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What also annoys me is people who need to look everything up before they even start the game or even cheat. I love these survival games like Valheim; unfortunately a friend in my group insists on cheating all the time, if it’s not 5x-ing the amount of wood a tree drops, it’s glitching high end items from one server to another, essentially ruining the challenge that the game offers. He does the same with Elden Ring weapons, taking end game +10 weapons and then playing a new game (not even NG+1). With Elden Ring it doesn’t bother me personally, because it doesn’t change my experience of the game, however, multiplayer games always tear my friend group apart because of this stark divide between playing on ultra easy-mode or rising to the challenge of the game.

I agree with piracy when it comes to older games. Especially when companies like Nintendo are letting their older games being forgotten by time. It's really sad. If only companies localized better for regions, probably wouldn't be as bad.

I appreciate all the nuanced and respectful discussions in the comments! There is a tad more I could've expanded upon but there's also only so much I could fit into one video without making it too bloated or ranty.

just look at piracy as free advertisement. if they like the product and have the means to buy the product later on in the future they will buy it, but if they dont you still have the best type of advertisement (for a good product) word of mouth. ive sailed the seas for a very long time but now that im in a very comfortable place, i buy games on steam and never play them -_- all thanks to our Lord Gaben 🙏🙏

when i was a kid used to buy pirated ps2 games on discs for 1$ in my country, i thought those shops went extinct but to my surprise they were all in front of me, from movies to music to games in physical form, most importantly for some change you can stock your ssd with ps4 games, but again it's third world country, our lowest income is 250$, if i ware to spend that on games I'll wound up with no water or food so sailing the high seas always been a gateway to get stuff that i can't afford ans share with friends

I mean as someone who as a kid pirated absolutely everything and now as a grown adult i buy the games 99% of the time I will tell you that when companies learn to actually makes games for gamers and not for buyers piracy will be dropped to a minimum, meaning when i get 200 bucks for the entire month from my parents as a kid there is no chance im buying a game thats priced at 60 but now that im older with a job and everything dropping 60 even though not fair is acceptable.

I miss when Piracy kept western developers on their toes.. games were better for it.

Humanity's greatest blessing has been it's greatest curse, internet.

well said. cannot agree more

latin america lives on piracy, I remember being shocked people in other countries had to use vpns to torrent. we just do it butt naked and nobody gives a shiet.

I ain't stealing the money that I ain't ever giving them in the first place🤷

short and on point without excessive rambling about random stuff just to extend to the 10 minute mark for monetisation, great vid, im glad that YT recommended it to me

If you want to block piracy, the only option you have is to block other countries from connection, which would make internet mostly useless. Piracy is a good way to access information books/movies/games even if you are poor, the information should accessible to everyone.

Piracy is legal where I live, and its not that bad. Poor people who can't afford games can get them with the only caveat of not being able to play online. Its a good option for anyone who can't afford anything. Even in IT, you have to know how to pirate.

Its a double edged sword, people wont live without it now, but it is damaging a lot of the time. Because of stuff like with Dr.D, maybe it should exist.

what game u playing

Y'know depending on what side you view this as, Piracy is a form of protest that owning a pirated copy actually allows you to have more than simply subscribing or paying for the thing (eg. Regional lock, online verification, etc y'know). But instead of these companies delivering better for the paid users, they double down on making anti-piracy measures way too restrictive and actually even worse the experience of those who paid. So naturally the response is targeting these companies for even greater piracy attacks. The response loops again and again and now here we are.

What I do loathe as an anti-piracy measure are these always online games. There are days when my internet connection is nigh non-existent or constantly going on and offline, that I’m persistently being booted out of game since the server is unable to verify my software license. And I mean this for games that I play solo.

For a while, piracy was in legal grey zone in parts of Europe: If you owned a movie, for example, it would be tolerated (not necessarily legal, but not illegal either) to download the digital pirated version in order to have a digital copy of your original DVD.

I also despise that games are becoming pawns in political discussions.