Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper
EXACTLY. It's a leech thing - "Hey, I don't have to pay for this game, those suckers Safe-Keeper and Neal Stevens have done so for me! Goody for me!". I choose who to give free rides. If I know you, and want to share my game with you, fine, come over, have a coke, and let's sit down and play SH5. But people I don't know, leeching off of the fact that honest people like myself pay for our games?
You can cry about oppression, being "treated like an enemy", and all that other rhetoric all you want, but the fact is, you don't, nor have you ever, had the right to play commercial games without paying for them, and game developers and publishers have just as much of a right to make a money as do every other industry in the world, and if people keep using their services without paying for them, what are they supposed to do, just roll over and take it? I wouldn't expect this of any other industry, so why should I from the game industry? Let's say you run a grocery store. You experience significant shoplifting, so you tell your employees to try to stroll the shelves more, and you install a video surveillance system. Is this "treating customers like ENEMIES", too? Is it "oppression"? Is it "greed"? Nope, it's your right as a store owner to protect your business from theft. Plain and simple
Or another example - I went to the dentist today. They made me pay for the visit, with no leeway whatsoever. No ability to just not pay the giro, no way to "pirate" their service, no circumvention whatsoever. Is this "oppression", too, or do dentists have some kind of right that lowly game developers lack?
|