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"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."

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[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I might buy one of their games just to offset someone who can't. I absolutely appreciate a business with this kind of attitude. Like someone else said, the people who pirate it probably weren't going to buy it anyway. Might as well get some goodwill out of it.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

the people who pirate it probably weren't going to buy it anyway

Exactly. For example, you can't expect some middle class kid in some third world country to buy the game they like. Playing games by pirating might make them play their favourite game until they eventually grow to a point where they earn themselves and then they buy the games they like.

P.s) Pirated games all this time but the first game I will actually buy will be Spiderman 2. Really excited to try it out since Spiderman 1 was so fucking good.

[–] Zapp@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Totally.

I didn't know games could come with professionally printed labels, when I was a kid with no income. I thought everyone just got them on disks labeled in marker from a good friend of the family.

It's important to me to support developers, but I can't say I regret getting to play those games before I could have ever afforded them.

I've since gone on to buy those same games from their developers several times over on various platforms.

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