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Unless Ubisoft starts making better games, this is like someone you aren't attracted to telling you that you better get used to not having sex with them. Ubisoft has no room to try to tell gamers what to do when they haven't made a good game in like a decade. I'll not own their games, and I won't give them money. Win win.
I've been paying for a yearly subscription to Adobe Acrobat for the longest time. Either get a decent job or ask your parents for money if you can't afford it. If you think it's acceptable to pirate digital property, it's only a matter of time before you end up in one of those police cam videos for trying to steal deodorant and mouthwash from CVS.
@@games-are-for-losers Yeah, literally they suck your wallet dry, and the services are shit, you can just enter a torrents page and download a movie in 3 minutes, and the virus shit is not a problem, just don't be stupid and check what you are downloading.
What frustrates me most is that as a paying customer, I ALWAYS get a worse experience than a pirate. As the paying customer, I'm the one that has to deal with the crappy DRM system, bugs, issues, hoops to jump through, ads, pre-rolls, etc. whereas as a pirate I just get a working unintrusive version of the thing I've paid for and its mine that I get to keep. Its absolutely insane and is a symptom of just excessive, egregious and unfettered greed.
Piracy was incredibly common in the early 2000s when most people bought physical media. The excuse was price. Thieves will always make excuses for why they're stealing shit
I only buy new video games, books, movies, date chaste young women, etc. There's nothing tackier than shopping at a thrift store when you have the money and power to buy new products.
"Yo Valve, your game collections is somewhere 100 dollars. Im sorry but i gotta pirate your games" Valve: "Idc bruh, btw i be sellin the collections only 9.99$ on christmas which is 2 weeks from here." "Yo Valve, i bought your games that means it mine right?" Valve: "Yeah bro, it yours" "Yo Valve, can i emulate your games thru my other devices?" Valve: "Sure bro, it literally yours. Do whatever you do" "Yo Valve, can i mods your games without getting any trouble?" Valve: "Checkout the steamworkshop m8" 🗿🗿🗿
Hearing Charlie's story about Godslap piracy reminds me of a game called Darkwood. The devs put the game on the Pirate Bay themselves for people who didn't want to/couldn't buy it yet. Whether the game would've done better without this is beyond me, but the game still ended up selling over 1.5 million copies and plenty of people reached out to the devs and said that they pirated it originally, but then decided to go out and buy it moral of the story: play darkwood
Pirating is often a good option if you want just to try a game/series/comic, and if product is to their liking a lot of people will purchase legal copy just to support the dev/author. I myself had pirated stardew valley back in the day, but grew to love it so much, I bought the game legally. But in case of companies like Ubisoft deciding that purchasing a game doesn't give you ownership over your copy, pirating is correct route to go. If I enjoy a game I will support a dev, but if dev sucks I will not support them and will pirate it
I think the most helpful thing I’ve ever heard about piracy, was a developer lowered the price of his games in the places in the world where piracy was higher, and it started to become a non problem
@@Rileythepigeonsure it does, as a big proponent of piracy I am far more likely to buy something if the price is lower. That’s just common sense, the less something costs the more likely people will buy it. Unless it seems like some suspicious knockoff, most consumers are going to want it more. Especially if I’m skeptical of the quality of something, if someone is sure they’ll love something they’ll be more willing to pay more or full price. Obviously. I’d think this is all simple logic. I suppose they’re also people that like things just because they’re more expensive, but I can’t imagine that that’s most consumers, which are majority not upper class.
I love how Charlie is creative. "it might suck shit through a crazy straw" had me giggling for a full minute. I can't express how much this channel helped me learn expressions in English, since it is a second language for me. Thank you, Charie
@@kubakowalczyk3442 It's amazing. English is my second language too and when I started actually caring about the language and trying to learn it fully I came across Charlie's videos, which, suffice to say, helped me a lot to practice and for a while I would talk very similarly to him. It was pretty fun!
As a software developer myself, I have to admit I sometimes pirate software and sometimes even spend extra to support the developers. It's all about the product/service.
the thing about piracy is that you can't stop them, only slow them down. the best way to combat piracy is to make people not want to pirate your software in the first place
3:30 Something I’d like to mention is that I saw a video about a switch emulator that actually had mods to make Pokemon Scarlet and Violet 60fps, it’s not just preservation at this stage, it’s literally just making a better version for free
that story is like stardew valley. so many people who pirated the game came forward and said they ended up buying cause they loved it so much and wanted to support the dev.
yep pirated bg3 and 40k rogue trader (I was poor and when i pirate it more so to see if i enjoy the game genre both games are turn based rp games) Ended up purchasing both cause i loved them and i don't have to worry about the down side of having to download an updated version and risk of losing all progress if you mess up.
@@TheHill347hey man! just wanted to say it's super cool to see someone who enjoys CRPGs so much, I loved both of those games especially rogue trader (despite the bugs) I never hear anyone mention RT. Hope you enjoy it to its fullest!
