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 …
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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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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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"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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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
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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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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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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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(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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(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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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
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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
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