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• Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think game developers don’t deserve to be paid for their work.

  I literally do not think that though. This is that nuance I was talking about that you’re afraid to engage with. Not everybody pirates games and then never buys them.

  I’m very tight on money and cannot buy every game I’m interested in. So I pirate games and treat them as demos. If I dislike the game, I stop playing it, and no harm is done since I would have either never bought it or refunded it regardless. If I like the game, I’ll buy it at the first opportunity.

  Esoteric Ebb is the most recent example of that, I played it for a few hours and it immediately jumped to the #2 spot on my wishlist. I haven’t bought it yet, but I plan to soon. It’s also recently happened with Schedule I, and this one I actually got. Me pirating the game has literally earned them a sale they otherwise would not have gotten.

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  • monkeyjoe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Truly, when I went into that argument, I wasn’t expecting so much nuance, subtleties, and unique perspectives. They really showed me. I’m a changed man, from this point forward I will never buy games I’ve pirated because Rhoeri says I don’t do that!

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  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bullshit.

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    • Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You know, I had a bunch of screenshots ready of me talking to a friend about pirating the game on discord, talking about my thoughts on the game after doing so, and then screenshots of me getting the game on steam the very next day. But this is already way too much effort put into a discussion with somebody as unserious as you. So I’m going to respect my own privacy and just not do that. Have fun living your life without nuance I guess.

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      • Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The irony.

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