A lot of studios and developers got rid of localized pricing and are charging full minimal wages for a AAA game. If you add that to the fact that those regions' internet and copyright laws are basically inexistent, you get millions of people resorting to piracy.
"buy lethal company/helldivers, its fun and not expencive" Cool, now I just need to get a job só i can afford a 500 game. Yeah imma just keep being a pirate.
Yea. That stuff blows. A month worth of groceries for a game lol, no way. Unless it has hundreds of hours worth of gameplay or it’s in a huge sale, i ain’t buying. I’ll still play them though
to add on to that we no longer see demos any more its rare bow to see a game with a free demo version now so if your unsure if you will like the game and don’t want to commit to paying full price piracy is the only option
This happened with the Steam recently. Normally I would try to buy any game I could until they removed regional pricing out of it. Entire Steam market became 5 to 10 times more expensive overnight, I wouldnt even be able to afford much if I didnt pirate. Their greed pushed me into this.
This game costs somewhat like 1/2 of the average wage in my country 💀. The regional prices for the new games are ABSOLUTELY INSANE@@heartlessnobody1143
Another good example: Mario kart wii Nintendo shut down the official online servers, effectively removing worldwide lobbies from the game. But with emulators and community-made servers, etc, it is possible to still play online with people worldwide. And since they’re selling this 16 year old game still for $60, if they’re selling it all, a lot of people just find the rom online for free..
I'm 28 years old and I just started pirating for the first time. For he last decade I've been paying for streaming services. I started with Netflix, then Hulu, then Disney+ then eventually even HBO all at the same time. Progressively we've seen these streaming sites make their services worse by removing shows, offering low bitrate streams while advertising 4k, banning password sharing, and more. Eventually when I found myself paying $20+/mo for Netflix, along with nearly &50 to other servies, they ban password sharing so my family can't enjoy my content with me no matter where they are. I got sick of it, and decided to look into piracy for specific shows and movies. Well as it turns out, is so much easier, higher quality, and cheaper! Wow, it wasn't always like that, but it sure is now. There's a reason I never saw the need to pirate until recently, and here we are.
@@DooverLackey r/Piracy and r/PiratedGames has some good masterposts that teach you how to sail safely and links to safe sites! i learned from there years ago and havent had any issues :)
When ‘Invincible’ S1 came out I loved it so much I wanted to read the books, but wasn’t willing to save up to spare the money to buy something (a subscription or whatever) to read them. I read them for free online, but then loved them so much I saved up for *months* to buy the 12 volumes (all 144 issues+) costing me somewhere around $750 AUD. Had that piracy site never hosted the full comics, I never would have dropped the better part of $1K on the franchise. This is why I have so much respect for Charlie for doing this himself. I’m sure I’ll love ‘Godslap’ and ‘Plague seeker’ when I get around to reading them, but even so I only buy hardcovers if I’ve already read and loved something to collect it.
Piracy was almost completely dead. Now they're putting in fucking commercials and STILL charging you 20 dollars a month and not even giving you the whole show. It's like they're just asking people to pirate at this point. I'm glad Kaya on the OP actually has the balls to openly support piracy, you literally get a better service when you don't pay now.
Activision is the WORST about taking away what YOU had from you. You can play games from 1980's but you can't play a game we had in 2020/2021 (Warzone Verdansk etc) Also, a point not mentioned is how sometimes there's almost no possible way to legally buy the game in certain countries, forcing players to ONLY play cracked/pirated ones or find someone off shore to somehow buy it to them.
Another point that frustrates me when they try to argue the point of "You SHOULD only be playing our games officially!" when the official means of playing games from you is no longer possible as easily. The Gamecube isn't made and Supported, The PS2 isn't made and supported, and the like. If you want me to play Twilight Princess "legally", then port the damn game over. If you want me to play Sly Cooper "Legally", then either port the games over or make the PS3 and earlier Backwards compatible. jfc.
This, but with streaming platforms too. I bet it's lovely that "Hulu" has shows on it, but there is no "Hulu" in my country, and because they are sitting on a show, other streaming services from North America won't have it either. Disney+ came to my country in the middle of the pandemic for the first time, before that, I have no idea how watching anything Disney legally was even possible. I guess I can probably buy Amazon Prime here too, but they do not ship here, so why would I bother? They are a delivery company that doesn't deliver. Edit: I have to get this out of my system. Netflix refuses to let me watch movies in most available languages. I can watch them in French, even though no one here speaks French, but can't in Russian in an ex-Soviet country. In Germany they allow Russian. Netflix is an insanely out of touch platform.
The Licensed games is the worst part. All the Spider-Man games that released during the 2010's? Or the cool Transformer games that came out at the same time? (War For Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, Devastation). Gone.
The line about piracy being an ease of access comment was 100% on point. I try to watch things I'm interested in through official channels, but I am also not able nor willing to pay five different streaming services to watch every show I want access to. Plus the PS2 games, absolutely. I have an emulator for the discs I've held onto since childhood, but the console is on its last legs and I don't want to lose access to these games forever when it finally kicks the bucket.
