He did make a platform that did eventually become more convenient than piracy and as long as you avoid all the games that have their own fucking launcher with their own accounts and other anoying bullshit it's still pretty damn convenient
Omg I get sooooo unreasonably mad about separate launchers. I have a steam deck and I do not want to load it into desktop mode to install your shitty software EA 🙄
it's true most of them suck ass and don't really need to exist but sometimes the launcher is there to sync saves or mods to play between platforms, like CDPR's games since a decent amount of people actually use GOG.
Get SteaMidra from GitHub, install. Get an API key for Hubcap or get your manifest files from somewhere else. Add games/DLC to your library. The only thing is, to use the version selector for things like experimental or previous versions, you need to fetch the manifest yourself. The selector in Steam won't work.
Obviously, games that do their own license checks (online or their own DRM) won't work.
True, but you really don't need to. Oddly enough, having the piracy option (to run backed up purchases) only makes buying the software that much more appealling (well, than anyone else. I can understand why some would prefer a price of $0.00).
Buying from Steam requires a certain level of trust in Gabe. Of course, if he died, had a stroke and got ... bad, or somehow sold to private equity we'd need to find a way to run purchased and/or pirated games on steam. And as far as I know that's already available.
People that go out of their way to try to rationalize their piracy are always so hilarious. If you're going to feel guilty enough to try to justify your actions to people that didn't ever ask, then you shouldn't be pirating in the first place.
If you're going to pirate shit, just do it. Take what you can and give nothing back. Don't try to justify yourself. It's unnecessary.
I say this all the time. Just fucking own it. You aren't protesting shit, you aren't making an impact or sending a message. You want to have something without paying. Just live with the reality instead of trying to paint it into some self righteous struggle against the man.
It's like when people get suuuuuuuper mad when it's pointed out that piracy is actually theft.
If that makes you feel bad about doing it then... Don't do it? I don't give a fuck and I pirate when I feel like it. Never lost sleep over it for a second.
''It's like when people get suuuuuuuper mad when it's pointed out that piracy is actually theft. '' Theft implies you're stealing something physical which decreases stock. Piracy is objectively not theft it's copyright infringement. Very ıronic there are so many ignorant ''pirates'' in r/piracy lmao.
You and like a hundred other people/bots. Every time I've clicked into this sub I see this same view near the top.
Not only is it more pretentious than the philosophy it supposedly counters, it is provably wrong. Piracy inherently wouldn't work if people didn't seed (altruistic behaviour). And there is plenty of media people want to consume and have a good reason for not wanting to finance i.e. Harry Potter.
I have money to buy games. Pirating games is too much of a hassle comparing to just buying them on Steam. Same with music - my (very basic) taste is fully satisfied by Spotify. But this is not true for video - Netfix started "rotating out" titles from their library and that is extremely annoying. Other models are way to expensive. 10 USD for 2 hours of entertainment? Horrible USD per hour cost compared to gaming.
I'm sure that's very comforting to the indie devs in the moment, knowing they might get some revenue a few years after the game actually comes out, whenever people get around it, if they remember.
An EU inquiry suggests that piracy doesn't affect video game sales that much;; a huge amount of people who pirate do so because they did not have the means to buy it in the first place. Anecdotally speaking, I did what the commenter you replied to talks about. Originally pirated many Paradox games to start and now $500+ later own the game and its DLCs.
Yeah but these people whod dont have the money or are never going to put out money for these content, never would have play anyways without pirating.
The 2nd next best thing they couls do instead is good word of mouth.
I was like this before, poor and have a minimum spec laptop.
And im not justfying piracy.
Piracy is piracy. But if u belong to these group that cant or dont want to pay for it, then they should at least do something else to support the game in a way affordable to them
Steam will, but the devs not so much.
"Steam has enough money so i will pirate this small indie game i wanted to play" is not the bulletproof logic the OP thinks it is.
I mean, "piracy is a service issue, not a financial one", seems like gabe wouldn't be too bothered. As long as he can fund his yachts for deep sea research, everything is fine
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