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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/

This article points to a research that concludes that piracy is really not an issue for those companies though.

It think that piracy is actually a great way to give everyone access to culture that shouldn't be gatekept by their financial situation. Imagine a world where pirating music is shun today. Nobody cares now, we all listen to free music online without paying. Not to mention that piracy is pretty much the only sureway to make sure some medias (including games) are preserved. If you want to make sure that your favorite games don't become lost medias in the future you should consider the good sides of piracy because those companies don't care about it; they just want you to buy the next thing.

So if piracy is not affecting those companies revenues and if it gives access to culture to everyone and even help preserving media why the hell shoul we lose our minds over it? Sounds like a good thing to me.

Now, selling a game that cannot be owned and that can be revoked at anytime or a game that can change its TOS on a whim is much scummy imo.

If you don't want people to pirate your game, price them fairly and allow you customers to own a copy and offer an easy to use service.

In any cases, I won't shed a single tear if someome pirate a game especially a AAA game.

I think with time the rope will be inevitably cut no matter what at this point. I guess we'll see.

The industry makes something around 190 billion per year, they will be fine without raising their prices to 80$. I ran that in my head considering that I worked in the industry myself. Devs aren't paid enough not because we don't pay games enough but because these companies are run by greedy fucks. Don't feel bad for them, buy games when they are on sale or buy indie games. Games won't go anywhere be reassured.

Nah. I keep seeing this argument and I really disagree with it. It's actually really simple economics; we don't need to calculate inflation into this. If I think the price of something is too high (especially something I don't need to survive), I don't buy it. Companies can cry all they want, in the end I don't care.

Hunger Games

Installing softwares is much safer and easier.

Windows:

• Search app on a search engine
• Maje sure it's the legit app and not a trojan
• Download the app
• Find and run the .exe
• Going through the warning if not a Microsoft app
• Going through the wizard

Linux:

Either do something like...

"sudo dnf install (name of app)" in the terminal

Or simply click on "Install" in the software manager.

The trajectory of the shit moving toward the fan has reached its end.

Oh? Is that a new convention? It has been a while since I posted in here. (Fixed btw)

Good old gunmancy

If you are interested, Yanis Varoufakis has a very similar analysis of the current situation.