You wouldn't pirate a videogame would you anon?
>>738866996I'm brown so yes
>>738866996>we can't make a living with piracy being an optionThen your game isn't good.
>>738866996How much money has this nigger made on gamedev and he's whining about one little pirateWhat a raging faggot
what game
>>738866996yes, i pirate games, shows and movies and have been for about 20 years. i'd still be pirating music if i could find a good site for it.
>>738866996Why does he have the the game price in his name like some narcissist?
>>738867261and not a finished game either
I would and I do. I pirate every single fucking game, even indies.If I don't drop the game in the first hour and it's indie, I buy it.If it's AAA, they can get fucked. Corpocucks get the blade
>>738867240Surely soulseek is still around
I don't know who, what nor do I care.Get this shit thread out of my board.
>>738866996unironically this shit is why so many people dislike indie devs. 90% of them are such fucking crybabies.
>>738867261>>738866996>29.99Is this Cliffy B? sounds extremely similar
>>738867427Thats because theyre losers who piss themselves when they try to do something hard for the first time in their life
>>738866996>29.99>hollow knight is half of thatWell, is his game better or even equal to hollow knight?
>>738867383>Get this shit thread out of my board.of course we need to make room for more gatcha porn and xittershit screencaps
>>738866996>30 shekels>For a game that is in early access and may end up being way shittier by it's 1.0 releaseSubnautica Below Zero already made me cautious of what else this studio will release in the future, and this sort of condescension does not make them look sympathetic in the slightest.
>>738867672>xittershit screencapsThis is one.Debump
>yes i pirate all my games, how did you know?
When I was just a lad looking for my true vocationMy father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberationThough you could be a doctor or perhaps a financierMy boy why not consider a more challenging career
>>738867240>Music piracyYou really only need Soulseek, which has a modernized interface in Nicotine. It has just about everything, at qualities far better than any service, and the users are (for the most part) very chill. Beyond that, there is Squid, which is used as a way to rip directly from Tidal and Qobuz. If you need high quality FLACs and don't mind slowish browser speeds, this is a good option. The only downside is that it goes down semi-frequently.If all you want is lots of music ASAP though, you can install Deemix, get an ARL cookie from Deezer (Spotify alternative) and get thousands of albums in literal minutes. The quality does cap out at only 128kbps but in 99% of cases you won't notice a difference. There is also Sitting On Clouds & KHInsider for video game music. One has a smaller selection but dedicated downloads, the other is massive but needs an extension to use properly.
>>738867240>i'd still be pirating music if i couldFor what purpose? Pretty much all the music in the world is available on free streaming platforms.
if developers actively go out of their way to be political and want me out of the gaming space, then yeah i'll pirate their game and never pay for it if it's a good gamepizza tower's post elvis posts anti white stuff all the time kek that just means i don't have an obligation to buy that game now.
>>738866996I don't care about piracy but games shouldn't be your way to make a living it makes you seem desperate and gay like a twitch streamer begging for donations
>>738866996I've been pirating for over 25 years. I do buy games too, for example if the devs are likely to regularly update the game, if there's good steam workshop integration for mods, if there's a good sale on or if the game has creative steam achievements. I agree completely with picrelated quote.
>>738867181it's subnautica 2. not sure why this guy is acting like he's some poor indie dev when the team looks like this
>>738866996Did this guy work on subnautica 2? wtf is he crying about? His game is probably seeing AAA numbers
Oh I pirate every game that I seefrom Ape Escape to Day Z
>>738867935Things that aren't on streaming platforms? Offline usage? Archival?
>>738866996imagine making such a cringe cucked response like this instead of simply saying "im happy you're playing my game, doesn't matter how you got it, the more people that know about it the better"
>>738868849A response like pic related makes me more likely to buy the game than a whiny one like op kek
Convince me that people deserve my money for the things they create.
