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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

35% of players don't pirate every game... Thats absurd. If you're referring to the pc gamer survey from like 10 years ago, there was way more nuance to it than that. Go read more than the headline please.

But even so, its not up to the consumers to bend over and be "pleasable". Devs should treat the platform well, instead they shit out bad ports, they dont bother with basic options, they require more layers of launchers and stores, drm, kernal anti cheat, etc etc etc.

The pc market is huge, even excluding people who haven't upgraded in 10 years. Its plenty attractive