Ever considered that they don't have $27? It's very likely. I mean, children can't get jobs, so it's not their fault if they can't afford it, and many families don't have enough money for these kind of things, because they would like to be able to buy food.
I know from experience that many people can't "just fork up $27", because I myself am one of them. I have been saving up for almost a year now, but I still don't have enough, because I both am too young to get a job, and my family doesn't have money to throw away.
Apologies.
Not to sound mean, but, Yes families too poor to hand in 20 or 30 USD aren't so poor that they can afford a
computer and internet... -.-
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Too lazy to actually buy the game? There are a lot of reasons why you wouldn't buy off the bat. Maybe you want to know you're getting your money's worth - and don't say "play classic" because that's so outdated it's almost a different game by now. They can't buy those cards with gift codes on them because they're not sold in their country (like in mine), and their parents could just be afraid of technology/think Mojang is a scam for whatever reason.
Also, many cracked users do give a crap about illegally playing and given the chance, will buy the game. See my first point.
Idiotic? Spoiled? How can you say that? I wouldn't call them idiotic - in fact, they're quite the opposite, wanting to know that they'll be getting their money's worth before they buy the game. As for spoiled, if they were really spoiled their parents would buy everything they want, meaning no need for piracy.
Oh, you know they say it to shut up the questioner? Really? Please tell us how you found out this wonderful piece of info. I don't like people making assumptions of others.
There's no point in spreading the word - the people who don't care about playing cracked will continue to play it, and the people who do feel bad will eventually buy it, especially if they only played cracked to see what the game was like.
Thanks.
Theres this really cool thing on the minecraft website, its called a demo.
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Look I agree, those that pirate and never pay a cent are despicable but to "stand up against" them is quite frankly a laughable and pointless proposition.
Mainly becasue;
Fighting it is pointless or to much of a painful sacrifice- Any solution that would actually work would mean giving away our liberty SOPA and PIPA style. You'd need to give the business men full and total control and surveillance to make pirating a thing of the past. So let pirates run free or have the internet ran by despot businessmen, I choose the smaller shark.
It's Impact is over stated - Harm pirating causes in this online DL context is kind of difficult to gauge. Traditional commerce is slowly dissolving in the online world. The things digital purveyors sell are of a potentially limitless stock. Meaning if anything is copied nothing but POTENTIAL revenue is lost. (That being said as far as companies are concerned, potential revenue is revenue, that's why we have harsh DRM).
While it still can potentially ruin the creator if everyone is a greedy bugger and intends to never pay even a cent. Chances are those cheapskates who pirate without intending to contribute would have never payed a cent whether they liked it or not. Seeing though the supply is limitless nothing was really lost. The only real ethical issue is that now shifty undeserving individuals have something for nothing and are leaching off creative people. Essentially acting like parasites...
But then we come to a potential problem. If the potential stock is limitless the standard rules of supply and demand just can't apply as supply aspect has been negated. It's turned the market place in to a sort of support/ merit based economy. You aren't buying a set finite tangible product anymore. Instead you are giving money to reward work well done and service with an intangible value. For the sheer fact that you want them to continue to make good things.
A decent person pays as opposed to pirate becasue they realize that it's the classy thing to do. They also know that if NO ONE pays in it might kill the great thing you have found. That and they do not hold parasitic personality traits and would rather go without then stoop to leaching.
In the end piracys effect is hinged on societies ideals regarding honest pay for honest work. If everyone's a leaching parasite, creative people will be sucked dry until there are no more hosts left. Piracy would then be a serious problem for the digital platform and we'd on whole deserve any tyrannical DRM that follows.
But if everyone is decent and realizes that creativity needs resource and incentive and pay their way. The digital platform has nothing to fear from a few cheapskates. We'd get great unhindered games/ apps/ service and creatives get to eat and live comfortably.
Personally while my faith in humanity is low. I still believe that many people still have some sense of decency and realize while they CAN have something for nothing doesn't mean they should. Pirates wont destroy Minecraft and don't need to be stood up to, people are not that bad so it seems. (still pretty horrible though)
If people weren't pirating Minecraft in the past, it would never achieve such popularity. I, for sure, wouldn't buy it if I wasn't playing for free for three weeks. Same with other friend to whom I recommended Minecraft.
PotaterCrafter, I don't know if you want to appear as ally of justice, get attention, make forum more active or really believe this nonsense you're saying but please, just stop.
