It’s fine to pirate every piece of media. From books, to movies, to music, to textbooks, to newspapers, to my own comments online.
Information and art is meant to be shared and enjoyed. Pay walling a distraction from reality does nothing but make reality worse.
Soooo people shouldn’t get paid for taking time to create books, movies, music, textbooks, newspapers?
That’s a completely different statement
Eh, there’s a difference between compensation for work and using laws and legislation to sew up something tighter than a cats arse for personal exploitation
I would argue that someone saying “every piece of media” doesn’t care about that distinction.
Agreed. Once you start blocking culture to only those who can afford it you start losing culture once it becomes unprofitable.
The audacity from woke people.
Pretty cool move. If I come across one of his games that interests me, I’ll gladly buy it.
Gotta love this quote from the article: “piracy doesn’t mean a lost sale if the person pirating the game couldn’t afford it in the first place.”
I’ve seen this happen time and time again with people I know who simply couldn’t pay even a single dollar for a game, and had no other options available. They deserve to experience culture and entertainment just as much as the rest of us.
To be fair, piracy does drive down sales, as some of the people who would otherwise buy the game do pirate it.
Even still, word of mouth is a great way to compensate for that effect; also, culture really shouldn’t be reserved to those who have the means.
Based.
Makes me wanna buy the game even though I know literally nothing about it.
Right? First thing, look for a torrent. Second, put aside some money when I have it.
Note to PC gamers: If you have anything with RTX on it, you are not broke.
These devs fuck
Why doesn’t he just put the game up for free as an option then?
I don’t think Steam supports any sort of sliding scale system and they have a price parity rule which would be broken by offering it elsewhere
You can offer the game elsewhere for less / free, you just can’t sell steam keys for less than you sell them on steam.
Piracy is illegal, so a lot of people will still abstain from downloading the game for free.
If you provide it for free on official distribution channels, your revenue drops drastically.
Is it illegal if the creator is saying they’re ok with you getting it for free?
Yes, it’s still illegal.
As it’s illegal to dumpster dive food even though you have permission from the supermarket owner.
Gangster dev
It all depends on your income, man. If you are well off you have no excuse to not pay for anything. If you live in Vietnam then by all means all software becomes suddenly free and free of guilt.
Well he is free to put it under a libre licence anytime.
These sorts of stories are stupid, and pirates love to eat them up because they see it as validation, because one developer is financially independent enough to not go broke if his game doesn’t sell. Most indie devs are not in such a position.
If he truly thought it was fine to download his game for free, he’d have released it for free in the first place. It’s pretty easy for him to have a chill attitude and say it’s okay to pirate his game after making nearly $100 million on it.
The people cracking games were never in a position to buy the games in the first place.
I wouldn’t necessarily say never. Truthfully, I’ve pirated a few games and once I found out I loved them I’ve bought copies. I had the capacity to buy, but didn’t want to sink the money in for a potentially low return. I definitely would never have had the money to buy all of the games I pirated over the years though.
I also don’t consider sharing of ROMs of outdated games that are no longer available for sale in order to use in an emulator as piracy, and I’d say the vast majority of my fee-free game downloads were focussed there. How can I be depriving the creators of anything if I literally have no way to pay them to access the content?
It is a piracy. Stop making excuse
