I see no reason not to pirate a game I bought digitally if it is then removed as a playable game.
I bought it spent time in it the achievements and memories tied to that game are mine and mine alone.
I see no reason not to pirate a game I bought digitally if it is then removed as a playable game.
I bought it spent time in it the achievements and memories tied to that game are mine and mine alone.
Katana314@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Okay. You’ll basically not be a demographic they serve anymore.
Put it this way. This year had some great singleplayer games. Some of those were funded by terrible publishers. If, in a later year, that publisher sees “Huh, 95% of people pirate this game, only 5% buy it”, then they’ll just cancel all upcoming singleplayer games, and greenlight 20 more live service or gacha games, because that’s where the MONEY is.
“Vote with your wallet” works in two ways. Pirating mostly shows up as a stay-at-home voter, or a corpse.
MrNesser@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
If they pull a game after it’s been sold and played then they don’t lose sales from that game.
They lose the fans that bought the original game.
Katana314@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Who is talking about pulling games post-sale? I specifically said “upcoming”. As in, shutting down game studios and future releases.
Your torrent list would get a lot shorter, unless you basically stay retro. Either way, you’d be an irrelevant consumer.
flandish@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
they also mentioned pirating a game they bought. so the pub got the money for it.