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> There is a reason and it's a darned good one: piracy. This is not a good reason at all, especially from the consumer's perspective.
by Crinus 7y ago
> There is a reason and it's a darned good one: piracy.
This is not a good reason at all, especially from the consumer's perspective.
- dleslie 7y agoGame development is a risky and often thankless undertaking as it is, that the developers sought profit in the face of widespread IP theft is neither immoral nor unsurprising.
- monster99 7y agoIt is when they are stealing the game files and code using public internet infrastructure, aka selling you incomplete software.
- dleslie 7y agoIt is not theft to not consent to sell a particular sort of product, and instead to sell another. Software as a service is not theft.
- a1369209993 7y ago> stealing the game files The correct term is "fraud". Just because copyright trolls misuse words that way doesn't mean we should sink to their level.
- Crinus 7y ago> often thankless undertaking Why would i "thank" someone that puts unnecessary restrictions on how i can use the program i paid them money for? > neither immoral I see it as very immoral to deny me access and control to the software i paid for, especially when that happens because the developer treating me in a guilty-by-default way for something they have no idea if i'll do or not.
- dleslie 7y agoYou paid for access to a client and limited term access to the services it requires. If that's not acceptable to you then _do not purchase it_. It's a game. No one is forcing you to play it.
- Dylan16807 7y ago> If that's not acceptable to you then _do not purchase it_. > No one is forcing you to play it. That has nothing to do with whether the product is moral.
- uhhhhhhh 7y ago>Why would i "thank" someone that puts unnecessary restrictions on how i can use the program i paid them money for? You could thank them for writing the program for you in the first place, if they didn't then you'd have to do it yourself.