I've done that in a game before... of course it was while my ally was asleep and had a cursed ring that drove the rest of the group crazy with their desire to have it. I just happened to fail my willpower role and stole it... and his hand.

Watch out if you even mention piracy without instantly associating it with destroying the industry, people will call you a pirate supporter, and evil.

Says the person who can't handle a conversation without going straight to insults.

Wow way to handle someone who doesn't share the same opinion as you.

And what are you talking about my life is pretty damn good. I live in a nice 2 story house, with my best friends from high school, I make money playing video games competitively and i'm attending college. Total shit life here I tell you what. Sure 3…

I was arguing on the definition of theft. And the topic was piracy. And the first people to compare theft and piracy were the MPAA. They have lost the entire debate. That comment was to show precedent about their entire argument being bunk. Which it is.

Well here's an obvious answer to that question. If the developers and publishers treat you like shit and try to pull the crap mentioned in this article. Perhaps you are a fan who wants to experience the full game without getting screwed by publishers treating you like a money source and nothing more.

What a brilliant response! Fantastic! You sir are the greatest commenter alive! When someone dares question your arguments you ignore everything they say and make a bullshit comment! I commend your greatness sir. Scholars will write of your eloquence and grace for all of eternity! For you are the master of debate!

You do know there is research (a shit ton of research at that) that shows a correlation between money and happiness. All that crap about "money isn't needed for happiness" is bullshit. It's been disproved so many times.

When did I say piracy is a way to escape from responsibilities. I remember saying that entertainment…

It's not a lost sale though. They tried it, and didn't buy it. Does that mean that they would have purchased it at all if they didn't have other means of testing. No, it does not. Yet here you are continuing with this drivel that has been disproved so many times. Anytime you buy a used game or rent a game, or even…

ok let's tackle this one at a time.

Limited number of seats in a movie theater. You being there for free stop other customers from getting to see it. Downloading games has no limit.

Again for your "argument" for the Louvre is the same thing. Limited amount of space in the building, you being there for free (and it's…

Amazon isn't terrible to buy from... That's who I normally go to.

Yep way to go. You showed me by providing no defense of your claim!

So borrowing a movie or game from someone who purchased it is theft? According to what you just said I should get in trouble for borrowing a copy of something from someone.

Unless you mean permission from the person who owns that copy? Guess what by…

Aha, but nothing is taken.

Even the MPAA who started this whole piracy is theft thing, no longer refers to piracy as theft. Because they lost that argument long ago.

How is it theft? Does it steal the game from them? No.

Theft: Person A has something Person B wants. Person B takes the object and Person A doesn't have it any longer.

Piracy: Person A copies it and distributes it to multiple people. No copy is lost.

here is the actual definition of theft since you don't know what it is.

I quit. I'm done. Fuck developers, fuck publishers, fuck the entire game industry.

Yeah, something similar is what pretty much killed my guild. Previous leader of the guild had quit, so he handed it off to the second most active person in the guild. That person then tried to change the guild from a casual guild to a full on hardcore raiding guild. It tore apart the guild. People who were friends…

One billion times this.

kotaku is banned from linking to reddit. As are all gawker sites.

Indeed... It really kind of blows. When lay offs happened where I worked I knew I was going to lose my job but could do nothing about it. I just had to wait. Other people were frantic trying to do their work faster. It didn't help in the end though almost everyone lost their jobs anyway.

Oh what a coincidence, I just decided i'm going to make my own Mass Effect game with all the characters, and I won't be paying EA anything!