“Steam players, unsurprisingly, flew off the handle.”

Woah woah woah. I just assumed we meant “Megazord,” not with a modifier. As in.. classic. Anything after that seemed to get worse and worse over time. Once they started using ambulances and fire engines they lost me, even as a kid.

Megazord and crappy is a contradiction. Hmmph

YouTube is a funny example considering it’s loaded with pirated material. Well, the ones that haven’t been flagged yet. I know things have slowly changed so that the proper rights holders get ad revenue.. but before that, YouTube was a pretty bad offender when it came to piracy, because there was more than they could…

err... finite, not non-finite. oops

I see what you did there.

An analogy isn’t a direct comparison, and I said it was a stretch.

I’ll pass, thanks. Put in a good word with the Care Bears for me, though?

Former achievement hunter myself, btw. But I switched to Playstation and trophies just don’t really do it for me—thankfully.

Wasn’t being entirely serious with that, I mean “TECHNICALLY” it’s true, but yeah, to avoid confusion, I’d never call trophies an achievement (be it a noun or the more incorrect proper noun Microsoft variant). :)

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“Clearly, I give more shits about my own personal philosophy than giving you money on terms you as the rightsholder have dictated.”

And I’m not saying that makes piracy ethically OK. More to the point that you never get what you pay for and there’s no “Ok, we’ll make games better if you end piracy, deal?” agreement that’s realistically ever going to happen.

Devs like to point thumbs at pirates destroying gaming while they line up pre-sales for their broken games they’ll never fully complete. you want the season pass, too, right? sure you do.

Beer is physical and non-finite so I’m not sure how that applies, at all.

Debatable, entertainment of some form is a basic necessity I’d argue.. but that can be achieved through many ways. Video games, specifically, are a luxury form of entertainment, however.

Another analogy, maybe a stretch, is a street performer tracking down people who listened to his performance but didn’t tip. Thieves?

Depends if Monet or something comparable is open domain or not, which doesn’t apply to modern video games.

You realize you don’t have to buy a new system for each game, right? I mean... they are reusable. Pretty crazy, I know. Technology.

“but it’s sad to me that people will work so hard to find a way to make games easier for themselves instead of actually improving their own abilities to rise to the occasion.”