>>738868308Help, the pirate's about to escape!Get your paws off me, you dirty steamie!He can pirate!He can pirate! He can pirate!He can pirate! He can pirate!He can pirate! He can pirate!I can play!Ooh, help me, Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Oh, Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!What's wrong with me?I think you're greedyWant a second opinionYou're also lazyDr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Oh, Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Can I earn achievements anymore?Of course you canWell, I couldn't before*ding*Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Oh, Dr. Gaben!Dr. Gaben! Dr. Gaben!Oh I pirate every game that I seeFrom Ape Escape to Day ZNo, you'll never make a paypig out of meOh, my God, I was wrongIt was the workshop all alongYou finally made a paypig...Yes we finally made a paypig...Yes, you finally made a paypig out of me!I love you, Dr. Gaben!
I haven't been following the discourse because the honeymoon opinions of redditors have no value. Has anyone completed all of the content available in the early access yet that can weigh in with a verdict?
>>738869353How come the chink lyric spammers can’t into counting syllables? Is it because it’s impossible to sing in Chinese? Do they even get the Simpsons over in China or did someone have to smuggle in a dvd with their crab boat
>you wouldn't download a carI would.
>>738869353dangerously retarded attempt here anon
>>738869528im not Chinese, im from rural area of western US state
>>738866996It's generally more convenient to buy. There are some instances where I would though:1. They include denuvo/enigma/other anti-consumer malware in the legally purchased software2. I get the chance to personally butthurt someone like OP's pic
>>738866996I am going to pirate no matter from which developer it is. Game companies told me with their marketing and social media that I'm not their target audience anymore, even though I always paid full price for games and franchises that I liked.May they all go down. I don't care any longer.
>>738867887>mfw half the more obscure shit i want isn't available anywhere (in lossless FLAC)
>>738869284>walk in to restaurant>observe the fact that every customer pays for their meal>i finish mine and start walking out without paying>they cause a fuss, try to stop me and threaten to get the police involved>i turn and say low and cool "convince me that you deserve my money">silence>one customer starts clapping>suddenly entire restaurant starts clapping
>>738869796>its more convenient to wageslave for some subpar shovelwareI dont think so
>>738868029>post ElvisDidn't that guy only make one singular song out of the entire game's album?
>>738866996kek I thought it was some poor indie faggot but no, it's fucking Subnautica which is already high AA tier already. Convinced me to never buy it if I ever decide to play it.
>>738869284>Convince me that people deserve my money for the things they create.>deserveThey don't deserve it, retard. You are not forced to pay for things other people create, you choose to pay them when you want to get said thing.
I guess I understand since this is a solo de->the game in question is fucking Subnautica 2, a franchise that has sold over 18 million copies between the original and la goblina DLCGet a load of this fucking Vile Shlomo. I'm sure the dev team is at least 30 people, not including 100 outsourced jeets.>won't someone think of the poor multimillionaire studios!!!!!!!!KWAB
>>738870359>you choose to pay them when you want to get said thingI want to get a 5090 but I'm not paying $3.5k for it
>>738870492thats called "getting priced out", sorta like when you're born ugly alongside having a personality disorder, you're priced out of pussy too, no sex for you lol. best to just move on.
>>738869528>>738869643well excuse me for having to take liberties at some spots, why dont YOU do it then?
>>738868896Based, what game?
>>738866996If I can't afford a video game it's okay to pirate it because:>I would never buy something I wouldn't afford>It grows the game community= support it in someway if I can't afford itBut but muh copyright you're stealing...What about people who live in a 3rd world country and work for pennies they are robbed of their money every single dayDon't get me wrong I love capitalism and free market but that's the realityAlso fuck millioniggers/billioniggers
>>738870492What you are describing is the classic lesson that a rising price generally leads to a decrease in demand. With that wisdom you can call yourself an economics major now!They still don't deserve your money, retard.
>>738868208They look like based white devs, why are they acting like whinny little trannies over Discord?
