy ruins your work/game, your game sucked to begin with and wasn't going to sell well either way.

fpbp you can't steal non scarce goods

business can't exist without state-funded thugs prosecuting people for "stealing" a potential sale

Fuck off fascist

fake response to a fake post

Anon Babble is like groundhog day

Only people who have never created anything as a serious occupation or career are fine with the illegal and unwanted acquisition of the works of others

Normie consoomers are too tech illiterate to even pirate

Make game for normie consoomers

All normie consoomers buy it full price

Make loads of money

Nerds are tech literate enough to pirate

Make game for nerds

Everyone pirates

The few who don't pirate for moral reason instead buy it for 10% during steam sale

Make no money

Making games for normie consoomers is much more profitable than making games for nerds

Everyone just makes games for normie consoomers anymore insteadof games for nerds because it makes much more profit.

Gaming goes to shit.

Credit cards are PHYSICAL OBJECTS you retard.

You put it on the internet. You can't complain when people find it on the internet.

muh fascism brainrot

Sad!

implying everyone pirates when a game is actually good

Nah

depriving someone of a salary

Ever took a ride in a taxi? Good job, you deprived a car factory worker of a salary. Ever made your own dinner? Good job, you deprived a waiter of a salary. Ever bummed a cig off of someone? Good job, etc. etc.

Do you realize how stupid this way of thinking is?

Stop posting such antisemitic nonsense immediately.

I will glady pay for a physical copy, but never a download. Bring on the all digital future!

saar please visit barat_nation i need to pay samir this month

Also they cannot and will not download anything unless its something from the offical digital storefront. If its not on Steam or an equivilant they will not touch it because its not going into their game library.

copy of a card to take money from original owner

this is actual stealing, you dumb nigger
piracy has no real effect on source material, stealing does

i am not a nigger, i know how to use computer.
so i will pirate anything i want

This is what i dont get. I still hate PC for killing off physical, drm free copies, but if i was going to be forced into an all digital landscape, on an open platform like a computer, why the fuck would i ever isolate myself to one specific console-like storefront instead of just getting my game files from multiple sources for free?

isn't he about to hit 70? he's probably demented or REALLY want to be relevant on social media among normalfag goycattle

Nice were getting abstract with it.

That was supposed to indicate war between the demons? I thought it just meant that they liked torturing anything that moved.

yeah like its totally the same

having no money

vs

having no money

same penalty as stealing a $25 item from a store

so none?

Just like prostitution, pirating is never going to really be punished because its too hard to track and also its relatively low on the offense scale. Thats the entire reason Nintendo has put out such ridiculous lawsuits: no LE wants to waste resources hunting it down since it isnt a source of real issues nor does it interrupt its purpose of entertainment

we don't sign our posts with pictures of ourselves here

my advice for indie devs is to put their games on pirate trackers. it's free advertainment. most of the people that actually buy games don't even know what a torrent is.

piracy has no real effect on source material

Say that to the homeless developers

Just say the numbers, i dont need a physical object

So if christ opposed it you will have no problem to stop using yours and giving it to me

Everyone itt needs to see picrel

YES!

homeless or not, nothing happens to their project, i didn't steal anything

I'll keep increasing their debt by downloading their game 1000 times

Look mom I posted it again!

You are mistaking larceny and theft.

Theft is the general act of basically getting something/making use of something without permission and/or without payment.

Larceny is the subset of theft that covers the disappearance of physical items.

Pirating games is not larceny, but it IS theft. I.e. hiring a plumber and not paying them after a job done is also theft, even though all you did was waste their time and effort but no items. Not paying your employees for overtime is also theft... theft of the wage they were entitled to. Riding the bus without a ticket is also theft.

Piracy of video games falls into the same category as a theft of a service.

No nigger, "piracy" is copyright infringement.
The term piracy itself is bullshit because it implies something completely different.

Same logic with your credit card, now share it