The excuse that 'nur I don't have enough money' is silly at best. Think of pirating as sneaking in on a move. You don't cost the theater any money since you won't make a mess or break anything. The problem with sneaking into a movie is that you didn't need to see the movie. It's an entertainment that you want. Should the theater just let you in since they can't ever prevent you from sneaking in? It is suddenly OK if you can't afford the movie ticket?
You need a computer for Minecraft, so you're going to have to buy one first. But computers cost a lot more than Minecraft. And someone could save up, only to find that their computer would empty their supply of money.
Let me give you an example-
I have £117. Minecraft in £ is £17.95. I have a computer build ready, but it's £109. And that's with cheaper parts and cutting out parts of lesser use. Now if you can't do mathematics, that brings my money down to £8, with all my hopes of possibly buying Minecraft some time soon, and my hopes of possibly silencing those who think I'm just a greedy fool who doesn't want to pay for anything, gone straight out the window.
So you can save up £117, but that extra £10 is impossible?
And Internet? Well the taxpayer generally pays for that. The taxpayer generally has money. The taxpayer generally is an adult. Children don't always have the money the taxpayer does.
The tax payer will by the internet, but not the computer? That doesn't make much sense. Surly you have a computer if you have the internet.
Minecraft CAN run on quite old systems. Trust me, I've tried.
In the time of a year (from March 23 2012 to March 23 2013, my birthday) I received £217.
£210 of that was from birthday money,
£100 was lost to my old laptop, which broke,
Remaining, £110
Of the other £7,
£2 from December 2012,
£5 from February 2013.
It's going to take me a while to save £9, thank you very much.
So what you're saying is "Oh no! I could only afford TWO computers this year! How could I afford a £20 game?"
Why did your other lappy explode into nothingness? Did it not have a warranty? Why did you buy a lappy with no warranty?
And the demo worlds only lasts 100 minutes. I was a dedicated player (when I had a computer to play on), and would sometimes play for hours on end, then coming back for yet more later. I'm already confined to not having the servers and skins that you love so much, I really don't want to be confined to not being able to actually play.
That's a good reason to not pirate. Encourage activity such as this from developers. Letting you play for and hour and a half for free as many times as you want is a nice thing.
And just because I haven't paid yet, doesn't mean I'm never going to. I don't understand why people think this.
Because you'll never have to. Why would you pirate something if you plan on paying for it? Why not just wait?
I'll admit that I did pirate Minecraft before I bought it. Do you know why? Remember that crummy PC I mentioned? I was like "Welp, I'm not going to pay for something that I might not even get to use." Sure, there was classic, but I seem to recall getting more FPS on classic than with the main game. Quite a bit more. So I pirated it to ensure my system could run it. I then ran into an issue which I couldn't pay for it, although I had the money, for a few months.
I wonder why piracy haters are never capable of coming up with something that could be even called shaky analogy. Your cinema example is by no means representative of the situation.
Movie lasts 1-3 hours and if you sneaked in, you watch it in one go.
Minecraft is a game you can play for months or even years. There's nothing wrong with trying it out for a week or two and deciding to buy it later. Even Notch himself encouraged this practice. Just like anyone intelligent would.
Edit: I'm going to assume the post above me isn't talking to me because A) I don't think I insulted anyone; I insulted an idea, but no person. He never argued how any of my points are 'incoherent'. C) Insulting me about how I am insulting people is a weird meta criticism, see A). D) He didn't quote me or say my name. E) WP:AGF
I wonder why piracy haters are never capable of coming up with something that could be even called shaky analogy. Your cinema example is by no means representative of the situation.
Movie lasts 1-3 hours and if you sneaked in, you watch it in one go.
Minecraft is a game you can play for months or even years. There's nothing wrong with trying it out for a week or two and deciding to buy it later. Even Notch himself encouraged this practice. Just like anyone intelligent would.
Quote me if you want to get a reply. I'll get a notification for it.
I wonder why piracy haters are never capable of coming up with something that could be even called shaky analogy. Your cinema example is by no means representative of the situation.
I say it's the best analogy ever. The theater doesn't lose money, there's ambiguity about a 'lost sale', and it's a want verses a need. No, it's not perfect, but analogies can never be. Can you suggest a better analogy?
Movie lasts 1-3 hours and if you sneaked in, you watch it in one go.
Minecraft is a game you can play for months or even years. There's nothing wrong with trying it out for a week or two and deciding to buy it later.
Sure, try it. I did that. The problem is that some people aren't just 'trying' it. Anyone who pirates it today isn't 'trying' it. There's a demo now if you want to try it.
