Why gamers have turned to pirating 

This 100% I start to question if I really need a indy game when they creep into the 35 range.. I have one now I've been wanting to play and sitting on cause of the price tag.

Haven't been buying anything pricier than 30bucks for quite a long time, there is nothing in AAA class looks even remotely entertaining for some time.

​@Roseles89 Only one that comes to mind is Factorio.

@TwiliPaladin ive been watching fae farm but it's over 30 and I have been burned by so many fame games t.t

this i live in 3rd word country where minimum wage is less than 400$/month i can spare 10-15 coz thats just 2 days of food, but 60-80$ is just a quarter of my paycheck, i need to think 2 or 3 time before buying it

@No-you-are-wrong-stop-LARPing bro is larping a guy with the username "no you are wrong stop larping" thats crazy But on a related note this video does not have to be 20 minutes for one tweet, that's like 10x as long as necessary since the point was clear in the first 2 😪

Its astounding how many corporations shoot themselves in the foot daily.

@No-you-are-wrong-stop-LARPing Examples. Be as specific as possible.

​@No-you-are-wrong-stop-LARPing And those ones are called out as well. The difference is that they get an immediate effect because, for an indie dev, a 15-20% drop in revenue HURTS.

@No-you-are-wrong-stop-LARPing nice rage bait

I was wondering why noone calling out that "i _love_ not to pay for indie dev work" guy. Probably thats why.

The word that I think ppl are looking for in this discussion is "ethical". The question ppl should ask is, "Is this ethical". A label like "Indie" or "AAA" isn't what defines whether a game is ethical in their approach to their market. But you don't need those labels to substitute for the word "ethical" itself.

"they said they bought the game," as to not incriminate themselves for doing something illegal lol but sure let's trust some random dude on the Internet whole heartedly lol

bro, the dev has no choice. Saying anything otherwise would make a bad reputation. Saying nothing would have wasted a good opportunity to free marketing.

@No-you-are-wrong-stop-LARPing no need for discrimination bro, you dont need to do that just to prove a point.

I think that you are talking about Virtual console, right?

@@ahmedhasan4966 that and just the entire Wii U Eshop in general, they had basically everything from almost every previous Nintendo console.

I remember when they did that, a dozen people changed their stance on console modding, since that was suddenly the only way to download games on the system!

​@@thatoneguy9983you are forggeting the wii shop too

Eventually people will realize that Nintendo operates precisely the same as Disney does.

Woah! Unexpected to see you here, and I'm not even a sub!

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@@beanieteamie7435 Sorry for not being born in the right country

@@MariusUrucu I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I hope you have a good rest of your day today.

In Ukraine, it was kinda hard to find legal games, most sellers in 2000s selled pirated copies.

The market demands boundless growth on a finite world, with finite resources. When that's your model, things not growing is bad for business, and it can't grow forever.

​@@elijahford3696 is it

Two ultimate conclusions: either we all work until we literally fall dead, or we abandon a clearly toxic and undead market from the last world war and do actual STUDIES into making a new market. Survival is still an instinct!

@@elijahford3696 Chill out. We are living in mouse utopia, we are going to reduce our numbers back to 3 billions or less with our own hands very soon. Either way, if we take into consideration cycles of growth, technological advancement and size of a universe the universe will sooner END with a big crunch or through heat death than it's resources run out but both are a hard boarder either way so it doesn't matter how "sustainable" you were before it. The only thing that would matter at that point was having enough tech to either stop it or travel to another universe.

⁠@@kronos661 so, your excuse to be apathetic is the heat death of the universe? That's one I've yet to hear.

im going to make out with hakita sloppy style

Lol

Lame joke aside you are horribly under estimating how much companies lose from piracy

@@HungrySquid-z9j nice bait man

@@HungrySquid-z9j good

Haven't played the game but that's just wholesome asf. Also kind of effective cause it's more interesting than a rolling credits screen.

