Y should u pay 4 games?

buying games might be a mistake

Actually a lot of this happens when an ongoing popular series starts to plummet in sales, partially because abandoning a semi-popular game series is not necessarily financially a good idea. The shitty business is a little harder to explain, but it happens to come with a large commercial aftermarket entities, eg: gamestop pushing used copies over new copies so publishers have additional content only obtainable through microtransactions so that they do not lose as much money as they do from aggressive used game sales.

And this isn't the phony Hollywood "lost sales" nonsense. Used game sales account for genuinely billions of dollars in lost revenue, and with companies being so reliant on companies like gamestop to get their initial products out to customers, Gamestop and GAMEUK basically demanded that publishers cut out content to be offered as "preorder" DLC at threat of not having their game stocked to begin with. Before aftermarket for games became absolutely fucking huge, this wasn't really an issue.

u shunt

If you like certain types or series of games, you pay for them, and then people recognize that there was demand for those games, so they make more. Publishers pay developers up front, but they don't pay them money for profit to start, they pay them enough to pay their own employees to work and then they get the extra money on top when a game sells enough units.

So people who think that pirating is a victimless crime, consider that if you don't pay for a game series you like, then it could mean there aren't enough units sold to drive that series to continue being made. Yes, you are just one person, but if you don't buy, and your friends don't buy, and you post on a community of people who are known for hosting hundreds of thousands of people, and no one buys, then eventually that series will die. Clearly this isn't always the case, AAAs will be just fine 95% of the time. But smaller developed titles need your support.

If you pirate a game to try it, that's cool, if you like it drop some money on it, even if it's a sale, it's better than nothing. If you pirate a game because you can't afford it, that's also cool, maybe when you get money consider dropping some money on it. If you pirate it because you refuse to pay for it, that's a bit of a dumber sentiment. If you pirate it to try it, and you don't like it, it's fine if you don't buy it, because you didn't really want to play it after you found out you didn't like it.

But the "I don't think this is worth paying for," but you thought it was worth downloading and playing for 200+ hours? That doesn't make a lick of sense, really. Why would you play something for a long haul if you think it's shit? If you don't like a product, it seems contrary to not liking it to continue playing it.

If your reason is "I don't want to pay for it because I don't like the " that's fucking stupid that you'd download it in the first place. If I know that I don't like Bethesda or Bioware games, and I don't like Fallout FPS RPGS and I don't like pieces of shit, I'm not going to pirate Fallout 4 or Dragon Age Cisquisition – not because I think they're worth paying for, or because I think it's wrong to pirate, but because I know that I hate their shit already and I don't think it's worth even dignifying the games with a download.

There, there's your reply OP.

Buy good games made by good people, pirate good games made by kike devs, and shitpost about shit games made by shit devs.

To rile up piratefags obv

you shouldn't pay for anything if there's an easy alternative because capitalism makes consumption unethical. most of your money doesn't go to the developers, the devs are overworked and robbed by the C.E.Os OP. All of these companies are awful. Also you're paying for DRM most of the time which you shouldn't give a penny for.
get butthurt capitalist shills

tl;dr pirate everything, companies are corrupt and suck, you're not helping by feeling bad for the devs and paying

Supporting good games
Playing multiplayer games
Getting games that dont have any seeders on torrent sites

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or we could just shit post about all 3 instead of ever playing bideo gams

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what an idiot. havent you ever heard of a human resources department?

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>publishers do not provide a useful service practically false now thanks to steam and such making self-publishing easy, but not so much for back in the day
Bully this nerd

explain how capitalism is not bad

You shouldn't. Buying games just pushes developers down the path to being shit. I'd rather see good devs bankrupt than become garbage

For starters it didn't catastrophically collapse in the 80s like communism, nor is it as easily taken advantage of by rapefugees as the average EU welfare state.

well we still have that whole jewish cabal thing to deal with

it works.

Hey Todd.

I dont know who this "todd" figure is but you can rest assured I'm not him.

Because i like having a collection.

I just paid for an OS on my PC

Max plebbin.

I recognize the ammount of work that goes into games but the way they dumb shit down and waste all that work to please retarded gamers really pisses me off and i dont feel any regret as i pirate everything

Because we haven't reached comics level of shit yet. Support what you like and hope more stuff you like comes out.
Seriously I imagine Iron man fans are on suicide watch.
Remember Holla Forums things can still get worse.

This shit's not rocket science

its like as if you ate shit and liked it

There are several ways to compete with that. Discount events, discounted digital sales, etc. Instead, to prop up massively inflated production and marketing, content is cut and resold as "add-ons".

I have very little sympathy for the publishers who play the victim of used sales.

I also object to calling it "lost revenue," because that implies that the publisher is entitled to it, and that every used sale perfectly represents demand for what would otherwise be a new sale, disregarding the influence of price.

You shouldn't.
You should pay for GOOD games, vote with your wallet.