Even Notch himself encouraged this practice. Just like anyone intelligent would.
If you are talking about players who play pirated minecraft for months and refuse to pay for it - even if you gave them 30$ personally they would waste it on burgers and still play the game for free. If you took the game from them, they would pirate another one. No potential revenue is lost either way. Just let them play. If they like it, they'll tell about it to their friends and some of them will most likely buy it.
You completely misunderstood what I said. Notch is fine with pirating because of what I explained above. X won't pay for Minecraft but he'll introduce the game to his 5 friends of whom two will buy it. Creating new copies of Minecraft is free so Mojang still makes profit in this scenario. It's also possible X will buy the game later to play multi with his two friends or he simply grows up. If you didn't let him play the game for free, you would be sure he wouldn't buy it and, what's more, his friends wouldn't buy it either because they wouldn't know about it.
What are you going to do, find them all and spank them? This is ridiculous to be debating the morals of downloading a Java game for free. It's pointless, as pirated copies of Minecraft (and any game or movie) will always be available on the internet regardless of how anybody thinks of it.
Hey guys, Derpy Potater here, and it has come to my attention, just how many cracked users there are... this REALLY ticks me off. Mojang works hard on this game and they only ask $30 for one of the greatest sandbox games ever! Yet, everyday, TONS of cracked users, too lazy to actually buy the game, pour on into cracked servers not giving a crap about illegally playing. I am a realist, I know I can't convince every-single-idiotic-spoiled cracked user to buy the game, but I know I might, just MIGHT be able to convince at least some, and then have those I have convinced to spread the message. A lot of cracked users when confronted with the statement, "Dude, just buy minecraft already, it's only $30!" their excuse would be, "I'm sorry man, I just really love this game, but I don't have enough money, my family's poor, are you happy now? You revealed my embarrassing secret, are you proud now *rages*??????" Well, I know for a fact, a lot of times, they say that just to shut up the questioner, and they in fact, have plenty enough money for the game. However if you really don't, and you really love the game so much, as to play it illegally everyday, then save up money! if you're a kid, mow lawns, do work along the lines of that, and do chores. If you're a teen, get a job at wal-mart, mcdonalds, Stop & Shop, places like that, I'm sure you can get enough money after just alittle work. If you're an adult, same as teen, job!!!!!!!! So you see.... even if you complain about not having enough money, getting enough isn't really that hard in most cases. So spread the word, "Don't play cracked minecraft!".
I'm Derpy Potater, and I approve this message.
You are fully aware that Markus "Notch" Persson has specifically come out against the current "anti-piracy" trend in the industry and stated that pirates are more than welcome to play his game and he will never take legal action because he believes that piracy has an important role to play in the industry right?
Because it seems to me that a whole lot of Minecraft players are coming out to "defend" Minecraft whiel completely ignoring what the creator of Minecraft has stated as his view on the whole piracy issue.
Also it seems that those who complain about piracy tend to live with their parents or go to college on a fund and work some burger flipping job to pay their incredibly minor bills
Many people do not have such luxuries and must work 50 hour weeks to make barely enough to scrape by. Plus many people simply don't want to support a low quality product and would prefer to know whether or not the game is worth the cash, as we all know a demo does not cover ever aspect of the game and pirating is the only way to be certain.
You really don't want people pirating games for some reason? Buy the games for them out of your own pocket.
And just to be clear, I bought Minecraft way back in beta and was burned pretty hard by what it became. While I still love it, I know that what I bought all those years ago is not what I got years later.
Don't even bother typing a reply again because I won't see it unless someone else brings me back to the thread. :/
Demo is not enough, that's just 100 minutes.
How much is 'enough'? How much free content do they have to give you before you can make a decision on whether to buy the game or not? How is 'Play the game and much as you want in batches of 100 minutes' not enough?
If you are talking about players who play pirated minecraft for months and refuse to pay for it - even if you gave them 30$ personally they would waste it on burgers and still play the game for free. If you took the game from them, they would pirate another one. No potential revenue is lost either way. Just let them play. If they like it, they'll tell about it to their friends and some of them will most likely buy it.
A) It's not like we can stop these people.
I'm not going to say "Well, they MIGHT have friends who MIGHT not know about X and MIGHT not pirate just like their friends, so that makes it morally OK." That's silly. Sure, piracy CAN lead to more sales, but that doesn't make it OK to do.
You completely misunderstood what I said.
You said "Even Notch himself encouraged this practice."
Notch said "Please don’t interpret this text as me being fine with people pirating Minecraft."
