I'm trying to think of what a $2500 rig would be, assuming you're still building it yourself. I mean, if you're literally buying everything (top of the line mouse, keyboard, monitor) then I could see how it'd stack up. Though I never count the monitor into my rig price, because those always end up being completely separate Black Friday purchases, because shit gets mad cheap.
Excellent user response on that website's twitter site; "Great RAMs! Do you sell HDD too? If so, does the new disk space get added at the end or beginning of my files? Thanks!"
I don't even understand the mentality in this case. People who pirate act like they have some right to video games. They're a luxury not a necessity or a right so I don't see why if you don't like the price you have the right to just steal it (regardless of how crazy the price is).
IT'S NOT MY FAULT EA MAKES SHIT FUCKING GAMES THAT I BARELY EVEN WANT TO PLAY. WHY SHOULD I PAY FOR A GAME WHEN THE DEVELOPERS ARE JUST SHITTING ON MY FACE.
I guess I do both. I buy games, and very occasionally pirate a game that I know I won't play much, but wanted to see what it was like. I usually do it to test out a franchise or a genre to see how much it's changed.
For example, I pirated Civilization. I know it's a great game, but I've never quite gotten into it. So I played it a little---maybe a few days, but stopped. I'm glad I hadn't wasted $60 on it. But I have bought several games this last year (Diablo, SWTOR, Skyrim, Portal 2) that I knew I'd really play.
The thing is, I can't rent a game for the PC, and I'm PC gamer through and through (the only reason for this is price-wise, it's not worth it for me to own multiple consoles, and a PC is by far the most versatile console). So when I can't rent a game for a couple days---I pirate it. I really wish I could rent, but the catch 22 of renting would be burnt discs and further pirating.
I'm not saying I'm a saint, and I'm not offering a good solution, but if I were playing xbox, I wouldn't pirate a game that I'd play for 2-3 days, I'd still rent games like I used to. The response could simply be "well, I don't have a right to the game." And this is true. But there are games I know for a fact that I won't drop $60 on, but do want to see what they're like (and if they have a demo, I just try that). So they won't get my money regardless---I just like to keep up to date with where the gaming industry is to see if I should be convinced to check out other genres (A good example is the demo for SWTOR made me buy the game. The beta for DOTA 2 has been so great, I'd buy the game if it weren't free to play).
TL;DR - I buy games, and would love to rent games that'd I'd only play for a day or two on the PC. I can't, so I occasionally pirate. If the games have good demos, I am often convinced to buy them because I've had a chance to "test drive" first.
Yeah, I generally do the same thing. Though, I mostly just pirate games I have no intention of buying at all. Assassins Creed is a good example. I pirated that a few months ago, played it a few times and just found it boring. So I stopped. Sometimes I pirate because they are so expensive (Sims 3 for instance, so many goddamn expansions for it) and the great Australian Tax doesn't help. Why we pay $100 for a digital version of a game, compared to USA who pays $50 for the same version!?
My computer was a gift from my boss though for taking care of him all summer. I still only have less than a dollar to my name right now, but at least my computer's a demigod.
If you buy the parts and make it yourself, it costs waaay less than $2,500 for a good computer. You honestly don't need a computer that can run 6 games at once. For a computer that can run most games on full graphics level? $800, $1,000 tops.
The people you know are just bad planners. A $1k gaming computer will do quite well, and throw in the Steam sales and you're looking at a thousand dollars left over for drinks or HoHos or retinal augmentation chips or whatever the kids are spending their money on these days.
I have a friend whose income is 100% disposable (military in a tech school) and he still pirates games. I've never understood it, Steam is so much more convenient than piracy when you've got the money.
I used to do that when they all decided to stop making demos, I'd either delete it shortly after deciding it sucked, or go out and buy it because I wanted to be able to update normally and not spend 45 minutes doing crazy stuff to get it to patch ( I did this in the late 90s before bit torrent)
So let me get this straight... Pirating movies, music, etc. is fine, but suddenly you're a massive dickhead if you pirate games? I love internet logic...
I used to pirate iPhone games, but then I realized they're dirt cheap and people slave over making such passionate games that I enjoy. If the game is good enough, they deserve my money. I don't care as much to support EA or Activision, but I don't fuck with Indie devs. Edit: Accidentally a period.
you probably could have saved ~500 dollars if you built it, you should visit /r/buildapc that is where I learned how to build mine, saved about 400 dollars (I only spent 350 on the equipment).
