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What's your justifacation for pirating your retro games, /vr/?

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>> No.5165660

>>5165656
I don't have any, because I don't pirate. I'm not a thief.

>> No.5165662

>>5165656

My justification is yo momma's snatch.
Also, I emulate, so a cartridge does me no good.

>> No.5165663

Why do I need to justify doing anything? I'll do what I want until someone stops me.

>> No.5165665

>>5165656
If a game is still available to purchase from a publisher but the developer is now defunct, I consider piracy.

If a game is available to purchase from a publisher but is only made available in a gimped form like very poor port or emulation (that is often worse than using a free emulator, l'm looking at you Sony and Nintendo) I will likely pirate.

If a game is no longer available to purchase from the publisher at all, I have zero qualms with piracy.

>> No.5165718

>>5165665

These. If you look at piracy of decades-old software in a black and white fashion, you're a corporate cuck. If a legitimate effort is made to put something out with love I'll happily buy it, it just seldom is these days. Companies are making less effort than ever, the Playstation Classic is a complete joke even the most diehard fans are turning their nose up at.

Also we really, really didn't need this fucking video posted again. The last 300 post thread was enough, I would've thought Brody got the idea by now.

>> No.5165724

True Pirates don't need to justify themselves.

>> No.5165726

>>5165665
this, like I'd tell people they should buy Judgment Silversword on steam because it's cheap and it supports the original devs and their company, and because playing it on WS is inferior anyway, but I probably wouldn't say the same about Fallout 1 and 2, because the money is going to fucking bethesda to continue to shit on the franchise.

>> No.5165739

I'm poor.

>> No.5165745

If I buy it second-hand (which is the only way to buy retro games), the developers won't make any money off it anyway.

>> No.5165779

its not as if giving money to a video game company 30 years after release means anything to the people who actually made the game

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>>5165656
You can have ~30 years worth of game libraries on one device. The future is now and I'm not holding myself back.

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5165805

It's really easy and fun

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5165807

I don't want to pay for them.

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>>5165656
>justifacation

>> No.5165960

Physical releases of games and systems are a waste of technological resources that could be used elsewhere. I don't support your sweatshop production lines to make toys.

>> No.5166008

>>5165663
It gets you prepared for when something does stop you dumbfuck

>> No.5166024

>>5165656
>What's your just defecation for pirating your retro games, /vr/?
the only games I play pirated are games I've already played and paid for (sometimes multiple times in the case of a game like Final Fantasy IV which has had multiple remakes)
and for me emulating is a superior experience in most respects. If I could buy DRM-free digital copies of roms I would.

I don't pirate games from gog.com.

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>>5165807

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>>5166008

>> No.5166078

>>5166049
Profile quote is spot on though.

>>5165656
They're too old for any reasonable person to think copyright should be applied to them. The NES is 33 years old now. The original copyright law was 14 years and an extension of 14 if the author was alive after the first 14 years expired, A max of 28 years.
Many if the devs who made those games are now defunct, shut down, and no longer make any profit from their games.
Used games are equivalent to piracy, except you most likely overpay, for a locked down and inferior product. Nintendo doesn't make any money from you buying your 9th copy of SMB/Duh Cunt, so why give some schmuck your hard earned dineros when you could just pirate it in the first place?
Piracy is the only true preservation method. Collector's will die out and their earthly goods will either be destroyed, or sold at a huge markup price. Piracy via torrents makes sure the content is preserved for generations. And if everyone has a copy, then it can never truly be lost.