The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

  • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.deEnglish
    463·
    1 year ago

    I’ve started to pirate games again, which I never saw a reason to in 15 years. Simply because 2 hours refund window isn’t enough for the crap they sell now. Performance from hell and half assed story after you left the tutorial.

    Gamepass kind of stopped me a bit on that, but it’s a subscription and only a matter of time till there’s competition with exclusives and increased price.

    Games also got too expensive, there’s more competition than ever and I earn less money than my parents used to, I simply can’t pay that much, yet the games start to cost 90€ upwards. So even if I buy a key, it’s still 65€ or more, for an often broken game. No thank you.

    • ogginger43@infosec.pubEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      Not to mention cracked games let you avoid the company’s terrible launcher (looking at you uplay). Steaming pile of unnecessary garbage. I have cracked copies of a lot of the games I own for reasons like that, Pirated games just have a better offline experience in my opinion. Online games are another story.

    • hihellobyeoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Tried crusader kings 3 on game pass, I liked the game but every tube after 30min or an hour, the windows drm would have a hiccup and close the game, ended up getting a cracked version, while still paying for the subscription, never had a crash again… fuck this shitty drm.

      • Jako301@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Crusader kings 3 (just like all other Paradox Games) doesn’t even have DRM. You can start the whole game without steam or the shitty PDX launcher, so no idea what you are on about. A “cracked” version is the exact same piece of software.

    • khab@feddit.nuEnglish
      616·
      1 year ago

      Just wait, dude. Prices on games come down so fast, there’s really not much reason to pirate.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I feel like they used to do this, now it’s a crapshoot. My Steam wishlist has become rife with games I’m kind of interested in, but never go on enough of a sale for me to seriously consider. Which is honestly probably not a problem given I already have more games than I’m likely to finish in my lifetime at the rate I play them now.

      • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.deEnglish
        48·
        1 year ago

        Not an option. I dislike spoiler and I need a new PC to play coop games with friends anyways. What’s the point of a new expensive PC if I play only old games? I also don’t feel like participating in gaming communities much, if everything has been discovered 1 or 2 years before me. No one gives a fuck if I find out some cool hidden features, if it has been discussed already and everyone can watch 1000 better YouTube guides. Playing on release is great entertainment for me and always will be.

        • ZagorathEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          I’m gonna be honest, for me, everything you said there is precisely why I like being a patient gamer. Can play all the games I want without spending as much on hardware or on the games themselves. Am playing the most completed and patched version of the game. Have heaps of resources available online to help me optimise my gameplay.

          • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.deEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            And that’s totally fine. I wish people would show more empathy, on why I don’t enjoy it the same way as you do. You also lose a lot on being not part of any current community. Patient gamer is a valid way, unless you play online games or care about the points I mentioned above.

            • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              When someone shares an opinion online, it’s like people think it’s supposed to be an argument to win and you are wrong, it’s annoying as shit. I get irritated seeing comments like your first one get downvoted lol.

            • ZagorathEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah I get it. I actually originally was going to include a whole bit where I emphasised that I’m not saying my way is the right way and I think yours is completely genuine. I removed that part because I didn’t want to waffle on too much and hoped the sentiment would get across anyway.

              That said:

              You also lose a lot on being not part of any current community

              This is simply untrue. Players of older games often form the most highly-invested and passionate communities. That includes online games. My most-played game on Steam is a 2019 remake of a 1999 game with a strong casual and competitive multiplayer scene which has been very much alive, in different forms, continuously over that whole 24 year period.

        • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I totally get wanting to play the game when it’s fresh. You miss out on being part of the buzz of a new game if you wait to play it. Every gaming site is full of memes about a new game for the first few months after release and it’s definitely part of the experience to be on the “in” side of that.

          With that said, I just pick and choose which games matter to me for that nowadays, and I commit myself to actually beating the games I buy (assuming I don’t hate them). Committing to beating them before buying a new game has really cut back on my buying of new games only to have it languish in my backlog and see price drops before I ever play it.

          This way I do get to be part of that community for the games that really matter to me, but I also am not just buying everything out there at full price.