• Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It depends, small indie games teams usually suffer from this. Big houses that screw over players, those can go fuck themselves.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, there’s not always a clean separation between execs and devs, even if that’s politically inconvenient.

      I’m going to go ahead and say that digital markets are still broken, and the solution definitely isn’t what the big execs want, either, but “everyone pirates everything” isn’t going to work if you like the present variety and quality of videogames available.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, drm-free storefronts like GOG are the best solution I think. I love Steam and Proton, but if Valve ever goes public that would all change for the worse.

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      3 months ago

      Have you noticed, nowadays, games from such “big houses” tend to be not even worth pirating?
      Just a major waste of time.

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        3 months ago

        Well because they’re built to hook you up with their storefront where you can buy a my little pony gun for a third of the price of the game. And then play a fps asset flip game in front of the poors.