Buying Used and Pirating...

I could go down that route again, but Mo0's barely even trying this time.

Originally Posted by Mom Bomb

Because congresspeople are also recording artists/game developers/movie directors.

Lobbyists, Mo0. Have you heard of them.

Originally Posted by Mom Bomb

Which would you rather see, a company spending time making sure people actually have to buy their game, or a company spend all of their time making the game amazing only to see 90% of the people who play it pirate it because reddit users people online would rather download it for free? It's hard to make money to pay people to make great games if no one buys the game.

That article proves zip, and you know it. The creators say they've had plenty of sales through WiiWare, Steam, and their own website despite the high piracy rate. They've gotten emails confirming that people who pirated the game bought it later, and as the article writers point out it's impossible to tell how many of those pirates would've bought the game to begin with.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of piracy these days. It does disgust me a little when I talk to people who've bought maybe one DS game while pirating 150+ (gotta catch 'em all) on a flash cart. I'm seriously considering putting the Homebrew Channel on my Wii with that new Bannerbomb thing, but that's more because Nintendo has all but given up on actually releasing games to the Virtual Console. Incidentally Mo0, you did hack your Wii not long ago.

Jam it back in, in the dark.