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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted anna phylaxis

      On the other hand, the idea that piracy has no impact on sales at all, while extremely convenient, is also obviously utterly absurd And comparing games to other media is not an apples to apples comparison - games are HARDER to pirate than, say, musichttps://twitter.com/quatoria/status/1244159197698240513 …

      Arthur Chu added,

      anna phylaxis @quatoria
      it's weird seeing people still fall prey to the seductive belief that every pirated copy of something is a missed sale, because it is the year 2020 and we have more than fifteen years of statistics on video game and software piracy that explode that notion utterly
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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

      There's plenty of people who just never pay for music, at all, they never have and they never will Some of them are aggressive jerks about it, but a lot of them are just passively like "Why would you"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          I hate how these threads are all like "I torrent games constantly and I ALSO spend $2000 on games every year because piracy has made me an engaged consumer" Yeah these threads are not a random sampling and you're not typical dude

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          And let's talk about gaming for a sec "They said piracy would kill the industry but it's making record profits lol" "Hey why is no one putting effort into standalone single-player games anymore Why is everything always-online multiplayer 'gaming as a service' shit"

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          "Why does everyone feel the need to sneak in abusive lootbox mechanics into everything on top of onerous subscription fees to a central server just to let you play the game Why is everyone doing this shit now when gamers hate it" 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          Hey look the core argument of the most serious Free Culture warriors was that we should view content creation "as a service" rather than as a product, because restricting distribution to make software act like a product is immoral Well, then a service is what you get

          1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          Turns out something being "like a service" with the subscription fees and the centralized community management and so on is what a lot of people don't like Turns out if you liked the kind of game that worked best as a "product" (standalone single-player experiences) you're SOL

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          Just like if your argument is "bands SHOULD make money on live gigs and not records" then fine There won't be any records then Why bother putting the effort and money in at the studio to make a really great album if it's nothing but a promo

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          Might as well just never bother, it's to your advantage to keep your music something people can only listen to by going to shows or listening to shitty bootlegs People who can't make it to shows are SOL

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          (One of the things David Lowery said about this was that it exposes how much of this is a youth culture thing, that sitting at home listening to an album is a "fake" experience of music compared to "real" live shows and the former should only support the latter)

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020

          (As he points out, this is something that fans tend to change their minds about after they turn 30, and - more importantly - that performers tend to change their minds about when they turn 40)

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        2. Ti‏ @The_Ti_ 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          a good majority of people consume music through listening on YouTube; so the act of using or not using an adblocker makes it piracy or not piracy, in one sense

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Mar 2020
          Replying to @The_Ti_

          The real story is that because of piracy always providing a seductive price point of zero, the legit free streaming services pay peanuts It's literally almost no money at all, like people with hundreds of thousands of fans make like fifty bucks a year for being on Spotify

          3 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
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