It’s very funny to me the parallels there are between digital piracy today and actual piracy during the golden age of piracy. Fundamentally, piracy back then was a response to low wages, brutal treatment of sailors, dangerous working conditions, and the like. Sailors became pirates because they realized that they were getting screwed over by their captains and that they could fare better outside of the system. It’s the same with consumers today realizing they’re getting screwed over by companies and turning to digital piracy. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme I suppose.
Who know, maybe the first community on internet called themselves as pirates by the same parallel, or even early than that, or just change the technology but the piracy continue the same.
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates. - Daddy Gabe Newell
Well anti piracy tech doesn't even seem to be a option for Nintendo. They seem to really really suck at it. I think all of their consoles have been "cracked" and had high quality emulation in short time.
Not really though. Gaming DRM has gotten 'that' good. There was a single person cracking denouvo (A very unhinged one) and they've vanished off the face of the earth. Unless there's one of those fuck ups where a denouvo game is uploaded without the DRM, pirates aren't getting games that come out with it until the devs themselves wanna stop paying the license.
@@uberness77well, this isn't entirely true. The queen dipped because she wouldn't share her method and other crackers hated her for it, she also acted as a queen would. And, her cracking it is proof enough that it will be cracked, nothing is uncrackable after all, it's why new security systems are constantly being developed
@@sean8102 The stupid thing is they can easily end piracy by forcing you to constantly be online and then doing a product ID check. I am genuinely shocked this hasn't become the norm yet.
@@uberness77 Not really. The funny thing about denuvo is that they update it every once in a while, so every cycle starts with it taking months to crack and ends with cracks getting released on release day of a game and it's always been that way. The only thing I don't get is why companies still utilize denuvo, they're hurting their own sales more than anything - there's tons of people that don't even pirate games that specifically don't buy games that got denuvo.
For most cases with Piracy, the reason people pirate it is because it isn't accessible enough for them to be able to play, view, or access it legally. Be that it's not sold anymore, not sold in your region, or just too expensive (localized prices can fix this btw). So if you just make it more accessible, less people would pirate it. Also, just because someone pirated your game, it doesn't mean that they would have bought it if there was no way to pirate it, it's not a lost sale.
The problem with yuzu was that there are records of the devs sharing dumps of leaked games prior to their release and privately encouraging piracy. They caved in to save themselves. If they were more professional, I doubt nintendo would have had a case against the emulator.
Yeah. And didn't they put builds or patches that let Yuzu play Zelda behind a Patreon paywall as well? Beyond stupid of them. Though Yuzu isn't dead by any means like people seem to think. It was open source. Their are already 100+ forks on GitHub. And of course it can still be easily downloaded.
Yuzu is very hard to defend. Besides the very strong points you brought up, some of their practices wore more for-profit than not. Plus, the ungodly amounts of user telemetry they kept was unethical and it's now in Nintendo's hands, which is a worst case scenario. I don't see Nintendo as a victim. Despite pre-release leaks, they make obscene amounts of profit from their games while being anticonsumer (stealing access to digital content from paying customers) and selling mediocre hardware. I am pro emulators, 100%. I also understand Yuzu's owners had the right to choose to settle and not ruin their lives. They don't owe us their lives. But they made some bad decisions in promoting game leaks internally, in the way they accepted money and in the huge and unnecessary user data collection. And now the emultion and gaming community is paying for those bad decisions.
The problem with Yuzu is that they were making millions of the emulator instead of it being an underground hacker space where everyone is anonymous and piracy is openly encouraged. Then let Nintendo try to sue random Russians hosts for hosting the website while they move to the next domain. That's how it should be.
Nintendo is the most consumer friendly when it comes to keeping microtransactions out of their IP, but the least consumer friendly when it comes to games preservation.
Agreed, although they're largely fine with emulators too. There's plenty of huge emulators that stay up fine. Yuzu made the critical mistake of selling access to ToTK before the game even released. That's crazy stupid, especially against Nintendo the dragon of IP protection. I doubt they'd target this at all if it was just a free emulator without the ToTK situation.
Well, not to defend Nintendo - But Switch is CurrentGen, they're still trying to sell Switch games, so it's barely "game preservation" - They didn't go after other emulators like GBA etc. Yuzu is forked and open source anyways, new Switch Emulators will come, this doesn't kill Switch game preservation
One thing that always bothered me from that show is that they always said "Good pirates never steal", except IN ALL OF PIRATE HISTORY THEY ALWAYS STOLE SHIT.
I have seen many people saying piracy is dying which is just a huge lie, piracy will never die until unless someone makes a huge revolution in this industry
It will die. AI will become capable of impossibly encrypting games, movies, music, etc. to the point where other AI would still take years if it not decades to crack them.
The "huge revolution" was denuvo, it has been a huge pain in the ass for the ppl who buy games and the ones who pirate them. Piracy isn't dying but its 100% not even close to what it was before denuvo and it will never be like it was ever again.
