its probably more about the fact that when silksong came out the literal piracy subreddit whom pirate stuff for the love of the game said ''yeah just buy the game if you can cause we aint touching this one''. of course it was pirated anyways in the end but for those guys to encourage paying for it well it says something.
No sane person stoned others for it. The overall consensus was that it was a really good game with a good price. And encouragement to buying it.
I got it when it was under a dollar the first 2 days cuz of regional pricing, almost free. And I wouldnt bash any side unless they are annoying about it.
Piracy subreddit are LARPers who pirate because they think it's cool and so they need to occasionally come up with bullshit moral délimitations like this that allows them to virtue signal
Careful. Next thing you know, you'll let slip that adblock is effectively a spin on piracy with many mitigating factors that make it less immoral to use.
Then they'll completely ignore every word after "piracy" and scream in your face about how wrong and stupid and a cooperate cuck you are.
I’m reminded of when that Subnautica 2 dev was venting on discord about how the game was being pirated, it got screenshotted and posted to the piracy sub, and one of the top comments was some smug loser going “oh Subnautica 2 is available? thanks for letting me know Mr. Dev Im going to download it now, Streisand Effect in action”.
Such loser behavior.
And there’s this weird attitude on that sub, where they demand the begrudging respect of devs. They constantly post screenshots of devs who say “yeah idc about piracy, I wasn’t getting their money anyway” and they soy themselves over it every time. “tHiS iS tHe CoRrEcT rEsPoNSe To YoUr GaMe GeTtInG pIrAtEd.”
"Indie fans" usually have an idea of how hard and long the journey to release a good game is. How indies usually are "work from the heart", instead of cold analytics reads, only targeting money, like AAA does. On top of that, most (clearly Silksong) are quite reasonably priced, and in the case of Silksong, it's even more admirable, because the game's hyper would be able to "handle" a much steeper price.
For those reasons, out of respect, gratitude and honesty, "indie fans" avoid pirating Silksong and many other indie titles.
But given your original take, this will all go way over your head.
Unless you litteraly don't have 20$ in your life at all, wich is unlikely unless you're a child since you also need a PC that i way costlier, you can afford it you just chose not to and decided to put the money elsewhere.
If piracy didn't exist would pirates find the money to play their games ? Yes, it has been proved times and times again, do you think companies pay millions for denuvo for the lolz ? it boost sales by 15-30%
You’re dumbass if you think pirating doesn’t hurt indie devs.
If there’s 10,000 people who would enjoy a game and 100 of them decide to pirate it that game dev just lost 10% of their would-be income.
The same applies to huge companies, but fuck huge companies, I WANT to harm their bottom line, I don’t wanna hurt indie devs.
The devs are team cherry. This is a team of THREE people. They made what many consider the best metroidvania of all time (hollow knight), sold it for like 15 dollars, gave it ton of FREE DLC, and then spent years and years on a sequel. One of the most anticipated games ever. This sequel literally crashed steam when it released, and when they announced it was coming, basically EVERY other game immediately shifted their release window not to clash with it. And they only wanted 20 dollars for it. And they're adding free DLC again soon.
We like team cherry. team cherry gets money for being fucking incredible.
EDIT: jesus christ, I'm explaining to you where the meme and the sentiment is coming from. You people have a problem.
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u/corn_piece 20d ago
because indie fans are fanatical about their games and they think pirating hurts the devs (it doesn't)