I don’t follow this as a justification for piracy. Piracy isn’t stealing but, assuming if it was not possible to pirate you were going to pay for the game, you are still causing the person who owns the game to lose money they would have otherwise gained.
My justification is much simpler: capitalists suck, buying games supports capitalists so I’m keeping my money.
I used to be philosophically anti-piracy in principle, and would often argue online against people who posted disingenuous or self-serving justifications for their actions. But these days the amount of piss-taking by the publishers has destroyed my resolve.
Yarrr.
I don’t really care if it is stealing. Steal all you want. The random dude making the modern day equivalent of a flash game is certainly not counting on game sales to make ends meet, and the corporations can get fucked and die.
:)
Watching indie devs make 500k off of flash games 😅
And that’s fine because the assumption behind “Indie” is they did all the hardwork themselves without getting paid regularly. Consider 500k is not a lot if you count how many months of work was put into the games without pay.
We’re not mad about them hitting the nat 20 😂 we’re mad it was assumed they made zero money so it doesn’t matter if we pirate from them lol hungry devs needa eat fat cat Microsoft can suffer the thousand cuts lol
yeah my position is to be very clear that we are not against making money but about unsatiable greed shown from the likes of ubisoft or microslop.
fun fact, pirating the game means you actually own it I have repacked drm free pirated versions of games I own just in case i lose access to them or they get shut down
I am just paying a different entity that provides the same “service” for cheaper at the cost of my sense of security.
Anyway, Nintendo and Xbox have colossal fortunes; I don’t think pirating one of their games is going to bankrupt them.
I used to have a hard time sharing the things I bought with the piracy community
It just felt wrong to give things away to people who hadn’t paid a thing. I felt like I was hurting the creators who actually put in the work
But then I realized I was guarding something that wasn’t even mine, all I bought was a license that could be revoked at any time… it never truly belonged to me
I was just being selfish. Now every now and then I make sure to share the content I purchase
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nah I didn’t make the meme, and I find it hilarious when people try to nitpick memes as if they were some philosophical treatises
Oh I just fell for it.
you must be that greedy little pig that thinks piracy reduces “potential” sales and hence “potential” profit. If you crave for what is not rightfully yours you are a sinner.
If you crave for what is not rightfully yours you are a sinner.
Are you talking about pirates and people, who use their work?
I am speaking about those who project their profits
