Where in my post did I say that I’ve ‘skipped’ everything since Uncharted 1, dear Kinja poster? I have owned every Naughty Dog game pre-Uncharted 4 and tried my damndest to like them to no avail. I completed Drake’s Fortune and slogged through the crap cover system with motion-blur induced nausea.

Sweet! I can’t wait to watch the full ‘movie’ on YouTube, just like I’ve done with every Naughty Dog game since Uncharted 1. They make amazing stories paired with superb voice acting and stellar graphics, but I HATE their gameplay. Couple that with the fact that their games have given my brutal motion sickness and I’m…

So, you use ‘piracy’ twice in your two sentence post and it’s ok. I use it and it’s the wrong term. Right. Either way, you’re illegally obtaining a product and hurting and industry. Input whatever term you see fit.

Thanks for the lively debate. Piracy is a sore subject for me as I know many people in the industry that have been negatively affected by it. I just don’t understand how people justify stealing something just because it’s code and not a disc. Same thing in my mind.

Except piracy - and the ‘numbers’ behind it - directly lead to $300 Windows and Photoshop licenses, DRM, online requirements for single player games, and the like. As long as all you pirates accept the fact that you are A) stealing and B) hurting the industry, then keep on keeping on. It just astounds me how many of…

99.9% of the time piracy is shit, full stop. As I stated in a previous comment, gaming is NOT a right. If you can’t find/afford the game: tough luck. No matter how much you justify and sugar coat it, piracy is theft and there’s really no debate. Piracy is the reason that Photoshop and Windows cost hundreds of dollars,…

And that’s how you get Free-to-play, Loot boxes, locked disc content, multiplayer passes, and a dozen other tactics the industry is trying to use to combat piracy and make a profit. Yes, most people are not going to pay for what they can get for ‘free’ because most people are shit. You moral highground pirates think…

I’ve read your rebuttal a half dozen times, and I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to say with the car analogy. (Again, it’s a TERRIBLE analogy, but I digress) The fact is, whether you pirate a digital product or steal a physical one, you are illegally benefiting from the work of others. No matter how you look…

Again, I am not debating whether or not it is a lost sale, I’m simply stating that to the publisher it IS a lost sale. They view them as such and treat the developers (and its employees) with this information as fact. We can talk about the numbers and ethics of pirating software until we’re both blue in the face, but…

...but if they believe it to be so and react as if it is so, then whether you like or or not it has a negative impact on the industry. Seriously, why is this so hard for people to understand?

Reading comprehension is key here. I never said it’s a lost sale, I said to the publishers it is. Whether you like it or not, a pirated game is just further justification for shitty publisher tactics. This victimless crime is hurting the industry and hurting the lives of the people that actually make the games,…

“You’re” having some flawed grammar there.

It’s not a ‘weak argument’, it’s a fact: To most publishers, they consider a pirated copy of a game a lost sale. Full stop. Whether it is a lost sale or not is much more debatable, but the fact that the publishers use this as a reason to lay off employees, release unfinished games, add on costs with season passes,…

EA has done a LOT in recent years in regards to retaining employees/not pissing off consumers, so this doesn’t surprise me. Ubisoft and Activision, on the other hand...

I see this analogy all the time, but there is a small tidbit that people never want to acknowledge, and that is to the publisher a pirated copy is a lost sale, and it’s used a justification to give developers the pink slip when they fail to hit numbers. Whether a pirated game is a lost sale or not is irrelevant,…

“Why is 1/2 my gaming collection paid and why is 1/2 pirated.” 

Only one FF6 gif? And zero from FF4?

HE’S GOT A FAMILY!

That was bad and you should feel bad.

I’ve done this with every Naughty Dog game since the first Uncharted.