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Nintendo stalked 3DS pirates to shutdown their operation. No wonder it doesn't want Dolphin on Steam. (nintygamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support your INDIE game developers!

Buy games from their website instead of steam/epic and don't buy from key resellers!

As for big companies... Yeah fuck them. They already make more money than your brain could even begin to compute, they really don't need your 70/80 bucks.

I'm not saying to pirate the games (unless they aren't easily available somewhere else), I want to encourage people to BUY SECOND HAND! Videogames are amazing to buy second hand, they don't wear off by being played, and you can usually get a like-new copy for 40% off.

If you're a pc gamer wait for sales/price drops, and if the game has any DRM bullshit in it, buy and then pirate if you want to stay legal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can’t disagree with any of that! Though that said buying second hand also doesn’t support developers (Indie or otherwise) as none of that money goes to them. DRM absolutely needs to die in a fire. I don’t think there has been a single title that has actually been prevented from being pirated by it, all it does it make life hard for actual paying customers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a matter of opinions, really. IMO Indie devs deserve all the money they can earn, while big companies already earn billions and will live on no matter what and you could eventually need those 20-30 bucks you saved each time. And even if you won't they'll be better reinvested into projects like lemmy, to name one.

Also buying second-hand is always an eco-friendly choice, so there's that too.