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[–] Obsession@lemmy.world 153 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I buy them

I pirate movies and shows because the ecosystem for buying them is fucking trash. If I could just buy legal remuxes without DRM, I would.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. The day games start introducing arbitrary resolution limits based on my OS or browser choice, the way streaming sites do, is the day I'll start pirating games.

Piracy, for me, is a matter of functionality, not price.

[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 37 points 1 year ago

I am with you. It's all a matter of convenience to me.

Steam, does a pretty good job of what it does. As does GOG.

Now- EA/UBI can suck a big fat one.... but, steam/gog are good so far.

Regarding media, I am with you 100%. It's strictly a matter of convenience. Back in the 20-teens, I didn't even have a plex server running, as netflix was able to handle the majority of my media needs.

When, every fucking network created their own streaming service, and partitioned all of the media behind their own subscriptions, I said fuck that. The collection of linux ISOs keeps growing now.

When it is easier for me to use plex to streaming my Linux ISOs, rather then to use a paid service- THAT is the problem. And, that is why they can get my middle finger.

[–] shadowspirit@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm wrong but isn't there a drm free version of baldurs gate on GOG? Out of all the games to pirate this isn't the one. I get that not everyone can afford it but I suspect a lot of people who do, can.

[–] ryo@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the ecosystem for buying games without DRM is extremely limited.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All storefronts have tons of them, more games then you'll have the time to play in your lifetime. Heck, Epic's freebies that have DRM are the exception, that's at least one DRM free game a week right there and let me tell you bud, as you grow older you don't have the time to finish a game a week!

[–] ryo@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my mind it was limited to GOG, which is already a pretty good amount. But I wouldn't touch anything epic games anyway.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Meh, your loss, use a throwaway email and connect using the VPN you probably already use and you don't need to worry about viruses and shit like you would when pirating and the game updates itself when updates are available and the devs actually receive money from Epic.