>>738867146The path to enlightenment is free
>>738870676>>738871023I wouldn't buy it at that price even if I was rich. You niggers are so proud of getting ripped off just to larp as being rich lmao
>>738866996I prefer the term "trying before buying">game is good = buy to support the devs >game is bad = lol, lmao Simple as
>>738870978>LoLgay
>>738867240>music piracyIf you aren't a FLAC purist (though it is perfectly reasonable to be one), you can easily just download huge amounts of music from youtube with programs like yt-dlp.
>>738871184
>>738866996I pirate by default. AAA, indie, even free games I download through torrents instead.
>>738867324BASED
>>738871451>PLEASE SENPAI PUT ALL THESE SEEDS INSIDE MESlut.
>>738870028I'm not sure what scenario you're envisioning. Do you think I'm just buying everything that exists? I only buy what I want to play. My lifetime of experience with video games allow me to discern quality with a relatively high success rate. My wage slaving is for my house and food first and foremost, but that leaves me with ~$20,000 extra to do with what I please each year.
>>738871130I wouldn't call them based.Have you seen any of the Subnautica protagonists?
>>738871552Can someone please post the picture
>>738866996his boss literally just received a $250 mil bonus I think the random kid pirating it won't hurt the bottom line
>>738870115yeah that anon is a sperg. mcpig is solely responsible for the game
>>738870954Slay the Princess
>>738868417Everything gets uploaded to YouTube these days. Use a third party site to download the mp3 and listen to it whenever you like.
>>738871378half my library is in low quality mp3's i ripped off youtube over 10 years agoi can clearly hear the difference but i just don't give a shit, it makes /mu/ seethe when i post about it for some reason, its just too much work to redownload years and years of built up audio kino
>>738871507>seeding torrentsLMAO
>>738866996yes I willfuck big corposfuck non demosfuck scummy practicesand maybe I just want it for nothing
>>738868106people argued against this for years after it became popular online but both spotify and steam prove he was absolutely rightlike yeah i COULD torrent that new multiplayer game and crack it.... or i could spend $10 to not go through the hassle and just play my game, same with music
>>738867672in what world do you think a discord screenshot is better than a twitter one? Is this the only pavlov response you have when someone tells you your thread is shit?
you don't make money from raw game salesyou make it from merchandiseif you care about making a living off your games then you have to get into merchandising
>>738866996Downloading it, if it's good i will buy it like all the games i pirate. As a oldfag i still say they need to make demo's for games again. Not going to spend money on a game i cant test and when all the "reviewers" are in the pocket of the industry.
>>738867240I use seal You can use it to download audio files from youtube or video links
I'm pirating a game right nowKiller 7
>>738866996I usually don't. I've got fearsome backlogs which allow me to simply wait until shit I want to play is thoroughly tested and costs 10-20 bucks, 5 for indies.
>>738872273Thanks anon
It's crazy to me that younger generations consider torrents outdated when they're still the best source of most media.
>>738866996i am actively supporting the crash of video games, sorry
>>738866996reminder that in their license it says YOU DO NOT OWN THE GAME, ONLY A LICENSE THAT CAN BE TAKEN AWAY AT ANY TIMEdo your due diligence and pirate it if you wish to play
>>738872012based and sameim not a FLACGGOT
>>738867324NOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THISSSS @NINTENDO @FBI @POTUS GET THIS MAN
>>738869930>Food analogy
>>738866996What game?
>>738868896HOLY FUCKING BASEDI KNEEL DEVSAMA
if you dont know its the subnautica tranny dev
Sorry, but I didn't luck into some retardedly easy techbro job where I get 200k to do fucking nothing all day, and shit fucking sucks for most people right now, so whether it's a nigger attitude or not, I spend the absolute least amount of money as humanly possible.
>>738867887What about downloading audiobooks?
I pirate games but I certainly wouldn't go to the dev's discord and say I pirated their gameYou shouldn't be walking into people's homes and spitting on their carpet
>>738866996>1/3 of the game finished so far>claim you still need +3 years to finish it>already 5 year in development>ask full price for it. No, first finish your fucking game before you start asking money for it.
