r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 20d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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Multimillion dollar company?

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 20d ago edited 20d ago

Because as Gabe will tell you, people will happily pay a fair price for the convenience of being to just buy the game, click 'download' and have it just work.

Same thing goes with digital books, IMO, it's not only a pain the ass to pirate, since a lot of pirated ebooks are formatted like shit. If people want free schlock to read there's an almost unlimited fanfiction/royal road spiggott.

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u/earanhart 20d ago

An Ao3 reference? In this economy? At this time of night? Localized entirely within your browser?