So true, so very true!
Well actually I wouldn’t, for one everyone would ask me where I got a car from, it’d probably be more protected than a video game and I still don’t have my N.
I would customize my downloaded car so that nobody could recognize it.
Also if cars were downloadable the TRON movie would be reality.
:hmph:
Or, you know, it’s because of the rise of development cost?
If people could download guns imagine how much fun it would be!
If people had more guns, there would be less shootings in this world…
…NRA 4eva bitches!
Well, if you gave everyone a gun, then gun related crimes would spike, but then it would steadily go down whilst spiking.
I’d accept that point only as far as I could throw it.
Compared to other countries around the world, Australia gets raped up the arse every time it comes to prices for games/movies/music/everything. And there’s no reason for it. Try to convince me that it costs $AUD40 to ship a game from the US to Australia. Just try it. Because that’s the minimum difference that we pay for games, even with the currency conversion.
customs tax too…
If the Blair Witch Project taught us anything, besides the extent of human stupidity, it’s that the price people pay for something isn’t at all fixed to how much it cost to make it.
Besides, game-making is an art. Some small-scale works are naturally genius. Some large-scale ones are destined for the $5-bin.
That’s the joke. > 
Move to a country that doesn’t suck?
And that still doesn’t excuse piracy, no matter how you look at it.
I bought a quality DVD boxset of Fawlty Towers for €15 the other day.
Life sure is expensive.
^^ Sarcasm? Fawlty Towers is actually awesome, I love the the “Don’t mention the war” episode.
:hmph:
Yes, it was sarcasm… that’s the point.
I’m sorry? So I’m just supposed to either get up and leave or bow down to the holy desires of game producers as they mercilessly exploit my virtually non-existent expenses fund.
And why doesn’t it excuse piracy? They’re setting the price of games far too high for me to be able to afford all of them, so I download the ones I can’t afford. In that scenario, why are they losing anything? They’re the ones who are shooting themselves in the foot.
Buying: Because you don’t want the companies that make it to go out of business.
I feel this way exactly.
That takes lots of money…wherein lies the problem.
If you can’t afford something then you shouldn’t be able to get it, though sometimes this is not the case. But with pirating it is.