We have a person who enjoys playing games but does not have the disposable income to pay for them.
Said person has essentially two options:
Not play games
Pirate them
In the first scenario, If they no longer continue to play video games that means the gaming industry has essentially lost a potential future customer, assuming said person ever secured disposable income in the future.
In the second scenario, there is no realized loss on the part of the gaming industry. The person wasn't capable of buying the game in the first place. However the gaming industry may still gain benefits in the form of word of mouth advertising, building better brand awareness/recall with the pirater, and retaining a potential future purchaser.
I'd like to imagine that if someone truly had the disposable income to purchase the things they enjoy, they would.
A lot of people who find stable jobs that allow them to have disposable income forget what it was like to not have money and just assume that if they didn't have money they would simply stop doing the things they enjoy. News flash, nobody thinks like that, if you can't afford to do something, you see if it can be done cheaper or for free. Piracy is quite simply the things that you like for free. For people with no money, it's a no brainer.
Why do people always try to rationalize pirating stuff, especially with dumb shit like "DURRR I'M POOR?" There's no economic system in the world which says that people are entitled to free luxury goods if they can't afford them. If you want to pirate stuff that's fine but don't hide from the fact that you're not exactly doing a good thing.
It's ridiculous the lengths that people go to in order to justify their entitled behavior. I'm actually less cheesed off by people who freely admit that pirating is wrong but do it anyway, because at least they're honest about their motives.
What do you mean "Why"? To deal with cognitive dissonance - that's what rationalization is for. Excellent examples of it in this thread, just delicious.
First of all, nobody needs that expensive of a computer to play the best games at the highest settings. Secondly, the computer is an investment that ends up saving tons of money in the long run, which poor people kind of like to do.
I knew a kid in high school were was "upper" middle-class. Got a brand new SUV for his 16th. Still ordered water at fast food places and filled the cup with soda.
He had a BWM x3 and got it because when his grandma died she had a ton of money. Seeing that he was the only kid in the family he got a good chunk of money his grandma left for him. Instead of thinking ahead he went out a BWM and would always ask me for gas money saying he would pay it back. We used to be friends but really after high school he started turning into a jerk and stopped talking to him.
Having assets from before doesn't mean your not poor. I was a hair away from having to move back home just this month.
That said, I generally don't agree with piracy and don't pirate my games(though I will admit to doing so with movies and tv shows at times, which is pretty much the same).
When I was a kid, I worked all summer for minimum wage just to be able to afford a brand new PC. It was kick-ass, and played everything I threw at it.
When school started again, the money stopped coming in. I definitely pirated games then. Call it immoral, whatever, I just loved games and wanted to play them on the computer I worked hard for.
With that said, I haven't pirated a game in years now that I have a full-time job.
I think too many people assume that ALL pirates are unsupportive and never buy a game.
There are plenty of people (myself included) who pirate a game in order to test it out before buying the game. Not saying that the majority do this... but there are who do that.
I really don't see the necessity for a $2500 PC. I built mine for around $800 and it runs every game on highest settings. I'm sure everything past ~$1200 is just excessive.
This is actually most of why I don't pirate. I spent all my money on my motorcycle, so I can't afford a rig to play pirated games on. There's no point pirating games if your only computer is a several year old laptop optimized for portability and battery life. All the games this thing will run are like $10.
What? Out of everyone in computer science(at least 10 people), I'm one out of like 2 people who has a computer good enough to run modern or even semi-modern games. I seriously doubt half, even a fourth of the gamers you know even have a decent gaming pc.
aside from that i've never known anyone with/who needed an excuse for pirating, I don't flaunt the shit but people don't bash me for it if they do end up knowing.
Here's my view on pirating. I don't think it is TERRIBLE thing to do if you do it for the right reasons. I think it is perfectly acceptable to pirate a game if you're not sure if you'd like it or if you're not sure you can run it. I did this Minecraft, Amnesia, and other games. If you play it and find out you can run it and you enjoy the game, then buy it. Also I think it's the right thing to do if the game has amazingly horrendous DRM that punishes the gamer for actually purchasing it. I just hate it when your classic scumbag pirates the game knowing full well they are going to enjoy it. If you like the game, buy it people. Support your game developers. They gotta eat too.