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anything works until bad people start abusing it

Woah, this is incredibly low quality.

That's what happens when you go to tumblr for artist.

Just fuck my shit up

Better question: Which are the dankest memes of 2012

Is this legit? This looks like CGI

It's 3D models with a "Comic Book" filter over it. It's literally the same type of shit you could find looking at the 3D tag on sadpanda

I d-didn't even wanted to

Yes, that's why i didn't buy it.

The art is alrgiht.
The writing is atrocious.

I d-didn't even wanted to

To keep your personal pet slaves, the developers alive long enough so they can churn out the next one.

Of course, only pay the developers directly, because publishers will almost always use your money to do something you hate, even if this means pirating the game and sending the developers the money directly.

Unfortunately for you, communism was created by bad people for the sole purpose of abusing others.

That's why I was asking, it really looks like an amateur's work for fucking Marvel.

You know you suck when your paid work you made with professional equipment compares to the one of a guy that does fucking futa gay porn on his 1998 Pentium 4 computer as a hobby

name something that wasnt

Well yes, but some things like capitalism are shittier at this job than others.

yes it seems to be a relatively fair system thats gotten a bad reputation because some people have the connections or expertise to exploit it. those people are the problem, not the system itself.
its hard to not want change when youre being fucked though, so i think i understand where commies are coming from

Yes, that's why i didn't buy it.

y should u pay 4 anything?

t. Holla Forums

unless its a dev with no publisher then you are usually supporting the publisher, not the developers. of course supporting them could mean a sequel by the same devs, but honestly publishers do everything possible to destroy developers nowadays that aren't subsidaries so its not that likely

I like collecting games. Especially older games. Yeah, I could just download a ton of ROM files and emulate them like I did when I was a kid. I get very bored very quickly though, it just doesn't have the same feel as playing on an actual console. I've already got a pretty nice collection going, and it looks so much better to me than a bunch of files in a folder. That's just me as a collectorfag though, I don't care if people pirate or emulate games. If you actually want to support developers though, you should definitely buy their games.

Why should you be paid for flipping burgers?

it's like a tip
give a nice one if you enjoy it
give a shitty one sales if it was just OK
give no tip if it's bad or the staff are assholes about the whole affair

I wouldn't mind how ridiculous this is if they were from 2 separate universes, but this just shows how blatant the pandering is. And who thought 3D models with a filter would like good?

What if those certain types of games are not being made? Or what if theyre shit and not worth buying?

Who said that you should, dear baitfag?

I do not condemn pirates, but I try not to do this myself. Games are not necessity, that we need to survive. They are not food. If someone steals food, cuz it's to expensive, I will defend the criminal. You can live without games.

The fact is, that every game was made by someone. That someone put an effort and time. They then put a price for their game. If you don't like the price don't buy it.

In ideal world, every game would had sunrider business model. Fundrasing for development of free game. But we don't live in ideal world aren't we?

if that guy didnt say yeah where she said she was beautiful he wouldn't have gotten laid for a month

The people ACTUALLY making the games rarely see any cent from the sales though.

It's lost sales because stores like gamestop bait and switch for used copies. This hashbrown common knowledge since like 2007.

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Unless the developers actually put effort into the game, they can go fuck themselves.

because money is unclean and should only be handled by jews

What if I told you he was a mole?

Because otherwise the future is Pokémon Go.

So long as Nipponese keep making games were I can strip little girls I'll keep paying.

Developers get paid, don't they? I'm all for killing most publishers, but developers need to get the money.

C-Check em

The only way games will ever be good again is if we get rid of the profit motive to create them

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I'd download a car if I could.

video games are absolute shit, who gives a fuck if they just stopped being made entirely

I'm pretty much done after the last steam sale. Once I played all the vidya I got, I said fuck it and set up every emulator possible and bought an external 1TB drive. I've been emulating all the vidya I possibly can. I've been spending about an hour on each game in my backlog and if I like the game enough, I put it in a secondary backlog for completion. I've been having fun ever since.

I also enabled steam sharing with my buyfag friend and have been playing through his entire library since.

If you're autistic about DRM, piracy is the only way to get DRM free games, GOYG deletes games from the catalog with more frequency than Steam.

Communism isn't a long term system. It's a dream system to keep you and the current people alive in good conditions. 20-30 years from it starting however, the people shift and the easy totalitarian regime is so easy to abuse by anyone with half a brain that it's not even funny. Like it or not, Communism is entirely useless because of this. A system like the US's from the last century would've been fairly good. The US wanted to help out other nations while developing itself. But then European trash moved in for one reason or another. Japan's been fairly stable and following a similar model without having to accept every single person into their nation. I wish US of A did the same.

I live in Eastern Europe. I've seen what communism has done. My country is back to shit due to the modern "completely not communistic" EU. And my country is in shit because of it. Again. Woo.

