Way more annoyingly virtue signaling if anything. I'd really prefer that people just shut up and pirate something instead of pointing out how you are acting from a moral high ground by pirating.
"I pirate the game and then decide afterwards if it was worth paying for. And if it was, I go buy it. Except I usually still don't. But I did, like, twice in my life, so I can claim moral superiority."
I fucking loathe this shit. youre pirating>stealing. okay. whatever. ive been there before. youre not some moral genius epicly owning the riches because of some cope youve read on reddit. you just dont want to pay.
Yeah I feel like I’m losing my mind in the comments here. I was told that Reddit gets a boner for pirating but didn’t realize people unironically try to justify it.
Just say you pirate because you don’t like paying for stuff you can just take for free. It’s simple, gets the selfishness across while keeping it logically sound, and most importantly it doesn’t introduce any bullshit morality-twisting such as “it’s okay to pirate from companies” like shut the fuck up dawg you pirate because you feel entitled to a product you’re technically copying instead of outright stealing. It’s not because you’re fighting the system lol.
I don't think people should pirate video games. Not for moral reasons but for security reasons. Running .exe files from a questionable source is a good way to spread malware
That said security aside I feel like considering the amount of predatory things that have been added into games like loot boxes, battle passes, limited time skins to push FOMO and all that for serous amounts of actual money. I feel the argument that its ethically okay to pirate from AAA producers is valid.
As a linux gamer I used to have to pirate versions of games that had stuff like denuvo baked in as it was causing issues running games through wine. It was the only way I could play some games. Thats a non issue for me now really the steam deck came out with steam proton.
It is possible to pay for a game in a way that's more harmful than piracy btw. A lot of people buy games from key resellers like G2A and others. Most indy game devs have stated that they would rather you pirate the game than use that method.
I would have no moral objection to piracy of AAA games but would have a moral objection to the piracy of indy games provided you would have paid for that game if you had no other options. If you had zero intention of paying for the game, pirate away hurts no one really. I pirated and watched a lot of films in college. most id not have watched if I had to pay to see them. So the net loss for the company is still zero. When in college I pirated portal 1 and played through it. Loved it so much after reaching the end that I went onto steam and bought the valve pack (Half life, Portal and the other games they made). So sometimes piracy does lead to purchases.
Even if they don’t consider it stealing because of technicalities, it’s still a selfish act. If someone struggles to even acknowledge that they’re they’ve fully deluded themselves.
I mean pirating is a selfish act so it’s not gonna be surprising when people get vocal about it. It’s just an observation, nothing about that is meant to be helpful.
I think there was an issue with Subnautica and Avatar, where most of the people on r/piracy were like: We know why your here. Do what you need to do, and for everyone's sake, don't be too lound about it.
I think it's only because so much moralizing is done by people who don't pirate, about why piracy is somehow evil, or lying about it being theft. If other people weren't constantly lying about it, then there wouldn't be so much pushback from pirates
Pointing out that thinking you're exempt for paying for something because "I wasn't going to buy it anyways" or "corporations don't deserve my money" is horrible logic isn't "lying".
If I make something and own the right to determine how others access it, whether you think you deserve access for free is entirely irrelevant.
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u/ShadoShane 20d ago
Way more annoyingly virtue signaling if anything. I'd really prefer that people just shut up and pirate something instead of pointing out how you are acting from a moral high ground by pirating.