I need help regaining hope from PC users. You can't all be dirty!

Please read this article. It has made me lose all faith in most PC gamers. Please tell me a feel good story about PC gamers.  
They can't all be this heartless, I was so disgusted by this article I bought the package for 25 dollars.  
 
EDIT: I was very angry when I wrote this. Sorry to the good PC gamers out there.

Please read this article. It has made me lose all faith in most PC gamers. Please tell me a feel good story about PC gamers.  
They can't all be this heartless, I was so disgusted by this article I bought the package for 25 dollars.  
 
EDIT: I was very angry when I wrote this. Sorry to the good PC gamers out there.

I was gonna make a joke... but that's disgusting. Really, I feel sad for the poor guys who made such a good offer.

well if you read the article they mentioned, they put out a number of different reasons why; not all of them bad:
 
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• "Some might want to donate, but it seems a whole lot easier to just click on a hyperlink than it is to enter a credit card number. Sure, it only takes a couple seconds, but for many, this is a few seconds too long. The most successful online stores all allow one-click buying, including Amazon, Steam and iTunes. In the words of one gamer, Steam showed him that he "wasn't cheap, just lazy," and I'm sure he's not alone in that realization.

• Some users may want to share the bundle with their friends, and decide that it's easier to just make one donation for a larger amount than it is to make separate gift donations.

• Some users may live in countries where none of our three processors (PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon) are accepted. These users might pay if they could, but they feel that they have no choice but to search for shared copies."

Wait, someone help me out here: There's no minimum price for the package. It's being made available through Wolfire for free. How does one pirate something that is free?
 
(For the record I donated $10 of my last $30.)

Well I bought the bundle. But I agree with the laziness thing, that's probably the issue. Incidentally, I fully endorse the OP's avatar.

I am disgusted.

" Incidentally, I fully endorse the OP's avatar. "

That's not cool, but I could see the convenience factor. I still haven't bought it simply because as soon as I see billing options, it always makes me lose interest. 
 
On another note, don't act like it's pc gamers as a collective that do this. It's just people. Bad people. If there was an easy way to pirate for consoles, people would likely do it just as much. Don't peg this on the pc gamers as a whole.

I totally support charities like this. Even though I already own World of Goo on Wii and Steam, then there was no other point in me downloading the package. So I donated anyways. I wish I can donate more, but I just threw in $20. 
 
Let me tell you something about pirates though. I'm a pirate. I fully admit it. Though if they do bring me a good game then I will definitely buy it. Basically, if the company is making less money than what they put in to porting it over from the consoles then what's the point of doing it. What I'm saying is that they are still making money. Yes, it's a shame that these people are taking the game for free, but c'mon, if they want people to donate to charity then they should  have posted that any money that they make from the games will be donated to charity.

Wow. This is a new low for PC gamers...

What if people are simply picking this up on a torrent site, not knowing that it originally came from a site for charity.

It is pretty poor taste to pirate a package meant for a charity. When world of Good was previously released under this pricing scheme I paid 13 cents... but that's only because it was all I had left in the world at that point. I couldn't pay less then $15 for all those games, simple because the charity aspect, but also since they are great games.

The whole concept of pirating is a bit lost on me, I am afraid. I want to encourage the developers, not drive them out of business. It does seem like an awful lot of PC gamers pirate titles, whatever the actual statistics may be.

Arrrg, it's the pirate way, take everything, give nothing back. I don't condone piracy, well of pc games anyways.

" Wow. This is a new low for PC gamers... "

To be fair, most people who browse the sites wouldn't realise it was from a charity and just download it as it's a bundle.  
 
Also, you seem to be ignoring those who don't have a credit or debit card.  
I'm not gonna be a hypocrite and say that pirates are disgusting for pirating this. Is a nice idea though, even though i've not heard of the charities before in my life. 

This is obviously not a good thing, but at the same time it seems like just another example of people blowing something out of proportion and completely over-reacting. I doubt most of those people did this as a malicious act and I hardly see how not donating to charity is the equivalent of stealing from a charity, otherwise everyone in the world is a thief.

I am a PC gamer, and I haven't pirated a game since a friend of mine gave me the original Wolfenstein 3D on floppy disk when I was 10. 
 
So there.

Just purchased this, thanks for the heads up. It really does suck that people feel the need to rip off these games, especially when it's for a worthwhile cause like this.
I gave what I could.

25% of downloads being pirated is much lower than a typical pirating rate for games these days, they've actually done pretty well.
And I agree with @dudeglove, it isn't PC gamers that are the problem, its that they have the opportunity to download games for free, while console gamers don't. If you could easily (without modding) pirate games on consoles, the piracy rates would jump through the roof.