>>738866996Jesus christ what a faggot.Anybody wanna pirate the girl who kicked a rabbit? That's rhetorical. You can't find it anywhere. But hey, if you can, have fun.>>738868896Yeah, that's the right attitude
>>738873143People are retarded these days, its because of shit like this that nintendo cracked down hard on the zoomies pirating switch games. The tards where making tiktoks about how easy it was to pirate switch games and sharing it with other zoomie retards. Vidya game piracy needs to be gatekeeped because otherwise we will lose it too.
>>738867090I'm white and also yes
>>738866996Same energy
>>738866996"The game sucked btw, so I'm glad I pirated"
You wouldn’t pirate plant seeds
>>738866996I was pirating on dial up, not planning on stopping now lol>>738867240SoulseekQt
>>738867090>>738873387Based
>>738873389
>>738868417Just use YouTube and YouTube music. Everything you could ever want is right there.
>>738866996That depends. If it's EA, Ubisof, Rockstar, etc. I couldn't care less, if anything it's morally good to pirate their products instead of giving them money. I'll only buy their stuff at 95% off. If it's someone based I'll pay more.
>>738866996>Xe/xer>Literally wants me deadYeah I'm not paying for this
I gave up trying to fight pirates so now my mobile game is free with ads.
>>738874203shill me your mobile game, does it have cute lolis?
>>738873784yes I would
>>738873784In that field it works literally the other way around. If Monsanto was a developer, they would basically make a torrent of their games, advertise it everywhere and then sue everyone who downloaded their games.
>>738866996I haven't paid for a game in 20 years. Nothing modern is worth paying for.
>>738874297Nope.It's a game where you roll a ball to the goal. Like Marble Madness.I dont like posting it here because I dont trust you guys.
>>738873387>>738867090racism is officially over
>>738866996>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DESERVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR TAKING YEARS TO RELEASE AN UNFINISHED EARLY ACCESS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Devs that release early access games deserve to lose absolutely everything
>>738874429Sounds gay and lame, you should make the ball an ugly fat bastard and the goal a loli, that would make your game much better.
>Survival slop>"Indie" studio (it's a full but incompetent studio)>Demands $30 for an alpha state game>Unreal 5 crap
>>738874487>>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DESERVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR TAKING YEARS TO RELEASE AN UNFINISHED EARLY ACCESS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!this but unironicallyif skyrim can do it why not me>>738874563you might be onto something here
>>738874487It takes a long time to release anything when you hire on DEI retards who blow all your money on a shit sequal. They aren't scrubbing the second game, and calling this one Subnautica 2 for no reason. >>738874646They're bankrupt after the woke flop of the second game. They got rid of the black chick, and are trying to memory hole it to save themselves from losing their shirts.
>>738874429We're not going to sexualize your marble-fu, anon. We are tho
>>738874438I hate niggers and im also pirate
I remember when piracy was just something you did in secret, bragging about it is fucking cringe
I bought the last three games I pirated because I liked them so much. I wouldn't have bought them at all if it weren't for piracy.
>>738872270That's my boi
>>738866996Only from Nintendo because they refuse to sell me games in the normal way.In general I find piracy really inconvenient and sketchy for games.And pirating from indies is a dick move.
>>738866996I pirate triple a games because they are rarely interesting enough to finish. I buy indies because they’re cheap and generally better as games.
I'd pirate games even if I was rich, it's giga based
>>738866996you shouldnt become a game dev if you arent equally skilled in cybersecurity. selling a product is just as important as securing it
>>738871130>durr they're white so they're goodthis reads like it was written by a brown child who was raised by /pol/
>>738872580>another retard that doesnt get the point of licensing digital programsits because its a legal gray area where if you were given true ownership you'd be able to legally resell it yourself.nobody really wants to poke it because the current system works well enough and the potential consequences for doing so far outweigh the potential benefits.
>>738867240Aaaarh me matey. I'm an ole sack o' bones meself. Might be a dying breed but still rowing!
>>738874105>128bit>everything you could ever want
>>738867090Based. Brown people rule
>>738866996>$30 for some gay indieslopPiracy couldn't be more justified
used to pirate games but now the only thing I "pirate" is manga. not paying $15 a pop for a "book" i can read in 20 minutes and is likely censored or lolcowlized.
