New games are just annoying to pirate, old games and ROMs sure. Music I buy all the time but I also pirate all the time, every artist I buy music from and see live I probably first pirated.
The one modern-ish game I bought was Max Payne 3 and oh my god the fucking rockstar launcher. It needs to run in the background, it needs constant forced updates for nothing (i have very slow aussie internet) and it runs like shit. Not to mention the launcher bugged out and I lost my save half way through due to some cloud shit bug.
After buying like 300 games on steam It’s first game that triggered the thought, I actually regret buying this game through official channels. The paid experience is genuinely worse than the pirate copy.
Oh yeah I have Steam but any other launcher or management software would be strong motivation to pirate. I’ll buy new AAA games for the one reason that they’re mostly shitty on launch and are constantly updated to fix issues, and it’s easier to just update through Steam than constantly pirate and install it. Or things like Tears of the Kingdom where I don’t even have the console to run it on.
New games are just annoying to pirate, old games and ROMs sure. Music I buy all the time but I also pirate all the time, every artist I buy music from and see live I probably first pirated.
I’d argue new AAA games are more annoying to buy.
The one modern-ish game I bought was Max Payne 3 and oh my god the fucking rockstar launcher. It needs to run in the background, it needs constant forced updates for nothing (i have very slow aussie internet) and it runs like shit. Not to mention the launcher bugged out and I lost my save half way through due to some cloud shit bug.
After buying like 300 games on steam It’s first game that triggered the thought, I actually regret buying this game through official channels. The paid experience is genuinely worse than the pirate copy.
Oh yeah I have Steam but any other launcher or management software would be strong motivation to pirate. I’ll buy new AAA games for the one reason that they’re mostly shitty on launch and are constantly updated to fix issues, and it’s easier to just update through Steam than constantly pirate and install it. Or things like Tears of the Kingdom where I don’t even have the console to run it on.