So, you have no interest in download and play the game then? Because it have no value for you to support it? I've done piracy for so many years and some of the most used phrases been "I download to check it out if its worth support/buy"... Pirate plays it through...."nah, wasn't worth it"... but they consumed the "value" of it. A bit like always sneak into the movie theaters because don't want to pay for a movie you don't like. Why not just come out... "I'm a pirate, it's what I do"...
Lily is the exception when it come to the Mantics, not the rule. She is the scientist making them, and there is no secret she is playing with them. But you don't get any of that in your face when you play the game. "YOU" need to unlock those scenes in Pandora. That fall on "YOU".. doing so you seek out content you don't want to watch.
Do you go look for scatt porn and then complain how shit it was afterwards as well?
Let me, a passerby, play the role of Devil's advocate here.
Yes, there is no doubt that pirates consume the product even if they complain about it. And yes, pirates don't give authors their due. Yes, it is morally wrong.
But it is not that simple or otherwise there would be no debate, correct?
Piracy often results in pirate buying the thing anyway. Most of people I knew, me included, started from piracy then bought the games we pirated, because we liked them. It is a filter of garbage of sorts - good games suffer from piracy so much less than bad games. So often we have little in the way of trying before buying and piracy becomes an appetizer to tell rotten from fresh.
Other point is that piracy often helps to spread the word about good games - the more people try it, the more people know about it, the more people buy it. Don't underestimate this point, as lousy as it may be - in my experience a lot of people learned about one game or the other from some pal who pirated it or heard from his own pal who pirated it.
Third point is some games are outright inaccessible for players. Take Battle for Middle Earth for example - company lost rights for LotR franchise and so lost rights to sell associated games (at least, as far as I recall it). It was an interesting games that you can get almost exclusively by piracy. Or take for example regional restraints that sometimes make certain game or platforms like steam impossible to access.
Its much more than simple: "I am pirate I do what I do".
Also, pal, you choose one of the worst platforms to criticize pirates. Its F95, dammit, everyone here could call his trusty galleon and yarr all day long. Its like you're preaching about drugs in crack house, essentially.
