Hi Charles, Well, that certainly is one factor. Although, I haven't been blind my entire life when I lost my sight I was shocked at the number of blind people who have an entitlement complex and have a victim mentality. Its possible it is because of this they assume that a developer should just give them a game for free and if they don't they will simply pirate it and claim justification because they are on a fixed income whatever. However, that's not the whole story though.
As I indicated in another post yesterday there are a number of reasons why people choose to pirate software. One is certainly cost. If they don't have the money, can't afford it, for one reason or another they obviously won't buy it. Due in part to exchange rates a game priced reasonably at $25 in the U.S. will cost double or triple that in places like South America. This is a problem because even if the person would otherwise legally buy it the exchange rates between the United States and certain countries drives the cost up beyond reason. Another thing that causes piracy is trade embargos and restrictions that prevents a U.S. company from selling to a person living in certain countries. This is often a political decision on behalf of our respective governments, and since it is illegal for a person living in said country to purchase said software legally he resorts to piracy. Finally, some people pirate software because of availability. Sometimes developers don't offer demos of their software or the software is hard to obtain legally. So piracy becomes an alternative method for obtaining the software. For example, lets use the Bavisoft games as an example here. Thanks to the business model they use there is no way for an interested customer to download and evaluate a demo of the games. They might choose to download a pirated copy instead in order to decide if they want to purchase a legal copy. Unfortunately, if they get the game for free chances are they won't buy it because they have a full working copy anyway. A case where a demo would have been worth Bavisoft's time to create. The point I want to make here there are all kinds of reasons for pirating software and while I think entitlement is certainly part of it its not the entire story. There are many other reasons to take in account as well. Cheers! On 4/24/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > I may be wrong, but I think that blind people pirate games because they want > > stuff for free. Some consider it a challenge to see if they can crack a > game's security. In short, they pirate for the same reason that sighted > pirates do it. There is the added reasoning that the unemployed blind gamer > > cannot afford the game like a sighted employed gamer can, and, in part, > because they have led a sheltered life through being given whatever they > wanted by loving but misguided parents and relatives, they expect to get > what they want, when they want it, no exceptions. This last reason is also > > why I think we see the impatient gamers whine if a game was expected to be > released today but, although it is only noon, it isn't in their hands. > > -- > If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling > errors! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
