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“We’ve been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we’ve been using Steam’s recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us.”

  • Pigeon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The source code is arguably more comparable to the bicycle factory. When I buy a game, I’m thinking of buying the experience, not the underlying mechanisms.

    You still can find ways to mod and tinker with the finished product you own (bicycle), but you don’t have the info and machinery you’d need to make your own identical bicycle.

    Or, if you buy a book, you own the finished book, but you don’t automatically also own all the author’s notes and rough drafts and file organization that went into making that book.

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      1 year ago

      When I buy a game, I’m thinking of buying the experience, not the underlying mechanisms.

      When i buy a bicycle i’m thinking of buying the experience, not the underlying mechanisms

      you don’t have the info and machinery you’d need to make your own identical bicycle.

      When you pirate the game you are making an identical copy of the game