And I buy games because there's a satisfaction to it. I guess I just don't feel the same when I pirate. I pirated most my life and when I could finally start buying games I felt surprisingly happy.

But the transition usually end up in massive massacres and starvation everytime, shit like the gulags and the "Great Leap" are just a natural part of it.
Communism can't ever work until we get robots doing all the work for free and money becomes technically useless. It just doesn't work when you account for human nature.

Speaking of that. In Bulgaria, you would have to line up in the KOB (stupid communistic "supermarkets") to get meat. You could only do this once per week. We were producing a ton, ton of meat. But it all got sent into other countries. Kind of like now except we're being given shit Western food. I don't believe in a dream like communism though. I want a humanist world.

nice trips, checked

nice to see some other kraut here

To support niche (Japanese) developers who don't butcher the product on the way over that actually need your support for future localization endeavors and to gain proper access to multiplayer-focused games. That's pretty much it, no reason to help line the pockets of the big guys or kool-aid guzzlers.

Publishers are in a self-inflicted state of decay, since they've totally abandoned their purpose.
It used to be that publishers existed to provide developers with resources otherwise beyond their means in return for a cut of the game's profits, and back in the day those means were typically mass production and distribution since things like engine technology were much simpler due to hardware limitations.
Now, thanks to digital distribution in all its forms, publishers that haven't figured out a new way to serve developers are either dying or awaiting their death.

he knew it'd be shit

Anarchist detected.

to support developers, but that's assuming they tried to make a good game otherwise pirate pirate pirate

proof that modern krauts need to be holocausted back

Trips checked

Anarchists have literally never done anything wrong.

The problem's more in A: planned economies not working out due to corruption, inefficiency, and the maniacs at the top preferring to execute anyone in the vicinity of a problem instead of actually look at what the problem is and seek solutions, and 2: Contrarianism to capitalism means you get dumb shit like trying to make every peasant build a blast furnace in their backyard and kill sparrows because you don't like them, and listen to idiots like Lysenko instead of what's proven to work, and murder anyone who points out that it isn't working.

Those kind of problems didn't often have much to do with the communist system, they're problems with totalitarianism. You put a guy in absolute control over everything because he makes nice speeches, and consider parade choreography more important than basic competence at anything else, and then wonder why everything goes to shit compared to countries that actually try to deal with their problems instead of covering them up.

Stealing things is for dirty niggers.

You don't want to be a nigger, do you?

There's no way to win and every way to lose.

Those are two different people with two different opinions. You should only care about your own for the most part.

That's retarded. Read a history book.

To be fair it's only stealing if you get convicted and Amerigo Vespucci was never tried in court.

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But seriously people mostly do things if they think they will be rewarded for it.
Most people aren't Alexey Pajitnov.
The idea of an industry floating on passion alone is a neat idea since it would keep out the kikes, but all you'd have is indie devs.
Real indie devs so think pretty damn small.
Newgrounds and app stores would be the pinnacles of gaming if app stores would even have them, if smartphones are even a thing.
3D graphics wouldn't really be a thing.
Consoles wouldn't be a thing.
Few games would have any kind of story.
No voice acting.

I'm imagining a world where Ralph H. Baer makes the Magnavox Odyssey and nobody gives a single shit.
Like a world where arcades were not really a thing even because there is just this mindset of
The computer is made, but is graphically stunted.
The motion picture industry is pretty god damn great in this alternate timeline, that's nice.
But it is 2016 and the best games are like Robot Wants Kitty, Canabalt and Crush the Castle.
Nothing to really build off of so the ideas of like a 2D game with physics, an endless runner and a bare bones metroidvania are really groundbreaking ideas!
Games are on par with webcomics though.
If people like your shit you can sell some shirts with your shit ironed onto it.
So on this alternate Earth as if almost ironic or something Napster is Netflix, people pay to stream movies from them.
Instead of Avatar James Cameron made this movie called Battle Angel Alita based on some Japanese comic and people really really like it.
I can go to a comicbook store and it first of all is easy to find and looking at the racks I see one white male protagonist after another even in the marvel section, strange?
Oh, without games computers became an almost business only machine so they were less prevalent or something.
Jonathan Abrams never made friendster and so myspace and facebook never got made.
Most millennials don't become vapid self-absorbed egotistical social-media addicted retards.
Tumblr is never made and third wave feminism doesn't exist.
No outrage culture bullshit so fictional diversity isn't held in any high regard.
Videogames were never close to popular.
No Doom or anything so no real government crackdown on videogame violence.
There is a Mortal Kombat type game but nobody looks at it any different than they would a snuff-fiction webcomic.

Strange world.

Then it's a donation.

You're not paying for anything, you don't get anything in return.

Strange world indeed.

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"Why I have the right to be exploited" by user.

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Steal things and sell them, and you are a jewnigger.

isnt that just a regular jew?

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No wonder nobody takes Holla Forums seriously.

To give them to other people.