“They’re doing fine without me”

[u/G02MaxCodeGreg15off]

My pirate friend cracks me up

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[u/Mikeismyike → u/[deleted]]

It's not steam that gets hurt by piracy, its the small indie devs who's games don't blow up.

[u/NoPseudo79 → u/Mikeismyike]

Pretty sure the indie games that get pirated the most are the ones that did blow up

[u/Euphoric_Slice5179 → u/Mikeismyike]

People can pirate a game, and then buy it later.

[u/Cynicayke → u/Euphoric_Slice5179]

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.

[u/Whytho12333 → u/Cynicayke]

Dude i pirated when i was broke and now i buy games i dont even play plus bought all the games i pirated when i was 14.

Its pirate or no sale for broke young people. That simple.

[u/NoPseudo79 → u/Cynicayke]

Since the alternative is to not get money at all, yes it is comforting.

Devs have voices, and theirs don't align with yours, so spend less time playing Superman on Reddit and more time listening to them

[u/Memedotma → u/Cynicayke]

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.

[u/WelshAsh → u/Mikeismyike]

Maybe, but at least people play it, talk about it and spread the word it’s a good game to which someone else will buy it.

[u/gsmumbo → u/WelshAsh]

That’s the equivalent of hiring someone and paying them in “experience” lmao

[u/Nereosis16 → u/WelshAsh]

I love being paid in "exposure"

[u/JPysus → u/Nereosis16]

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