this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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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.
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
I mean there are further reasons like:
"I will only purchase things where the laborers are contractually obligated to some or all share of the profits"
I'd never pirate a product from a worker co-op, charity, or artisan but everything else is fair game in my opinion.
I take it you follow every company's bonus and employee stock programs then, to ensure you're only pirating from companies which only pay a basic wage and standard bonus?
I check more often than not if they're a co-op.
I dislike parasitic capitalists with ill-gotten wealth expanding it.