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by strulovich 701 days ago
Consider the alternative: richer people, the few of them, but your game, other people pirate your game.

Now instead, you find a way to get the amount of dollars a person can pay extracting cents from the people who used to pirate a game, and hundreds from those who have money.

It’s bad for the game, but great for the developers’ pocket.

EDIT: for example, Nintendo made 3.7B in 2023, King made 2.7B or so it seems. Nintendo is one of a kind, companies like King are a dime a dozen.