• Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Indie solo video game dev here.

    I am okay with gamers “requisitioning” games if they truly can’t afford it. While it is my livelihood, it’s also my attempt at art and I want people to enjoy it. I even plan on releasing a safe cracked copy for the next game.

    If you pirate a game, there are ways to help support us starving devs if you like the game.

    1. Spread the word far and wide that you like the game. A little effort on your part can save us marketing budget and trigger new sales.

    2. In the future if you have the financial ability, buy a legit key on sale. Even at 75%+ discount it helps.

    But please don’t cost us additional money. It costs time and money to process chargebacks triggered by the key resellers selling keys procurred with stolen credit cards.

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      11 months ago
      1. In the future if you have the financial ability, buy a legit key on sale. Even at 75%+ discount it helps.

      I’ve been doing this a lot recently. Back when i was a teenager i used to pirate a lot, but now that i’m older and have disposable income i’ve been buying a ton of the games o used to pirate then.

      Which unfortunally leads to me having tons of games on steam with barely any hours played (yet), when they should be in the thousands already.

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        11 months ago

        I will also use this excuse to justify my huge backlog of steam games bought on deep discounted sales that I in all likelihood will never ever ever actually play.

        I’m just making up for my middle school years That’s the ticket…

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          11 months ago

          Lol, yeah, i do that too…

          But with these old classics it’s even harder to resist for me. They usually have the biggest discounts, and how can i say this game that gave me so many hours of fun isn’t worth 2 fucking dollars?