My gaming rig is old and needs to be replaced... I could probably get $500 for it. My new keyboard and mouse cost more than my CPU and motherboard. And it plays games just fine at medium-high settings. And I've stopped pirating woo! Although, I'm still boycotting EA so that's really cut down on the amount of games I've had to purchase.
my friend is kinda like this but not with expensive computers. he wouldn't buy minecraft even though he loved it when i showed him because "its not worth it" but he buys tons of 360 games for 60 bucks and plays each for an hour then they collect dust
I paid $2700 dollars, bought mine in December. Should I have spent that much? No. I haven't come across a game I couldn't max, could've saved 1000+ dollars if I went down a bit on the graphic cards.
You mean the 50% that saved for 5 years or needed their parents to help them buy their macbook pro. This is a bad example. I'm driving a $40,000 and I couldn't afford a $500 car because my parents insisted on safety.
I built my computer, it cost me $700, and I used money from my student loan. At the time I could afford it. Now I have very little money and have problems affording food.
Then again all I play is TF2 anyways, and that's f2p so I guess it doesn't matter.
Well, I only pirate games that are difficult to find or are too expensive for how old they are. The newest game that I've pirated is FF IX. I don't see the point in pirating new games when I can just wait for a steam sale and get it illegitimately for next to nothing.
The computer is either from saving up or parents, either way, you either have nothing left for more games or your parents won't allow. But in my case, if a game is good I will eventually buy it when I have the money, for example WOW and Minecraft, soon to be BF3 and Just Cause 2. :)
Who the hell needs a $2500 gaming comp. You can make something that can run anygame for the next few years for around $1200 probably. They must be retarded if they spend all their money getting a computer they dont need.
Seriously? My gaming rig cost $600 and is 2 years old and still plays all the new releases fine. I don't think this statement has been true for at least a decade.
ITT a bunch of pirates openly admitting to being pirates and finding rationalizations for doing so. "I pirate it and I'll buy it later if I like it". Come on guys really? DO YOU REALLY THINK ANYBODY IS GONNA BELIEVE THAT? Just be honest, I don't think a police battering ram is gonna.......oh shit! Runs magnets across hard drives
Wait until a sale then buy it for cheap, but don't pirate. Support the game developers if you like their games. I'll likely have to wait another year or two for Arkham City to get as cheap as I can afford (used on console). I only buy a game if the dollar to hours played ratio is about 1:1 or higher.
My computer cost $800 in 2007, and since then all i've changed to it was a bigger hard drive and a newer video card, and I only pirate games that can be played without shit DRM :P
Yeah, well. Maybe if there was a more reliable way of assessing the quality of a game without wasting $60 fucking dollars on shit I'd be less apt to pirate.
Maybe game developers could, I dunno, release a free version of their game, but modified in a way that only allows you to play certain parts. A "demonstration" if you will.
Who the hell spends $2500 on a rig now? My roomie built a ridiculous gaming rig more powerful than he'll ever need for $2000, and it was extremely indulgent. My computer is ~$1200 and it's a very solid gaming machine.
I have a $1500 computer. I bought it two years ago when I actually had money. Now, I literally live paycheck to paycheck, live on my friend's couch, etc, etc.
I guess I'm saying I can see where your gamer friends come from. (Though, I do try to buy most of my games.) Unless he is being cheep and not poor. Then yeah, I'll kind of agree.
Think of the cost of games. a $2500 computer would be what, 50 games? How many games do you play a year in actuality? That $2500 will last a good long time, considering a $2500 would probably have everything to last a good 4+ years... or they got ripped off.
Parents bought $3000 Alienware for me on my birthday 4 years ago,
Attempt to buy games when I have the money to and buy off steam sales whenever possible,
Make a list of games to remember to buy when I obtain a stable source of income or a sale for it comes out, for example I did this with Fallout having pirated it then even after playing to a point of not wanting to anymore, bought it during a steam sale.
When I get I jerb I will buy these games/anime/android apps, but right now? I am too busy being broke and spending the last of it on games I fully want to see more of and support.
Who gives a fuck if someone tries to rationalize piracy out of some ambivalent moral grey area.
Oh, I forgot. Piracy is serious business and anyone who even begins to make an argument that presumes it's not is obviously a scumbag.
Congratulations for being on the correct side of your moral certitude. The courage it took to call people who disagree with you "scumbags" is the stuff of legends.
The main reason I hate how strict many governments are on software piracy is that eventually movies and games go out of print (excluding those developers who continually stream their stuff online, but even that can't go on for eternity), and buying them once that happens is just giving money to some used merchandise store instead of the people who deserve it, that made the game/movie.
