The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • Blue@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Pirated valheim, played 20 hours, bought the game.

    Pirated baldurs gate 3 on early access, bought the game with only act 1, that’s how good it is.

    Pirated Valhalla, played 5 hours, uninstalled that trash forever.

    Started pirating streaming services when they told me that I can’t watch shit anymore because streaming service b and c took the shows, and now I have to pay two different streaming services if I want to keep watching.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      It’s probably worth pirating games just to test play them before buying the good ones for online play

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        11 months ago

        It’s also great to check if my aging pc is even capable of running it somewhat smoothly.

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            11 months ago

            True, which again brings us back to “piracy is a service problem” which imho it totally is. I never pirate steam games.