Anyone regret buying games when you can download them?

[ParazitU]

Not really. I used to torrent games a lot. It just feels more legitimate buying something rather than getting it for free.

 

[Deleted User]

The games I regret buying are the ones I didn’t enjoy. They wasted both my time and money.

I’m surprised so many people here have attitudes against piracy. While I don’t see any fanatical views like a large portion of Nintendolife users, I thought most people here would pirate as they please. My personal stance on piracy is you do what you want.

 

[Stwert]

Absolutely not. If we don’t support the developers by paying for their products, their profit is reduced and we may not get sequels or indeed any games from them in the future.

Granted that’s worst case scenario. It takes an awful lot of people not buying games to have an effect. But in my 40 years as a gamer, I’ve seen an awful lot of companies go tits up.

As far as piracy goes. Well that’s down to the individual. You’ll often find the people who pirate games are people who wouldn’t pay for them regardless. So I personally don’t think it has as big an effect on the industry as they would like us to believe - and I’m saying that as an indie developer.

Outside of that, even I make use of the “grey” area of piracy. Where I’ll use various devices to play backups of games I actually own, because some of them are worth several hundred quid each. Not risking those getting damaged.

And with some of my systems being, well, ancient. It’s impossible to buy some games for them. The developers and publishers are long gone. So if we want to play them.....

 

[rickwj324]

I have modded pretty much every system I've owned since the original Xbox (Xbox, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Gamecube, Wii, DS, 3DS, Wii-U, Switch, I'm probably forgetting others at the moment). Pretty much all systems except for the Xbox One which I don't own. Even though I've modded all of these systems and have access to thousands of ripped games, I still buy games that I really want. Games that I play from rips usually are 1)roms from older systems or 2)games that I wouldn't have bought or played otherwise. I'm a huge Ratchet and Clank fan, as well as Mario games, God of War, InFamous, and a few other franchises and will buy those games even though I have them ripped to the hard drives of my systems. I buy them to support the developers as well as to have them in my collection.

I'm the same way about movies. I have the ability to rip every blu-ray released and have sources to easily download them. Even though I've downloaded 100's of movies to put on my HTPC servers I still purchase blu-rays and have over 3,000 movies that I've bought displayed on shelves in my media room. I don't have to buy ANY movie if I don't want to, but I love collecting them.

As someone else stated...the only games/movies I feel bad about purchasing are the ones that are bad. I have plenty of bad movies sitting on my shelves!

 

[WiiUBricker]

Yes, I bought a lot of PS3, Wii U and 3DS games at full price that I still haven’t played today. It sucks that you’re not a kid with unlimited free time anymore. Could have saved so much money.

 

[wormdood]

no i dont regret buying games . . . i pirate and a lot but whenever i play through a game that i would like to see a squeal to (or a continuation of the series) i buy it... its that simple there is nothing to regret

 

[Dust2dust]

Yes, I bought a lot of PS3, Wii U and 3DS games at full price that I still haven’t played today. It sucks that you’re not a kid with unlimited free time anymore. Could have saved so much money.

I couldn't have said it better. You have all the time you want as a kid to play games, but no money to buy them. As an adult, you finally have money to buy all the games you want, but don't have any time to play them. Life sucks!

 

[spotanjo3]

No. I prefer a physical version instead of digital download. A digital download is okay if there is no available for physical version. A physical version is an awesome art for serious collection. Yeah I prefer a physical version over a digital version.

 

[Issac]

I can regret buying some games, but only for the fact that I didn't enjoy them, not because I could've downloaded them or anything.
Paying for a game brings some kind of satisfaction when playing it in my opinion.

 

[Alexander1970]

Only when i buy older Games (Adventures) on CD/DVD for a few Cents and they are not running anymore (newer Windows/no successful config in Dosbox etc.).Then i´ve think to myself "Why are you not buy next time on GOG ,then THEY have to config the Game."

 

[clynbert]

Not at all. I always make sure that I'll certainly like a game before I buy a physical copy this is also the reason why I get the game a week or two after its release to see the reviews or people had fun with it.

 

[fiis]

You helped the economy and people who created the games, you done good kid.

 

[Haloman800]

Piracy is wrong and illegal.
Nothing to feel bad about supporting developers by purchasing games.

Piracy is illegal, but it certainly isn't immoral. Copying 1's and 0's on a computer hard drive is neutral.

 

[Hardline]

No, I like to support Nintendo and game makers

 

[raxadian]

I recently bought Sonic Forces for the Switch and the actual cardridge not a Digital Download.

So nope, still not a fan of Digital Only games.

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Fuck digital distribution and fuck steam.
Sure it gave us good indie games but it also gives us hundrets of shovelware steam KILLED phisicals on pc we have to support phisical games when they are dying!

Also regarding piracy its good for testing when game doesn't have demo but i just feel this satisfaction when playing game that i Bought. I also regret pirating danganronpa 2 i sould have buy that...