I think you misunderstand Notch. He's actively discouraging by saying "Don't think I'm fine with people pirating Minecraft."
Notch is fine with pirating because of what I explained above. X won't pay for Minecraft but he'll introduce the game to his 5 friends of whom two will buy it. Creating new copies of Minecraft is free so Mojang still makes profit in this scenario. It's also possible X will buy the game later to play multi with his two friends or he simply grows up. If you didn't let him play the game for free, you would be sure he wouldn't buy it and, what's more, his friends wouldn't buy it either because they wouldn't know about it.
Sure, that hypothetically will result in more sales as I stated in point B above. That doesn't mean it's OK to pirate anything though. See, the problem is that if it is OK to pirate things, a higher and higher percent of people will pirate things. If there's no incentive to buy a game, and it is ethical and legal, people aren't going to spend the money.
And I have a Tablet. Didn't buy it, got it as a Christmas present. Bought MCPE on it. (with a giftcard also from Christmas, by the way)
Point?
I'm sure you have some computer somewhere that can play Minecraft.
No, I'm saying I rarely get money when it isn't my birthday.
No warranty, because I thought eBay would be a great place to buy a laptop. (it was good but wow, I don't think I'm going to do that again)
How does you mismanaging your funds make it OK to pirate something?
And get an hour and a half of time wasted because you can't play it again. Right. Nice thing.
A demo is a demo. You're suppose to use it to see if you want the game. What are you supposing they let you do? Play fore free as much as you want? That has implications I've already posted about.
Because I wanted to find out why people liked it so much.
Besides, when I originally pirated it (a time when the demo didn't exist, mind you), I didn't expect it to take so long to buy it.
Nope. You told me you had money in 2012. A demo was, in fact, out by then. Thus, you pirated it BEFORE you got money. Why didn't you buy it when you got money then?
Ok, let's assume you didn't know there was a demo, even though I'm sure a Googleing would have resulted in the demo being a top result. That's a legitimate reason to pirate to try. However, you've indicated that you haven't been 'just trying'. You've said that you can play for hours a DAY.
And also, I'd just like to note, I don't actually support piracy. I'll defend it, yes, and I do it myself, but I think it is bad. Shouldn't be done. The developers worked hard on their piece of software, whatever it is. They deserve something in return. I do want to buy Minecraft, so I don't understand why you're coming up with the "why would you buy it if you have already pirated it" argument.
"I don't support this thing I'm actively doing, and I can stop doing it at any time." You'll understand why I don't believe that.
Some people will pay for it after they pirated it. Some people won't. If you do pay for everything you pirate, goo on you. Pirate away. Make sure you pay for all of your downloads though.
I never said that, nor was I implying it. Congratulations for basing your argument on something you made up yourself.
Sure. Maybe I did concoct that from your words and assume a few things. What makes it OK for you to pirate?
Hmm. I don't remember the demo being out late 2011. Silly me. Must have missed it.
Or you didn't look hard enough.
Who says I had money previous to that?
You did. You said you had money in 2012. 2012 comes after the demo came out. Obviously you didn't look for the demo, but if you would have, then the entire paragraph is true. Since you didn't look, the paragraph isn't true.
Umm yes I did say I could play for hours a day... what does that have to do with this?
You obviously didn't pirate to 'try'.
Yes. Because you are being ignorant.
Sure. Call me names. Whatever makes you sleep at night.
Yes. Because you are being ignorant. Just because someone does something, doesn't mean they think it is a good thing.
If someones does something and doesn't think what they are doing is a good thing, they should stop.
In the end, it all depends. Now, if the users got the game for free but with the limitations being there are no updates applied and no multiplayer, it would have less of an effect. Besides, 30 dollars IS rather expensive for a game that doesn't even have a good framerate, plus as long as you in the end buy the game for the full features, it'll be okay. Once I got the game for free and I played it offline. But if everybody's so afraid about cracked versions, the solution would be to reprogram the client so that multiplayer cannot be used, the client cannot be modified and will intentionally crash if it's even on the "likely" scale, and have it so that one single world is created with the seed "Cracked versions taste like chicken" on hardcore difficulty, meaning the user can play for as long as they like but they cannot open it to LAN and they play on Hardcore difficulty.
Not to sound mean, but, Yes families too poor to hand in 20 or 30 USD aren't so poor that they can afford a
computer and internet... -.-
Theres this really cool thing on the minecraft website, its called a demo.
Look I agree, those that pirate and never pay a cent are despicable but to "stand up against" them is quite frankly a laughable and pointless proposition.
