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Due to the stuff with Sony no longer doing physical games and revoking licenses for digital purchases, a lot of people have been touting the line "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."

This is a pathetic and shameful capitulation to copyright, and I would just like to remind everyone what the correct stance is, and provide a helpful piece of media to gently correct people saying this stupid bullshit in the wild. Copying is NOT theft (putting aside when theft is justifiable anyway) - it is a completely different thing and we need to combat copyright brain worms.

>>47318
>What is to be done
Stop buying, try to convince the majority of people to stop buying. Money talks, bullshit walks. Failing that, piracy + reverse engineering. Learn it, teach it, spread it.
>>47319
>If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
>copying is NOT theft
it's the unauthorized reproduction of intellectual property, to which you cannot attain legal authorization of reproduction, because it doesn't exist. This is how the companies see things; Copying isn't theft in the conventional sense - you're not stealing an object that is then removed from another person's possession; Instead, you're duplicating a product without permission, and such permission is never granted, even when you put forth the cash to own a digital copy of that product.

The real problem with "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing" is that there was never any assumption or transfer of ownership taking place at any point prior to, during, or after the point of sale. You were always purchasing a license, which itself is subject to various stipulations and can be revoked if you are found in violation of those stipulations. This has always been the case, but with older consoles that primarily relied on physical distribution, the feasibility of revoking such a licence was both cost prohibitive and much too troublesome a prospect to have any real teeth behind it. Now, with digital distribution, that is not the case.

Personally, I am of the opinion that people should advocate for the mandatory inclusion of a second hand marketplace on every digital platform, so that consumers can trade or sell games from their library with other users, with no fees, and in exchange for actual currency. If a digital platform doesn't facilitate this, then they should be subject to whatever sort of appropriate punishment you can envision. It's the cleanest way of dealing with inflated digital prices, as far as I can see. If everyone has the ability to buy on the used marketplace a version of the latest game, at a price point set by users, then that allows the consumer to directly influence the trajectory of prices over time.

Why buy Red Dead, Dark Souls, etc. at Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

further evidence that video games are closer to silicon valley bullshit than art. you always could buy physical movies, music and books!

also doing this when drives are more expensive than ever and only getting worse is absolutely bloody hilarious

>>47292
Fascists love the spectacle, the displays of power. They love to exaggerate things to hide how little they actually have to offer. I think this is very fitting for the extremely barren Genocide Route, which consists of only 2 real fights total.

Neutral route embodies everyone and the other two are fantasies.

very cool

>and I don't just mean the surface level "good = left, evil = right"
<The Pacifist Route embodies leftism at it's core: doing what's right
<Conversely, the Genocide Route embodies the right wing: going out of your way to make things worse for everyone
uyghur, I don't know why I believed you

play another game

>I don't just mean the surface level "good = left, evil = right"
<leftism is when good values and rightism is when making things worse
fucking retarded pseud

>>47272
No, unlike them it's actually good, it's a FMV game where you play as Wu Zetian, very woman coded but enjoyable in a camp way especially if you like China

Warframe and Skate are the only two games I enjoy these days.

>>47271
latest political compass test just dropped

Been playing Dragon Age 2 and left off a week or two ago in the middle of act 3 because I got crazy busy.

>>47305
>Maybe its going to be like decision whether to escape and abandon your partner, or both of you going to prison or something like that. But there is no way in hell Rockstar will give player option to murder their girlfriend.
the game literally ends in the game theory prisoner dilemma lol

>>47307
If I can't murder by girlfriend then what's the point?

>>47307
how is that supposed to work in a single player game?

>>47309
it looks at who you have played as the most and you make the choice for them while the game makes the choice for the other character based on like relationship or karma or whatever.

>>47301
>>47302
the sad thing is that i think the special edition is vastly outselling which shows despie all the people complaninig rockstar won fleecing their fans.

>>31423
I have changed the game files so Battania would use all the very good looking battania armors and weapons in the game, which also are very good. Only the noble are archers, but everyone else can throw. The falxmen have small crosbow but are bad with it and the horsemen only have common horses so they are not really lvl5 cav but are much easier to make.
My units are basically equal to the next tier of any other unit.

anyone here play napoleonic wars
if you see a faggot by the name of rice lord, thats me. And no i dont feel bad smacking you with dragoons

why does everyone in this mod's loading screen looks like they want to die?

>>47298
No anime

>>47298
This is either a painting of the middle ages or something heavily inspired by this, and European medieval painters were not good at faces in general. It's a question for art historians really.

Deltabeautiful lady😍🥰

undertale 2 bad.
i like opuion unlike he talked about jax then hisd option was invalided

>>47288
Toby Fox really is the media of content.

HUH??? Omocat is the new lead artist for Chapters 6&7??? And Toby Fox is referring to her as his big sister?? NO WAY… TEMMIE CHANG… YOU'RE LEAVING TO WORK FOR… ANDREW HUSSIE??? Uhh bros??

>>47290
it's homosucc tim 2 shine

Bro, in fable 3 you essentially have to become a landlord or you cannot get all your citizens to survive.
Half the damn game is landlord sim.

This looks like Fable 1 if it got fed through an AI filter.

Peter Molyneux is the king of hacks, and those people are always smarmy capitalists promising the world only to go away with money bags while the cucksumers are left empty except for disappointment. It completely makes sense that this Fable is like that because he gave that degenerate DNA to the game. Remember that "Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube" shit was a huge scam.

>>47219

I interpret it as you need to nationalize the land to finance your military defense without otherwise fucking over society.

Still, it would have been much better if the game operated with real resources & industrialization & militarization were real issues with tradeoffs (including needing to crush at a few large landowners & capitalists to get ahead without fucking over the majority of the population too much).

Video games are bourgeois. S-poster confirmed LARPer for not launching a Protracted People's War in Wales. S poster is revisionist and class collaborationist and probably fascist and dengist as well.

>>46719
Yeah, nothing wrong with pirating unless you really wanna support the devs, the only downside is if you wanna do co-op or multiplayer, usually cracked games fuck that up.

Fuck them, pirate the hell out of the game. I mean, i buy stuff out of Steam. But if it was 24-27% of my salary, i would think "y'know, these fuckers want to rob the shit out of me". By the way, i'm sorry your salary is that low, you're not even living anymore, you're surviving or basically paying to breathe.

I have not paid for a singleplayer game in years

Yes but I played pirated Death Stranding 2 after playing a legit version of the first one and I stopped after the prologue because I realized the connection with other players was important to me narratively and not just a gimmick, so I'll wait until a hard discount for this particular game. But piracy is the way.

First of all, pirate all you want. I pirated games my entire childhood, and now that I have a job and a disposable income, I'm filling in my catalogue with games I loved as a little boy.

Second of all, there are tons of good games you can get for very, very cheap. Check out someplace like https://www.cheapshark.com/

Looking at it at the moment of writing, I can see you can get Metro 2033 for 99 cents, Dishonored for $1.99, Homeworld for $3.49, Frostpunk for 3 bucks. These are all amazing games available at a 90% discount. Have you played literally every good game of yesteryear? I doubt it.

But you don't have to do that. You can just pirate, it's literally fine.