GameStop is the greediest store I can think of. I nearly caught a battery charge for grabbing a cashier by the collar when he wanted to give me pennies for my original Switch, which I traded in after beating Hollow Knight and BotW. Good thing the cops in my area are cool and don't side with corporate America.
@@RobbieStacks90 Hello? Do you hear yourself right now? You literally just confessed to assaulting a cashier just doing their job because you received pennies for change. And you’re THIS delusional to think law enforcement would side with a lunatic.
@@RobbieStacks90 don’t act like you didn’t run away from a crime you committed before. Should I mention you committed sexual harassment to an intoxicated woman at a club then dipped after she realized what you just did?
Another thing to keep in mind: the original creators of a piece of content get paid for the work they do. It's rare for them to see additional revenue from sales, especially after the initial release period. So you're not stealing from the creators, you're stealing from the publishers who take in the cash for other peoples' work simply by giving it a signal boost. Indie media is obviously different, which is why they're usually much, much cheaper, which drastically reduces piracy since more people are willing to pay for something that's cheaper. The more publishers and other 3rd party companies involved, the more money a product has to make to keep everyone happy, so the more money it'll cost for consumers.
Never understood why companies don't make official emulators. It would be a great way to preserve old games while still offering the chance for company to make money
sega does this they sell their entire genesis library for like $70 normally but because its on steam it just goes on sale for like $15 quite often you can even take the roms from their emulator and use it in your own
@@ambervanraak and they don't do anything with it. People have been begging for Pokemon titles to be released on NSO, and they never do. The game selection is terrible. They have a few good titles, but if it's a franchise game( ex: MegaMan, MegaMan 2,3 ECT) they'll only have one or two of the games. Not worth $50/year. I have 2 emulators that work just as well without an annual fee.
If buying isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft. They know what they are doing. The goal is to make sure you don't own anything, but that you rent it. It's about printing money, not making a good product. Consumers are viewed as an obstacle to the money the company rightfully deserves by their mere existence. They are not an audience to be entertained, they are an inconvenient barrier to the money.
So I take you pirated for the past 15 years? Because if not then you've quite literally confirmed them with each purchase that you're fine with not owning anything as they haven't sold you anything for that period of time already.
Oh man, I do not know how, but in elementary school we had a GameBoy emulator and a fan translated copy of Pokemon Gold. You couldn't save your progress and the dialogue was immature swearing every sentence, but it was still great fun seeing how far we could progress before having to turn it off and later restart. Same computer had Nickelodean Movie Studio Maker and a NES emulator with working multiplayer LAN with three of the computers connected to it.
I had the same experience with Pokémon red and I liked playing over and over every time I restarted so much that I bought a real copy and got hooked on the next few too. In the end Nintendo GAINED money by my pirating initially
@@XerionoPiracy is free advertising, novelists are the biggest advocates for this. There's a famous writer on the tier of Stephen King who was having a lul in his book sales until people started pirating them, sharing them, and getting tons of new people interested and buying his books in the tens of thousands who otherwise never would have even heard of his books unless the friend who recommended the books originally pirated them to begin with.
I don't know how many times big studios have to be shown that piracy isn't about people not wanting to pay for something before they finally realize that their consumers are not their enemies, they're the reason the business exists.
When I was homeless and broke. I pirated godslap. Once I was stable I made sure to go and purchase them for real. Not something Id normally do but stealing from Charlie felt wrong
I’ll never forget when Nintendo made it no longer possible to make Nintendo eShop purchases for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS while also telling people not to pirate their games. When they could’ve also easily solved this issue by making the games available on the Nintendo Switch eShop.
Nintendo’s a weird case. Pretty much all of their consoles have different control schemes and interfaces, so it’s really not as simple for them as “just put the game on the new console”. The switch doesn’t have the ability to go two-screen for DS and Wii U games. There’s no analog trigger on their controllers for game cube ports. And the games that made use of the 3D gimmick can’t do that on anything but the 3DS. It’s basically impossible to get the “full experience” of any recent pre- switch nintendo games unless you have the original hardware, and with the shops shut down the only “legitimate” way to get the games is to buy used physical. Which can be crazy expensive with limited supply.