I feel the museum level goes to show how much they respect their team and how much they've put into this game It's not just halls of portraits, its a highly detailed level with plushies of each of the main developers, with books explaining their purpose on the team and anything else they wanna say, and also tons of stupid little easter eggs, they're having so much fun with it and I love it

@@squiddudon’t forget chess

@@Jaykeduzthings ULTRACHESS

i find it funny how the name of the museum is ''hall of shame''

The state of the world when culture is a video game.

@@johnjackson9767 Videogames are part of culture the same way all art is part of culture.

The state of the world when culture is a film. A song. A painting.A story. A dance. Its always the same state of the world: One that needs enrichment that isn't provided by something already there.

@@johnjackson9767 Video games are one of the highest forms of art as it includes art, music and story

@@johnjackson9767you really are intellectually incapable aren’t you?

As an anime fan, I'd like to add here: There's a lot of releases each season, and depending on which company gets the license for streaming each show in a different country the different fees start adding up, for example if you want to watch just 3 different shows and they're split up between different streaming platforms, you have to pay 3 different subscriptions, the alternative being a pirate site with all those shows on it. Another thing, as was mentioned, is the potential quality of the video itself, and of the server (for example, a lot of buffering) where some pirate sites that give the option to download episodes so you don't have to deal with buffering issues, of course you could always use torrents as well. Torrents bring me to another point, if you watch the shows with subtitles, there's often multiple groups that will subtitle the episode, giving you vareity (and often times higher quality) in the translations as well as the presentation of those translations (an example I'd like to give here is "Komi can't communicate" (personally I really like the show) where the female lead communicates through writing most of the time. The way the "official" subtitles are handled for that writing (believe the show is/was officially licensed by Netflix) is the same way when speaking, text at the bottom of the screen, which is perfectly servicable, however it just can't be compared to the subs I watched where the actual writing is substituted for the subs, like when she writes on a chalkboard and it actually looks like text written in chalk before she erases it and the subs get erased like they're actually there, it really adds to the experience and it also tends to be a lot easier to parse if there's a lot of text becauee they usually follow font and color changes as well). One last point I'll make about subs is localization, which I honestly feel is fine (for the most part) in dubbed shows, but really starts to grate if you've watched subbed shows for a long time, because you start picking ip on words or references and you know that the translations are incorrect or feel forced. The last big point I'd like to make is the catalogue of some of these sites, having shows that aired decades ago which you literally can't find legal copies of, either because no legal services have them, or because they never got translations in the first place, so fansubbed pirated copies were all there ever was that you could watch in different countries. Piracy in this case is a lot more about not wanting to jump through hoops than not wanting to pay for the product.

Honestly I was thinking of pirating ultrakill until i saw hakita’s response

yeah iirc just shapes and beats has a video that plays if it detects that it's pirated that says something similar

Ok ok but like how gonna pirate geometry dash 😭 you can buy that shit for 99 cents on the steam store on a good day.

​@@fredk4745Shit bro i pirated that shit while i was like 6

@@caulfieldsimper lmao

Sony also used an open-source emulator (PSX ReArmed) on their classic console... this the same company that tried (and failed) to sue Bleem! back in the early 2000s. The irony.

@@Shizzmoney74 not really a fair example, iirc they'd go on to hire the bleem guy for PS3?

@@polocatfan If you can't beat them, hire them!

oh, they first started doing that with the Wii Virtual Console lmao

Yeah It was a copy of Pokemon yellow for the Gameboy.

And that was just the beginning , future sony game will all required PSN , may be even Single player game , even though Sony game work just fine before without the PSN crap .

Also why I'm not buying that game or any other with psn required.

@@kampfer91soon you have to pay for Playstation Plus just to play Sony published games on PC

The worst part is Snoy successfully memory holed the fact that HD2 had a PSN *may* be required on the store page. If it was for Crossplay/Cross Progression whatever I wouldn't care because can just not use that and not have to use PSN. It doesn't help that the CM team is actively harming the game and community and a big part of why I'm dropping off.

