People usually dismiss game piracy as being an inherently bad thing. What are your thoughts on the morality of piracy and its impact on the industry, and how that may vary between different games and developers.

  • @CoinOperatedBoi@lemmy.ml
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    52 years ago

    The idea that limiting consumption can control production is a capitalist lie that makes us believe that voting with our dollar is the only valid expression of dissent. But also piracy is good and based 🤷

    Honestly I think its value comes from the act of humiliating evil game execs. It’s not much, but it’s fun propaganda and the whole point is that it’s free propaganda. “Normally I’d buy this on release, but Bobby Kotick‘s of piece of shit, so I’ll be pirating it instead”