That's not how things work lol. They would have to port thousands of games to do that which is impossible. Every console has to shut down their stores eventually, when the costs to run them become larger than what the company is getting back from them
After they shut down the e-shop, well after they stopped supporting the 3DS, they actually released a patch who's sole purpose was to try and close exploits that people use to mod 3DS consoles Literally 2 days after they dropped that patch, someone from the 3DS modding community found another exploit which ironically made it even easier to mod 3DS consoles. The only reason I hadn't modded my main 3DS was because it had to be up to date in order to pull down my mons from pokebank. Because that new modding procedure required the console being up to date, I pulled them down, then proceeded to mod my 3DS just to spite Nintendo Which was an excellent decision, because with modded 3DS I was able to dump my entire collection of DS and 3DS games into the console so that I don't have to physically bring the carts everywhere I bring the 3DS. Also I was able to load up super useful utilities like a *local version of pokebank* that's capable not only of storing pokemon in a space independent of the games they came from, but also can reach into pokemon saves and trigger long-gone mystery gift events to get the full experience again. Modded 3DS also allows you to back up and restore save files of games, a feature Nintendo has never let us have as long as I've been alive TL;DR, thanks for sending that "screw you" patch out for 3DS modders Nintendo, because it inspired me to look into modding my own console out of spite, and in turn giving me a better product that I still use today
Any foreign transactions from my country is EXPENSIVE, $60 is a week worth of groceries and extra expenses here, I do support Indie games but I’m NOT paying $60-$70 for AAA games💀
Piracy helped instill my love for YuYu Hakusho in college. I had just went through the worst breakup of my life, I needed something in my down time to get my mind off things, and I remembered I'd never got to fully watch the show since my parents couldn't afford to have Cartoon Network, I only got to watch a handful of episodes. Well, the DVDs hadn't released yet , no streaming service had it; but my roommate showed me a place to watch the full show. So I did, now 10 years later, I own the DVDd, anniversary edition blu-rays , multiple merch items, and I rewatch the show every year. I even rewatch the show on Hulu, even though I have it in blu-ray, just in hopes they'll continue to leave YuYu on streaming for someone else to find.
Love YYH! I only got into anime through piracy. I also don’t think there would’ve been as much attention on anime without piracy. Without CR in their pirate days and other pirates showing there was a demand for anime. I think the industry here in the US in its current state only exists because of that. Otherwise we’d probably still be without legal options.
I was never a huge fan of nintendo games. I played zelda game and i really not in love with that franchise as most other people do. That's until i try metroid prime on Dolphin emulator and enjoyed it. Then attempted to played previous metroid games. I am now a huge metroid fan
Also, I agree with having freedom to do what you want with anything you own. If you buy a t-shirt at a concert, the artists don't prohibit you from cutting the sleeves off if you want to.
Another thing I haven't heard people talk about is that not everybody lives in US or EU so the prices aren't suitable for other countries. I would pay if: 1- Price is considered/variable from country to country. 2- I can keep my purchase. 3- I get what I paid for without adding ads and stuff. Till that time I'm never gonna buy some software that I use one time every red moon for 1/3 of my salary.
Prices used to vary depending on the country, but sites like Eneba and CDKeys ruined it for the rest of the world that cannot afford to pay 80 bucks for a game.
You buy a car, but if you miss your subscription payments, they take it back... even if you aleady paid off most of it... they don't only repossess the 24% of the car that you haven't paid for yet.
I started playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on Yuzu a couple of months ago... at the time, I didn't really think much of the series until i got to a particular part and I was intrigued enough that I decided to stop and actually go through the entire series and get those games legally to complete them. It was a life-changing experience that i otherwise wouldn't have gotten if it wasn't for emulation.
As a fellow fan of Xenoblade myself, this makes me happy to hear. I don't often pirate games, I tend to watch playthroughs first - can't trust teaser trailers. Film and shows however, piracy has allowed me access to media I otherwise wouldn't have if I legitimately paid for everything first - eventually I'd have to not do so because money is not infinite. When I buy something, I like to know if I'll like it first. So buying everything you consume especially if you don't know if you'll like it is not feasible. And streaming doesn't help with that considering how fragmented, expensive, and uptight streaming services are now, and Netflix requires card details simply signing up. And as we've seen with Sony and Crunchyroll, even if you made legitimate purchases they can just middle finger you at any time. And most websites hosting that content tend to have practically anything you'd want, so it's also convenient - and convenience is something the average consumer does not get because companies always want a piece of the pie, taking their content from existing streaming services and putting it into their own. It's always a short-sighted decision because it spreads out the market and encourages piracy again, but they never seem to realise that's why. Or maybe they do, but don't care because it makes them a quick buck.
Ugh I've been curious about those games ever since 2 came out. Why do you gotta go calling it a life changing experience, I already have too much I wanna do
@@jakenight6288 I wouldn't go so far as to say they're life-changing, but my god I thought about those games for months - perhaps years - afterwards. The music, the parallel environments and races, the lore, the characters, reading between the lines of certain scenes and what characters say, how the worlds of 1 and 2 tie together, and how both stories culminate into 3. And especially their late-game portions and endings. Not to mention their shorter DLC stories expanding upon their respective games. XC2 gripped me by the nutsack and I've been in the Xeno rabbit hole since.
Agreed. I may or may not have allegedly played a newer rpg title that exploded in popularity that was based on D&D 5th edition without purchasing it, but I ended up purchasing 2 copies of the game because I loved it so much. I gifted the second one to someone else to enjoy.
I’m in a similar boat there. I read a lot of manga and novel scanlations. And one of the series I read I ended up loving so much I spent a total of almost $400 on it. over a period of 5 years I ended up buying all the official physical media both manga and the novels.
