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Except that the moral high ground in this instance would have been the people who neither bought the game nor pirated it. If you disagree with the decisions a business makes then it is certainly your prerogative to not support them financially; however you cannot then lay claim to their product while knowingly refusing to pay for it.
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Very true. I've always maintained that pirating a game and calling it a boycott is like stealing a burger and calling it a hunger strike. You're still consuming the product, and therefore:
1) You're not sacrificing anything for your belief and thus don't make any sociopolitical impact
2) Since you're effectively gaining the product for free, you could argue it has a negative sacrificial value - basically the more convenient a choice is, the less likely it seems that moral principles are the actual reason you're making that choice
3) You're still basically a walking ad for the product you're enjoying, and so are still supporting the company responsible; albeit marginally
4) If the premise of a boycott was against the poor quality of a product, consuming the product voluntarily contradicts that. It effectively begs the question "How bad can it be, if you still want it?"
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I've already supported the maker with my money, and he doesn't lose his money making another copy.
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"I once bought a coffee from a shop, therefore I already paid for a coffee, therefore I can drink as many individual coffees as I want"
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Your no arguments are shitty arguments.
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Oh, come on, that's just lazy. Less name-calling, more debating.
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Also, digital stocks really have a bearing on this discussion after all.
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"Digital stocks" don't exist. The concept of "stock" - i.e. a finite amount of products to sell - is simply inapplicable to the digital realm. Everything is infinite when you can duplicate it as many times as you want.
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You are blinded, do you? You completely ignored the case where somebody paid for it.
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No, no I didn't.
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Regardless of whether you just don't want to pay for it now, or you never want to pay for it
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you just don't want to pay for it now
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Don't want to pay for it now = Want to pay at a later date
Or did you mean pirating something you already own a functional legal copy of?
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The problem (one of them, at least) is not buying things I don't really want to, but I was manipulated by publisher's marketing/game footage (some games look cool and play tragic)/not very honest reviews etc.
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Those are problems, but no-one pulls the money out of your hands. If you make an error of judgement and buy a bad game, that's still your mistake, and the bill sits squarely with you. Welcome to the adult world.
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That's low, and you should know that I don't see that in such categories.
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Then you need to start acting like it. Stop treating theft like the norm, and stop demonising legitmate purchases.
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What mindset can you call that, other than a shitty, prejudiced debater?
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"Everyone who disagrees with me is a bad person"