In my humble but correct opinion, piracy is fucking great. Imagine supporting a company by buying their products, only to realize you just spent 50/60/70 dollars on a piece of shit game! Wow! All of that support and games are still complete shit. Worst of all, the game companies now think they deserve MORE money by selling you microtransactions, DLC, paying for online play, and so much more! You are investing hundreds of dollars into gaming companies to get lackluster games, yet these companies still believe they deserve more of your money. If you want to play an older game, don’t worry, you can’t! Think you can buy used? No, it’s gonna cost you a small loan of a million dollars to do that. The impermanence of media as one Funimation employee once said. Think the companies will provide legal ways of buying old games? MAYBE! But it’s going to come at some stupid cost like a monthly subscription with shit emulation and DRM. Maybe even remade with a higher price tag and new “features” and changes to the games you loved! YAY! Did I forget to mention DRM? Because don’t worry, legally buying games often means buying games that run like complete shit because they are using DRM and anti-cheat. Wow! You’ve been spending hundreds of dollars on games that now all run poorly, look like shit, are unfinished, and bleeding you dry! Don’t worry because companies like Sweet Baby inc also made sure the stories are complete ass, the characters are ugly as fuck, and every game is the same open-world mess. The legal way of supporting the game industry is so great!
I fail to see how piracy is the worst option in this modern gaming landscape. We can bring in morals but I also don’t see how morals will change any of this. Spending ridiculous amounts of money on games to not even enjoy them seems fucking tragic. Opening your wallets to pay for more content sounds like a bad idea already. In cases like Pokemon S/V, the DLC was installed in an update, you are just paying for the authorization to use it. They are literally lagging your system by shoving more data into the game, and then demanding you pay to use that data. Games are getting worse and spending money on them isn’t even remotely helping. If anything, buying shit games has encouraged them to get even worse. I really don’t see the value in pretending buying games is the best option. Spending money on a game I will play once, realize is shit, and then have it sit on my shelf isn’t worth the investment.
Miko art of the day is from Reality
I fail to see how piracy is the worst option in this modern gaming landscape. We can bring in morals but I also don’t see how morals will change any of this. Spending ridiculous amounts of money on games to not even enjoy them seems fucking tragic. Opening your wallets to pay for more content sounds like a bad idea already. In cases like Pokemon S/V, the DLC was installed in an update, you are just paying for the authorization to use it. They are literally lagging your system by shoving more data into the game, and then demanding you pay to use that data. Games are getting worse and spending money on them isn’t even remotely helping. If anything, buying shit games has encouraged them to get even worse. I really don’t see the value in pretending buying games is the best option. Spending money on a game I will play once, realize is shit, and then have it sit on my shelf isn’t worth the investment.
Miko art of the day is from Reality