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This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game's quality.
Advice:
buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
I'm going to be honest, this sounds like an astroturf campaign trying to reduce SKG into absurdity to harm it's credibility.
all corporations are bad
At this point I think it's safe to assume all large companies are evil and so piracy of any software/media/etc created by a large company is the moral thing to do.
It really sucks but I think this is the case. I can’t even read an ebook half the time with proper ownership. It’s either Amazon exclusive and then I don’t own it, or it happens to go on kobo/humble bundle DRM free. Every now and again the author sells things direct DRM free and I’ll buy from them.
I’m not giving Amazon a penny for their ebook scam library where they can change anything on a whim. It’s some serious 1984 shit, they can change the contents of the ebook whenever they want.
You can de-DRM your kobo ebooks i think. They havent blocked pc downloads like amazon did.
I dont worry much about kobo, they havent tried to do anything egregiously anti-consumer to me
I don’t worry about kobo, but I can’t find everything on there. Since Dungeon Crawler Carl is only on Amazon it seems like he has a publishing deal with them or something. It just sucks I can’t actually buy to own those books without getting physical copies.
I think it's weird that people are okay with libraries for books, but when it comes to video games I'm suddenly entitled and have a moral obligation to give artists my money.
This is a bad argument. Many libraries do have movies, and I've seen several with video games.
You have to elaborate on how it's a bad argument. The existence of games at libraries doesn't contradict what I'm saying at all.
People argue it's immoral to play games because the artists must be compensated, but no one says that about buying used media or loaning from the library even though the artist still receives nothing.
Both loaning and used sales are shown to increase new book sales, so why wouldn't the same be true for games?
You said that piracy is a moral imperative under these circumstances, and I'm going further to say it was never immoral in the first place.
Also of note is that libraries can't loan out games for which there is no physical copy, which means big publishers are actively killing library availability as well.
Rockstar should be added to this list.
Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive.
Take-Two is already on the list, and also covers 2K and Zynga.
So really the list should show all the subsidaries. Because there's probably a decent number of people that don't know.
You don't need to list every company.
You know which ones are the big ones. If you see a "6" next to a game title, don't pay for it. No indie game dev makes 5 sequels to a game.
I swear even after staring at it for 30s that said "ESL FACESIT GROUP".
Lol i read it as facsist
Online games cannot last forever. Just a fact.
Yeah, I guess the thousands of hours I spent on private servers like runescape, GTA:SA and TF2 were just a fucking figment of my imagination.
Unless you use private servers rather than matchmaking systems and publisher hosted servers.
I can still play the now 19 years old call of duty 4: modern warfare. Online multiplayer works just fine and Activision doesn't have to do a damn thing to maintain it.
Younger gamers may not know this, but all online games used to work this way, you'd hit the "online multiplayer" button and the game would start populating a list of player-managed servers hosting games.
It has always been a superior system to automatic matchmaking, and it still is.
Ackchually, the heat death of the universe means that nothing lasts forever. Therefore, boycotting asshole big game companies run by billionaires that oppose the stop killing games makes no sense!
Also, why do we punish murderers? Their victims would die anyway, it's a scientific fact.
Jesus Christ what a stupid take.
I was just regurgitating yours
How can something be a fact if it's incorrect?
If they release server software required to run online games, they indeed can last forever.
Not true. They can, if the games are made to last forever (besides any game not being compatible to hardware and software, but we are talking about the online functionality here right?). In example by allowing community servers, so it does not depend on the servers from the company. Besides the fact that some games can be played offline without online functionality, like Street Fighter in example. Or do you mean by "online games" as "online required only games".
Like online only games.
I just explained it to you. There are online games that are build to last forever. What type of online game do you mean?