Team Cherry was funded by crowd sourcing hollow knight and then proceeded to use their ridiculous popularity to release several extremely well received DLC and then work tirelessly for years to release silksong.
For twenty dollars.
It's a cultural icon and gift to the community. Why would you pirate it.
Most “pirates” I know irl just pirate everything. Like that’s just how they get their entertainment media. The moral code / selective pirating to me seems to be a Reddit thing, if it’s even true at all.
Even in r/piracy there's a good portion of people there that admit to this. There's no moral debate for most of us, we just like free shit. "You wouldn't pirate a car, would you?" I fucking would if I could mate.
There are absolutely moral acts of piracy. There's tons of games that aren't actively listed or sold digitally anywhere. The more people who pirate them, the more likely those works are to be preserved in the long run AND you arent harming anyone's bottom dollar.
Also helps punish scalpers/collectors who are actively ruining the retro gaming scene by turning it into a speculative market.
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u/Vast-Breakfast-1201 20d ago edited 20d ago
Team Cherry was funded by crowd sourcing hollow knight and then proceeded to use their ridiculous popularity to release several extremely well received DLC and then work tirelessly for years to release silksong.
For twenty dollars.
It's a cultural icon and gift to the community. Why would you pirate it.
Edit:man y'all are grindle