WANKER. You obviously don't live in an area with no work, a games costs 50% of welfare for the week (which most people are on) trying desperatly to bring up three kids.
NEVER wonder how hard money is for some people because you don't wanna know!
PS Yes we did buy it but we couldn't afford it.
First, let me say I watched a friend's entire family go completely broke and bankrupt. My friend (who was still in High School at the time) was royally screwed. There was a massive health issue with one of them, both parents had lost their job a year beofre, and they didn't have health insurance. They're still in heavy debt today. So yes, I can understand how finances can go down to toilet very quickly.
That being said, if a person has a gaming rig capable of playing Half-Life 2, then how can said person not be able to afford it. Then again, how can a person in the situation described be able to afford a gameworthy PC unless it was donated or it fell off the back of the truck.
While I sympathize with those in financial ruin, most of the people that pirate video games are not "poor" by any stretch of the imagination.
Many are spoiled kids (highschoolers) who don't work after school and want to play on that new computer mommy and daddy bought for them for no apparent reason. I knew way too many of these spoiled brats back then.
Lots are college students that pirate because it's SO easy for them (files are all over their dorm network) or because they've spent all of their money on
beer,
books, and
bit---blondes :).
Then, you have the deviants that do it to "stick it to the man." They justify it by some over-liberal reason like "all software should be freeeee, maannnn."
I have a hard time believing that even 1 of those users that got kicked were in the situation you noted.
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurmama
This comment was edited on Nov 23, 16:14.
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama