Disapprove
Doesn't matter the effort. Creating something takes work. It can suck or be fantastic. Either way if someone is enjoying that work it is best to support it. People spend many hours, short sleep, stress. Their compensation is buy monetary amounts. When the next product is on the possible list of getting cut or staff being cut because it didn't sell enough. Then that sucks.
History however has shown a considerable resilience that is easily overlooked. Since the earliest days of Video Gaming when VG were a PURE DOMAIN OF THE NERD. Digital Piracy has been vastly rampant. Possible more so then than now. So how did the industry even come to the size it is by suffering during a more pirated time? Market expansion. They expanded their games to a broader crowd. They expanded their games to include people who didn't want to spend the time to piracy. They expanded their games to include people who believe that Digital Distribution is physical theft. This allowed companies to sell to people who would buy their games. What puts the sick joke on it all. Is that as these companies reached the expanded game genre plateau(at least for current VG design thought). They started making games on an exclusion path. Towards a style of game that the elite crowd of game Pirates would Pirate and like the most and moving less away from the consumers that would buy it.
So rather than run a strong stable business. Companies seem to prefer the idea of making games for a highly dominant DPirate environment, include heavy handed tactics then bitch about DPirates causing the fall of the industry. However history shows that iron fist rule generally falls apart. So I stand by the developers that believe that Pirates are consumers yet to be convinced to buy stance.
I also don't associate Piracy with well Piracy and theft. Theft it the unauthorized acquisition of property. Piracy is the the unauthorized acquisition of massive amounts of property in transport. I associate the term Digital Piracy with Unauthorized distribution or closer to people too. Either showing a movie on a projector and selling seats being done in your basement or the other sneaking into a movie theater.
Anyways continue with brainwashed arguments given by corporate pamphlets and self delusions of Robinhood justifications. When the dust settle neither stance will be right.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
