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Anon disrupts the gaming industry (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not true. I pirate games to see if they are good. Return policies on shit games are bad. If I like the game I’ll pay even though I have it. Perfect example is Valheim. Bought it 3 times on different platforms because I loved it so much.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

What's not true? That you represent most pirates? I don't think you do, and I don't think a sample size of 1 is indicative of anything.

I would also argue that pirating games to see if they are good, just further proves that you "would never have bought the product in the first place."

Obviously there is some grey area here though, because one of us seems to be accounting for people that have ever played the game before, and the other is not. Buying sight-unseen vs pirating and THEN buying if it's good, is of course two different things, the latter of which I was not accounting for in my definition of "pirate".