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In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

Me and my brother pirated it, loved it, bought it. (Especially because the multiplayer works on pirated version and very simply so.)

Piracy increases sales.

Remember the PS1 demos? Had I been of working age back then, I'd have bought half of them merely because I loved the demos.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You would have brought it anyway. I like piracy it's fine but you don't have to cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I would not have bought it, no. I don't really buy games.

    Also it was like 50-60 euros, that's a dent in my monthly drinking budget man, I can't take that. It's like one nice or two semi-nice or three okay bottles of rum.

    cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.

    It's you who's "coping" actually.

    The EU commissioned a study on piracy affecting sales some years back. When it came back as "no negative effect, perhaps even a positive one", the EU lowkey tried suppressing the study.

    https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

    There's the actual study.

    And here's the news about the suppression.

    https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537

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