/games/ - Games

All the devs were already paid, it's actively harmful to buy it after that.
That being said, keep in mind piracy acts as a form of marketing, so by torrenting Red Dead you are benifiting Rockstar somewhat.
Burn it to some DVD's, stamp them with "red dead redemption," don't handwrite it and leave those around for people to find. Physical piracy is the most effective form.

>>40876
Piracy is literally one of the least harmful things out there

You should pirate. I would even go as far as saying, given the state of the industry, you have the moral obligation to pirate almost everything.

I buy around half of the indie games I pirate, the ones I end up liking and feeling were really done. Big studios don't get anything no matter how much I like the games. I refuse to help the clueless suit-driven AAA slop (see every big publisher) and reward bad behaviour (DRM)

>>40887
I only buy shit because of online multiplayer or because steam workshop has the monopoly on mods.

>is it moral (lol) to copy data when i cannot purchase it legitimately (lol)
zoomers are so tech illiterate these days jesus

>>40880
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>>40892
>mfw even the piracyfags of today have to bring moralfaggotry into the question
i pirate because its free :)

>>40894
How did my response have anything to do with morals?

>>40895
misclick :(

>>40898
It's funny that gamers™ are the only ones who discuss the morality of piracy in an industry where 80% of video games are abandonware. You never see anime/manga fans complain about this; they literally don't care, they've been doing it forever. What makes video games such a medium filled with corporate bootlickers?

>>40900
probably because reading or watching stuff can be done on even the cheapest phone while gamers are usually suburban kids or professionals with $2000 rigs

>>40900
>You never see anime/manga fans complain about this
I've seen it more in recent years with streaming sites becoming more viable and torrenting becoming dying knowledge.

>>40900
Lots of people are addicted to gacha and live service slop and take an antagonistic position to anything other than walled gardens.

Funny you mention abandonware btw because game preservation is a controversy for this reason. Vid related. Ironically the Stop Killing Games initiative caught a lot of flak thanks to a guy calling himself "Pirate Software." (Former Blizzard employee with the kind of mentality you would expect)

>>40876
>i was thinking of buying red dead redemption remastered but its costly as fuck.
You should absolutely pirate any Rockstar games you want to play. They have terrible business practices, including the pricing models.

>>40895
>>40897
Mine didn't have anything to do with morals either

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>>40887
>muh harm
youre clearly another moralfaggot

>>40905
>morals is when harm
If you're unable to tell the difference between unformalized morals and ethics then take that to /DAG/