This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don’t need it doesn’t matter anymore lol.
I feel piracy for demo purposes is fully justified if you buy it after you like it. People always say vote with your wallet but it’s more like gambling with your wallet if you don’t get to see and touch the product before you make the purchase. Giving proper demos should be more common with digital media.
On a related note, I’m very glad I pirated Starfield.
I’m thinking that I might buy it once we have creation kit access and mods that add story and flesh out the game a la Fusion City Rising and companion mods for Fallout 4
At that point I’d rather pirate the game and donate to mod developers who are putting endless hours of unpaid time into free mods.
Demos used to be a lot more common. It used to be the norm for most games. Now it’s extraordinary.
Indie devs seem to be bringing them back. Played quite a few demos recently. Hopefully the trend continues.
Not entirely or at least in a different way. Steam still has free weekends occasionally on games. Or more likely some publishers still offer them sometimes probably
PlayStation making you pay for their highest sub tier just to access demos.
exactly, had a pirated version of frostpunk. but when i played through it the first time i immediately wanted to play the DLC.
so i went on epic games and bought it for full price.
good job devs, that game is a masterpiece and you deserve my money.
There’s a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are “locked” until you press “Activate” and choose “I’ve spent all of my money on AirPods” as a payment method.
Hey, I’ve been looking for a better airpod app in android, mind telling me the name?
CAPod
Yes, it’s this app, I didn’t mention it because I wasn’t sure if it was the one with the message.
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More devs should be this understanding of piracy. So should companies in general.
Asking nicely is a lot better than hitting. More flies with honey than with vinegar.
To be fair this is an approach that works better with continued use software. Most software that makes headlines are video games that live or die on that first purchase.
To be honest, that would make me pay for the plugin.
Unfathomably based
As an adult, I pay for winrar purely because it helped me so much for free as a kid (especially pirating other software).
I had a colleague who would buy legal versions of software and then shelve them while using pirated cracks because he hated the EULAs.
I do this with games. A lot of games dont even really get a demo anymore. So its gambling to buy it…
I pirate the games and if i like it i buy it. Generally ill keep playing the pirated version unless it has a multiplayer i want to play as well.
I just bought a license just because
WinRAR attitude, I respect that o7
This is fantastic. I’ve no use for this software, but I would absolutely purchase it if I did.
I still remember Zoë Keating commenting on torrents of her album on the pirate bay back in the day. Free marketing tbh.
“STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends.” - Trent Reznor, after record labels jacked up NIN album prices. Then later clarified the best quality rips were on Oink (rip 😢)
Makes me think of System of a Down’s, “Steal This Album”
Weird Al’s Don’t Download This Song was initially released as a free download too
interesting
Remember when blizzard let you install a spawn copy on a friends computer so you could play together?
Also some DS games had similar where only one copy of the cartridge was needed to play with friends. Think one was mariokart DS
Would be a very popular move to letting people play together without everyone needing to be nickel and dimed(i feel like thats also a dated phrase now that i read it. Old gamers remember! Young gamers please help us find cool things, we are old and cant keep up!)
Now i wanna buy that piece of Software, so i k ow somebody can Pirate it and does not feel Bad about it.
If you donate, dev doesn’t have to pay taxes. If you buy, dev becomes more popular because one more sale.
Advice?
do both