Mainly becasue;
Fighting it is pointless or to much of a painful sacrifice- Any solution that would actually work would mean giving away our liberty SOPA and PIPA style. You'd need to give the business men full and total control and surveillance to make pirating a thing of the past. So let pirates run free or have the internet ran by despot businessmen, I choose the smaller shark.
It's Impact is over stated - Harm pirating causes in this online DL context is kind of difficult to gauge. Traditional commerce is slowly dissolving in the online world. The things digital purveyors sell are of a potentially limitless stock. Meaning if anything is copied nothing but POTENTIAL revenue is lost. (That being said as far as companies are concerned, potential revenue is revenue, that's why we have harsh DRM).
While it still can potentially ruin the creator if everyone is a greedy bugger and intends to never pay even a cent. Chances are those cheapskates who pirate without intending to contribute would have never payed a cent whether they liked it or not. Seeing though the supply is limitless nothing was really lost. The only real ethical issue is that now shifty undeserving individuals have something for nothing and are leaching off creative people. Essentially acting like parasites...
But then we come to a potential problem. If the potential stock is limitless the standard rules of supply and demand just can't apply as supply aspect has been negated. It's turned the market place in to a sort of support/ merit based economy. You aren't buying a set finite tangible product anymore. Instead you are giving money to reward work well done and service with an intangible value. For the sheer fact that you want them to continue to make good things.
A decent person pays as opposed to pirate becasue they realize that it's the classy thing to do. They also know that if NO ONE pays in it might kill the great thing you have found. That and they do not hold parasitic personality traits and would rather go without then stoop to leaching.
In the end piracys effect is hinged on societies ideals regarding honest pay for honest work. If everyone's a leaching parasite, creative people will be sucked dry until there are no more hosts left. Piracy would then be a serious problem for the digital platform and we'd on whole deserve any tyrannical DRM that follows.
But if everyone is decent and realizes that creativity needs resource and incentive and pay their way. The digital platform has nothing to fear from a few cheapskates. We'd get great unhindered games/ apps/ service and creatives get to eat and live comfortably.
Personally while my faith in humanity is low. I still believe that many people still have some sense of decency and realize while they CAN have something for nothing doesn't mean they should. Pirates wont destroy Minecraft and don't need to be stood up to, people are not that bad so it seems. (still pretty horrible though)
PotaterCrafter, I don't know if you want to appear as ally of justice, get attention, make forum more active or really believe this nonsense you're saying but please, just stop.
So you can save up £117, but that extra £10 is impossible?
The tax payer will by the internet, but not the computer? That doesn't make much sense. Surly you have a computer if you have the internet.
Minecraft CAN run on quite old systems. Trust me, I've tried.
Edit: I don't trust the double post mergin system
So what you're saying is "Oh no! I could only afford TWO computers this year! How could I afford a £20 game?"
Why did your other lappy explode into nothingness? Did it not have a warranty? Why did you buy a lappy with no warranty?
That's a good reason to not pirate. Encourage activity such as this from developers. Letting you play for and hour and a half for free as many times as you want is a nice thing.
Because you'll never have to. Why would you pirate something if you plan on paying for it? Why not just wait?
I'll admit that I did pirate Minecraft before I bought it. Do you know why? Remember that crummy PC I mentioned? I was like "Welp, I'm not going to pay for something that I might not even get to use." Sure, there was classic, but I seem to recall getting more FPS on classic than with the main game. Quite a bit more. So I pirated it to ensure my system could run it. I then ran into an issue which I couldn't pay for it, although I had the money, for a few months.
Movie lasts 1-3 hours and if you sneaked in, you watch it in one go.
Minecraft is a game you can play for months or even years. There's nothing wrong with trying it out for a week or two and deciding to buy it later. Even Notch himself encouraged this practice. Just like anyone intelligent would.
Quote me if you want to get a reply. I'll get a notification for it.
I say it's the best analogy ever. The theater doesn't lose money, there's ambiguity about a 'lost sale', and it's a want verses a need. No, it's not perfect, but analogies can never be. Can you suggest a better analogy?
Sure, try it. I did that. The problem is that some people aren't just 'trying' it. Anyone who pirates it today isn't 'trying' it. There's a demo now if you want to try it.
Notch did not encourage this practice. In fact, he did the opposite. "Please don’t interpret this text as me being fine with people pirating Minecraft. I’d MUCH rather have people pay for it so I can reinvest in hiring people and developing more cool games in the future." The tweet that's been floating around was said because the other person asked for a free copy or pirate. Notch told him to pirate it. He also told him to buy it when he could.
