Xbox 360 Fanboy

You really don't see ???

OK, I'll give you a few clues...

1-Free
2-Weeks earlier
3-Bragging about playing before everybody
4-Free

I use gamefly, and sometimes buy when the game is worth the money, but even then, i understand why download, instead of buying.

Well, I see why,just why you HAVE to, rather than at least rent or borrowing is different. They can at least rent instead of download.

I see WHY thugs rob liquor stores, but it doesn't make it right.

Honestly, Piracy does not hurt the game industry.

This is a link about piracy effecting Spore sales:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10054438-62.html

The short version of the link is- The people who pirate games weren't going to buy them anyway.

This might be for a number of reasons, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's all about the money. Think about it. 10 Xbox 360 games is $600 before tax. At that rate, I'd probably only buy 5 games a year, as I'm a poor college student. And I know there are way more than 5 good releases a year that I'd like to play.

It's really offensive how 360fanboy portrays game pirates as 'not real gamers' or 'the most wretched type of scum and villainy'. Just because most pirates can't afford games, doesn't mean they're less enthusiastic about gaming than people who pay for them. In fact, I know many people where it's exactly the opposite; the pirates know more, play more, and have completed the game where the paying customer has not.

This reminds me of when I saw American HiFi in concert when I was 12. They called everyone in the lawn seating (essentially a general admission ticket as opposed to reserved seats) not real fans and that shouldn't even be at the concert. Case in point, a gamer should not be judged by who spends the most money.

I hope Xav reads this. Maybe he might find himself a bit enlightened- at least to the opposing argument.

Agreed. Almost every single game is getting ripped and uploaded now. But the demand for big name titles is overwhelming.

I don't like paying £50 for a game. But I do. And what annoys me most is that in America new games are approx. $60. That equals about £35-40.* That is why I think that the UK should get rid of crappy taxes and be equal to the US prices.

* Also, Fable II is out in the US now, even though Lionhead is an English developer. What's up with that? WE should get it first.

I don't understand the delay in UK releases, maybe 24hours, but sometimes we have to wait a week or sometimes even months. What is up with that.

"Games are expensive" isn't justification, it's an excuse.

@Macroy
Are you going to buy the games for me?

You could always get a job :)

If you don't have the money to buy the games you want...guess what...

YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM ALL!!

Is that really hard to understand?

@Josh:

If you can't afford to purchase games, don't play them.

Im a full time student. Ill get a job soon. Then I'll buy games. For now I pirate.

Tough shit if you can't buy games because you don't have the money. Your sad excuse to pirate games is not justifiable, because there is not justification. Games are a luxury, not a necessity. You don't need video games to live.