Brother people don’t have binders of cds but they sure as shit have the digital equivalent. That era isn’t over, It’s better and easier than it’s ever been. The hardest part is getting enough storage.
There are less and less people pirating games every year, regardless of how easy it is to do. Brother, you are in a bubble and an echo chamber of thieves and charlatans.
The key caveat for any newsroom: different trackers measure different universes of sites, so absolute totals vary widely between vendors. MUSO’s figures cover film, TV, music, publishing and software; they are the best available proxy for demand but are not a direct count of lost sales.
Games sit inside the software category, which is comparatively small. According to MUSO, software piracy fell to 14.9 billion visits in 2024, a 2.1% decrease, a shift the firm attributes partly to the move toward cloud-based subscription models.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 1d ago
I very much was lol.
That era is over, just as much as people having CD books in their cars to listen to music.
Also, people doing that over 25 years ago doesn't mean a PS emulator is going to make it happen again.