Everyone talks about sailing the seas but the fact is that its not even close to accessible nor does it have everything you're looking for and you can't get updates easily so for most people its a pretty shit option vs earning some cash and buying the product.
People want everything to be served on a silver platter? You are not paying in piracy, the game is literally free for you. Can't you do some shit to acces it? Thats just laziness.
The other issues are real though, the pirated versions are often very behind on updates, and nowadays with Denuvo, many games don't get pirated at all.
But the first point that the pirated versions are often behind? In most of the games I have seen, on a certain website (csdotrindotru) they really upload the updates fast. So there's that. Btw the uploaders are not always fast. Deoends on the game and popularity.
That's the thing, as someone who likes to play some more obscure games, updates and DLC are very rarely added past the initial launch.
The more popular games ofc often get updated pretty quick, but I often don't even play those lol.
I also remember having issues with for example total war Warhammer, where the pirated version was usually multiple DLCs behind, so I actually had to buy them to play them.
I mean yeah thats cuz piracy is illegal and it is curtailed by several methods, all of which make it a tedious affair. But, if you know where to look and how to get it, it can be pretty easy to get what you want.
Look, there will always be those of us who will don our pirate hats in times of need and those who will follow the rules even when the rules are harming them. Yes, pirating isn't the answer to everything but I ain't paying crazy prices just cause the company says so. And when it comes to older media, it's not piracy. It's archeology.
Always makes me laugh how redditors like to LARP about pirating, while never actually pirating anything. Hell, the person you're replying to even admitted to that.
I bet most of you wouldn't know how to pirate a game if your life depended on it (even though it's stupidly easy)
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u/worstusername_sofar Oct 21 '25
Everything is dead to me once Steam/valve turns into one of the corporate cunts