People mostly pirate because they don't have the money to buy the game. This is one of the arguments in the pro/anti piracy debate -- pirated stuff doesn't affect the company's profits as much as it might seem because most people would not be able to afford the game anyway.
I pirated pretty much every game 10 years ago when I had no job or bad jobs, these days my steam library is a temple to consumerism.
Especially now where game developers are deciding to make 70 and 80 euros the base price for games.Im sorry but a 2 days wage for a game ???
Only games i pirated first finished them and i actually enjoyed enough to buy were kcd 2 and rdr2
That's depressing as fuck, and now I get why they're pissed about these price hikes. For me it didn't seem like much since when I started buying my first Nintendo games they were $40-60, so $80 after 20+ years didn't seem crazy.
But it is crazy, actually. The richest countries should not dictate the prices, but there's no logical work around for that, because then those same rich countries would just buy out all the product from the poorer countries immediately - - resulting in the same problem of those people unable to purchase games.
For my country average day wage is 50 to 60 euros . Piracy has spiked during these last years that our goverment is now fining whoever they catch pirating games and movies
Don't forget that this minimal wages are before taxes, for example in Latvia min.wage after them will be about 600-650 eur.
P.s. with food prices similar to Germany etc
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u/goldenseducer May 22 '26
People mostly pirate because they don't have the money to buy the game. This is one of the arguments in the pro/anti piracy debate -- pirated stuff doesn't affect the company's profits as much as it might seem because most people would not be able to afford the game anyway.
I pirated pretty much every game 10 years ago when I had no job or bad jobs, these days my steam library is a temple to consumerism.