@@kampfer91 Then thats great incentive to not partner with Sony to make a game.

in what way spintires was ruined by an update? (snowrunner player asking)

@@Сталкер-ь2х A developer put a virus into the games code as revenge

Fair enough

an example to one of your statements is spec ops the line it has been delisted from steam and there is no way to get it other then pirating it but it was delisted for a decent reason the game story was to much back then because it took place in dubai. if the game was still here today it would have alot of controversy

@@ommohammad5507 so why the game was delisted? too "scary" story?

is that a real game?

@@ereneksi7029 yup

@@voidartist7575 lol thats a pretty weird but funny name

@@ereneksi7029 it's about slaying a princess surprisingly

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Blame your government. The tariffs are absurd and companies are not going to eat that cost.

​@@Spectacular_Insanity We do

⁠​⁠@@Spectacular_Insanityokay... so what should you do next? complaining about the government wont just summon money to your bank account

​@@PotatoTheProgrammer Have you ever participated in revolution? No? Then stfu

bless the few games that allow people to make their own servers on those games, however small. valve's pretty good with this.

you should check out Stop Killing Games then, it's a campaign make that sort of thing outright illegal

yeah any of those games should still be playable offline.

​@@squidduyea like tf2 players hosted better servers with more anticheat and was more fun I actually agree 👍

There is a free demo of the game on itch

I pirated ultrakill because i dont like giving people my money

@@Fraude_fiscale4your pirated copy will ultrakill you now

@@TXA-TXAT :(

​@@Fraude_fiscale4 So basically you're stealing in that case

Damn he really said that?

Fucking please. We're talking about video games, not the kinda of things Jefferson was addressing. And, no, disobeying laws tou don't like is not a way to get them changed, or rational.

​@reetusbeetus He said many things that only made sense in the specific time and context in which he said them. Disobeying laws is stupid and counter productive. It's not how you get things changed for the better.

@@Objectified I agree. For instance, if there was a standing army, just use the legal system that they have specifically tailored to protect them from prosecution to prosecute them... You're not too bright, are you?

@@Objectified Obeying the law won't change things either. Try it and see.

Wow. You're amazing.

I don’t understand why Brazil’s tariffs are so high compared to any other country. They’re so high it hurts the locals instead of helping them like tariffs are supposed to.

​@@Spectacular_Insanity Corruption

@@Spectacular_Insanity Corruption

This is what happens when people "Do the L"

@@Polengue L is for Loser after all

Paying, not buying. Buying is paying to own. If you don't own it, you didn't buy it.

This is legally true as well. Piracy is not classified as theft but legally charged as copyright infringement because nothing was taken from the original holder, just copied code.

Nintendo when you emulate a 40 year old gameboy game: 😢

It literally is stealing man, if I buy a game, I own it now, who else owns it if I don't? The Greek gods? It's stupid to get mad at all the big companies out there scamming you and then you turn around and steal from them. You stoop down to their level.

Got a slav-hacked MechWarrior3Pirate'sMoon, a Turkish "fan compedium" of Captain Claw, NoOneLivesForever2 from a Kiwi NOLF fan site, another slav-hacked standalone Kane's Wrath, Vietcong running on a custom DX9 DLL from a Romanian fan forum, and a working classic XIII, thanks to a Czech fan patch. Also, classic Battlezone 2 from an unofficial patch...created by that game's lead programmer. It's kinda awe-inspiring for me to discover that some of the old games i played still have this kind of odd, niche, fans that does so much to keep their personally beloved games alive.

I like that.

In this case unavailable is really unavailable, try pirating a much smaller indie off steam when nobody cracked it. You can't.

@@635574 Most Indies are available, unlike many triple a games, especially the Sony ones. Mofuckers even forced a refund of a Tsushima preorder, without my consent.

great hardware company too, love their headsets lol

Honestly. I kinda wish that "Corsair Piracy / Privateering" was actually a possibility. I'd love to be able to take PT to the government and request a permit to legally preserve and distribute copies of the program.

DRM punishes people who bought the game legit more than the pirates

@@ultimatehamsandwich734 for real, denuvo litterally makes games run slower.

