jinarched
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- Comment on The Faculty, any day 3 weeks ago:
Surf Ninja
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 3 weeks ago:
arstechnica.com/…/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hu…
This article points to a research that concludes that piracy is really not an issue for those companies though.
It think that piracy is actually a great way to give everyone access to culture that shouldn’t be gatekept by their financial situation. Imagine a world where pirating music is shun today. Nobody cares now, we all listen to free music online without paying. Not to mention that piracy is pretty much the only sureway to make sure some medias (including games) are preserved. If you want to make sure that your favorite games don’t become lost medias in the future you should consider the good sides of piracy because those companies don’t care about it; they just want you to buy the next thing.
So if piracy is not affecting those companies revenues and if it gives access to culture to everyone and even help preserving media why the hell shoul we lose our minds over it? Sounds like a good thing to me.
Now, selling a game that cannot be owned and that can be revoked at anytime or a game that can change its TOS on a whim is much scummy imo.
If you don’t want people to pirate your game, price them fairly and allow you customers to own a copy and offer an easy to use service.
In any cases, I won’t shed a single tear if someome pirate a game especially a AAA game.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 4 weeks ago:
I think with time the rope will be inevitably cut no matter what at this point. I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 1 month ago:
The industry makes something around 190 billion per year, they will be fine without raising their prices to 80$. I ran that in my head considering that I worked in the industry myself. Devs aren’t paid enough not because we don’t pay games enough but because these companies are run by greedy fucks. Don’t feel bad for them, buy games when they are on sale or buy indie games. Games won’t go anymore be reassured.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 1 month ago:
Nah. I keep seeing this argument and I really disagree with it. It’s actually really simple economics; we don’t need to calculate inflation into this. If I think the price of something is too high (especially something I don’t need to survive), I don’t buy it. Companies can cry all they want, in the end I don’t care.
- Comment on Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture) 2 months ago:
If you are interested, Yanis Varoufakis has a very similar analysis of the current situation.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 5 months ago:
Oni is so good.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 6 months ago:
- Comment on Delectable 8 months ago:
I would definitely try it.
- Comment on Anon is a good samaritan 9 months ago:
Rule of acquisition 285: No good deed ever goes unpunished.
- Comment on What does it mean?? 11 months ago:
- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 1 year ago:
- Comment on Salamander 1 year ago:
Warp 10 is hell of a drug.
- Comment on Banana, Mr. Bean? 1 year ago:
Admiral Beam
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
I easily can imagine someone facing a wall while pissing in a bottle while looking at this poster.
- Comment on Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' 1 year ago:
Wait, what? I have to buy a PC about every 10 to 15 years and it does’t cost me “thousands”. Last year, I bought one for about $700 and I can run every game at maximum settings with no issues.
Just wait for components to be on sale (it happens often) and you’ll have a good pc for a very good price.
- Comment on Bill's Not-So-Excellent Legal Services 1 year ago:
It’s quite alright, after this go study and then come back in time and just put your law diploma somewhere. Let’s say we put it under the couch over there.
search under the couch
Ah, there it is!
plays air guitar frantically