There are 3 types of pirate 1. People who can't afford it(can't buy it) 2. People who don't care enough(would never buy it) 3. People who are interested(want to test it out before buying it) You're not really losing money. I would even say it benefits you, as your fanbase grows
Exactly. if a person cant afford it, The developer doesnt get money. If that person pirates it the developer still gets no money. In either cases they get no money. So its better to play it than not play it.
I am actually doing my senior capstone project for college on video game piracy and the reasons why people do it beyond not wanting to pay money and this was a very good video and pointed me to a few things I could supplement my project with.
One of the bigger reasons people pirate is because of the quality of each game & their platforms. Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve (which owns Steam, the biggest PC game marketplace), said his belief on cracking down on piracy "is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." Valve also has a very good reputation for being good people who care about the user and developer experience, which reflects the CEO's own beliefs. I hope this helps with your project, and best of luck on it!!
Another thing I would look at are the comments on this video. There's a reply by @vinterrev1326 to a comment by @shadnatic I found, stating "The problem is most of these companies are publicly traded, which means they are largely controlled by rich idiots who know nothing about gaming and just want to see the stock numbers go up. Valve is privately owned so Gabe just does whatever he sees fit." Again, hope this helps, and best of luck!
@@HaHAjax Valve succeeds because they literally do nothing but provide a convenient, consistent, and reliable service while all the companies around them shoot themselves in the feet constantly. It's great.
@@ZarHakkar yeah, I remember someone saying steam has a monopoly for some reason. everyone uses steam because its way better than having ubisoft connect, ea app, epic games, xbox app and whatever other laucher or store there is, but they still didnt get it somehow
I agree with certain things when it comes to piracy. One of the reason why some would pirate movies, games and software is because it is sometimes not available in certain countries or it is no longer available on the digital stores anymore. For example, in South Africa we do not have access to HBO MAX or Peacock streaming services, so most people who would want to stream their shows would have to pirate the series that they want to watch. So piracy, although controversial, are a better alternative something that we want is not available to anyone if something was taken off the shelves or if streaming platforms are not available in other countries.
Another example is how outside of the US there's no way of accessing NFL games without paying an entire minimum wage worth of money to shady streaming services... and it ONLY give you access to NFL related content for ONE season...
Dude if people are willing to spend hundreds on vpns and streaming sites they can buy in the film or show on its superior form - physical media. Bluray and 4k are higher quality than their streaming equivalents and you get to choose exactly what version of the film your watching.
@@klebyell not all are available in physical media, and its definitely not cheaper than just using a VPN. Especially in countries where theres shipping cost + taxes etc.
@THEPAGMAN in comparison to streaming you have a significantly bigger library and way more choice. Streaming presents exactly what that company wants to present at any given time. The way they want to present it. They could have something for a few months, take it off and you never know if or when it'll be back. Thousand of films lost forever because its based entirely on what that company think will drive traffic. They might have a film but have a version of it that's colour grading is totally off. Thankfully physical media companies exist that specialise entirely in accurate restoration of films that would otherwise be totally neglected. If you buy a film physically you have agency of who you buy it from, what version of the film you're buying, when you have access to that film and in its best possible quality. As 4k becomes more widespread too region locks are no longer an issue. Also an investment in a region free player will open all doors on that front too. Not to mention second hand market. You can get tonnes of blurays for like a pound or two. Pennies for dvds.
"You can't emulate these games for free because you're costing us money!" "So you're going to rerelease these games to profit of these high demands?" "No"
As someone who pirate's shit all the time, I will say I'm surprised nobody is mentioning that yuzu was monetizing their emulation software, which is one of the main things to do if you want to get DMCA'd. Like I'm guessing there is a pretty good reason ryujinx is okay and yuzu wasn't
So I'm fully willing to admit that I actually did pirate god slap at first and then loved it and am now a full supporter. I didn't pirate it in the traditional sense. Someone was sharing your comic on one of my discords and I read the first few comics you released. Loved the heck out of it.
As someone who mainly pirates games, if i actually really do enjoy a game i will buy it support the dev, ESPECIALLY indie games, i pirated phasmophobia with some friends when it first came out, then we all bought it a day later because we really liked it and the work the devs put it
Piracy and using an emulator is the reason why i fell in love with Kingdom Hearts. I played the first game on an emulator and decided to buy all the games in the All-in-one package when I could.
If games like Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded get rereleased (Not as just movies, but the actual games themselves) in some way, I'd happily pay for them. But I'm happy just emulating them until that time comes.
"if u own it, u should be able to do whatever u want with it." this is genuinely why I almost exclusively play things on my computer. not bc "hur hur pc master race" but bc I like to mod my (single player) games like crazy. so what if I want it to be Ez Mode or I want to make a character look completely different? I bought the damn thing, I should be able to do as I please with it. if I were more confident in my ability to fuck about with my switch and not brick it, I'd be all over playing the new LoZ. but my interest in playing it does not overshadow my interest in not being able to fuck w the game the way I want to. instead, I will be in RDR2, riding around on what is definitely a zebra from Ongo Bongo, and never running out of stamina or dead eye.
