“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s where piracy comes in, even if it does tend to have negative effects on smaller devs. So long as there is no server or internet connection required to play, piracy will rain supreme in preservation.

    Ownership, on the other hand, is a lot trickier. I personally say just having, for PC games, the game download .exe (or equivalent file) is enough to be considered owning it, but that doesn’t mean much.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      The way I see it, piracy is fine, but only once the format is dead. I recently hacked both my 3DS and Vita to access the whole libraries since those formats are dead with ones digital store switched off and the other half dead and barely functioning.

      But yeah, pay for new releases.