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[-] Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 238 points 6 months ago

The "it's not fair we pay for these games for them to then be pirated" says it all, it's not about the company becoming bankrupt because of piracy, it's because they don't want to feel bad once they have been scammed with a half made game that others have gotten for free. Because a half made game should be worthless

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 114 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What a strange mentality. When I pay for things I want, I'm generally happy to support the creator. If others can't, why would I be upset if they get the product for free? It means more people can also enjoy the thing I like.

It's such a crab bucket mentality, I couldn't imagine living life being constantly bitter.

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 42 points 6 months ago

I can think of a couple ways this post makes sense. For example, if Denuvo paid this commenter to make this post.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 months ago

That makes a lot of sense actually. In fact I wouldn't doubt this to be some scummy social engineering firm.

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[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago

Some people are really weird when it comes to things being "fair." I forget the details but I remember a study where given the option of getting $100 and a stranger getting $200, a good chunk of people would rather neither of them get anything.

[-] groet@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

There is a famous experiment , where a person gets 100$, and have to offer an arbitrary percentage of that to a stranger. If the stranger declines, both get nothing.

From the strangers perspective, getting offered even 1$ is a win, but the vast majority rejected anything below 30%

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 138 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As well as Denuvo please also make it rely on Windows-only bugs so that we can be extra sure that those dirty Linux users are kept away, and it's not fair that foreigners get to enjoy things in their own language so make sure there's no localization for other countries. And I'd rather not have to know that disabled people can also play so make sure there's none of that "accessibility" crap in there slowing things down. And I heard that telemetry makes everything better so please make sure it records everything we do and reports it all back to headquarters, that really makes games better. Also it'd be nice if there were more ads to keep us entertained while it loads. Okay thanks. You guys are doing a great job. — Signed, a perfectly normal user

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 34 points 6 months ago

signed, Hugh Mann

[-] HackerJoe@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sadly Denuvo runs pretty well on Wine nowadays. Otherwise Steamdeck users might have had some voice in opposing it.

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[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 108 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Back when I was maybe seven years old I went to this kids birthday party. I got him an ant farm with tubes.

Later on when all the kids were playing together in his room without adults, he pulled the roll of clear plastic tubing out of ant farm box, he shoved one end up his ass and then started sucking on the other end.

It's nice to know that he is still alive and tweeting.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

I'm having a hard time envisioning the flexibility required to make that work. It couldn't have been both at the ends at the same time? Also, did this kid just get naked in front of everyone at their party? To each their own, I guess.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 19 points 6 months ago

The clear plastic tubing was packaged in a roll, to be cut at whatever length the ant farmer wanted, so it was long enough to do standing up.

He didn't get naked, just put his hand down his pants. It was evident that he placed it either on his butthole, or up it, based on the effort he was taking.

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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 months ago

It's his party and he'll strip if he wants to.

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[-] NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 6 months ago
[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 34 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. Either that or the person was literally born yesterday.

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[-] Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 6 months ago

Damn. Consumerism really rots your brain, doesn't it.

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 68 points 6 months ago

this person was the kid back in middle school who reminded the teacher about the homework

[-] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 6 months ago

People downvoting your comment are the kids back in middle school who reminded the teacher about the homework

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

Why would they ? I was that kid and I still upvoted his comment, I don't use downvote as a disagree/punish button, I only use it for agressive/uninteresting comment. I think we should upvote any comment that create interesting discussion, even if we disagree with the core message.

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[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

I love this anology so much. It's something everyone can relate to. It's something so incredibly low and despised that you can't understand why it exists, but it's also so very common.

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[-] Glide@lemmy.ca 65 points 6 months ago

"Fuck them, I've got mine" pro-capitalist mindset in the wild.

[-] DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 57 points 6 months ago

I wonder if they would still hold that opinion if they were locked out of a game they paid $70 for, while the ones that got it for "free" can play it without any restrictions. Piracy is just as much a service issue as it is a money issue.

They already are throwing punches because they noticed people being less gullible than them. I'm guessing this would result in a "double down", like "The developers wouldn't have to kill this game if the pirates would have bought it."

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[-] BioDriver@beehaw.org 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Gabe Newell: "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 16 points 6 months ago

Steam pulled regional pricing from my country not so long ago. You bet your ass sales went way down and people who were buying games because it was easier just went back to pirating them at that point.

Like you expect someone in south America who makes a tenth of what someone in the US makes to pay the same prices (actually more than the same since this country has like 70% tax on "imported" digital services), get real

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 points 6 months ago

This just seems like an average troll. If the goal is to make everyone angry, it makes sense.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 months ago

"I paid $70 on console and they got it on PC for free!"

Hold off buying games for a while and you'll be able to get them ALL for free on your new gaming PC!

(How many games would they have to not buy? 15? 20?)

[-] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 6 months ago

15 games for $70 are enough to save $1000, which is definitely enough for a good gaming PC. After buying a PS5 and the cheapest PS Plus subscription, paid yearly (cause that's the cheapest option per month) for a little more than 8 years, you're also at $1000. With the most expensive PS Plus option it would only take a little more than 4 years.

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"If I have to be miserable, so does everyone else."

Yup, that's the kind of mindset a lot of these kinds of people have.

[-] Unabart@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 5 months ago

That seems to be written by a child.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago
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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 months ago
[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago

Imagine simping for a billion-dollar corporation. I mean, I love Sony games, Uncharted, Horizon, Spider-Man, but I am not going to defend them. Their lives must be really awesome, if they stoop to simping to a corporation.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

This dude woke up and decided, blood.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 23 points 5 months ago

Bootlickers are the worst

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And then piracy will be the only way to play as people do NOT like to deal with Denuvo (and for good reason)

[-] guts@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

Highly likely it is a bot

[-] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 16 points 6 months ago

"Please use your boot to step on me harder, daddy corpo!"

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[-] Facky@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

This is either bait or an incredible bit.

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

'It's not fair that we keep getting scammed and others don't'

So just don't give them money next time?

'LALALALA I can't hear you, it's your fault not mine LALALALA'

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 9 points 6 months ago

Corporate narks are the worst kind

[-] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 9 points 6 months ago

That's a bot, right? That can't be real.

I've met plenty of idiots. Some days, I'm probably one of them. But I don't think I've ever come across someone who's pro anti-piracy. Usually people are just neutral about it. Even the most law-abiding people I know, when I've told them I can download movies for free, are like "Oh, are you able to get this movie for me? Thanks!"

[-] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Had to look up whatever 'Legends online' was and it turns out its a tacked on multiplayer mode for Ghost of Tsushima. Who the fuck plays garbage multiplayer like that and who in their right minds pays for PS plus to play that?

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