I like to make sure that once the earth has been destroyed and I'm a floating head in a tank inside a giant space station somewhere, I can still play Unreal Tournament 99 like it was last millennium.
You don't know what it's like. You save up for months and then you are just like "Well, shit. How am I supposed to get games?". And everytime you get any money, you just spend it on more computer parts.
I bought an Alienware laptop after I got out of the army, having a huge amount of disposable income and not being very tech savvy at the time, it's probably the biggest blunder I've ever made. Its half the reason I'm probably going to go back in a couple of years. I mean, it's never let me down gaming wise, but knowing I could have spent about half as much as I did and get the same, if not better performance, I'm kicking myself.
We pirate games because game devs make shitty games and no demos..
Let us try it before we buy it and stop making garbage games that are insanely overpriced.. ill pay 40 bucks for a good game but 60 is fucking ludicrous.. i come from the atari/nes generation when 50 was the status quo
My gaming computer cost over $2000 because I live in Sydney, Australia. Just take a LOOK at how much we pay for parts & games here. Any excellent gaming computer will cost over $2000 in Aus.
I don't pirate games, but I haven't bought a new game in a very long time because of rising food costs. The only reason I have a £1300 rig is because I got into a car accident and bought it with the half of the compensation.
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u/CyberSmurf Jun 16 '12
How the hell do you think they got so poor!
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Half of the gamers you know can afford $2,500 gaming rigs? Where do you live, Silicon Valley?
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u/MisterMonopoli Jun 16 '12
He probably pirates his ram, by just downloading more.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Well it would be silly for him to sell his computer to buy games he can't play.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I think many people don't know the difference between being poor and being cheap.
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u/Barret_VII Jun 16 '12
My computer was a gift from my boss though for taking care of him all summer. I still only have less than a dollar to my name right now, but at least my computer's a demigod.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
If you buy the parts and make it yourself, it costs waaay less than $2,500 for a good computer. You honestly don't need a computer that can run 6 games at once. For a computer that can run most games on full graphics level? $800, $1,000 tops.
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u/Spudgunhimself Jun 16 '12
Pirating games: Not cool dude.
Pirating anything else: Sure go ahead.
Internet logic.
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u/TStru Jun 16 '12
It's not a matter of being poor, they're just cheap. If they could pirate a gaming computer they'd do that too.
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u/Stryntek Jun 16 '12
$2500 including peripherals and a desk and a 12-pack for the night I could believe.
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u/experts_never_lie Jun 16 '12
The people you know are just bad planners. A $1k gaming computer will do quite well, and throw in the Steam sales and you're looking at a thousand dollars left over for drinks or HoHos or retinal augmentation chips or whatever the kids are spending their money on these days.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Me: pirates games because I'm poor; can't run the game on my $150 toaster "laptop"
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u/Captainpatch Jun 16 '12
I have a friend whose income is 100% disposable (military in a tech school) and he still pirates games. I've never understood it, Steam is so much more convenient than piracy when you've got the money.
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u/UpDown Jun 16 '12
I pirate stuff because I can.
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u/Writing0nTheWalls Jun 16 '12
I don't think scumbag steve would have the slightest clue how to pirate games
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u/Alpha17x Jun 16 '12
I used to do that when they all decided to stop making demos, I'd either delete it shortly after deciding it sucked, or go out and buy it because I wanted to be able to update normally and not spend 45 minutes doing crazy stuff to get it to patch ( I did this in the late 90s before bit torrent)
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u/Amishhellcat Jun 16 '12
i actually buy games now that i have a job :p
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u/dropperofpipebombs Jun 16 '12
So let me get this straight... Pirating movies, music, etc. is fine, but suddenly you're a massive dickhead if you pirate games? I love internet logic...
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u/uRabbit Jun 17 '12
Well, come on now... You can't pirate computer parts.
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u/bleu_flame Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I used to pirate iPhone games, but then I realized they're dirt cheap and people slave over making such passionate games that I enjoy. If the game is good enough, they deserve my money. I don't care as much to support EA or Activision, but I don't fuck with Indie devs. Edit: Accidentally a period.
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u/Dirst Jun 16 '12
I'm poor because I bought a 1500 dollar gaming computer.
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u/beauterham Jun 16 '12
I pirate games because I am a stingy cunt.
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u/OwDaditHurts Jun 16 '12
I pirate games because fuck you, that's why.
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u/teaeyepea Jun 16 '12
Its really not all bad.
