[INTERESTING ARTICLE; See Page 8] Discussion: Thoughts on Piracy

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Boycotting a game means you stay away from it.


There is no justification for piracy, at all. Companies work their asses off to produce these games and they do it for the money, if you have not paid money for the product you're using, then you do not have the rights to use it.

Yes, boycotting means to stay away from it, sorry for my limited english vocabularies, but I mean the right thing.
But I think, to make a casual game is not working his ass off. To make a dumbed down career mode for a casual racing game like NFS Hot Pursuit should be a work of only 1-2 weeks. To work his ass off means to make a game like The Witcher for example (because it is big and complex). Most of acual games are not hard to work, except the programming itself. But story and gameplay ideas failed the sense of a game. Most AAA developers are just working on fast cinematic action blockbuster games. This is not hard work, because there are no puzzles, no interactive mechanics etc. just the automatic engine supports. Hard work is to tell an immersing story, to make a proper game, to make something unique!
But that's an other topic.

What I also want to say is that it's also crime when you buy a lecal copy of the game and you need a third party online software to play it and connect your game for lifetime to an account. People might have different opinions, but in my eyes it is no less crime than piracy.
Best example is the DLC strategy. This is just to plague poeple, to sell unready games in parts that you have to pay 200 dollars for a complete game as it normally should be in first release. And some kinds of DRM are so criminal that you only have a limit of 5 installations. For more installations you need to contact the support. Yeah, the EA support is so bad that you can say it doesn't exist. You can throw your full price 50 dollars game into the waste, when you exceed the installation limit. This is more criminal than piracy, because they steal your money.