Lextorias also made a really good video on this.

Hotline miami is amazing, bought it, and also pirated on my vita since the store is closed forever, never knew the devs were even more based then before hell yeah.

Konami pretty much hates their gaming section, they have been sabotaging it since 2010 or something. They make all their income with Yu-gi-oh and pachinko, which are easier to mantain.

I live in America but it doesn't help that their version of the game on steam is so atrocious you literally can't put it in full screen

- An antipiracy measure that gets complete and total access to your PC

​@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 And still gets cracked anyway but ruins performance for lower-end users

​@@YTDani75And then the crack is unironically better that the legit version...

@@GregorianMG Deadass

​You're the deadass @@YTDani75

His statement is irrelevant now. Piracy is now a pricing + product issue(shit games, high price)

@@axel3689 well…alright then

don't trust someone who can't be bothered to maintain his own games

@@blackholeguy1529 yeah…I guess I’ll trust in him once he finally puts out an effort to maintain his product

@@axel3689 That's still mainly a product/service issue though. I didn't see anyone complaining about Shadow of the Erdtree costing almost as much as the base game proper, since it's gigantic and very good.

I always thought regional pricing was quite predatory towards Americans and Western Europeans, people in those countries are effectively punished for having superior economies. The reality is that duplicating a few 1s and 0s happens at no cost and any price on software is completely and utterly arbitrary.

@@throwthrow-c7e entirely, it's wholly rediculous. Especially when you see that the price of games in America has increased 10 dollars for more or less all tripple a devs.. What I will say, is it's mostly the tripple a devs who are loosing vast amounts of buisness. Indie devs are making massive bank, and charging a fraction of the cost... weird that, almost as if maaaaybe giving access to your game to a large majority of people, with particularly consistant sales, is more important than being in catagory of games that people who aren't rich get approximately one or two of during a few month piriod. Like, just from an objective standpoint. I'm not buying a 60 or 70 dollar game, unless it REALLY impresses me, but a 10 dollar game? 15? Or occasionally 5 dollar game? Easily, buy em like popcorn. And those games get immensely popular and beloved, cause they find their fanbases really quickly, since anyone who is remotely interested can play it, and not spend a lot to do it, and become loyal customers of those devs. Then you got the other people, tripple a devs, who seem much more interested in squeezing every penny they can get per sale, with no regard for the health of their following, fanbase, future products, future buisness, or anything else. From an objective standpoint, they have the buisness skills of a fricken potato. "Ah, regional price increse! Charge more! " Numptys.

Steam dropping support for XP is what got me to stop buying games. One day, my whole library which I had bought and paid for, was no longer playable on machine. Now I just download 20 year old isos to play my games, andthose will work forever.

@@uppishcub1617 Lost my internet one day and wanted to play games still, tried to set Steam to Offline mode, but it wouldn't let me, saying I needed internet access in order to do so, which begs the question: what's the point? 😑 All DRM is bad, even the socially acceptable DRM known as Steam.

@@uppishcub1617 brother xp is 20 years old

@@twist3d537 so are all my games

@@twist3d537 does it matter when people still run DOS machines to this day?

Unfathomably so

Ridiculously based. He even announces updates with shitposts. I’m not joking, check his channel

He never fails to deliver and exceed the expectations. Ive never seen a dev who can do that consistently, only ocassionaly or mostly (larian)

Very breadable too

@@Futo_no_mononobe WTF

He was when he started on the project, but he has gathered a team over the years

He still does a lot of the work. But yeah, the credits museum shows the amount of people who worked on this project.

But he is a developer

i really hate the war situation, it's making it worse for just about everyone who lives inside and outside of russia, just because a few cunts in power had to go on a power trip.

Even us americans are starting to lash out on companies such as Ubisoft and EA. Fuck you, CEOs.

They know what their shareholders want, though, and that's what you're going to get. Welcome to capitalism.

Their customers are investors, and gamers are the bad guys standing between them and line going up.

