This is so fucking stupid. If you steal a physical item, say, a block of cheese, it is no longer in the possession of the shop, and can’t be sold to someone else. The cheesemonger will have to make another block to sell.
If you copy and paste a bunch of 1’s and 0’s, the original is still there. How was that theft? Does the original still exist?
Is watching a movie at a drive in from outside the lot with a pair of binoculars theft? If you can hear a copyrighted song from your neighbours yard, is that theft? Taping a movie when it airs on TV with a VHS, is that theft?
Redefining theft from “taking a physical object that isn’t yours” to “right click copy, right click paste” has got to be one of the best psyops of all time.
I was never going to give Todd Howard the money for this regardless, after FO76. He would have received $0 for this game regardless of if I downloaded it or not.
If you carjack someone else, commit actual grand theft auto, does that mean the workers in the car factory that produced the car get their pay retroactively revoked?
That’s actual theft, you stole it from the owner, and even then it doesn’t affect the factory workers’ salary at all.
If I get a copy of Starfield from a friend after they’re done playing it, does that count as stealing the devs’ salary?
As somebody who almost went into the game industry and didn’t because of the low wages, horrible working conditions, and just generally poor quality of life, I think I know more about how devs get paid than some rando on the internet.
And I haven’t pirated a game since the Bay went down like 10 years ago. I just hate people who get so holier-than-thou because a handful of dollars from their purchase will go towards paying the devs’ salaries on the studio’s next game while ignoring how much of it will go to stock options for the shareholders and buying the CEO another Ferrari. You wanna pirate games or not, I don’t care. Just don’t give me this “my money is going to the devs” crap. Because it isn’t. That’s just the excuse you use for your pearl clutching.
I will happily buy more expensive games that are shorter and with worse graphics than modern AAA games, so long as the devs are getting paid well and aren’t crunched. Because my money isn’t going to the devs, but it certainly tells the company what I do or don’t care about.
Hell yeah, game devs don’t deserve to be paid for their work 🤡
They’ve already been paid. Bethesda doesn’t have profit sharing.
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This is so fucking stupid. If you steal a physical item, say, a block of cheese, it is no longer in the possession of the shop, and can’t be sold to someone else. The cheesemonger will have to make another block to sell.
If you copy and paste a bunch of 1’s and 0’s, the original is still there. How was that theft? Does the original still exist?
Is watching a movie at a drive in from outside the lot with a pair of binoculars theft? If you can hear a copyrighted song from your neighbours yard, is that theft? Taping a movie when it airs on TV with a VHS, is that theft?
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Piracy 👏 is 👏 not 👏 theft 👏 get 👏 a 👏 dictionary
Am I taking crazy pills? Thieves are claiming the moral high ground?
It’s not theft.
Can you define theft in any way that includes digital copying?
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Wait, you WOULDN’T download a car?
Redefining theft from “taking a physical object that isn’t yours” to “right click copy, right click paste” has got to be one of the best psyops of all time.
I was never going to give Todd Howard the money for this regardless, after FO76. He would have received $0 for this game regardless of if I downloaded it or not.
As if they do lol. All the money goes to the high level managers/shareholders.
The ones doing all the work get paid a small flat amount.
… Do you think workers in a car factory don’t get paid until someone actually buys the car they helped build? All the devs have already been paid!
Given how video game studios work, also probably laid off
And how do these companies make the money required to pay the salaries of their employees?? 🤔
Record-breaking profits usually suggest that even when they have all the money, they will not pay the devs much.
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If you carjack someone else, commit actual grand theft auto, does that mean the workers in the car factory that produced the car get their pay retroactively revoked?
That’s actual theft, you stole it from the owner, and even then it doesn’t affect the factory workers’ salary at all.
If I get a copy of Starfield from a friend after they’re done playing it, does that count as stealing the devs’ salary?
They were the best selling game on steam for month before the gane even came out.
“Enough suckers ahead of me have paid for the game, now it’s morally right for me to pirate it!” 🤡
Which dev did you write your check to?
Since you’re ostensibly a pirate, it stands to reason that you wouldn’t understand how buying a game works.
You obviously don’t understand how companies work. Now get down off your soap box you are just showing your naivety and lack of knowledge lol
As somebody who almost went into the game industry and didn’t because of the low wages, horrible working conditions, and just generally poor quality of life, I think I know more about how devs get paid than some rando on the internet.
And I haven’t pirated a game since the Bay went down like 10 years ago. I just hate people who get so holier-than-thou because a handful of dollars from their purchase will go towards paying the devs’ salaries on the studio’s next game while ignoring how much of it will go to stock options for the shareholders and buying the CEO another Ferrari. You wanna pirate games or not, I don’t care. Just don’t give me this “my money is going to the devs” crap. Because it isn’t. That’s just the excuse you use for your pearl clutching.
I will happily buy more expensive games that are shorter and with worse graphics than modern AAA games, so long as the devs are getting paid well and aren’t crunched. Because my money isn’t going to the devs, but it certainly tells the company what I do or don’t care about.
they been paid a salary this whole time. you think they are waiting for the sales to start trickling in so they can finally feed their family?
And again, how did the company make the money to pay them that salary? Way to deliberately misunderstand my comment.
By others suckers paying for their games lol