Piracy is like the ultimate insult, because people won't pirate something unless you have made/promoted it poorly, or the product is not worth the price you are charging.
Even though nintendo is not selling old consoles anymore, after playing a lot of old games on emulators such as mario 64 or smash melee I actually bought both consoles (the Nintendo 64 and the Gamecube) and now own them in a sort of collection style. Just goes to prove Charlie's point even farther.
The main reason I use emulators is to play older games that never got ported or remastered at all, there’s especially a ton of old arcade games that never got rereleases and a lot of games that never got ported for licensing reasons, and of course sometimes we get things like the Crazy Taxi remaster from ages ago or the games on the TMNT collection from last year where they couldn’t keep everything also because of licensing. And of course these days we have a problem with digital only games and DLC getting delisted
This is why I am a big supporter of Gog games because its drm free. The community got together over the Hitman reboot because it had drm and they removed it. They have honestly good deals on classics I feel like everyone else if buying is not truly owning then piracy is not truly stealing. Side note emulation keeps the classics alive I can't afford paying hundreds of dollars for a classic game that the company won't make money on anyway with.
After my recent back and forth with their support over a non-functional product they've been selling for years (and still are selling - Breach & Clear to be precise) despite getting a ton of reports about it I've stopped buying there. It's only GOGs version that is broken, the Steam version as well as the DRM free version from the Humble store work flawless, yet the support does everything they can to ignore the facts and constantly tell you to try to fix it with their galaxy launcher (which btw, really likes to bug out for some people and prevents log ins). So they entirely lost my trust in them with that one. On Steam I at least know that I get refunded and that the games that are sold on GOG aswell are either DRM free on steam or only got steams stub drm - which honestly is nothing but the old checks if you got the disc in the tray and can be bypassed easily + is gonna get removed if steam was ever going to go down.
Which activision didn't like, because it made their old (and better) games playable and even improved upon them. Why would people buy the newer, shit games when they can play the old ones and not spend $70 a year on garbage. I'm still pissed off with that situation. Those games are still super pricey on steam (i think BO2 is still $60 on steam despite being over 10 years old), and they aren't even safe to play without leaking your IP address (and maybe the possibility of viruses?? whatever the case, the official servers aren't safe) and running into cheaters. iw4x and plutonium were way safer and had less cheaters
i often think back to when i've read how some people pirated Stardew Valley when it first came out and then felt bad because it was such a good game that clearly had a lot of love and passion put into it, so they'd go and actually purchase it to support the developer. if a product is that good, people _will_ buy to support.
Why can’t companies just for once make a GOOD game? Enough of this corposlop wasted potential nonsense; use the pocket change these companies make and make a good game.
your first point about the free copy boosting sales for godslap is why free trail exist in a lot of companies . people are hesitant to pay to try something when their unsure of if its worth it
Today, I was trying to play my legally owned copy of GTA IV through Steam on my Steam Deck. After pressing Play, I had to endure several updates for their shitty launcher that barely works just to be prompt to login. I tried 2 or 3 different emails because one of them is supposed to be linked to the Steam account but I honestly couldn't remember which one. After all the hassle, remembering the password was awful, but I managed to anyway. "Please, enter the verification code we sent to your email". My f. phone is all the way in the other side of my room and now I had to get up my bed, get my stupid phone, enter my email and use the virtual keyboard to type it on the launcher. More bullshit and a couple of "Ok"s later I'm finally starting the game that is now completely offline. I felt like a clown for having an worse experience than a non paying player.
Getting really bored of seeing people go on and on about this Yuzu situation acting as if Nintendo is the bad guy here despite Yuzu being entirely in the wrong. And no, not because they made an emulator, but because of everything else they were doing around it.
The Irony of the Anti-Piracy Commercial is the Commercial uses a copyrighted song that they were sued is why those who claim to be against Piracy actually support Piracy.
Owning an item when you commit a consensual, mutually beneficial, transaction, is literally the foundation of our economy. It is the basis of markets and the foundation of human interaction.
Yeah like when I rent a car from enterprise that car is mine idc what they say. I paid for it. They’re so stupid asking for me to bring the car back all the time.
100% agree with your sentiment. I definitely used Yuzu (and other emulators) to test games before buying them for my switch and even before eventually buying my switch to see if I was interested in the game library. I think this happened because Nintendo saw the Steam Deck and other similar handhelds that could emulate Nintendo games as a big threat to the switch, whereas they were never worried about Desktop PC emulation because that's not what the switch is competing with. When competitors are making products that can play your games better than you do, it's time to make a better product, not shut down independent projects.
Nintendo is and always has been worried about desktop PC emulation. Not sure why you think otherwise. They consistently shut down smash tournaments that use emulators to add online functionality as an example.
Oh they definitely hate PC emulations just as much. I've lost count how many emulators they've shut down over the years. Some they can't stop because it's been distributed across the internet too far but the ones they can kill they kill.
