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Originally Posted by kRAyZZed
victimless crime? heh copying a game is the same as if you walked into my shop and stole the game.... i have seen several independant games shops close down over the last year or so because of ppl who seem to think that stealing games is a victimless crime... i have seen friends go bankrupt and struggle to support their famillies due to piracy....
a victimless crime? tell that to all the victims...
now i dont doubt that games are too expensive but thats not the retailers fault and as i have previously mentioned in this thread the publishers mark up the prices at their end - you would be suprised just how much we as a shop pay for games...
and i do apologise if i seem a bit worked up about this but its frankly cos i am, i think its disgusting that people decide they cant be bothered to pay for their games and steal them instead...
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Actually, it IS the retailers' fault! The retailers (not if you're an independent, admittedly) get paid TWICE for games they sell - once with their 45% discount when they buy them in and again when we have to pay the larger retailers to stock them! Retailers like GAME, on average, make nearly 20 quid on a 40 quid game. Publishers, on the other hand, make less than half of what retailers get.
But I'm with you on the stealing issue. Not a victimless crime - there's never any such thing. I own 3x PS2s and 2 Xboxes because I play Japanese games (I speak Japanese and wife and son born there) and so have a legitimate reason to want to chip. But I never have, never will, and will never buy a copied game.