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Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by DocTomoe »

dijit wrote: post #112
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

> I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market. I have actual concrete data about this¹ and unfortunately the percentage is much larger than you realise. I'm still under NDA until 2024 but it's in the region of 60-80% of sales for certain games, especially RPGs which seem to get pirated t…

On the other hand, many people refuse to buy anything with DRM on it, or wait for the massively-reduced "game of the year" edition that comes out a few years down the line, when a crack to remove DRM is available.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by dijit »

jobigoud wrote: post #117
dijit wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market. I have actual concrete data about this¹ and unfortunately the percentage is much larger than you realise. I'm still under NDA until 2024 but it's in the region of 60-80% of sales for certain games, especially RPGs which seem to get pirated t…

Note that the GP wrote "that would buy the game" which I think makes this unknowable / unmeasurable. You can measure how many players have pirated the game but not how many of them wouln't have bothered at all if they had had to pay for it. Take a person that has pirated many games, how do you know which ones they would have actually paid for? Even if you knew the ones they play the most, it woulnd't necessarily tran…

You can see the deficit of the pirated copies sales vs the non-pirated copies sales.

You can also estimate sales within a 5% margin of error. Other factors such as play time and ratings also allow you to understand what sales would have been.

There’s lots of data to draw from.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by dijit »

fho wrote: post #118
dijit wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My ex-girlfriend (Estonian) will not buy software because to her it's not "worth money". So, similar mentality. I ended up buying all her software (Office, photoshop etc;) but she said it was a waste of money.

Well ... depending on the usecase it _is_ a waste of money. Libreoffice, Gimp and Inkscape are perfectly viable alternatives to MS and Adobe products if you are a casual user. That said, I don't believe anybody who has used the 'real' office/photoshop/etc is easily able to go back to a 'lesser' alternative, but that's mostly due to sunken cost and lock in ... but, I don't think a casual user will make good use of the…

I think those are good arguments for allowing teenagers to pirate software. If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP. And companies are less likely to pirate software. (Though I have heard of some small ones that do)

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by powersnail »

unishark wrote: post #116
powersnail wrote: post #86

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Well, to be honest, university textbooks (at least in US) is in general a predatory market. There are courses that require $800 worth of textbook. > who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes It's not ironic. They have no choice (other than not attending the university of course). If there is a loophole that lets students not pay the tuition fee without any punishment, a good amount of stude…

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

No. But I’m under no pressure to purchase diamonds.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by halgir »

unishark wrote: post #116
powersnail wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to be honest, university textbooks (at least in US) is in general a predatory market. There are courses that require $800 worth of textbook. > who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes It's not ironic. They have no choice (other than not attending the university of course). If there is a loophole that lets students not pay the tuition fee without any punishment, a good amount of stude…

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

No, but it justifies artificially creating perfect copies of diamonds.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by msk-lywenn »

guilamu wrote: post #88
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

The Witcher (and now cyberpunk) series is the proof of that: insanely successful sale wise and 0 drm of any kind. Make a good game and it'll sale.

That’s survivor bias, not proof.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by wink »

seer wrote: post #60
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software / games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using. But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “n…

I think it's unfair to lump windows into the mix, because the monopoly still is very real and for certain circumstances (like, wanting to play certain games) there's no way around it.

This is not a pro or contra buying or pirating argument, and I actually know lots of people who will happily pay for software that is not windows.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by unishark »

DocTomoe wrote: post #119
unishark wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

I think it is ethically ok to rob diamond stores if somehow you are forced to possess diamonds and diamonds are only available through a prohibitively expensive and exploitative market. Like textbooks written by the professors actually holding the lecture that change tiny bits every semester, especially in information relevant to coursework, to make used textbooks essentially worthless.

No we don't do that. One of the most popular questions the first day of class is whether a prior edition of the textbook will suffice. It is very commonly accepted, especially if changes are minor. Authors offer big sweeping improvements to attract buyers. Used textbooks are a robust business.

And the simple fact is you are not forced to possess textbooks nor attend the university, no matter how beneficial it may be to do so. This is how people rationalize all forms of crime.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by unishark »

halgir wrote: post #125
unishark wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

No, but it justifies artificially creating perfect copies of diamonds.

Of course I chose an analogy which sidestepped IP questions to focus on the moral issue of defending piracy based on the price.

If your argument is against IP though, why is the price relevant? You support IP laws as long as the price is one you personally find reasonable, so it's basically a system of voluntary donations then?

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by 0-_-0 »

dijit wrote: post #112
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

> I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market. I have actual concrete data about this¹ and unfortunately the percentage is much larger than you realise. I'm still under NDA until 2024 but it's in the region of 60-80% of sales for certain games, especially RPGs which seem to get pirated t…

Ubisoft games require installing a 3rd party gamestore (Ubisoft Connect) which people might be reluctant to install. I know I am, Steam is the only DRMed store I use because it always works. On others I've come close to losing access to the account or just failing authentication where I have to crack a game I paid for to finish playing it.
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