thanks for showering us with shit shovelwarePiracy actually saved decent games in Eastern Europe. This is why you get games like Pathfinder, Underrail, and ATOM.
No, those are gypsies. We Slaves are the ones who are always drunk. And the Fedora Masters are the ones that are stupid. Get your stereotypes right*!Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
Not really. At least not past 1990. Before that it wasn't piracy because it was allowed by the state law, so in a way all "copies" were legit. At least in Potato. I think everywhere in the eastern bloc as well.a lot of gamers didn't have a choice even if they got the money. Legit copies were hard to find, especially in Eastern Europe (and we know that half of the codexers are from Eastern Europe).
In the 90s there were no local publishers in Poland they sold imported games for western prices meaning one gayme would cost 1/5 of your salary only retards would pay this price there was no other option but to steal from western faggots who tried to rob us blind. Later when there were polish publishers prices got better but by that time good gayming studios were dead so there is nothing worthwhile to purchase. I will buy maybe one new game a year in current market I have 100s of old games that are better than modern trash.a lot of gamers didn't have a choice even if they got the money. Legit copies were hard to find, especially in Eastern Europe (and we know that half of the codexers are from Eastern Europe).
No, those are gypsies. We Slaves are the ones who are always drunk. And the Fedora Masters are the ones that are stupid. Get your stereotypes right*!Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
*It is not a stereotype for gypsies
I've downloaded Mass Effect 1000 times making EA lose $60000Piracy isn't a theft though.
People from one forum are your "argument"? Well, this is rich even by your troll standards. Thanks for providing an argument for MY stereotype though. And i don't mean the ones about Poles or Gypsies. That was a nice touch.No, those are gypsies. We Slaves are the ones who are always drunk. And the Fedora Masters are the ones that are stupid. Get your stereotypes right*!Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
*It is not a stereotype for gypsies
The good people over at a certain Russian piracy forum prove you wrong. Those guys will steal even the worst shovelware Steam has to offer, just because.
People from one forum are your "argument"? Well, this is rich even by your troll standards. Thanks for providing an argument for MY stereotype though. And i don't mean the ones about Poles or Gypsies. That was a nice touch.No, those are gypsies. We Slaves are the ones who are always drunk. And the Fedora Masters are the ones that are stupid. Get your stereotypes right*!Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
*It is not a stereotype for gypsies
The good people over at a certain Russian piracy forum prove you wrong. Those guys will steal even the worst shovelware Steam has to offer, just because.
Is piracy really that big a deal anymore? I pay for all my games now coz it doesn't scratch the earnings. I should imagine most PC gamers are the same apart from the young kids, who are all phone gamers now anyway.
Well, really. Particularly if you didn't live in one of the bigger cities. Even then, a lot of games were simply not distributed or came with 1-2 year delay.Not really. At least not past 1990.a lot of gamers didn't have a choice even if they got the money. Legit copies were hard to find, especially in Eastern Europe (and we know that half of the codexers are from Eastern Europe).
1. I am a guy writing posts on the Internet on a forum called RPG Codex. DUH.People from one forum are your "argument"? Well, this is rich even by your troll standards. Thanks for providing an argument for MY stereotype though. And i don't mean the ones about Poles or Gypsies. That was a nice touch.No, those are gypsies. We Slaves are the ones who are always drunk. And the Fedora Masters are the ones that are stupid. Get your stereotypes right*!Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
*It is not a stereotype for gypsies
The good people over at a certain Russian piracy forum prove you wrong. Those guys will steal even the worst shovelware Steam has to offer, just because.
1. Who the fuck are you anyway
2. You have no clue what place I'm talking about
3. Not an argument
4. Eat shit
Just to be clear on this, the principle is usually as follows - if you "buy" a game on Steam, you don't really own it and they can take it away at at their whim.Slavs will steal things purely on principle.
I'd actually attribute that mostly to gaming mags, who were extremely popular and often promoted prestigious games and later started distributing them at a very low price in huge quantities. While praising piracy, you have to remember that pirates mostly copied the popular games too, since they were subjective to basic market rules as well, or that while piracy allowed people to afford games, PCs themselves were a real luxury through most of the nineties. Consoles were actually always p popular and the standard, sub-simian iq, console rhetoric like "this sub-vga game running in 12 fps on a crt tv looks amazing compared to what PC can do!!!" was very much present as early as mid-nineties.Piracy actually saved decent games in Eastern Europe. This is why you get games like Pathfinder, Underrail, and ATOM.
Well-developed piracy meant that these regions were not a viable target for AAA trash or the console expansion. Good games were put on the same footing as games that received inordinate promotion. Something like KOTOR would be as available as something like King of Dragon Pass, and there was less novelty bias in games.
The problem is insufficient piracy in the US, which meant that companies could get rich from making AAA trash by promoting poor taste, and bad games got normalised. Now the US RPG is dead, but we still get plenty of great games from other regions.
You never own digital products you buy, you're licensing them. It doesn't matter if it's on steam, gog, or a physical box.if you "buy" a game on Steam, you don't really own it and they can take it away at at their whim.
Coming with "delay" doesn't necessarily make my statement wrong. Even in the west at the time not all games were distributed everywhere. It is only with Internet that most titles started being available mostly everywhere. However by mid 90s all bigger titles were available. And by mid i mean starting from 93/94. I admit i don't know how it was in 91/92 so perhaps I wrongly said "past 90", should have said past "92/93". You might have a partial point about the "bigger city" but let's not go crazy about it. It's not like Poland is the size of Russia or has Alaska and people live many hundreds of kilometres from one of those bigger cities.In my holy quest to heal the gaming market, I completely stopped both buying and pirating games. Achieving zen through online games of AoE2 and HoMM3 with my, now mostly geriatric, friends and relatives.
Well, really. Particularly if you didn't live in one of the bigger cities. Even then, a lot of games were simply not distributed or came with 1-2 year delay.Not really. At least not past 1990.a lot of gamers didn't have a choice even if they got the money. Legit copies were hard to find, especially in Eastern Europe (and we know that half of the codexers are from Eastern Europe).