Demo is not enough, that's just 100 minutes.
If you are talking about players who play pirated minecraft for months and refuse to pay for it - even if you gave them 30$ personally they would waste it on burgers and still play the game for free. If you took the game from them, they would pirate another one. No potential revenue is lost either way. Just let them play. If they like it, they'll tell about it to their friends and some of them will most likely buy it.
You completely misunderstood what I said. Notch is fine with pirating because of what I explained above. X won't pay for Minecraft but he'll introduce the game to his 5 friends of whom two will buy it. Creating new copies of Minecraft is free so Mojang still makes profit in this scenario. It's also possible X will buy the game later to play multi with his two friends or he simply grows up. If you didn't let him play the game for free, you would be sure he wouldn't buy it and, what's more, his friends wouldn't buy it either because they wouldn't know about it.
You are fully aware that Markus "Notch" Persson has specifically come out against the current "anti-piracy" trend in the industry and stated that pirates are more than welcome to play his game and he will never take legal action because he believes that piracy has an important role to play in the industry right?
Because it seems to me that a whole lot of Minecraft players are coming out to "defend" Minecraft whiel completely ignoring what the creator of Minecraft has stated as his view on the whole piracy issue.
Also it seems that those who complain about piracy tend to live with their parents or go to college on a fund and work some burger flipping job to pay their incredibly minor bills
Many people do not have such luxuries and must work 50 hour weeks to make barely enough to scrape by. Plus many people simply don't want to support a low quality product and would prefer to know whether or not the game is worth the cash, as we all know a demo does not cover ever aspect of the game and pirating is the only way to be certain.
You really don't want people pirating games for some reason? Buy the games for them out of your own pocket.
And just to be clear, I bought Minecraft way back in beta and was burned pretty hard by what it became. While I still love it, I know that what I bought all those years ago is not what I got years later.
Don't even bother typing a reply again because I won't see it unless someone else brings me back to the thread. :/
How much is 'enough'? How much free content do they have to give you before you can make a decision on whether to buy the game or not? How is 'Play the game and much as you want in batches of 100 minutes' not enough?
A) It's not like we can stop these people.
I'm not going to say "Well, they MIGHT have friends who MIGHT not know about X and MIGHT not pirate just like their friends, so that makes it morally OK." That's silly. Sure, piracy CAN lead to more sales, but that doesn't make it OK to do.
You said "Even Notch himself encouraged this practice."
Notch said "Please don’t interpret this text as me being fine with people pirating Minecraft."
I think you misunderstand Notch. He's actively discouraging by saying "Don't think I'm fine with people pirating Minecraft."
Sure, that hypothetically will result in more sales as I stated in point B above. That doesn't mean it's OK to pirate anything though. See, the problem is that if it is OK to pirate things, a higher and higher percent of people will pirate things. If there's no incentive to buy a game, and it is ethical and legal, people aren't going to spend the money.
I'm sure you have some computer somewhere that can play Minecraft.
How does you mismanaging your funds make it OK to pirate something?
A demo is a demo. You're suppose to use it to see if you want the game. What are you supposing they let you do? Play fore free as much as you want? That has implications I've already posted about.
Nope. You told me you had money in 2012. A demo was, in fact, out by then. Thus, you pirated it BEFORE you got money. Why didn't you buy it when you got money then?
Ok, let's assume you didn't know there was a demo, even though I'm sure a Googleing would have resulted in the demo being a top result. That's a legitimate reason to pirate to try. However, you've indicated that you haven't been 'just trying'. You've said that you can play for hours a DAY.
"I don't support this thing I'm actively doing, and I can stop doing it at any time." You'll understand why I don't believe that.
Some people will pay for it after they pirated it. Some people won't. If you do pay for everything you pirate, goo on you. Pirate away. Make sure you pay for all of your downloads though.
Sure. Maybe I did concoct that from your words and assume a few things. What makes it OK for you to pirate?
Or you didn't look hard enough.
You did. You said you had money in 2012. 2012 comes after the demo came out. Obviously you didn't look for the demo, but if you would have, then the entire paragraph is true. Since you didn't look, the paragraph isn't true.
You obviously didn't pirate to 'try'.
Sure. Call me names. Whatever makes you sleep at night.
If someones does something and doesn't think what they are doing is a good thing, they should stop.
My fan fiction of the game: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1957118-programmer-my-first-fan-fiction/#entry24096758