When I go to Martial Arts conventions I don’t expect to be challenged to kumite every 6th step when walking. Instead I walk around the floor unbothered until I enter a seminar about a topic I want to learn.

People who are never going to be customers are, and bear with me here because I know this is complex, never going to be customers.

I downloaded and played a pirated version of Diablo II from the campus network back when I was in college, maybe a year after it was released. I had never played the first one, and I liked it so much that I bought the Battle Chest edition when the expansion came out. It also led to me buying Diablo III when it came…

Great writeup. I was in category of McPoors while going to University and pirated most of my stuff. (Actually found lots of joy in borrowing retail discs from someone or renting a game and then cracking it myself. Yeah copy protection was way easier to get around back then. Now that I have a career I buy everything I…

Then you have game companies like EA that have admitted that piracy does not hurt game sales and may indeed help. So no, its not a lost sale at all.

Sell a complete game. Price it at what the market will bear (which seems to be $30 and under). That’s how you mitigate piracy.

I think it’s important to keep in mind that a pirated copy of a game probably doesn’t represent a lost sale of a game. In some cases it does for sure, but not all... not even most cases.

Want to slow down piracy (youll never stop it) is to price your games reasonably, release actual finished games, dont add in microtransactions. Basically dont fuck your paying customers. We pirates (yup me too) fuck you because you fuck us. Why is 1/2 my gaming collection paid and why is 1/2 pirated. WHen you start…

It’s not just that the game isn’t what he expected, it’s that it presents itself dishonestly. It’s claiming to be based on the life of a real person, then portrays him (and BDSM in general) in completely inaccurate ways.

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Really? Really???

What are your objections to the article? It seems like a fairly thoughtful analysis.

Wait, why is it inappropriate? None of the images are even close to explicit and there’s not even any foul language?

One quibble. There are, indeed, 24/7 Dom/sub relationships. And24/7 Master/slave contracts. One need only do a group search on Fetlife to see this.

I think the main problem is that the game seems to have been at least loosely based on a real person, but it completely distorts who he is and what he does.

Artists always streamed their work before, were they just not able to do it on Twitch?