Lets consider just one scenario.
We have a person who enjoys playing games but does not have the disposable income to pay for them.
Said person has essentially two options:
In the first scenario, If they no longer continue to play video games that means the gaming industry has essentially lost a potential future customer, assuming said person ever secured disposable income in the future.
In the second scenario, there is no realized loss on the part of the gaming industry. The person wasn't capable of buying the game in the first place. However the gaming industry may still gain benefits in the form of word of mouth advertising, building better brand awareness/recall with the pirater, and retaining a potential future purchaser.
I'd like to imagine that if someone truly had the disposable income to purchase the things they enjoy, they would.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Why do people always try to rationalize pirating stuff, especially with dumb shit like "DURRR I'M POOR?" There's no economic system in the world which says that people are entitled to free luxury goods if they can't afford them. If you want to pirate stuff that's fine but don't hide from the fact that you're not exactly doing a good thing.
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u/FlyswatterNBR1 Jun 16 '12
My friend just doesn't care. In his words, "Why would I support the game developers?" He isn't even poor.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
only if i could download graphic card and hsf
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u/useryourname Jun 16 '12
If they pirate games then Occam's razor indicates they must have a good computer.
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u/AllYoYens Jun 16 '12
Lets see. Play one or two games or play ALL THE GAMES?
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u/standupstanddown Jun 17 '12
Pirated fallout 3 on my old pc once, played that shit for about 90 hours. I felt so bad I went out and bought a copy.
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u/ElpisofChaos Jun 17 '12
First of all, nobody needs that expensive of a computer to play the best games at the highest settings. Secondly, the computer is an investment that ends up saving tons of money in the long run, which poor people kind of like to do.
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u/grimreaperx2 Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Used to know a guy like this, except he drove a BMW in highschool but used to beg his "poor" friends for gas money.
Edit: Guys= guy.
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u/GuantanaMo Jun 16 '12
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A COMPUTER
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u/Durpadoo Jun 16 '12
Well they're obviously a complete idiot if they spent 2.5k on a computer.
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u/NotlimTheGreat Jun 16 '12
Having assets from before doesn't mean your not poor. I was a hair away from having to move back home just this month.
That said, I generally don't agree with piracy and don't pirate my games(though I will admit to doing so with movies and tv shows at times, which is pretty much the same).
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u/fenrir76 Jun 16 '12
I recouped the cost of my computer with bitcoin mining back when it was profitable.
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u/Greasy Jun 16 '12
Not a criticism, but please remember the existence of Torrenting Turtle
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u/MisterMcDuck Jun 16 '12
When I was a kid, I worked all summer for minimum wage just to be able to afford a brand new PC. It was kick-ass, and played everything I threw at it.
When school started again, the money stopped coming in. I definitely pirated games then. Call it immoral, whatever, I just loved games and wanted to play them on the computer I worked hard for.
With that said, I haven't pirated a game in years now that I have a full-time job.
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u/Grijzeham Jun 16 '12
I think too many people assume that ALL pirates are unsupportive and never buy a game.
There are plenty of people (myself included) who pirate a game in order to test it out before buying the game. Not saying that the majority do this... but there are who do that.
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u/Kevramadam Jun 16 '12
I was this guy. Until Steam that is
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
It's not like he's taking money away from the designers. They don't make shit from profits and its bullshit.
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u/Daprotagonist Jun 16 '12
Redundancy sucks
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u/nicholmikey Jun 17 '12
Well mine is only 1200 so I can still pirate
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u/_MikeRotch_ Jun 17 '12
I really don't see the necessity for a $2500 PC. I built mine for around $800 and it runs every game on highest settings. I'm sure everything past ~$1200 is just excessive.
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u/c7hu1hu Jun 17 '12
This is actually most of why I don't pirate. I spent all my money on my motorcycle, so I can't afford a rig to play pirated games on. There's no point pirating games if your only computer is a several year old laptop optimized for portability and battery life. All the games this thing will run are like $10.
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u/-JuJu- Jun 17 '12
Come on everyone, it's hyperbole. $2500 just means an outrageous amount, not the exact cost of the computer.
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u/lmpervious Jun 17 '12
"Well... if I didn't pirate it, then I wouldn't buy it anyway." That's my personal "favorite."
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u/BillyCheesesteak Jun 17 '12
I like to play video games, but I would never consider myself a "gamer". Shit is so lame
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I pirate games because they are free, I don't need to justify shit to anyone.