Well the thing Charlie missed which is why I think Nintendo actually had a case was that Yuzu paywalled stuff on their patreon. That's a huge no go with these companies because you're directly monetising off their assets. I think had Yuzu not done that, then they wouldn't have had to wipe both yuzu and Citra (3ds emulator that got caught in the crossfire) off the Internet
@@randomdudd2611 This has been thoroughly debunked. They never paywalled anything other than early builds and even then the still gave you the tools necessary to make the builds yourself. The Patreon was a way to receive money to keep the project going and also for releasing the next release build since you have to compile the files yourself if you wanted to keep yuzu up to date to play the new releases. What money the got was put back into the project. IIRC.
Edmund McMillen said about The Binding of Isaac: "If by cracking you mean pirated, I don’t really care much about piracy really.. especially if it’s because you’re a kid with no money or someone who can’t purchase my work in your country legally" The guy literally didn't care if people pirated his game as he was happy that people enjoyed it, even if they had no money or their Country banned it
That's kind of the stance a small/indie developer has to take. The public is generally going to be on an indie's side anyway though because of them being 'underdogs' in the industry and even small success is comparatively a huge deal for them since they have lower operating costs in the first place. But for as beloved as indie games tend to be (the good ones, anyway), if something like Hollow Knight or Celeste tried charging the 'industry standard' $60 right out of the gate when they released, they would absolutely not have the same public opinion despite all of the people who will take every opportunity to say those games are 'easily worth $60'.
@@MaZaki721 if u have the money and ur not paying then it isn't morally correct but if u don't have the money then i don't see a problem in pirating , this is how i see it
@Dread_Ghost well what if it isn't available in the place you live, what then. Piracy is also an issue of companies who don't sell in other countries. I live in Germany and all the anime on official streaming sites are either in German, have wrong subtitles or just don't exist here.
A pirate walks into a bar with a big ships wheel down his pants. The bartender says, “Excuse me, sir, but do you know you have a ship’s wheel down the front of your pants? The pirate replies, “Aaargh, it’s driving me nuts!!”
When it comes to pirating games, I always think it’s fine to pirate older games because they aren’t as easily available like a Switch game but I think it’s a bit much to emulate a modern game that is readily available at all times
I don’t mind pirating anything from nintendo because they’re a scummy company as they copyright fangames and don’t release any games on other consoles and the switch is 10 year old hardware literally weaker than a ps3, couldn’t play me to pay on a switch. By pirating switch games I can play them on pc with good fps and graphics and also not support a bad company.
The shipping cost to my country costs more than the comic itself but i buy them regardless, I much prefer a physical copy... and supporting a "smaller" creator is something I can get behind rather than throwing money at huge conglomerates
1:20 One of the best example for me is Stardew Valley. I love playing games solo and that's why I resort to pirating games, and seeing stardew valley being one of the best farming sim I played I immediately bought it even though I mostly play it solo just to support the developer. Now seeing games become overly priced but still shitty, copy pasted from older versions, and actually giving shitty service like "buying a game is not owning it". Yup, it's really encouraging to pirate their games more... or not because it sucks anyways.
Your early on points are so accurate! People often don't wanna spend before they know the game wanna just try. Often for indie games. I have done it too but if the game is good and it gets the love from the dev side, I do end up actually buying those games and making them mine officially! Like I did with Dead Cells and Minecraft which I played for years before buying them. Having them on me and being able to play it got me very involved with the community and in turn just love the games more. Also, a lot of games which have following now only exist because of the fan community still playing them through emulators and introducing new players to them! Games like older Pokemon games, the whole GBA library, PSP games, etc. I have been very into castlevania because of the GBA game Aria of Sorrow and I'd know nothing about it if emulators didn't exist. Now I plan on watching the Netflix show and buy merch sometime too. I would not be doing any of that if I didn't have the tools to check them out. Yes, emulation has problems, the piracy is real and some people definitely will not pay for what they play but I feel it's okay. It's a very small part of the community but they contribute by being genuine fans of the games and in future possibly getting very into it. I have a friend who's extremely into monster hunter games now, keeps up with them and buys them but that wouldn't be true if they weren't already emulating it for years at that point.
I have read entire manga series on aggregator (pirate) websites only to decide to buy physical copies because it was so fucking good and I wanted to own it. Knowing that gaming companies don't want you to own the games you buy from them makes it so fucking easy to NOT feel guilty about pirating their shit. If they were less scummy, then maybe it wouldn't be such a huge problem. Also, have they ever considered that the people that pirate their games would NEVER have bought them in the first place? They love to play victim and say "we lost xyz dollars to pirating", no, you didn't fucking lose anything, those numbers are likely disgustingly over inflated and also don't take into account the advertising it gives. That's right, people that play games like to talk about said games if they aren't garbage, which leads to other people likely buying it (since people were able to play it first hand and give opinions.... I respect a stranger's opinion more than gaming journos, so there's that too). These scummy greedy corpos need to be boycotted.
