They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it’s actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn’t two years ago.

The misspelling of “Shrek” is an authentic touch.

Present day with 2005 desktop.

Which of course makes no sense - if you don’t have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.

Ah, Gaben’s “piracy is a service issue.”

The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it’s a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it’s popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.

Basically, are you hurting the creator’s ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn’t qualify.

You wouldn’t download a Rick and Morty meme

It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.

I just noticed that Piracy was once again not showing up in my subscribed communities. Back to using an alt account when I want to post here!

no

Still downloading for me, but I see more than one review saying it takes a long time to get good. I’m keeping my expectations low.

EDIT: Glad I was warned it starts slow. It does get better if you stick with it.

EDIT 2: It entertained me for a week. It’s no Skyrim, or even Fallout. I would have been pissed if I’d paid for it.

Check megathread on sidebar.

As soon as anyone can download a game, all pirates can too (unless Denuvo)!

No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

I’ve never had a problem with them.

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Yes, but it’s huge, over 100GB. BG3 all over again!