Reminder that pirating a Nintendo game is always morally correct.
Not this line again 😉
Support your game developers!!
Pirate games if you want to, but don’t pretend it’s anything more than piracy - no judgement here, I have a stack of ROM from NES to Gamecube, but my line in the sand is I won’t pirate games that are currently available via a legitimate paid route.
If you’re wanting to stick it N, then don’t even pirate. Just… don’t play the games. There’s some evidence that pirating, via taking about and generating “chatter” about the games you’ve played, still contributes in some small way to sales (bizarrely).
Support your INDIE game developers!
Buy games from their website instead of steam/epic and don’t buy from key resellers!
As for big companies… Yeah fuck them. They already make more money than your brain could even begin to compute, they really don’t need your 70/80 bucks.
I’m not saying to pirate the games (unless they aren’t easily available somewhere else), I want to encourage people to BUY SECOND HAND! Videogames are amazing to buy second hand, they don’t wear off by being played, and you can usually get a like-new copy for 40% off.
If you’re a pc gamer wait for sales/price drops, and if the game has any DRM bullshit in it, buy and then pirate if you want to stay legal.
Can’t disagree with any of that! Though that said buying second hand also doesn’t support developers (Indie or otherwise) as none of that money goes to them. DRM absolutely needs to die in a fire. I don’t think there has been a single title that has actually been prevented from being pirated by it, all it does it make life hard for actual paying customers.
Pirating from any billion dollar company is morally correct, (don’t) change my mind.
After all the bullshit these corpos keep pulling, with anti consumer practices and just hostile actions in general (not bothering to archive/preserve history and letting things rot because it’s ‘not profitable’), they can all go kick rocks.
There’s not really anything bizarre about it, people discover things by word of mouth, and people also like to try things out they see other people doing / playing.
It’s like trying to stick it to an F2P game by just “not paying”, it doesn’t work because players are content and encourage other people to spend more time on them, and some of those people will end up paying money. You stick it to them by just not playing at all and reducing awareness by not even discussing it, even if it might be small in the big picture.
Do you really expect me to believe that the majority of the money you pay for a game goes to its devs?
Besides, I’m of the opinion that piracy in general is usually morally correct.
Piracy is not morally correct. Theft is theft however it’s positioned. I have zero issue with you personally pirating, but I do think suggesting that it’s a morally correct thing along with all the lofty social-good that implies is disingenuous.
I also didn’t say anything at all about how the money from the sale of a game gets distributed 😉
