I recently had the dislike of reading about the working conditions of game developers in large companies in England, and I must say that it looks a lot like modern slavery, I recommend anyone interested in the subject to do a little search by Google.įor the past few days I have been playing the fantastic The Witcher 3 and I have been amazed by the level of detail on such a large map. This work of many years is often done in terrible conditions, on the basis of a ridiculous salary and often at least 12 hours a day. We forgot the immense work of a huge team that needed a lot of studies and training to be able to spend a lot of hours working on the game. We tell ourselves that when we download this copy we are not stealing, in the same way as if you steal a car or a mobile phone, when downloading we are not removing anything from anyone and for having downloaded a copy we are not preventing if you sell a copy of the game, we're just not paying for ours. After all, it was not us who adulterated the work of others.

I also realize that it is difficult to see the act of downloading an illegal copy as a robbery. I would even say that it is easier for a plane to crash than a gamer is caught downloading a pirate game, or as it is quite common in our country, to go to a friend's house to catch the game on an external disk. It's easy to forget that when it's so easy to pick up the pirate copies of almost any game these days, especially when the chance of being caught is virtually nil.

Piracy is illegal and morally wrong, period. Well not to lose more time I start already for the first part, in this case the last aspect: the ugly one. However however I tried, I could not speak superficially of each aspect and do them justice, so I had no choice but to split this article into 3 parts. Using the classic title of Clint Eastwood, one can describe 3 of the main aspects of what is piracy in video games.

It is undoubtedly one of the most controversial and complicated that I have ever had to write, but piracy is something so present in the gaming world, especially in Angola, that I could not leave this matter untouched here in Menos Fios. I've lost count of the times I've tried to write this article.

The pirate download my name is bread