(22/03/2012 07:17 AM)ProperBritish Wrote:  You wouldn't say that you can't afford a new fridge-freezer, and go out and 'borrow' one.

No, I wouldn't download a car either.

Quote:Because of the ill-fate of the PSP's piracy, people seem to expect the Vita to be hacked in the same way, as if it is a given or that they deserve the hack, doing everything to thwart the earning of the games studios that actually keep the console they play games on alive. Every copy lost to piracy is an extra $10 or so that wee could use making our next game that bit better, but no, people want that immediate satisfcation, blindly not thinking about the impact that could have on the developers who spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours making that game for their enjoyment, or the fate of the studio, the company that made the console, anything.

If pirating were to happen there would probably be nothing worth pirating other than a few good console exclusives. Kinda like the Nintendo DS which has sold tremendously well considering it has the ability to be able to play pirated games via flashcart and able to emulate it on your computer.

Quote:People can oppose piracy all they want, but there is no way anybody i ever knew with a PSP that pirated that bought the game when they had enough cash after completing it on a pirated version, not even myself.

I own a hacked Wii. Pirated Xenoblade because it was European exclusive. Preordered as soon as it became available over here. Must be because the game wasn't anything special after you finished playing with it, that means you were never going to buy it anyways.

Quote:Who would buy what they already finished? They'd be basically buying the game for the privilege of it gathering dust.

I love owning physical copies of games.

Quote:The thought of 'I can't afford, I won't get' seems to be lost on any software, multimedia platform today. It's now a case of ''I can't afford, I'll pirate it and act as if I was never going to buy it in the first place" when in actual fact, if there was no such thing, people would have the patience to save up for a little bit and get what they earned."

People don't think that way. They simply pirate the software do what they have to do with it and most likely forget about it.

Quote:Just to be ruined by people that think it's OK to do everything your license to the software does not state you can do. With the watery and quite frankly, completely bullchocolate excuse of 'backups' to cover it up. I don't know what the hell people even do with their games, to lose them so much they warrant taking 'backups' of them. I don't believe the word 'backup' for a millisecond, I'm not retarded. You wouldn't go into a game retailer and 'borrow' the game off the shelf, so why do it online?

Because it's more convenient. PSN still has a long way to go if they really want people to buy their titles online with that whole DRM they place. Another reason why physical copies and these backups(a feature that I love in gaming these days) are a whole lot better than using their software to restrict it. Not to mention the overpriced digital copies of games.

Quote:There are some people with a conscience, but seriously, they are in the devastating minority.

Sadly yes, but if people just buy a PSP only to pirate every single game on it then they must really be bored and don't want to spend anymore then they have to. Then again the PSP was a piece of spoon.

Quote:What happened to the days when people were people were happy with what a device did as standard? People seem to expect every single device to be an all-singing-all-dancing supermachine that does everything ever. Or more irritatingly, that they are owed that super device and complain to "Sony" when their device doesn't let them (for some reason, I wonder what it could be) do that.

I don't think there's anything wrong with making your device work the way you want it to. Just the like the iPod and Android phones. iPod requires jailbreak to theme it and able to pirate. Android needs to be rooted to gain access to many tweaks and hacks and it has so much freedom that you are even able to pirate it.(even without rooting it :p)

Quote:The tone of all of these articles is all geared toward the coming closer to running 'backups' you know my feelings on that poo poo. All everyone is waiting for is that green light to piracy. I know a few people who won't even get a Vita until it can pirate.

If so then I guess the generation of handheld gaming is coming to an end. If Sony just kept the Vita part of it then it might have avoided these issues. But sooner or later the Vita is inevitably going to be hacked.

You can blame the hackers, the community, the pirates but it all comes down to the gaming device. It's a fudgeing gaming device, who wouldn't want a library of games on it? Yea the PSP is able to do it but Vita is oh so much better at it.

Quote:And just to let you know, I couldn't care less about what any of you have to say against me.

I know that pirating is bad but if people were never going to buy the games then they don't appreciate it for what it is. I love video games and probably have spent a lot of money and at least most of years playing with them. I love supporting developers but I hate what Sony is doing with the device. I honestly think it's a great device riddled with so many things that are unneeded. But you have to take into consideration of people who want to buy the game/people who need to buy(the fans). If the game does a bad job at selling it's because noone was really interested in the first place. Same could be said with music/software/media.

Quote:Also the manufacturing cost goes down every year as they start making the Vita from cheaper materials, so by the time hackers are able to run PSVita games wee would see PSVita slim.

Though it's Sony's tradition to do the slimline stuff the only way I would buy the slim is if it had TV-out which would have made a huge difference in sales for the Vita.