Ever felt like one of the 'Moral minority'?

Originally posted by toy_brain:
<strong>I have is a switched GCN for imports, all my other consoles are as they were when I bought them. I never buy/use pirated games unless there is no other way to play them (IE out of stock wherever I look), and I never Download DivX movies - always buy the DVD when it comes out.
I'm assuming that everyone here also hates piracy as we know how it affects SNK, but I was wondering how many of your friends/workmates use pirated stuff and what they think of you for spending the extra cash on the real thing. And are you ever tempted to stop buying official products and go for the pirate stuff, as it seems so easy nowardays to aquire it?
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i also have a Jap 'switched' Gamecube but i also own a chipped Xbox (no ps2 here)

i got a chipped xbox for the following reasons

1/ to play import games
2/ the watch dvd's without the extra xost of the controller
3/ to watch multi-region dvds
4/ for teh romzzzzzzzzzzzz

number 4 is probably the main reason - the snes emu is fantastic and the genesis one is just around the corner

i can get copied games if i wanted @ the glasgow barrowlands and to be brutally honest i did have a couple - to try out all the functions on the chip)

and to be brutally honest i spend all my money on my AES / CD stuff - so i wanted to see what halo looked like and a couple of others

but as one member can state i also buy originals

(this is were plisken chips in and says yes he does he bought an Xbox game from me)

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Originally posted by Plisken:
<strong>um yeah, i can vouch for buster's game buying
still enjoying deadly alliance? only 614 koffins left to go for me!!! (i did only receive it yesterday though, and im having trouble fitting it between Shenmue IIx sessions!) <img src="graemlins/tickled.gif" border="0" alt="[Tickled]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

i played Shenmue years ago - so i didnt get it for the Xbox, so i have plenty of time on my hands

how do you know how many koffins you have left???? - maybe missng something here

i have all characters except 1 and i reckon i know where he is (6600 platinum kredits)

i have mainly been playing the konquest and i have done around 130 of them

btw Cyrax's konquest kombo is a fucking pain - you need the dexterity of dhalsim to complete it and it would be totally impossible in an actual game

checked out kenshi's fatality yet??????

still makes me laugh

its a very good game and i am glad they released another Mk - this game is actually pretty good and the fatalities wont sell teh game like the others

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Originally posted by Plisken:
<strong>about knowing how many koffins left, there 26 x26 rows - total of 676. you'll notice when you buy a coffin the gold letters turn gray: just keep a note of how many are gray. there's even a space int he manual for you to cross out the koffins you've bought, though i don;t use it as i don;t want to deface it. You'd know this, if you were playing the ORIGINAL game, right? RIGHT??? <img src="graemlins/tickled.gif" border="0" alt="[Tickled]" /> !!</strong><hr></blockquote>

feck counting

i think i have unlocked around half of them

play the konquest as you get tons of kredits and its actually pretty easy

apart from mission 9/10 - its always a kombo fest of un-precidented proportions

and i thought aof2 was difficult

Cyrax's fatality is pretty golden as well

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Originally posted by Shito:
<strong>Actually, I've often felt like one of an 'immoral minority'.

But not in the matters of game, nope.

Never bought nor played an unoriginal game. Not even one, really.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ditto, the only thing is that I dislike
anything unoriginal. <img src="graemlins/glee.gif" border="0" alt="[Glee]" /> <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />

That includes:
Napster
warez
romz
all kinds of illegal stuff.

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Originally posted by Talen:
<strong>Well, I paid for my copies of windows and outdated version of photoshop, and I own no pirated games/applications. I used to do that shit all the time when I was a kid, but now it's more a matter of time than money. If a product isn't worth my money is sure as fuck isn't worth my time. Thankfully most of my friends agree for the most part, and we admonish the couple that walk around with their divx "collection" binders. They need to stop spending two hours trying to track down half-broken movies on kazaa, get a job and work so that they can legitimately own the things they enjoy. However, I think I'm the only one in my circle that actually owns the cd for every mp3 on my pc (I rip my cds after buying them, portable mp3 players rock) and I do give my friends shit over that and they attempt to rationalize it in some manner. "Oh, the money won't go to the original creator anyway." "I don't like it that much." "They should have had better copy protection." "I just want to share my love of it with others." Those are totally invalid points. It's flat out theft. Just recognize that you are a thieving whore and cut the crap.

I work for a living, and I like to support others that do the same.</strong><hr></blockquote>That is EXACTLY what most of my friends are like. Always trying to justify the reasons for piracy, along with the huge DivX and mp3 collections in those stupid binders!
Only difference is they work - same job as me - so they CAN afford the originals.

Heh, as you can tell, knowing so many people who are into piracy really gets on my nerves.

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