Not beliving those snakes is necessity. In Poland we had tons of piracy, but the legal games market was improving - pretty low prices, many fully dubbed games, etc. Then the piracy declined rapidly because of that and general trend, and now we have literally higher prices than in USA and barely any Polish versions (and no dubbing anymore, just text in the case there is polish version).
Same thing here, publishers use the same blanket pricing for all the EU although the average wage in Italy is half the average wage in Germany or in France, when piracy was rampant a decade and a half ago we had most games (at least the AAA ones) fully dubbed and localized, low prices and everything. Now we have the same €60 price that Germany has although due to an average wage of around 25k vs 50k you’re effectively paying an AAA game 120€
plus 90% of the games don’t get dubbed and like 30% aren’t even subtitled (speaking of big games, not games from indipendent publishers who may not afford to do so)
I, for one, only buy good games (and in these times the good games are usually from indipendent/small devs) expecially when they have tons of mods (modding a pirated game is tedious) everything else? 🏴☠️
Also I believe it is a moral duty to pirate textbooks, research papers, courses and news articles. Knowledge should be free 😁
Not beliving those snakes is necessity. In Poland we had tons of piracy, but the legal games market was improving - pretty low prices, many fully dubbed games, etc. Then the piracy declined rapidly because of that and general trend, and now we have literally higher prices than in USA and barely any Polish versions (and no dubbing anymore, just text in the case there is polish version).
Same thing here, publishers use the same blanket pricing for all the EU although the average wage in Italy is half the average wage in Germany or in France, when piracy was rampant a decade and a half ago we had most games (at least the AAA ones) fully dubbed and localized, low prices and everything. Now we have the same €60 price that Germany has although due to an average wage of around 25k vs 50k you’re effectively paying an AAA game 120€
plus 90% of the games don’t get dubbed and like 30% aren’t even subtitled (speaking of big games, not games from indipendent publishers who may not afford to do so)
I, for one, only buy good games (and in these times the good games are usually from indipendent/small devs) expecially when they have tons of mods (modding a pirated game is tedious) everything else? 🏴☠️
Also I believe it is a moral duty to pirate textbooks, research papers, courses and news articles. Knowledge should be free 😁