[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

>they sound great in theory, but in practice exactly one person will buy the game that cost millions to produce, put it up on a website for free, and then the studio will say "well, never doing that again".

[john_strinlai]

yes, i wrote that.

right now that would be illegal to do in most jurisdictions.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

despite that, people have been doing that for over two decades, but publishers continue to publish.

[john_strinlai]

right. that is because most people would rather buy the game than take the risk of downloading it illegally. if you remove the risk, the math changes.

publishers also have legal recourse. remove that and the publisher's math changes.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

people pay for convenience. when was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted for pirating something?

[tmtvl]

Just yesterday when I saw the Leonhart French video about the NVIDIA piracy case.