• Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Indie solo video game dev here.

    I am okay with gamers “requisitioning” games if they truly can’t afford it. While it is my livelihood, it’s also my attempt at art and I want people to enjoy it. I even plan on releasing a safe cracked copy for the next game.

    If you pirate a game, there are ways to help support us starving devs if you like the game.

    1. Spread the word far and wide that you like the game. A little effort on your part can save us marketing budget and trigger new sales.

    2. In the future if you have the financial ability, buy a legit key on sale. Even at 75%+ discount it helps.

    But please don’t cost us additional money. It costs time and money to process chargebacks triggered by the key resellers selling keys procurred with stolen credit cards.

    • Jorgelino@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago
      1. In the future if you have the financial ability, buy a legit key on sale. Even at 75%+ discount it helps.

      I’ve been doing this a lot recently. Back when i was a teenager i used to pirate a lot, but now that i’m older and have disposable income i’ve been buying a ton of the games o used to pirate then.

      Which unfortunally leads to me having tons of games on steam with barely any hours played (yet), when they should be in the thousands already.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        I will also use this excuse to justify my huge backlog of steam games bought on deep discounted sales that I in all likelihood will never ever ever actually play.

        I’m just making up for my middle school years That’s the ticket…

        • Jorgelino@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Lol, yeah, i do that too…

          But with these old classics it’s even harder to resist for me. They usually have the biggest discounts, and how can i say this game that gave me so many hours of fun isn’t worth 2 fucking dollars?

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The old school pirate philosophy. Pirate the game. If you like the game, buy it. If you loved it, pay full price. The best games are being released by indie devs that could use the money.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    How does g2a even work? I’ve bought a few keys there before and they worked. I assume these keys were given to someone from like a promo or something then they just resell it?

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And then the owner of the card issues a chargeback, so they lose more money (chargeback fees can be $25-$100) than if you’d have just torrented it.

        Technically they could revoke the key as well, but that tends to cause a bit of fuss and bad PR so they don’t often bother.

        So the lesson is clear. Buy your keys on G2A with stolen credit cards.

  • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I do not understand why publishers don’t cancel the keys. Why do they allow that parasitic industry to exist? Surely they know which key corresponds to a chargeback?

    • ChronosWing@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think the majority of those keys are from stolen credit cards. A lot of them are just purchased in countries where the game is extremely cheap then resold for a profit.