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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I just created a lemmy.ca account because LW down time guess I use this account as my main and the other one is to collecting dust

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Do not feed the trolls. Happiness doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

[–] atomicfox@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ha, what a loser. Artists don't deserve to be paid for their work.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

I know they have "arts" in their name, but Electronic Arts doesn't make art.

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[–] HaloMasyerChief@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

To be fair, you pirates always look like starving entitled whiny bastards. You want everything free in life and feel like you have the right and duty to take it from others. You can't pay even $5 for a fucking game? Lmao you obviously can but choose to be a parasite and not to.

And before you come here telling me that it's not stealing and these aren't physical items, what I mean is that you're actively hurting honest businesses and small artist. You're taking thier products, making exact copies of it and then distributing them freely. You're not competing economically making your own product, you're just leeching off from someone else's hard work and then killing any opportunity they could have of profiting from it.

Y all act like selling is something bad, but I have news for you: That's how the world works! People need to buy food, pay rent and pay bills, and they're not doing it by just making things free

[–] cnnrduncan 5 points 1 year ago

Lol I hardly think that companies like EA or Microsoft are "honest businesses" or "small artist[s]", fuckers have made billions of dollars through their anticompetitive monopolistic bullshit.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And I have news for YOU. I WILL keep on supporting the piracy of unoptimised, incomplete garbage games, that use the preorders as beta testers, famous examples being Gollum and Cyberpunk 77. In comparison, I see no problem paying for quality games like Skyrim, or games that have fixed their issues, like Shadow of War removing the microtransactions and fixing most of the bugs. But crap like Gollum (the game, I have a sort of respect and pity for the character) has no place on my system, even if I had Duck Tales money, even if I had a 2 TB RAM, multiple 4090s or whatever the latest overpriced Nvidia crap is, and the latest, most powerful, server level CPUs, with like 128 cores or something, I still wouldn't buy and play this garbage. Alright?

I velieve rhis shpuld be done to teach the lazy bastards in management in those game companies, that if you want good sales, you have to take things a bit slower and poliah the product out. Unfortunately, it seems that they don't give a fuck, because Denuvo protects their games during the first few months of sales, when they make a profit on the garbage they've made. Then they do some bug fixing and move on to the next cash cow. That's how the gaming industry works. And I don't know about you, but I do NOT want to support this mess.

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[–] Polarsy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, so much butthurt energy...

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