1 third of PC gamers openly admit to pirating instead of buying.
Source? My sample size is small, but out of my entire group(maybe 11 people) exactly one pirates PC games. I’d be shocked if 1/3 of gamers in general were pirating stuff with any kind of regularity.
If you’re including pirating console games to play via emulation that number jumps drastically, though.
That would be entirely too easily bypassed. Also, afaik, it’s kinda what Denuvo does when it’s offline. You can take a file from a legitimate install- I don’t know how/which one- and put it in a pirated copy and Denuvo will work fine… for two days. Then the little certificate or w.e. expires, and you’ve gotta get another one.
Yeah, I don’t like Linus all that much but I do enjoy LTT’s content overall. He tends to drastically and publicly overreact to literally any criticism, and then the rest of the team gets involved and he walks it back. Whether they legitimately change his mind or just convince him he’s gotta look like he’s changed his mind I have no clue.
My favorite instances of Linus are when he’s an absolute idiot on the WAN show and we just get to see Luke’s reaction live. The hard-r thing was absolutely hilarious.
In 2022 he tweeted this.
That might be what you’re remembering, but he’s definitely addressed his views on piracy during the WAN show several times as well.
Edit: someone else posted the full context elsewhere in the thread. I’d link to that comment, but idk how on lemmy so here: https://archive.ph/VavFc
No. The owner of the media has already been paid in both of those scenarios. It makes zero difference to them whether you’re watching the ads.
Adblocking, on the other hand, is actively hurting the owner of the media because they get paid based on how many ads they can serve. If you block the ad, it isn’t served, and they don’t get paid.
Personally, I definitely think it’s piracy. I also still do it.
Installed, I love all the themes! Thanks!
Oh, nevermind. You actually linked the search. I just misunderstood lmao. I wasn’t trying to prank you.
If you remove everything after the & you’ll get people on desktop, too. The search= part.
I can preview the link, which considering how the link ends…
That looks pretty neat, actually. Might have to play that. Hopefully it won’t require the anniversary edition- I refuse to re-buy Skyrim for the fourteenth time.
Edit: Checked out their Discord. It’s releasing for OG Skyrim, not even SSE. So I definitely won’t need the anniversary edition lol.
It’s still in my Steam library. I’m not sure whether it runs, but I can’t imagine it wouldn’t.
I knew it wasn’t just me that buys from Greasy Bob!
Eh. Kinda? It’s got a nice injection of Breath of The Wild in a general way- you can craft parachutes, you can climb around, the UI is similar, it has a very familiar sounding little jingle for a new landmark discovered. That sort of stuff.
The combat is also pretty different from Ark, at least in feel. You can do a combat dodge that gives i-frames so it’s almost soulslike-ish. Or you can just not and let your ‘Pals’ murder mostly everything for you.
Same here. I was holding off on properly deleting my account for some of the more niche stuff on Reddit, but at this point… fuck it I’ll still lurk occasionally but I ain’t logging in.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what they meant as well, but the phrasing is not the best lol
That’s… gotta be a joke, right? Some subreddit got together and meme’d this.
…what an awful video.
Fair. I don’t exactly have high hopes for it lol.
On one hand, I don’t at all like Embracer. On the other hand, the longer Embracer exists the more likely we get that KotOR remake.
Starfield had a lot of issues, and the mid asf performance was a relatively minor one.
I’m just looking at the PCGamer article- I don’t have a Statista account and I’m guessing the only source for that is the PCGamer article anyways because the numbers are the exact same.
There’s ~46,000 response that reported income there, and 22217 of them reported making less than $10,000. Another 9179 said less than $25000. I don’t think this is going to be indicative of gamers in general based off of just that.
Across the board the most common reasons were ‘demo game’, which would likely end up resulting in a sale anyways, and ‘can’t afford’ which would likely not result in a sale regardless of the ability to pirate.
But you’re right that I could absolutely see an exec reading that article, looking at a chart and losing his mind.