I don't need to justify piracy to you. You are the one that's morally outraged here. Again, I have the money, it's not a poverty thing. It's a perception thing. When people act gross, I act gross in response. Plain and simple. You can try to defend these companies, some of which have larger profits than the GDP outputs of some countries, all you want. That's your prerogative. When companies put greed before the goodwill of the customers, which this is by the way, then I act shitty in response. That's my prerogative.
You were morally outraged enough to decide that this justifies piracy, but this is Capcom we're talking about, not EA. From what I can see, they're not making their money off of gambling mechanics like Ultimate Team. They're talking about raising prices on products that are generally seen as quality and charging what they believe those products to be worth, even saying that this will allow them to raise staff salaries to retain talent. I don't condone piracy, but I was asking you what line you believed they crossed when price increases are just inevitable for anything that costs money, and I personally don't really see any scummy business practices attached to this. Beyond that, I'd also argue that you have a greater effect on the market when you just don't pirate or play those games that offend you at all and instead direct your time and money to a game that could use it more. That means they make more of the latter and the former is less successful for doing something you didn't like. Word of mouth of the games you played and the lack of word of mouth for the ones you didn't has an effect on the market as well.
I agree you don't have to justify it, but I also feel like you don't need to glorify it either. I'm not morally opposed to it and jah knows I've don't some piracy in my day, but people who have to make a big statement about it as you've done above invite the arguments from people who are morally opposed.
I don't need to justify piracy to you. You are the one that's morally outraged here. Again, I have the money, it's not a poverty thing. It's a perception thing. When people act gross, I act gross in response. Plain and simple. You can try to defend these companies, some of which have larger profits than the GDP outputs of some countries, all you want. That's your prerogative. When companies put greed before the goodwill of the customers, which this is by the way, then I act shitty in response. That's my prerogative.
You were morally outraged enough to decide that this justifies piracy, but this is Capcom we're talking about, not EA. From what I can see, they're not making their money off of gambling mechanics like Ultimate Team. They're talking about raising prices on products that are generally seen as quality and charging what they believe those products to be worth, even saying that this will allow them to raise staff salaries to retain talent. I don't condone piracy, but I was asking you what line you believed they crossed when price increases are just inevitable for anything that costs money, and I personally don't really see any scummy business practices attached to this. Beyond that, I'd also argue that you have a greater effect on the market when you just don't pirate or play those games that offend you at all and instead direct your time and money to a game that could use it more. That means they make more of the latter and the former is less successful for doing something you didn't like. Word of mouth of the games you played and the lack of word of mouth for the ones you didn't has an effect on the market as well.
I agree you don't have to justify it, but I also feel like you don't need to glorify it either. I'm not morally opposed to it and jah knows I've don't some piracy in my day, but people who have to make a big statement about it as you've done above invite the arguments from people who are morally opposed.