Well, some people are saying they paid money but are using the torrent to save them bandwidth. I don't know if I buy that though. Seriously though, you can pay a penny, it would still be a jerk move but it would be better than pirating.
 
Hey if you look at the bright side, there were a few people who donated a couple hundred including one who donated a thousand.
 
I paid $3. I'm poor and since the bundle ends today, it's better to pay something than nothing. Also, I already own World of Goo.

" I don't think it's anything to do with PC users per se, just wankstains with no morals who happen to have internet access. "

" What if people are simply picking this up on a torrent site, not knowing that it originally came from a site for charity. "

The assholes who pirates games from torrent sites all day just see a game and download it, they don't do their research and look if its an indie game or wtvr, they just care that it's been cracked by Reloaded or wtvr, whether it's a AAA, AA or indie game.  
I'm not trying to defend pirates, just saying they probably don't even know it's an indie game. 
 
The FBI should just hunt down anybody who cracks games, i.e. Reloaded and similar groups. No crackers = no pirated games.

I support anything that comes on Steam and the mod community, even though I don't like Steam running in the background of everything.

I think for some people, pirating is just how they get all their entertainment media.  They know how to operate those channels and so before they even bother to see if there are legal ways to acquire their music, movies or games, they turn to the pirate sites and let the downloading begin.  It's nothing against the cause, it's just how they function because it's familiar. You might not recall, but Radiohead's album In Rainbows was originally offered exclusively from their website and the public could set their own price for the download.  Later it was revealed that despite having a potential price tag of $0.00, people still pirated the album from the various torrent sites. 2007 Forbes article

Well I never pirated a game. Ever, I just consider it a dick move and there are plenty of demos out there for me to try a game out, so no point in supporting that argument. I mean a group of people/dude spent a shit load of personal time doing something that could potentially entertain me and possibly teach me something? That should go unrewarded? I don't think so.

Please read this article. It has made me lose all faith in most PC gamers. Please tell me a feel good story about PC gamers.  They can't all be this heartless, I was so disgusted by this article I bought the package for 25 dollars.

Thanks to the OP for letting me know about this. I'm making a donation now. Also, douche bags will be douche bags, no matter which is their platform of choice. I heard even some of them don't even play games.

@Al3xand3r:  damn those game developers getting money for their work. sell-outs!

" What if people are simply picking this up on a torrent site, not knowing that it originally came from a site for charity. "

"@cancerdancer said:

" What if people are simply picking this up on a torrent site, not knowing that it originally came from a site for charity. "

Quoted for truth, being a (formerly) seasoned pirate I can assure you that such a deal is NOT presented on the torrent sites themselves very often. Most pirates (at least around here) are fairly open-minded and only pirate because of the jacked up prices on games, and if they were to be presented with this awesome deal, most of them would probably pay a few dollars instead of pirating. "

" Please read this article. It has made me lose all faith in most PC gamers. Please tell me a feel good story about PC gamers.  They can't all be this heartless, I was so disgusted by this article I bought the package for 25 dollars.   EDIT: I was very angry when I wrote this. Sorry to the good PC gamers out there. "

While a bunch of PC users may have stolen this cool thing, a bunch of PC users also donated almost a million dollars. 
 
I think that gets us out of the red, yeah? 
 
Also if pirating console games was super easy it would happen like crazy there too.

I'm surprised a higher percentage of people didn't pirate it.
 
It's perhaps the easiest set of games to pirate ever made, since there's no need to look for torrents or cracks.  No hassle. Just following a link.  I respect the fact that they went this route, though.  They understand that a lot of people are going to get their hands on their software without paying, and while they aren't exactly stoked about it, at least they aren't making it a hassle for those who contribute to play these awesome games.
 
It's just the reality of the situation.  It's easy to download, so it's easy to pirate.  There's always going to be people who prefer to get their stuff for free, and there's also going to be underage kids who don't want to bother asking their parents to use their credit cards.  It sucks, yeah, but what can you do?  The only way to completely prevent PC piracy is to stop making PC games.
 
Also, your thread opener is horrible.  Acting like all PC gamers pirated the bundle when the article clearly says that 75% of the people who downloaded the games paid for them. Tsk tsk.

People here need to get rid of their "holier than thou" attitude..It's not PC gamers that are at fault for piracy...it's people in general..
 
If pirating on consoles was as easy as PC, console piracy would be the same, if not worse. People who yell at all PC gamers and say they are all "dirty" need to get over themselves.

I'm primarily a PC gamer these days, and I purchased the Humble bundle despite already owning half the games from previous purchases.  I also don't pirate games, though, so ... /shrug 

That's a pretty dickish manoeuvre. I payed $5 which is a measly sum that made me feel bad for paying it, now I feel a little less guilty.

And people really wonder why PC gaming is in decline?