The#1Spot wrote:
chittydog wrote:
.Sup wrote:
They are greedy. Until they stop being that I will download torrents.
You should steal all your clothes too. The clothing manufacturers are greedy. Another business that's even greedier than they are is the restaurant industry. There's a huge mark up on food. Worst of all is their return policy. If you buy food there and aren't satisfied with it, you can't return it the next day, not even if you have the receipt. Geez, most places give you 30 days to think about it. You don't even get a trial period to eat a meal and decide if you like it or not. Steal your food. They deserve it.
You know what other business is greedy? All of them. Steal everything. They're all capricious bastards trying to make money! Speaking of greedy, wouldn't someone who thinks he deserves other peoples' hard work for free be considered... greedy? Oops!
Considering games have been $50 for the past 10 years, while almost everything else has gone up in price, I don't mind the ads at all. Especially since they don't disrupt my gameplay.
I can buy a generic brand t shirt for around 10$ that will do the exact same thing that a 30 or 40$ name brand shirt will do. Cover the torso part of my body. I have the option to buy a cheaper car that will do the same as an expensive car. It may take me longer for travel but the option is there. I can buy generic brand foods for less than name brand. With games no matter how bad the coding is or the support from the people who made it it will cost 50$. I doubt you would pay for something that is incomplete or poorly made. If the game had an option to be bought for 50$ without ads and 25 to 35$ with ads with free 10-20min full version trial the torrenting problem will be greatly reduced.
It's still stealing. If you're so upset about the price disparity and lack of competition, you could go make your own generic brand games. This is all supply and demand. The reason the generic t-shirt is $10 is that's the mot they can charge and still have people buy it. If you write some designer's name on it, suddenly people are will to pay $50. Considering how much more expense goes in to creating a game over a t-shirt, $50 isn't all that bad. Instead, we should be thanking the game makers for giving us the low $50 prices, rather than charging $80 for the "designer" games.
The fact remains, games are luxury items. Nobody needs them. There's nothing criminal or wrong with the makers charging as much as they want for them. As consumers, we think it sucks, but it's their perogative. You don't like it, don't buy it. Definitely don't steal it. Not only is it wrong (you'll burn in hell from the devil's lava dick
), but it keeps interest in the games higher, which keeps demand higher, which keeps prices higher. It also forces game companies to keep prices higher to deal with the losses their taking from all the theft. If all you game thieves would just boycott the expensive games, prices would come down. Not much, but they would.
