Possibly really dumb question: can you do multiplayer on pirated games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by aloeha@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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My buddy wants to play Baldur's Gate 3 but I don't feel like paying for it.

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[-] RockDeBilly@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Well, this thread is surprising. I pirate a lot of games and I don't feel too sad about these poor companies only selling millions of games. I like Larian but, come on.

That being said, multi-player with cracked games is a pain: it usually doesn't work at at, sometimes it's half broken and often it's painful to setup. So do it only if you feel up for a challenge.

Otherwise, pirating solo games and paying for coop ones is a good balance for me.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My negative reaction to the post is due to "I don't feel like paying for it"

"I can't afford it", "I want to see if I can run it", "I don't support the restrictive drm" are all valid reasons to pirate in my opinion, but none of them appear to apply here and "I don't feel like paying" absolutely isn't, especially if they would buy it if they couldn't pirate it (which is the impression I get from the post).

In most cases calling piracy stealing/theft is stupid, but in these cases it actually is akin to shoplifting from a chain store