I only buy a handful of games throughout the year and they're always $20 or below. The rest I pirate or play through steam family share when my friends buy new games like RE9.
>>738868896I appreciate them for being labor of love devs that genuinely believe what they're creating should be experienced, rather than simply looking for a quick buck. Ironically, the game involved (Slay the Princess) was their money-maker to fund their true passion project, Scarlet Hollow, but still felt like they poured their hearts and souls into it.
What a whiny fucking pussy.So what if they pirate it? They wouldn't have bought it in the first place
>>738867240Deemix I get anime and game osts from there too
Only amerimutts buy games because "muh jewish corporations need to money"
>>738867090
>>738872837>walk into Art Gallery>observe an auction taking place / sale of artworks>people are bidding on pieces>I just select one I'm interested in and start walking out without paying>they cause a fuss, try to stop me and threaten to get the police involved>i turn and say low and cool "convince me that the painter deserves my money">all mouths agape>a bystander implores that I reconsider and scan the piece at a printer instead as "making a copy wont hurt">suddenly entire art gallery rushes to the printer to scan the paintings instead of buying them>get thanked profusely for saving people money
>>738873387Whites don't buy games only amerimutts ans they are not white
>>738866996I wish an AI game with the same concept of his game sells more an does better than his
>>738872012i have a few albums that ONLY exist from youtube. it sucks but it's better than nothing
>>738866996the bitchschilds are naggers
Piracy is good for sales.At least it was good for me.I made a shitty hentai game in RPG Maker like a decade ago, but nobody gave a shit. Then someone uploaded the game to fag95zone (piracy adult game forum)...Hundreds of patrons out of nowhere giving me money to make more games.That's how I built a career.
>>738867324>If it's indie I buylol buycuck
>>738878846
>>738866996I'll stop pirating when I can trust the marketing and the industry is free of communist subversion. Until then I'll pirate everything before a purchase.
>>738866996I'm not even going to pirate it
>>738866996ive never met another soul in person who's gotten upset over pirating. even the guys who've got 5+ streaming subscriptions don't give a fuck if you've pirated anything.t. US citizen
>>738866996>years working on it>1 zone and like 12 creatures>plan for 3 zones and like 20 creaturesYeah dont care
>>738879368do I want to know what that image is
>>738866996I don't think there has ever been a great game that has failed due to piracy. Some great games never got off the ground but that was due to a million other factors and not piracy, because these games are usually really niche or lesser known and aren't even downloaded a lot illegally.
>>738866996before i would have talked up the game to people that would have bought it, now im going to actively tell people that it was bad. i often think about an interaction i had with someone who liked my bands music a couple of years ago>put out new album>throw it up on a few torrent sites>guy comes to the show and up to the merch table after we play>tells me he felt bad that he pirated our album and wanted to get a shirt>dont, good chance i put it up there lmao>he pays double for a shirt and wont take changesimple as
>>738879474you don't want to lol
Never had a steam account, never will.Never had an epic store account, never will.Never had a gog account, never will.I will pirate your bideogame even if it's free.
>there are "people" who exclusively buy their gamesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>>738866996You can't brag about seeling over a million copies while also playing the small struggling indie dev just trying to put food on the table card. Aside from being misleading it ends up looking kind of pathetic when you fixate so much on what basically accounts to a rounding error.
>>738871969>downloading every single individual song of an album in shitty YT mp3 quality
>>738866996Their game isn't good enough to pirate.
