We don't support pirates here at RD. If you play the game, buy the game. Time for a short break to reconsider your chosen path.
FIRST. I know this is an old post, but it's just so sad to see, so I had to respond.
SECOND. This so called game. Doesn't deserve do be bought, you all know why, if you played it vanilla. That being said. I have actually bought F1 2012 to PS3 and PC, F1 2013 to PS3 and PC and F1 2014 to PS3. That I haven't yet, spend the money on buying it on PC, does that make me a villain? Probably, according to the "moral social justice warriors" like yourself. I guess you don't even like the idea that a person owns a game on a console, when that console is sometimes used by, let's say, your girlfriend, you feel it's unjustified to download the same game you pay for to another operating system, PC for example? Same game, different platform.
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Rich people are not the ones you see downloading games online. Not because of morality, but because they don't need to challenge the law, and they really like the shiny discs that comes with buying a game. Something to put on their shelves among the other 200 titles besides the fire place."
Over the top, "I'm better than you", attitude. I can afford everything in life that I want and I'm going to impose the theory of "game market collapse" if not every single (often poor) person who wants to try a game buys it
*. It is my life mission to leave everyone who opposes the "right opinion" out in the cold, harassing them. "Time... to reconsider your chosen path" - Laughed so hard, it's really sickening that there are actual people who are talking to other people with that tone saying between the lines to that person asking for advice, that he is a disgusting person. Lower life form, it felt like; you taking the moral high ground in the "war on drugs" and talking to a smack addict, how she should really think about changing her life, it's really destructive and we do have laws for a reason! and so on blah blah.
There can be plenty of reasons not to yet have bought the game, and even if you call yourself a pirate, it doesn't make you a captain of a ship. It's just word play, a title some people proudly use as they doesn't agree with the consumer society or some other economic explanation that supports their cause. "The industries are eating their own children" etc. There is NOTHING morally wrong with trying a game before deciding if it's worth investing in it, and even if you disagree, We don't support haters here at RD. If someone is asking for help, be helpful. Time for a short break to reconsider your chosen path, wouldn't you agree?
Disclaimer, I have nothing against buying games, especially from smaller companies that are struggling, companies in your own country especially as you need to support your country men. Downloading games is something a whole generation is doing. Continue with your crusade, but the world is going to change. The companies must find other ways to make money or perish as all companies that doesn't have a product of value should. Many people downloading games are made criminals by the term "stealing" when in fact NOTHING is stolen, taken away from anywhere. It is copied, it's a ineffective way of dealing with the issue, give those resources to the companies making the games instead of hunting "pirates", or give it to the poor people instead. "Anti-Piracy", THAT's, a stupid way of spending money. Tax payers in many countries doesn't have a choice though. Many who download would NOT buy the games if they couldn't download it, I know this because everyone I knew since I was a boy couldn't, they didn't have the dough. Rich people are not the ones you see downloading games online. Not because of morality, but because they don't need to challenge the law, and they really like the shiny discs that comes with buying a game. Something to put on their shelves among the other 200 titles besides the fire place. The game industry shows us statistics on how they are dying, but in truth. Statistics are only a tool for either side to show their version of a so called "truth". That people that often can't afford to buy games anyway download them instead, (and at the same time being able to download, perhaps, lowering the crime rate a notch. The shoplifters, are the ones that are REALLY STEALING.) it doesn't hurt the big companies economies as much as they would like you to think.
* (especially a buggy inaccurate game like 'f1 2014' where you need to mod every aspect of it to enjoy it or make it even work. As the payment for the game doesn't involve any official updates. They are too busy creating their next sequel, a guaranteed way of earning cash without the need for promotion or any real content.)
Have a nice day and sorry for a long rant in the middle of the night.