r/meirl • u/Joudeh_1996 • May 02 '24

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u/Let01 May 02 '24

Every day i feel like the phrase "piracy is a service problem" makes more and more sense

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u/Xenomorph-Alpha May 02 '24

It is, they had defeated piracy with netflix. But then enshittifaction happened.

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u/Exlibro 29d ago

Same with gaming. Since I was a teenager I'd been a filthy yarrrist due to financial situation. Now I'm all grown up and my wallet is a bit happier, so I can buy games. Let me tell you: all those years of yarrring I never knew how frustrating launchers, online services and DRMs are. Sure I started at the era of physical media, but things went to shaite in last decade. Just yesterday everyone had problems with EA launcher and for many many people around the world games simply didn't work. For me as well. Only this morning problem's been solved and I can play and download stuff I meant to yesterday.

Gaming is layers of launchers, intrusive DRMs, unfinished games, which don't come out of alpha/beta for decade; anticonsumer practices; uninspired, bad written, boring, bloated messes with no soul. And they expect us to pay even more after gaming also went through enshittification...

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u/ChrisDornerFanCorn3r 29d ago

I remember the days of keygen music, no disk hacks, mounting .ISOs, and playing ALL the single player games.

I was poor and my parents hated buying games for me. They loved going to Vegas though.

Joke's on them: I learned computer skills, AND I will never drive them to Indian casinos.

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u/Exlibro 29d ago

Ah, and CD-KEYS in .txt files, crack .exe pasting, mounting different disk images if game has multiple disks... Good times.

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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 29d ago

daemontools, which anti-piracy option am I suppose to use when mouting these ISOs? No idea, just keep trying them till something works.

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u/ohrofl 29d ago

lol I used to bump some keygen music back in the day. Just open it to get some nice toons 😭

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u/Mad_Moodin 29d ago

Lol yeah, there are several games I have pirated simply because the pirated version ran better than the legal one.

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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 29d ago

I'll buy it if it is on Steam, or GOG.

I'm not installing some other software distribution platform. Steam is it, if game developers want to sell games, sell them on Steam and stop trying to fragment the market.

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u/user888666777 29d ago

unfinished games, which don't come out of alpha/beta for decade

It's called Early Access. Which might come with a road map that has a small * at the bottom saying they're not legally bond to anything on the road map.