@@xyketh0n Gamers are their bank account to withdraw funds from, more like. We're not even people to them, just the things that swipe and authorize credit cards.

@@HaveYouTriedGuillotines fitting name. "Capitalism is bad lol" isn't a criticism, or even a statement worth anything. If you can point out the problems with the current system, then creating solutions shouldn't follow far behind. But because you blame capitalism as a whole, you remove your own agency, and create meaningless doomerisms instead of policy. Shareholders as a problem, exist because of the fact that their control over companies is legally binding, meaning that they essentially hold more power over a company than any person within that company. A simple fix, give workers and people within the company iteslf the ability to sue stockholders for their short-term decision making under the idea that, "their control and short term decision making is internally destructive to our corporation". They could do it, they just don't think of it as an option, or think they'd die if they did, which may be true, but if these companies are shedding hundreds of millions each year anyways, then this is a solution they could potentially take. Look into how much policy you can create by saying, "how can we fix it" instead of ending the conversation at, "here's the problem".

Anti-Capitalists stealing labor from independent devs is peak champagne socialist liberalism.

It really isn't that, since some posts later he said he bought it

Context is the person said in the comments that they were joking around, and that they were transferring their bought version to their school computer.

Did the original poster clarify before or after the dev responded

@@chrisgundry5480 way way way before man, i said it like at MOST 3 hours after i posted it, ive had it bought for over a year and ive put many many hours into it

Not only that but you need a console or a good computer in the first place...... even for medium class can be kind of a hustle

@@figo5862 exactly Not only you'll need like... Half of a lower income monthly salary to buy one of those games You'll need like, 4 months of salary to play Minecraft Or most likely a year to play some of those AAA games with at least 30fps

>entertainment option too expensive as a justification for theft of labor >never change, Brazil

@@johnjackson9767 you forgot to call us monkeys

Yes, it's called having priorities. If you have to choose between groceries or gaming, choose the fucking groceries. It's not a hard concept to grasp. Brazil needs to fix it's own economy. In fact, it needs to fix a lot of things. Gaming is at the bottom of the list. Criminals run the main prison and it's still illegal to be an Atheist. The list goes on.

i bought gta v for the singleplayer, when my internet was down i said "whatever i will play the singleplayer until its back up" I couldnt because i wasnt connected to the internet. I would be able to play it singleplayer if i pirate it.

Isn't it amazing how the climate activists seem to have no concern about the monumental waste of energy it is to make everyone be online all the darn time for these things, but god forbid us little people get plastic bags from grocery stores even though everyone re-used them as garbage bags anyway?

@@Ghalion666 let's be fair, they're still barely catching on to the fact crypto burns small countries' worth of energy to operate, you think they're thinking about all the other stupid shit like "AI" wastes of time like LLMs and image generators and voice mimicry and deepfake BS and smart appliances (why tf are people's fridges and LIGHT SWITCHES online, anyway?) and online DRM are also burning energy? The only people who actually are aware of this are tech-savvy climate activists who weren't born to think this kind of overconsumption is OK and normal and everywhere, you're demanding why the tiniest of niches isn't louder than it already is, basically.

After fucking Putin we have to fuck DMCA.

@@Ghalion666 I mean most competent climate activists realize that on an individual level you make practically no impact compared to the government and corporations and that they spread that message themselves to lessen the blame on them. Though its definitely true to say more people are those gullible idiots who fell for it hook line and sinker and act like someone using a piece of plastic is singlehandedly ruining the climate not to mention those clowns who keep destroying art and monuments

And what if that key is unavailable or cost more than the marketing price?

@@dillonrameraz7082 well then there's nothing you can do to my knowledge, in my case it was even cheaper than it would've been on steam

People hate on helldivers 2 for that when they should hate on Sony rather than arrowhead’s project

Hands that don't have the muscle memory for control groups typed this post.

Also new Polish translation for WC3 is inferior to old and classic. Somehow they decided to translate EVERY character name in most literal way. It sound terrible!