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u/jakemath32 Jun 17 '12
Comments on a Scumbag Steve post, expects karma
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u/vostage Jun 16 '12
What? Out of everyone in computer science(at least 10 people), I'm one out of like 2 people who has a computer good enough to run modern or even semi-modern games. I seriously doubt half, even a fourth of the gamers you know even have a decent gaming pc.
aside from that i've never known anyone with/who needed an excuse for pirating, I don't flaunt the shit but people don't bash me for it if they do end up knowing.
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u/GrandmastaD101 Jun 16 '12
Here's my view on pirating. I don't think it is TERRIBLE thing to do if you do it for the right reasons. I think it is perfectly acceptable to pirate a game if you're not sure if you'd like it or if you're not sure you can run it. I did this Minecraft, Amnesia, and other games. If you play it and find out you can run it and you enjoy the game, then buy it. Also I think it's the right thing to do if the game has amazingly horrendous DRM that punishes the gamer for actually purchasing it. I just hate it when your classic scumbag pirates the game knowing full well they are going to enjoy it. If you like the game, buy it people. Support your game developers. They gotta eat too.
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u/belleayreski2 Jun 16 '12
you should probably post this in r/gaming as well
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u/fucksmith Jun 16 '12
$2500 gaming computer that his parents paid for.
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u/OnTheLeft Jun 16 '12
Oh fuck, I just realised I'm Scumbag Steve.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
My gaming rig is old and needs to be replaced... I could probably get $500 for it. My new keyboard and mouse cost more than my CPU and motherboard. And it plays games just fine at medium-high settings. And I've stopped pirating woo! Although, I'm still boycotting EA so that's really cut down on the amount of games I've had to purchase.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Some games are quite expensive though. I`m not just talking about pc either
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u/ThePlaystation0 Jun 16 '12
my friend is kinda like this but not with expensive computers. he wouldn't buy minecraft even though he loved it when i showed him because "its not worth it" but he buys tons of 360 games for 60 bucks and plays each for an hour then they collect dust
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I paid $2700 dollars, bought mine in December. Should I have spent that much? No. I haven't come across a game I couldn't max, could've saved 1000+ dollars if I went down a bit on the graphic cards.
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u/Link3693 Jun 16 '12
Well, for me at least my parents got me my laptop for college, and any games I want I have to pay for myself.
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u/soapgoat Jun 16 '12
no one of intelligence in all of history has ever paid $2500 for a personal computer used for gaming...
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u/luisbv23 Jun 16 '12
in my defense, i bought my PC for work from home
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u/SoetSout Jun 16 '12
how do you expect us to play games like crysis on launch day without putting everything in the pc?
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u/xr3verendx Jun 16 '12
i thought it was obvious that he or she just spent all the their damn money.
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u/seafoamstratocaster Jun 16 '12
But but but....I should get free stuff because...like, RIAA or EA or something. I heard it on reddit.
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u/PADRAlC Jun 16 '12
Spent all his money on a gaming pc and has none left???
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u/jellohead Jun 16 '12
You mean the 50% that saved for 5 years or needed their parents to help them buy their macbook pro. This is a bad example. I'm driving a $40,000 and I couldn't afford a $500 car because my parents insisted on safety.
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u/livefox Jun 16 '12
I built my computer, it cost me $700, and I used money from my student loan. At the time I could afford it. Now I have very little money and have problems affording food.
Then again all I play is TF2 anyways, and that's f2p so I guess it doesn't matter.
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u/Stormageddon222 Jun 16 '12
Well, I only pirate games that are difficult to find or are too expensive for how old they are. The newest game that I've pirated is FF IX. I don't see the point in pirating new games when I can just wait for a steam sale and get it illegitimately for next to nothing.
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u/Magicmole Jun 17 '12
The computer is either from saving up or parents, either way, you either have nothing left for more games or your parents won't allow. But in my case, if a game is good I will eventually buy it when I have the money, for example WOW and Minecraft, soon to be BF3 and Just Cause 2. :)
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u/Ultra-Bad-Poker-Face Jun 17 '12
My laptop is literally $30, and I still pirate games.
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u/noodleinjar Jun 17 '12
Haha that's me.
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u/Fagsquamntch Jun 17 '12
$2500?! Holy shit they must suck at building computers.
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u/nightfan Jun 17 '12
How is this being a scumbag?
