Sometimes I get angry about how anti-business the gaming community can be.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not some pro-capitalist right wing nut job. Not in the slightest. But being openly hostile towards content creators and distributors is damaging the industry.
Piracy is stealing. DLC in itself isn’t a crooked business policy. Preordering isnt for idiots. You are not staging a consumer revolution. Games companies are not the enemy.
“But piracy isn’t stealing. You aren’t taking something, you’re duplicating it.”
You now possess something that someone else made that you should have paid for. It’s stealing.”
“Pirates are teaching the greedy developers a lesson.”
Teaching them they don’t deserve to paid for something they put time, effort and skill into making? How noble of you.
“Pirates only do it because they can’t afford it!”
Luckily you have plenty of legal options! Wait for the price to go down or for a flash sale, borrow/share with friends, join a games renting service, snag a cheap second hand copy online, buy less new games and replay more, sell your old games . . . . so many options. Its not the best but we’ve all been there.
Perhaps spending thousands on your gaming rig wasn’t a great decision.
“I only pirate a game as a demo, I buy it if I like it.”
While I do believe free demos should become the standard (it definitely helped Nier Automata), it’s still stealing. And I’m willing to bet most people who say they’ll buy it don’t.
“Pirates weren’t ever going to pay for a game anyway so its not stealing”
*BEEP*failure_to_process*BEEP_BEEP_BEEP*bad_logic*
“Calling Pirates ‘theives’ is bigoted”
I still can’t believe a real person posted this. They had this thought and published it to the web.
“The money doesn’t go to the developers, it goes to the publishers.”
It goes to both! There’s all kinds of different ways the money get shared, but buying games is always good for the developers. And publishers work hard distributing and marketing games too!
“Remasters are just cheap cash grabs.”
The developers and publishers get money, the game becomes accessible to more people . . . . its win/win.
“DLC should have been in the game.”
There have been some instances where DLC have been cut content, but that’s no reason to instantly assume that all DLC is so. For example people are constantly saying that the FFXV DLC should have been in the main game. However the game we got in November was a complete game. More content are more character development would be nice, but then again there’s no such thing as too much content or character development. And as the game was written very much from a first person perspective, its pretty clear that the DLC is there to complement the game rather than complete it.
“Preordering is for idiots. If they already have your money they don’t care about making a good game anymore.”
If you want a game on day one with all the bonus’s, just go ahead and preorder! They don’t have your money, and you can cancel anytime. Plus, the developers want a good future in the industry, so of course they care about making good games!
Now there are developers out there who do questionable things and it’s definitely OK to call them out on it or choose not to buy.
But we need to stop framing this as a war between gamers and the industry, when it should be a relationship.
*rant over*
