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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      On a related note, I’m very glad I pirated Starfield.

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        10 months ago

        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

        • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          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.

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      10 months ago

      Demos used to be a lot more common. It used to be the norm for most games. Now it’s extraordinary.

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        9 months ago

        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

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.