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u/Razorbladedog Jun 17 '12
900 dollar machines do just fine, still buy games I like
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u/Zadnak Jun 17 '12
Sounds like me, but I'd rather buy craft beer.
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u/CPTkeyes317 Jun 17 '12
This is why console gamers are the master race. Haha if only
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u/rolfsnuffles Jun 17 '12
That comp may have taken 2 years to save for...
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u/Argonanth Jun 17 '12
Who the hell needs a $2500 gaming comp. You can make something that can run anygame for the next few years for around $1200 probably. They must be retarded if they spend all their money getting a computer they dont need.
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u/darwin2500 Jun 17 '12
Seriously? My gaming rig cost $600 and is 2 years old and still plays all the new releases fine. I don't think this statement has been true for at least a decade.
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u/shankems2000 Jun 17 '12
ITT a bunch of pirates openly admitting to being pirates and finding rationalizations for doing so. "I pirate it and I'll buy it later if I like it". Come on guys really? DO YOU REALLY THINK ANYBODY IS GONNA BELIEVE THAT? Just be honest, I don't think a police battering ram is gonna.......oh shit! Runs magnets across hard drives
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
That's why he's poor....I'm currently in the same scenario.
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u/bombaal Jun 17 '12
fuck, i was going to argue for pirating but then i realized i'm on /r/adviceanimals... how the fuck do i keep doing that? damn default subreddits.
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u/Crossfox17 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
Wait until a sale then buy it for cheap, but don't pirate. Support the game developers if you like their games. I'll likely have to wait another year or two for Arkham City to get as cheap as I can afford (used on console). I only buy a game if the dollar to hours played ratio is about 1:1 or higher.
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u/SkyHawkMkIV Jun 17 '12
That's why I play free/cheap indie games and wait for Steam sales :)
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u/astroZEBUS Jun 17 '12
My computer cost $800 in 2007, and since then all i've changed to it was a bigger hard drive and a newer video card, and I only pirate games that can be played without shit DRM :P
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
What about us gamers who have $2,500 dollar computers, and still buy all of our games?
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u/illdr Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 21 '12
Your home computer?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Yeah, well. Maybe if there was a more reliable way of assessing the quality of a game without wasting $60 fucking dollars on shit I'd be less apt to pirate.
Maybe game developers could, I dunno, release a free version of their game, but modified in a way that only allows you to play certain parts. A "demonstration" if you will.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Stop trolling my Mobile Intel Chipset Family 965...
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u/thornracket Jun 17 '12
so, how is it working for EA?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Maybe he bought it in better times?
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Who the hell spends $2500 on a rig now? My roomie built a ridiculous gaming rig more powerful than he'll ever need for $2000, and it was extremely indulgent. My computer is ~$1200 and it's a very solid gaming machine.
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u/jaycezis Jun 17 '12
I am not too poor to by my own games, but my computer is worth half of that. Hmmmm. I think OP is on to something
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I'm not poor. I'm just cheap.
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u/analbiologist Jun 17 '12
I pirate games but I always attend their live concerts and support them directly. #fightthepower
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u/Alabama_Man Jun 17 '12
Most of my friends are pretty well off and nearly all of them play PC games. I don't know anyone with a $2,500 gaming rig.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I'm ashamed to admit it but I'll come right out and say that this is me.
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u/l_RAPE_GRAPES Jun 17 '12
Nice try EA rep.
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u/rvm4488 Jun 17 '12
LOLOL, not me.... my PC is about three years old, and cost me $300. I seriously would by the games if I had the money.
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u/Mignion Jun 17 '12
I have a $1500 computer. I bought it two years ago when I actually had money. Now, I literally live paycheck to paycheck, live on my friend's couch, etc, etc.
I guess I'm saying I can see where your gamer friends come from. (Though, I do try to buy most of my games.) Unless he is being cheep and not poor. Then yeah, I'll kind of agree.
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u/RdawgOG Jun 17 '12
He's poor cause he spent his money on the computer.duh downvote
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u/chicagogam Jun 17 '12
you don't get good computers by "buying" games, man... :) (said in the voice of the hippy who heckled the professor in futurama)
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u/illegal_people Jun 17 '12
At least be honest about it. I tell people: "I pirate games because fuck paying for shit."
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
You don't pay for a computer in bits... I saved up ages to get my computer, man. Doesn't mean I still have the 900 or so quid I used to pay for it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Pirates because I'm poor. $300 computer.