I still have the CD’s from back then, both for RoC and TFT, manuals and everything. I’m not a vintage media collector in any way shape or form: I just managed to keep them relatively safe in a known spot, throughout life, so far. 😅 Last time I installed them was about 6 ou 7 years ago.

4 in many places

@@amanjanko3950 Keep in mind i was talking about ultimate edition which is 130 dollars

@@amanjanko3950 I was talking about ultimate edition, which is 9100 Rupees

why is everything so dirt cheap in third world countries

@@dougman1067 cus usd has a higher value than currency from third world countries

You realise that the whole foundation of our world is made by greedy companies or greedy people at the top, right? I don't see this discussion being brought up when you buy a car instead of using a bicycle and public transport or buy food from the supermarket instead of growing your own crops or when you get a movie ticket or even when you get a phone that has batteries mined using child labour and the people at the top make billions of dollars. You're not Robin Hood for pirating a game and you aren't making a difference if you pirate it. You are if you don't give them your money and stop showing that you're interested in their product.For some reason there's this weird obsession with justifying what you do instead of admitting that you don't want to pay for something either because you don't like the company's business practices or you can't afford the game. It's kinda cringe to be honest. Nobody cares why you pirate. It's not a big deal that you do it, so why do you feel guilty and resort to excuses like greedy corporations? Also, I would like to point out that games need to sell millions of copies to break through. Just look at the budget of some of those big titles and calculate how many 70$ copies they need to sell to make their money back, let alone how many 30$ or 20$ copies need to be sold when people get them on a sale. The more successful studios can afford to pay lots of money to their CEO's but what about the smaller ones that have a 60$ price for their games?

I pirate from both because I like free stuff

I pirate both🗿

ill pirate from indie games because the developers are usually trans

Mario 64 in todays money would cost well over 100$, and that is the system that zoomies and fakers pretend to opine for. There is obviously more to it than that, but I can tell when someone is just blowing air out. _ive never pirated a game_ Then you never will, and all of that bloviating is just for your own amusement, and self-aggrandizement. You _want_ to be the power user who is not taken advantage of, but you never will be. You will always cough up the dough first, and be one of many suckers fueling the system, even while espousing a lack of faith in the system. Maybe if users _actually_ moved to empower themselves, and didn't constantly worry about other people's approval, we'd be in a better place, but that's neither here, nor there.

have you tried replaying any ubisoft games since far cry 3 that they made every game the same? They dont have any replay value, just play old games instead, id rather play morrowind than any modern open world game.

NES games in the 1990's cost around $50 in 1990's money. Adjusting for inflation, they would be around $120, today.

Unfortunately, most of these companies already have a brain and it's sole purpose is making sure they meet the demands of shareholders while also ticking off every box that they think applies to what they think is the modern audience. What the game company ceo/directors need is a heart, passion for the projects they're creating with their team. They think they can just hit some arbitrary out-of-touch requirements they think connects with their playerbase or expand to a wider audience and they'll suddenly have a money printer

Games are not expensive. You are cheap. That's a you problem.

True with exceptions . Games like High Fi Rush . The game is amazing(supposedly . I didn play yet) . Lets say I buy the game. The devs where fired already . Cash will go to peace of excrement excest who did that . So if I will decide to try the game my options are : 1)Pay cash for the game to ungrateful bast*rds who fired its devs or 2)Pirate the game. Thats just one example but there are a lot (unfortunatly) . Some of the companies should have nothing to do with the game they hold the right to right now . PS: What im trying to say is that gaming market is extremely corrupt and it keeps getting worse.

don't care. will keep pirating because i can :)

@@nokomoko8832fatherless

At the end of the day, it's their money, they decided what they do with it.(it ain't that deep lol🤷🏽‍♂️) there's nothing physically stopping them.

Company’s sell games “as a service” now, if you buy it one day that company will see the game as not profitable and remove it and you won’t have access to it anymore, if you pirate you own it forever, no one should pay $40-100+ that doesn’t work offline and can be snatched from your library tomorrow with no refunds

​@peefromtmvUltraKill has a generous demo, and it's still pirated. Maybe pirates should just own up to wanting free stuff and stop lying about it.

