What games suffer most of piratism?
Nikosu Oyama
Finland
Turku
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In my case the question of piratism is a hypothetical one. I haven't ever played a "pirate" game in my life. And I consider that it would be stupid to make a cheap version of a game that you can still buy from the hobby shop. If I was a very serious fan of a game that I couldn't get from anywhere, I'd maybe make a copy of my own out of wood.
So my question is this:
Have you ever played or seen that a boardgame listed in BGG was played with a home made "pirate" version of the game? What game was it? If you haven't seen a "pirate" version of any game in your life, what game do you think is or would be an easy target of piratism? Why?
War of the Copyright is raging in my thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/160431
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Nikosu Oyama
Finland
Turku
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Once I played this gaming with a friend using few home made cards. The idea was to try cards that are out of print. This could be considered as illegal by some people. I didn't think that there was anything illegal in doing so.
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Board Game: YINSH
[Average Rating:7.68 Overall Rank:65]
Nikosu Oyama
Finland
Turku
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I read from the BGG that some people had played home-made version of this. Although hard to make the pirate version as good looking as this. I assume one can easily make a playable pirate version out of this.
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Nikosu Oyama
Finland
Turku
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This is an amazingly good looking "pirate" version of the game. Considering I paid only 40 e from this, I assume that if counting materials and the time (lets say 5e / hour) to make this awesome copy of the game has costed atleast four times as much. Probably even more. I think that people should have the right to make upgraded versions of their games if they choose so.
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Board Game: Tichu
[Average Rating:7.73 Overall Rank:36]
Nikosu Oyama
Finland
Turku
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I have actually considered to play this with an ordinary deck of cards. Well the game is so inexpensive (10e) and good looking that if I like the game, I'll buy the original cards. I think that one should have the right to first try and then buy if they like it. With this game it's quite easily done.
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Mikael Ă–lmestig
Sweden
Halmstad
Halland
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I am playing this regulary with a 6 Nimmt deck and glasstones. I will own it eventually, but I have no rush.
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Thomas Fuhs
United States
Goldsboro
North Carolina
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Pick tiles, scan, print & mount on pasteboard / sticky magnet. Should be simple in theory, I guess. Not that I EVER would do this as a scaled down travel sized version. Nope, would NEVER do that
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Jon Theys
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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I admit I have a homebrew version of this game, with numbers printed out and pasted onto big chunky mah-jongg tiles.
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Olivier Lamontagne
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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I showed this game to someone and he made his own version.
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Olivier Lamontagne
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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Probably the most ¨pirated¨ game I know
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Weintraub J
United States
Commack
New York
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Does this count? It's especially easy if you use grid-lined paper.
I won't bother to add Tic-Tac-Toe to the list.
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Scott Lewis
United States
Castle Rock
Colorado
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I've started making this. The investment has been largely time as I'm not using the highest-quality materials, but it's definitely made me appreciate the game
Hopefully I'll be able to snag a REAL copy of this sometime, though!
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Paul Blake
United States
Westerville
Ohio
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Scarcity does funny things to people.
I've played this game, and would probably drop $50 retail on it. Much more than that, though, and my desire (and ability) to purchase the game goes down rather quickly.
Nandeck is a pretty powerful program for someone who knows how to script things efficiently, and blank cards on perforated sheets are available. I've still got some left over from back when BGDF.com was selling them, but I'll probably need to pick up new ones from PlainCards.com.
At any rate, it wouldn't be too difficult to put together a Nandeck script that produced cards which looked at least as good as the original with this game. The card layouts were pretty simplistic, and could be standardized pretty easily. There's only 201 different cards in the game, anyway. Add some glass stones or colored cubes, a board (which also could be done in Nandeck), and a few pawns, and you've got the extremely tempting prospect of making your own homemade version of a $200 game out of bits you probably already have.
I'm actually strongly considering doing this as a stop-gap replacement until the reprint occurs.
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Made my own copy of this using some Rage cards and tokens from another game. Played it a couple of times. Even free it wasn't worth it.
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Board Game: Hive
[Average Rating:7.37 Overall Rank:111]
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Made my own copy of this by cutting out hexagons on normal paper, just to see how the game played. Great game and I will be picking up a copy in my next order.
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I made my own copy of BKE because it's rather difficult to get. (I pre-ordered the reprint that is planned by DG, but that wasn't planned when I 'pirated' the game.) The picture you see is my version of the game board. Besides the board, there only are some 600 counters, which makes this game pretty easy to 'pirate' if you can find a copy of the rules (the only thing not available on BGG).
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Peter Johns
United States
Houston
Texas
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I made my own copy of this with plastic guns from the dollar store and perforated business cards. I did it because it wasn't available in the country at the time.
I think I've played it twice and then it fell by the wayside. Just wasn't popular enough with our crowd for me to warrant importing one.
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Board Game: Antike
[Average Rating:7.21 Overall Rank:226]
Seth Jaffee
United States
Tucson
Arizona
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I made a copy of this when I couldn't get a hold of one even overseas... I think I played it twice, and never since. It's a shame, because I really liked it when I first played it.
It's also a shame that while making a copy, I came across the exact same clip art used in the actual game.
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Board Game: Zendo
[Average Rating:7.31 Overall Rank:282]
John Farrell
Australia
Aspley
Queensland
Averagely Inadequate
Buster Keaton from 'Go West'
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I made a version of this using coloured paddlepop sticks. Not sure what the American term for that is... Anyway, at $A2 for the bag it has worked out somewhat cheaper than importing Icehouse pieces, and the kids love that the sticks can be used as a game.
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Gregor McNish
Australia
Melbourne
VIC
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I made a copy of this to give it a go. Good game. Kind of like Settlers with conflict. Still only played it the once, and it took several hours to put together.
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Arizona
Madrid
For example, if someone teaches you how to play Lost Cities and you play with a generic deck of cards, I don't think you're doing anything illegal, and you can't say it's a "pirated" copy...
Add in some generic game systems such as the piecepack and icehouse sets, and you can play many commercial games, just not with the nice artwork...
Check: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/15415 for some examples...
Edit: oops... I hadn't noticed you had also started the copyright thread... then this comment is a bit redundant...