Gaben himself in interviews says all data points towards the best way to combat piracy is by providing a good service/convenience. The biggest reason for piracy isn’t money, surprisingly.
Personally I stopped sailing when streaming services just started. They were reasonably priced, they weren’t fragmented, and I could hop to another one for a month and catch up on their exclusives. Then they started becoming bastards in every single aspect of convenience and cost so back to sailing.
I pirate because it’s more convenient, surprisingly I don’t pirate games and music because of steam and spotify, steam is just convenient, so is spotify it’s more convenient than fucking around with finding music you like
movies/tv shows it’s more convenient to have my own plex server
Profit is what’s leftover after everyone gets paid.
Profit, by definition is excess.
You might want to study some basic economics before you come across as being clever. You’re buying into rhetoric that exists to take advantage of your ineptitude.
As Mark Twain once said, “it’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’d been fooled.”
LOL profit is the motive of literally every business on the planet. You don’t even need “basic economics” to understand that.
As James Downey once said: “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this sub is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
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So hilarious to see this on this sub after people assured me time and time again that “we only pirate because prices are too high!”
Gaben himself in interviews says all data points towards the best way to combat piracy is by providing a good service/convenience. The biggest reason for piracy isn’t money, surprisingly.
Personally I stopped sailing when streaming services just started. They were reasonably priced, they weren’t fragmented, and I could hop to another one for a month and catch up on their exclusives. Then they started becoming bastards in every single aspect of convenience and cost so back to sailing.
And yet people still pirate Steam games all day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ie: “I justify theft to myself because they charge more than I personally think they’re worth.”
I didn’t say it was the ONLY reason people pirate…
Compared to even 10 years ago, game piracy is almost nonexistent. Steam is the reason.
Based on what?
It’s almost as if we’re all different people.
You’re not different people though, other than some of you are honest and some of you are just conjuring up bullshit justifications.
So, when you’re licking the boot, do you start at the heel or the toe?
Hey man, I pirate too. But it’s nothing to do with cost, and I don’t fabricate bullshit justifications for it.
Yeah right? Who’s gonna feed those poor corporation? I’m sure they’ll used the money they make for a better customers experience
…what corporation?
Are you playing dumb or are just just dumb?
Why do you hate piracy?
Yes
We pirate because we’re selfish but use every excuse in the book to convince ourselves otherwise…
If we were selfish, we wouldn’t be sharing our files in the first place, and the system would fall apart.
It’s the fact that we aren’t selfish that filesharing works at all.
More mental gymnastics
LOL you’re just so kind, sharing your stolen media. Practically a saint, ain’t ya?
I pirate because it’s more convenient, surprisingly I don’t pirate games and music because of steam and spotify, steam is just convenient, so is spotify it’s more convenient than fucking around with finding music you like
movies/tv shows it’s more convenient to have my own plex server
I do only pirate because the prices are too high.
I just never specified how high is too high 😏
Are you kidding me? I pirate because I’m not paying for a profitable product that I could otherwise get for free.
If you want to line the pockets of executives and investors, go right on ahead. You have plenty of others to fit in with.
Right!? It’s not like it cost money to create that work! Let all the schmucks pay for it!
Profit is what’s leftover after everyone gets paid.
Profit, by definition is excess.
You might want to study some basic economics before you come across as being clever. You’re buying into rhetoric that exists to take advantage of your ineptitude.
As Mark Twain once said, “it’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’d been fooled.”
LOL profit is the motive of literally every business on the planet. You don’t even need “basic economics” to understand that.
As James Downey once said: “What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this sub is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Yeah, and if they’re forced to make less, they will. Or they make nothing at all.
Lol, thanks for proving my point.
Yes, once again, I’m very aware of basic economics. What is your point? Is it your hope that they will stop producing media for you to watch?
My point is that they will make less profit if they are forced to.
If they stop making products at all, then they make no money.
People already work way harder than them for significantly less, so it’s definitely do-able.
People just need to have higher standards, which you are proving they don’t.
Yeah, you said that already. I’m still not understanding what that has to do with this discussion.
LOL what? Please do elaborate