@@johnjackson9767i wonder what constitutes a "generous demo" in this case

@@paisleepunk I figured someone would be pedantic enough to split hairs. How about this - Songs of Syx, developed by a single guy, has a demo that's the FULL GAME but only three updates behind the paid version. The game is still pirated.

@@johnjackson9767 sometimes people are just low on money and buy the game when they are able to actually afford it. or maybe they just don't like the game and plan on never playing it again, so they feel no obligation to purchase it. there will always be a subset of people who just pirate and nothing else, but the vast majority tend to buy if they actually feel like it is a game worth buying

​​@@johnjackson9767Yeah, I usually just want free stuff, at least at first. Demos are extremely rare, sadly, so I naturally think to pirate a game to try it out if I find it on RU-vid or something and nobody tells me that it has a good demo. What is a legitimate reason to pirate a game even if it has a good demo? Distributing to someone with extremely limited internet. My friend's internet used to be too bad to download huge games, and we were too far away from each other to meet often, so we exchanged hard drives with pirated video games in it through couriers. I mean, he never needed online multiplayer stuff, since his internet was only sufficient for texting for a good while. Or, it could be just that the pirated version of the game is plain better. There are instances where one would buy a game, and then pirate it anyways to get the better experience. Maybe some kind of shitty DRM that the pirates remove. Maybe it's about easily installing modded versions of games(Romhacks in particular. A lot of cool shit, pain to install unless someone lets you pirate a pre-installed version, maybe.).

pirate them... a lot of 3A games just arent worth the money either. you'll end up paying 70bucks for a game that as soon as you open it is spamming you with content you need to pay for, battlepasses, microtransactions, etc... like that Ubisoft Ceo said, gamers need to come to terms with the fact that they don't own the games they bought. well then studios need to come to terms that it's not stealing if you can't own it anyway.

you could gift terraria to them on steam

did that, played it with 2 friends. finished it twice, once on normal and once on calamity, then wanted to play again but i was alone 2nd time on calamity. but that game is 10€, other games like dead island 2 are much more expensive.

​@@jackie.p6891 it's impossible to pirate multiplayer games

To be honest, this is one of the reasons why I like Monster Hunter so much. Many of their games got demos (including World, tho I dunno if it still has a demo) and I know Rise still has a demo somewhere, and I genuinely love it. Plus with the rumours of Wilds having a demo before its release....gods I'mma spend so much fucking time in that Demo. I already know I'mma buy the game, I'm just too excited to not play it XD

Based.

I'm sure the majority of people who want to play a game like Helldivers 2 is chomping at the bit to play Moonring.

That’s not a finished thought dude

Why do you need to justify to pirate just do it it’s like asking why someone bought arctic cold gum instead of winter snow gum

I love pirating when I was 10 but only mobile games because those are harmless and easier to do

@@alphabeta3528 What makes them harmless compared to anything else?

ohhhh, fair enough

But can’t you just login to steam on your school computer and get it there?

@@toasttoast7487 school computers blocked steam, and any administrator permissions

Regional pricing is the biggest problem I have with gaming industry, and since I'm using playstation I keep playing the same game until I can afford a new game that is priced with dollars

I pirate indie games and then buy them if I enjoy it

To support the developers *who deserve it?* Play online? Other than that there are no reasons

@BLET_55artem55 devs don't deserve shit when they themselves don't revolt or start am uprise against the terrible predatory business practices, so no screw em too.

@@peter_griffith522 "they don't revolt again something I don't like so screw them" 10/10 logic 🧢 And I was talking about talented indie and AA devs anyway

Half? Not even in algeria we are so bad. Still games cost to much and piracy is the way

I didn't make it that far. Did a motorcycle thief get shot?

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@@johnjackson9767?

I never expected to see a ThePrimeTime reference on a video about piracy.

Any double jumping samurais there?