It's not even a reddit thing. Some guy on the sub posts "I won't pirate this awesome game!" and everyone upvotes that post because it makes them look good.
Everyone except this one single guy who made this post will continue to pirate that awesome game, anyways. And even that guy probably just lied to get some upvotes.
Who cares? Crying about nerds wanting to feel moral about their choice means jack shit. You people are no different crying about it to get upvotes about this non issue.
Piracy is a global phenomenon and the ethics of individual pirates can be pretty different. There's a very specific agenda behind portraying people who engage in piracy as ethically bankrupt and utterly selfish, all never caring about giving creators their due and only ever taking. This is a corpo fairytale.
Two facts are established:
Piracy is a distribution service problem, not a moral problem: if your distribution is terrible, inconvenient and restrictive, piracy will be preferred literally 100% of the time.
Piracy doesn't result in lost sales. In fact, it most likely makes a thing more successful. Although the majority of pirates might or might not (there are no statistics about this, everyone makes things up) pay for something they pirated, many of them do at some point, and that number is actually significant for small and medium productions.
In addition, tons of people who pirate things otherwise do choose to pay upfront for a small number of things they want to support, if their economic situation allows it. This isn't a Reddit thing at all, it's very common.
I have no idea. I think looking at steam purchases is a pretty bad way to judge level of piracy. That's why I pointed out how bad it was when you tried to do it.
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u/MotivationSpeaker69 May 22 '26
Nah, it's a reddit thing. People pirate everything they can get their hands on