Oddbean new post about login | logout @Mofunova8 :puddicat_touchtail: :senko_tail: the pursuit of removing every bit on infringement from sites is honestly stupid I doubt the 1 guy making fangames is going to steal your profits
@theo h. mann I'm just amazed that they haven't caught on that piracy does fuck-all to hurt sales of even a mediocre product. Otherwise, why would GOG still be around? Pirating their stuff is literally just download installer -> upload to pirate site. If the BS about piracy hurting sales was true, GOG should be constantly on the verge of failing, yet they aren't. :kanna_inspect: Even just saying "well it's greedy companies" doesn't make sense, cause they actually lose money and reputation doing shit like this. :awoo_what10:
@Mofunova8 :puddicat_touchtail: :senko_tail: @theo h. mann decades of retards getting high off their own supply of propaganda they ought to consider piracy free advertising. teenager with plenty of free time but no fuckin money pirates game, plays it, likes it, years later when the sequel comes out they decide it's worth buying. many such cases! $70 plus tax for a new AAA title when you're 14 and your income is "grandma gives me $50 for my birthday" is totally different when $70 plus tax for a new AAA title when you're 34 and it's not even 10% of your fun budget for the month.
@09085299 @theo h. mann A good chunk of the games I own I only bought cause I pirated them first and decided I liked them, but these drooling retards will look me dead in the eye and tell me I shouldn't have pirated anyway, cause that "hurt the artist". So apparently, I should just have ignored those games, not bought them at all, and denied the creators my money. I've yet to see any coherent response to this either, every single copycuck just melts down into "UR POOR!!!!! UR GREEDY!!!!!! WHY DO U HATE ARTISTS SO MUCH?!?!??!?!! :soy_cope: " when posed this problem. :noa_disgust: