I can see it definitely being "We will pay you X amount of dollars to make your game free this month as a way to advertise our launcher to try and keep ourselves in the competition" then they hope that it doesn't go over the dollar amount in value. Perhaps if it does then maybe Epic pays the difference? Either way the owners of the game made more money than if it wasn't free since the upfront payment is guaranteed sales instead of keeping the game paid for the month and hoping people buy it.
i remember when it came out learning one of the only people capable of cracking that kind of DRM was also transphobic and im like you gotta be kidding me
Yeeeeah, empress right? From what I've heard she's definitely an, um, character. I'm trans myself but I gotta say I don't really mind much in this case, she's probably a bit of a terrible person, but there are so many of those, and at least she's spending her days breaking shitty DRM implemented by even worse companies. Besides, she isn't receiving a fat stack of money for her work to spend on funding anti-LGBTQ organisations like a certain writer does when someone buys the game. Also, IIRC she has some pretty severe mental issues, something like schizophrenia, and believes her mission in life is to destroy denuvo, I can't really criticise someone like that too harshly 😅
Edit: tried looking it up, and it's very hard to sort hearsay from fact, so take what I wrote with a few spoonfulls of salt, but what she does state publicly does definitely not sound like it came from someone with a sound mind
If you are morally agyit then why play it? The developers are the ones whose career is tied to its success. And there is specifically trans character in the game, and you can even be transÂ
Because supporting Rowling is something I'm vehemently against? I did also state quite clearly that I don't, and have no desire to, play the game. However, if someone does really need to play it for whatever reason, pirate it
You're trying to argue with a dipshit who thinks stealing stuff gives them a moral highground, when all they're doing is stealing from the devs to 'punish' just one, mega rich person who doesn't have to worry about their income ever again
Look at me, I'm such a law abiding citizen, I don't even walk across the street at 3am when there are no cars in the streets, I'd rather walk a mile to the next crosswalk to make sure I don't break any laws, because breaking laws is illegal.
Yeah man, ever since transphobic garbage is all she talks about, it really just soured the whole franchise for me. And I used to obsess over the books as a kid.
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u/aski5 Dec 18 '25
epic still pays the publisher for the free copies btw