This is a glimpse at our future under Techno-Feudalism, by the way. Five companies own all the entertainment and charge you extortionate rates to rent it. Please enjoy these last few years of Steam allowing indie games to be published with $20.00 or lower prices - once Gabe Newell goes away, inide devs are going to get “Spotified” out of existence by whatever venture capitalist buys up Steam.
There are endless options for cheap or even free gaming entertainment. If you can’t figure out how not to spend hundreds of dollars on games every month, then it really is just a skill issue.
I think raising prices by 50% to chase profits is bad and should not happen regardless of if there exist cheaper alternatives
This, I mean how hard is it to fire up L33Tx.to and download a FitGirl torrent?
Most people don’t bother with torrenting anymore, either because they’re not tech savvy or they’re bootlickers who consider it stealing. I don’t understand it either, but that’s the way it is these days. Also, there’s only one weird transphobe out there cracking Denuvo games.
Which is funny because it’s faster and easier than ever
Downloaded the fitgirl repack for Silent Hill f yesterday, didn’t even have to use a torrent because they had another download option that was even faster. It took like half an hour, and worked with no fiddling.
They’ve might also have been told by their parents that it’s unsafe and it’s how you get viruses.
That was probably a lot more true back when downloading random .exe files on KaZaa or LimeWire was the thing to do.
I mainly downloaded rips that were divided into 20 different parts of a .rar file. Sure, they were always missing some features, but at least I got my games, dammit.
Or worries of being caught, and the safer alternative of paying for a VPN just to avoid paying for copyrighted creative works can feel a bit hypocritical and exploitative.