Why It's Morally Okay To Pirate All Of Sony's Games (The Jimquisition)

I've always looked at piracy thusly: I can either not pay for your game and not play it, or not pay for your game and play it anyway. I'm going to always choose the latter when it comes to overpriced AAA bullshit (which is still $80 in Canada btw)

Sarah Alderdice

The grocery store you showed images of had been the only one still open in the winter storms. When that incident happened, people in that part of town literally couldn't buy food.

Dorkvania

When I was last between jobs I volunteered at a food bank. I remember some restaurants and grocery stores donating items like bread and meat. Produce I think was kept until it was rotting.

Jason Youngberg

Part of it is a marketing mindset talking... he knows that his job is to hype the latest thing, so he gets tunnel vision.

Iochannon

In Canada, grocery stores used to donate near-due food to shelters and things. Then people started suing them because they had a tummy ache and surely that perfectly good food must have been bad and given them food poisoning. So, grocery stores stopped giving away their near-expired food because the needy people that could benefit from it were so goddamn greedy they were trying to sue the people literally feeding them for free, as well as the shelters that were using that food. So.... not quite the same boat as video games. Literally biting the hand that feeds you in this case.

Trevor Bond

Has the Sony guy ever actually played a game?! Can you imagine applying that attitude to any other artform? I mean, clearly nobody wants to watch a Shakespearean play - the words are just so old fashioned. And as for the standard of graphics on display in the Louvre... On the food surplus stuff, I am pleased to report that we're actually seeing the beginning of a shift in attitudes from supermarkets and food chains here in the UK. There's the app Too Good To Go, which companies like Toby Carvery, Greggs and Costa Coffee are using to sell their leftover stock at the end of the day - you pay about £3 for a tenner's worth of food, usually. Of course, that's still pretty much a case of capitalists finding a seemingly ethical way to make a bit more money, to be honest. Olio is genuinely good though - volunteers collect leftover stock at the end of the day from Tesco, Pret and a few others, and list it on the app, and you go pick it up from the volunteers free of charge. My favourite is the Real Junk Food Project here in Yorkshire, though - they run shops selling surplus food on a Pay As You Feel basis, and they also run cafés and a catering service using the same surplus food.

Ruthy Toothy

I don't know if it's still happening, but I remember when physical PC games just had an exe file that would download the game online. So there was no real difference between buying it virtually or buying it physically. If the servers went down, you couldn't install your game. Well it's not really your game, you have a license that can expire at any time and you're SOL if you try and fight it. Side note, I found this neat game called Dorfromantik that's a casual tile-based city-builder. It's relaxing and worth the $10 fee IMHO.

Jason Youngberg

If Sony puts up their games on pc, owning a play station will only be about owning standard computers.

Benedict Holland

Yeah. Backwards compatibility is about to be a thing, I imagine. Not that anyone can get a PS5 anyway. You would think they’d release backwards compat before disabling those stores though. I gotta wonder...Nintendo is notorious for going after download websites, even for their ‘abandoned’ games. Will Sony be the same?

Mary Jo DiBella

The PS5 backwards compatibility thing is spot on. What else is anyone going to be playing if a console doesn’t have a good launch lineup?

I would add though, if games have a key and someone cracked that key, they can also Crack the exe. For ROMs this is less of a problem but the biggest reason I will never pirate software is that. You have no idea who cracked the code and you have no idea what they injected. Often, that will mean a virus or turning your computer into a bot. For stuff like sony and roms, I am torn. I do feel that people who paid for stuff should always have access to it. Ypu did buy it. For a company, these systems do cost quite a lot to maintain. Part of me wonders if Sony will put out a vita mini with every game on it, like the snes mini or the ps1 mini. At the very least, put up the roms somewhere and let people crack their hardware that they also own and purchased.

Benedict Holland

Not to mention the lasting popularity of Minecraft, as well.

CliffEdge

Like you, I didn't want to pay $30+ to watch Mulan. So I was surprised when it no longer had a charge on it (at least in Canada). So perhaps the charge is time-based. To the Sony guy who doesn't think old-looking games are any good, the 6M+ people who are playing Valheim which looks like its rendered on a PS1 have something to say to you...

Your show almost always pisses me off, the grocery store thing is something I've known about for ages, but I'm still quite cross about it.