#StopPayingGames

I can't dictate whether or not you pirate; I just think you can help influence the world in a more positive way if you don't. There are games made by people who worked hard and aren't employed by a corporation. I would encourage you to buy from them, because you can show that you value their hard work and want them to keep doing it. Games have the good fortune of being more democratized than other media, so even if they have the lion's share of the market, you can go on enjoying video games, even paying for video games, without giving those corporations the time of day.

2K shut down Battleborn, I am still pissed.

You don't have to explain to me, I already know. I said you were wrong and I meant it. There is not going to be a corporation that is not enshitified. Did you miss all of the independent studious being bought up and now closed.

They are destroying our culture and the best you can muster is buy ethically? We are far beyond that rhetoric now. Like I said before it is okay. You have not really thought about what is going on and there is no shame in that.

Tell that to the software I wrote

Past you is licensing to future you.

This is pretty much every company that publishes games. So we just don’t buy / play games ? We want real change we need to push for more physical releases with game on disc. On top of that we need to push for more single player experiences. This way no matter the licenses agreement I can still boot the games

Going back as far as the mid 90s I recall seeing verbiage in the software agreement that I didn’t own the software. And they had the right to refuse my access without notice But because the software is on the disc I can still boot it to this day

I don’t expect companies to hold servers for the rest of time so I can redownload my game. What I ask for is a physical copy.

I bought a few games from smaller studios and indie devs and i get "AAA" when it's a giveaway like GTA 5 a few years ago but i mostly go sailing and even that isn't necessary lately because of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A. and been playing it since 0.9.3 so about 2 years maybe and i did try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and it was meh so paying 60-200$ for 1 game that will most likely barely be played is a waste of money for me so no point in coming into port.

You’re right. It often comes from the previous game but if that game doesn’t do well then the chances of there being another are greatly reduced.

What are you talking about? Game devs are constantly being laid off even after the product they create, creates profits for the corp.

I love steam, but it needs to be in this image.

That's a different story entirely. That's poor allocation of resources on large projects, when certain disciplines needed at the end of a project don't necessarily have work to do at the beginning of another. The money that hired those people in the first place still came from selling the company's previous video games.

I don't even remember the last game I bought that required an internet server. If I can't host a local game or private server for multi-player, I'm not interested. Of course, I only buy maybe one game a year, and it's never anything current these days.

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Though software licenses are supposed to be resellable

That's just false, you can still buy and sell the games that you bought on disk 15 years ago. It doesn't matter that you only own a license to the software as long as you own the whole end product.