No, seriously, I could be wrong but if you're only acting this way to avoid confrontation then it's pretty cowardly. If you don't want to discuss your opinions then just say so, no need to be passive-aggressive about it, but if they can't stand up to a little scrutiny that should tell you something about them.
The issue is we don't agree on something, and I don't feel like wasting our time while you try to convince me that I am wrong. I have heard your arguments/opinions and others like it countless times. I feel that "intellectual property" laws in general have been abused and manipulated, and that they do more harm than the good they were originally created to do. I don't care if others think I am an evil person that is destroying the world because I have had confrontations on issues that I feel are far more significant than petty arguments about illegally downloading games and software that are 20+ years old, or that were not officially released where I live, or were released in limited numbers, and where the original people and companies involved in making the game no longer make money by selling them, however resellers do (this used to be the case with Earthbound, and is still the case, to a lesser extent, with Xenoblade Chronicles, which are both games that were officially released here, but that I could not afford, and that I played after acquiring them through illegal means...I didn't want to play a Final Fantasy game, I wanted to play those games (side note: I also got the rest of the Mother series, which at the time had not been released here)).
In addition to not wanting to have this argument yet again (and I am very outspoken and vocal, moreso in person than here), I don't feel the direction it is going will add anything to this thread. We are no longer even discussing the things that I posted in this thread to discuss. I don't mind off-topic discussions, but if this were in a dedicated thread I would have left the conversation by this point. I just really don't care. You think you are right, I think the laws and current practices are wrong. You tell me my actions are the reason things are as they are. Good, idgaf. There are much more important problems in both what I do and the laws where I live that are more deserving of my time and effort to fix, and few of those will be changed during my life, but I would rather work on those.
I told you some of why I feel as I do. Are you satisfied now? I am not going in to more detail because I am a "coward" and this whole thing is pointless to me now.
I'm completely with WizardStan on this one.
Every minute spent pirating and playing a pirated game could be used to support DRM-free game developing by buying, playing and talking about those games and companies.
There are lots to choose from and somehow I'm thankful for the big companies having driven me away from their stuff by implementing more and more DRM (and day-1-dlc, paid mods , etc...) in addition to their Windows-only agenda over the years, because I might have never gotten to know way more interesting games otherwise.
Again, we are (or I was) talking about Nintendo and the 3DS line, so why mention this stuff here. Microsoft and Windows have nothing to do with this discussion. If you dislike Nintendo, fine, but they and the companies that release games for their consoles and handhelds are what we were discussing.
That reminds me, does anyone else remember Tengen? I used to play their unlicensed NES releases. Actually, I still do (especially Tetris), but I no longer have the carts. If only I had kept the copy I used to rent all the time.
