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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Piracy is basically free advertising for a game. It’s an extended full free trial and pirates join the community of the video game & promote the game through word of mouth. Even as a corpo i would recognize the benefits of video game piracy, given how attempts to prevent it like DRM only inadvertently piss off buyers and dissuade potential customers because of the performance hit. DRM is basically treating your entire fanbase as “criminals” (i dont think crackers are criminals i think they are the unsung heroes of the digital age)

    Brand recognition is essential for buyers & for example if i had not had the experience of playing fallout 3 by downloading at 100kbps in 2012 as a kid, at a time when i couldnt even afford the game since i was living in a third world country, i would not have fallout 4 in my steam library!!