I believe piracy is important for the sake of preservation. It shouldn't just be used because you want free games, although you could use it that way.Let me ask you this: let's say you enjoy the SNES version of Mega Man x3 because it has tons of cool romhacks. BUT you can't buy it because it's 700 dollars on amazon and ebay. What do you do? Why not just pirate it at that point?>w-well you should buy the legacy collectionThat is true, but the legacy collection is incompatible with romhacks, so even if you buy it (which I did) you still have to pirate the original. This is true for alot of games. Let's say you have Ocarina of Time 1.2, the censored version without the blood and islamic chanting. Guess what? Completely useless for romhacking. Every version needs 1.0. So what options do you have, other than scouring foreign websites and hoping they have the exact copy you need?
dont these fucking low IQ devs understand that if i dont pirate the game i will also not buy it?there are not losing anything, i would never buy it anyway
>just download the compressed youtube audio that was likely already compressed before upload into a base quality 128kbps cbr mp3 so you can hoard and be cheap and it plays everywhere
>every pirated copy is a lost saleis this how these retards cope?
>>738866996depends on if i respect the dev or not
>>738867146Thread should have ended here. If you have to beg the consumer base to buy your game, then it's not worth buying.
>>738866996I can if I want to. If it's convenient to buy I wouldn't usually want to, but any number of reasons can change my mind.
>>738867324What games have you enjoyed enough to buy? Aspiring game devs would like to know
>>738866996Huh? But he already got paid? Or was he working for free for 5 or so years?
>>738871130>Based
>>738881495Somehow those characters look worse in 2d. Fuckers got that crack cocaine scrawny look to them.
>>738881692heroin chic is so 90s coded
>>738866996I pirate because I'm a NEET lol
>>738871168NO CHUDDHA, THOSE ARE IMPURE THOUGHTS!
>some pirate pirates your game"Hey man, thanks for enjoying my game, glad you liked it bro!"Then you move on with your life because there will always be pirates.
dont care got 3 copies from twitch streamers
>>738866996>29.99
>>738866996Based pirate
>be chad>never steal because I'm not a nigger>Doesn't pirate because I'm not a nigger nor third world poor>Buy video games + DLC +Deluxe+ expansion at full price to support the devs>Buy indies at full price to support my favorite indies>Pay for lootcrates and microtransactions in any video game I play to support devs>Any game that /v/ seems to hate, I buy at full price to see what all the fuss is about + DLC + tip + donation in case I liked it (Mixtape for example)>Pay for car subscriptions to support auto makers>Pays taxes>Pay for all my movies>Pay for all my music>Pays youtube to remove ads>Pay off Klarna + other civil app services>Pay for all my food and groceries and gas + utilities no matter any up charge>wait patiently for film to appear on streaming service so I can pay for it.
>>738867935you just described why someone would want to pirate
>>738866996SEETHE
>>738867090>>738873387>Tfw when shitty vidya solved racismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEjhVYXwq9w
>>738866996and you cant stop me
>>738887114Didnt this almost come true with that unity shit they were trying to pull a while back?
>>738868896Nice to see a dev wanting people to enjoy their art and not being some fucking used cars salesman trying to sell a lemon. Must be a solid game, what was it?
>>738887791kek yeah Riccitiello is such a fucking retard
>>738887878you could've put in a little effort, username for the dev account brings you right to their website.
>pirated when poor>bought every game Ive ever pirated eventually after not being poor>never pirate nowI'm retarded but god dammit I vote with my wallet
>>738887114>>738887791You can refund a Steam game and the company loses 30% of the sale because Gabe keeps his share no matter what. You can also buy a game from Humble and set the dev share to 0% if you want to for example play some multiplayer game and need a legit copy but don't want to give any money do some faggot publisher/dev.
>>738888354No he doesn't, the Steam cut is only taken out when the funds are released to the devs
>>738887878>>738871820
>>738866996Yes i will.Michael Jackssons Moonwalker on Genesis.GameGear.Sega Master.ArcadeA Michael Jackson the experience for 3DS.DS.PS3.XB360.PSVITAWill NEVER EVER be released again. So i will just pirate the good shit.
>>738873059try >>>/t/
>>738867090fpbp
>>738888354humble doesnt really have good deals anymore
>>738867240I use a Spotify Downloader so I get all the meta data but it fucks up half of the time. It either downloads a completely unrelated track or the sample.
>>738869353Time to rewatch that episode again
>>738867090>>738873387