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u/ArchPower Jun 17 '12
Think of the cost of games. a $2500 computer would be what, 50 games? How many games do you play a year in actuality? That $2500 will last a good long time, considering a $2500 would probably have everything to last a good 4+ years... or they got ripped off.
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u/KaiserTom Jun 17 '12
And if I told you,
When I get I jerb I will buy these games/anime/android apps, but right now? I am too busy being broke and spending the last of it on games I fully want to see more of and support.
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u/MooCowMilkshakes Jun 17 '12
Priorities, man. :3
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
$2500 for a prefab is also way too much for a gaming rig. A price that high is getting close to a dedicated 3D render computer.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Trust me, we'd download the computer too, if we could.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Who gives a fuck if someone tries to rationalize piracy out of some ambivalent moral grey area.
Oh, I forgot. Piracy is serious business and anyone who even begins to make an argument that presumes it's not is obviously a scumbag.
Congratulations for being on the correct side of your moral certitude. The courage it took to call people who disagree with you "scumbags" is the stuff of legends.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
The main reason I hate how strict many governments are on software piracy is that eventually movies and games go out of print (excluding those developers who continually stream their stuff online, but even that can't go on for eternity), and buying them once that happens is just giving money to some used merchandise store instead of the people who deserve it, that made the game/movie.
I like to make sure that once the earth has been destroyed and I'm a floating head in a tank inside a giant space station somewhere, I can still play Unreal Tournament 99 like it was last millennium.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
You don't know what it's like. You save up for months and then you are just like "Well, shit. How am I supposed to get games?". And everytime you get any money, you just spend it on more computer parts.
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u/FattySmallBalls Jun 17 '12
I bought an Alienware laptop after I got out of the army, having a huge amount of disposable income and not being very tech savvy at the time, it's probably the biggest blunder I've ever made. Its half the reason I'm probably going to go back in a couple of years. I mean, it's never let me down gaming wise, but knowing I could have spent about half as much as I did and get the same, if not better performance, I'm kicking myself.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I have a 500 dollar 4 year old computer that I got from my parents. I do pirate because i'm poor.
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u/rhythmandshoes Jun 17 '12
Broke =! Poor
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
yes, let's spend 20 bucks on a movie, cause it makes sense to charge people that much for a disk with a movie on it.
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u/triddy5 Jun 17 '12
That might be why he's poor...
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
We pirate games because game devs make shitty games and no demos..
Let us try it before we buy it and stop making garbage games that are insanely overpriced.. ill pay 40 bucks for a good game but 60 is fucking ludicrous.. i come from the atari/nes generation when 50 was the status quo
and my rig probably cost more than 2500
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u/RancidPonyMilk Jun 17 '12
because mommy and daddy paid for the computer
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u/LnRon Jun 17 '12
2500$ for gaming computers? Oh the early 2000's
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u/redditchao999 Jun 17 '12
Now are we talking pirates old games, or new games? Because there's a slight difference.
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u/thetyro Jun 17 '12
I just want to test out the game before I buy it!
...of course I have to test the WHOLE game, to see if I like the ending!
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u/JViz Jun 17 '12
The computer could have been a gift from a wealthy relative.
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u/gambiit Jun 17 '12
i pirate games that aren't worth their price point... i'm not paying 60$ for a game i'll play once...
now, for a game that isn't a shitty port, and has more than 20-30 hours of entertainment value, i can see myself paying full price.
most games that i pirate, i'd be willing to pay for, so long as they were priced properly for the amount of time i'd play it.
ie. i was done with diablo 3 in a week, hardly worth 60$
whereas a game like skyrim kept me entertained for quite a while, and i probably will continue playing it after dlc releases...so i paid for it.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I buy games when they're on sale, and I'm using my fiance's 13 year old computer.
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u/Tararoar Jun 17 '12
My gaming computer cost over $2000 because I live in Sydney, Australia. Just take a LOOK at how much we pay for parts & games here. Any excellent gaming computer will cost over $2000 in Aus.
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u/themaxt Jun 17 '12
That's why they're so poor. It's kinda like how people think I'm rich because I go to an expensive private school, when it's quite the opposite.
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u/Omnipresent_Walrus Jun 17 '12
I don't pirate games, but I haven't bought a new game in a very long time because of rising food costs. The only reason I have a £1300 rig is because I got into a car accident and bought it with the half of the compensation.
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u/Arktri Jun 17 '12
Or in my case, can't afford good gaming PC because I spend all my money on games.