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screenshot of a Tweet from Running With Scissors reading

“We’ve been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we’ve been using Steam’s recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us.”

  • giant_smeeg
    36·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, the whole piracy crackdown situation is so stupid.

    I pirate a lot of media, if you added it all up it would be a lot of money (if I was to buy everything). The difference is, before I pirated I barely bought any of the media.

    • I pirate some games that i’d never buy. I buy all games I want to support.
    • I pay TV licence, netflix and amazon. I pirate tons of TV series because they aren’t on those services. I literally can’t buy some of them and if I could i’d need about 10 different streaming services.
    • Films, I pirate a lot of films. Before I pirated I never bought any films, i’d either wait for netflix/normal TV or just not watch them. I still go to the cinema for big releases.
    • I subscribe on patreon, github and donate to LOADS of projects, many of which i’ve pirated first or obtained a copy of (books are a big one here).

    If you were to objectively look at the value of the pirated media, it would seem that i’ve “stolen” or studios have missed out on lots of revenue, but the truth is I pirate a lot of media, just because I can.

    • Rynelan@feddit.nl
      5·
      1 year ago

      It’s the streaming part for me.

      Few years ago there was Netflix and Film1 in our country and an ISP with TV that also had a movie service.

      That was about it.

      Now there’s Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, SkyShowtime, Apple TV+ and ViaPlay added to it.

      It’s impossible to have have just 1 and view what you want. Ofcourse you can keep on switching but some of them but it’s all just making it more complicated.

      Solution? Pirate it. One source and everything available even stuff that isn’t on any on those services.

      Also some movies can’t be bought digital.

      IMO all movies and series should be available on any platform and let the streaming service decide if they want to have it in their portfolio. Only the “originals” should be locked to a platform to keep stuff unique.

      And make every damn movie and series available for purchase.

      • giant_smeeg
        1·
        1 year ago

        IMO all movies and series should be available on any platform and let the streaming service decide if they want to have it in their portfolio. Only the “originals” should be locked to a platform to keep stuff unique.

        That’s just cable though. Not sure that’ll be any better. The second a company sees a revenue stream or thinks they’re missing out. They monetise it to the detriment of the customers.

    • WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca
      5·
      1 year ago

      Just adding on to this, every game I’ve ever pirated I ended up buying later on. Or I bought in the past (this applies to the games I emulate)

      • giant_smeeg
        5·
        1 year ago

        I would say 80% of the games I pirate, I put less than 30 mins into it.