when I started making enough money to afford games, I instead spent it on more storage and faster internet so I could more effectively seed
:rat-salute: in the same vein, the only subscription service worth paying for is a gigabit seedbox that doesn't log connection info
Fuck yeah, seed gang seed gang. My oldest still active account is at 25TB upload
I wasnt gonna buy it anyway so whats the difference if I get it for free?
related I'm playing mass effect for the first time
I'm going to play it only 10 minutes before I get bored and go commit real crimes, so really why should I pay for it?
Literally the conclusion the committee that researched piracy for the EU came to. The EU disagreed and tried to bury the report they commissioned lol. Piracy doesn't hurt these big companies but they need you to believe it does.
I’m playing mass effect for the first time
Damn, I wish I could go back and play that again for the first time.
:so-true: You can't afford video games
:yes-chad: Yes that's why I pirate them
:gigachad: yes I can
:wojak-nooo: but you spent all your money on a pc and internet
:gigachad-hd:
It's pretty funny how angry some gamers get when you tell them you pirate. Like, we make fun of online leftists for having parasocial relationships, but gamers take it to a whole new level. Especially funny if they want to protect Nintendo, given how aggressive they are about protecting their IP from fan-creations.
It used to be that piracy was one of the main arguments for PC gaming. Look at gamers now,
Kotaku once made an article mentioning that some Metroid game ran better on emulators. The Nintendo subreddit had a meltdown claiming that Kotaku was telling people to pirate the game, and that this would pretty much bankrupt Nintendo or something. Pretty funny.
I don’t think so. They should know by now how easy it is to do it as well. I think they just take pride in doing it “legitimately.” Basically internet honor lol. That, plus many are simply bootlickers who hate “stealing”
"Wwwaaaaaaah I can't believe you'd steal from one of the richest companies on Earth, boohooooo! :angery: Peasants like you aren't allowed to have fun things!"
"Participating in society is a luxury, and seeing as you work and struggle to pay bills while also having enough money to eat, clearly you don't deserve that luxury. Get back to work, you fucking subhuman, how dare you expect to enjoy things like the simple pleasures that us non-peasants get to take for granted."
Why are people like this? Who wouldn't want more people to share a fun experience lol
People trained to think the working poor don’t deserve any help because they aren’t creative enough to become PMC
burger brains think that suffering is virtuous and expect poor people to suffer instead of doing literally anything to alleviate that suffering
*other people suffering, to be precise.
We've seen very clearly that even the most hard core survivalist preppers will dissolve into screaming sobbing tantrums if you take away their treats.
I honestly don't know where I would be today, if it wasn't for piracy. There's no way I'd be able to legitimately afford the materials needed to build the level of cultural literacy I in turn need for my field of study slash my job lol
yeah if i didnt get free games at young age i probably would be in an entirely different career
turns out i loved simulator games and that made me realize this career was for me
right? Also, like, look at Adobe - there's no way they'd have their de-facto monopoly as a creative suite if it wasn't for teens'n'tweens learning photoshop on their own time with a pirated version in the early naughts. People got to create what they wanted to, learned some skills that for some eventually turned into a career and it's not like Adobe suffered for it lol
piracy is a net good for society, even a capitalist one, and I'll party on this hill
I hire for a job where Premiere is a required skill and haven’t met a single applicant under the age of 30 who didn’t start out “playing around with Adobe” when they were a teenager.
im an fbi agent of course, i got my inspiration from prison architect so i could help build up guantanamo
What if you were paid the true value of your labor, could you afford your tools then?
Revolution could be us but you playin'.
I mean, it's not just about the tools themselves, it's more about a generalized access to culture as a whole - US media specifically is so incredibly reference-ladden (and not just recently, though it has intensified) that you need to have seen, read, listened to 'the classics' and the 'b-sides' and the 'underground' and more, to truly get contemporary stuff with all the little throwaway lines and visual callbacks and hints at other, older media... there's barely enough time in a life to fit all that stuff in, let alone money to buy or rent it.
but yea, there's definitely room for improvement after the revolution lol
Digital tools cost very little to produce (compared to physical tools) so their price should reflect that, idealy.
I've never payed any money for a videogame or any other digital media :gigachad:
The perks of being from a shithole eastern european country is that I get to pirate all I want without any kind of legal repercussions (yet)
I get threatening letters from my ISP that never get actioned but now I pay a few dollars a month for a VPN for the convenience of not getting those letters.
The only time I pay for movies is for physical copies (which I only did for the early seasons of the simpsons) and going to the movie theaters
Reminds me of the weirdos who get uppity about emulation saying you have to own to physical copy to emulate it.
Like bruh even the companies that own the IP dont give a shit and iso's and roms are hosted everywhere and only really challenged by bintendo
RIP in peace EmuParadise :deeper-sadness:
Long live Vimm's Lair! :rat-salute:
I only spend my hard-earned money on indie titles tbh. The rest is fair game.
I only bought Disco Elysium after playing through a pirated copy and when it was on sale - and I don't feel guilty about it at all
I'll get them when they're on sale sometimes, they always put the only one up for like $5 when new ones come out
This is why you use cream.api. You get the base game and download the DLCs separately and use some modified files to trick the game into thinking it’s legit.
The only paradox DLC I bought was for CK, and it’s because I bought the special edition that included it. I have the DLCs for Victoria, Cities Skylines, and HOI4 without spending a single cent. I also have all DLC for Civ 6
Why do hogs laugh at the idea of honor and morality as for the weak until when it comes to financial exchange?
Bit idea: Either you're for full communism or you're a might makes right fascist.
It's reductive but it's ultimately true.
Might does make right. Why should the working class, which is bigger than all others, not just eat the rest?
The upside of Microsoft buying every game company is that you only are pirating from one company.
Granted their racism and general reaction is more important but we overlook that G*mers like to gatekeep poor people from their hobby. A lot of them are scumbag elitists. Really, G*mers are just all around bad people.
Is gaming just the new golf? "Gaming should be for rich people only" might explain why "gaming" is allegedly a "conservative" hobby.
There’s definitely a difference between gamers and G*mers. Plenty of people here game pretty regularly. But we’re not about to gatekeep people for not giving money to Activision lmao
It's getting there. Gaming used to be a pretty middle to lower class hobby, but now with the ever increasing prices of hardware, software, subscriptions, etc. the bar has been raised on who's allowed to play and who can't.
That depends on what you mean with gaming. You can relatively easy get a raspberry pi for under $100 and play everything PS2 and older. Thats literally thousands of great games. Then with little time game streaming ight very well become decent enough for anyone to use and you can use Xbox Cloud or Nvidia.
Whenever a someone young in my family gets old enough to play games I've bought an emulation handheld like the RG350 (although this is my personal handheld driver and I usually buy something under $60 for gifts) and put dozens of games and seen them just having insane fun. And I semi-regularly have added more games to a few of my relatives that had kept their handheld in shape.
Sure eventually once they're no longer 6-12 they begin asking for the latest and "greatest".
I will never shed a tear for big gaming companies. I do buy small indie games though like the $15 dollars ones though.
one you clearly can't afford
Jfc classist much? It's just vidya games you tool. Some find this nerd and slap the tendies out of his hand.
