forgot to add: you can use ludusavi and syncthing to have cloud saves. this is like the main reason i buy games when i can

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@lexd0g when are game stores gonna put limitations on whether or not you can have a bullshit extra launcher layer before playing games you buy. i feel like with a de-facto monopoly and "pls i give u 2 billion can u put jame on here" they can at least use that power to strongarm shittier devs

@lexd0g you cant say you didnt try :blobfoxfloof:

@lexd0g I was gonna buy battlefield 3 on steam, then I read the reviews that said they bought it and it doesn’t work

It is rly cheap but I changed my mind anyways

@lexd0g

It's literally pain in the ass. Downloading another launcher to play a game that are unoptimized, buggy, or featureless.

@lexd0g Plus piracy lets you get away with doing cool thing like saying "argh" randomly and calling your friends "scurvy dogs"

@lexd0g if buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing. and if they don't want us to buy games it means that you don't mind that we can get it for free then

@lexd0g omg, is that CRIME?? :blobcatshocked:

@lexd0g@wetdry.world but viruses!! (meanwhile 'good' pirate sources being more trustable than the legit companies that install kernel level mal- anti-tamper software)

@lexd0g@wetdry.world That's right, all modern games are sucks except casual/2D. i've stopped playing online games since month ago because size is too bigger and unoptimized for all devices..

Also, i prefer playing casual games than competitive games..

@lexd0g to quote Gabe Newell once again: Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem

@lexd0g Eeyupp...

Or as #LouisRossmann said: '#Piracy is completely justified, because paying customers get the worse experience!'

@lexd0g do what I do:
- Pirate the game
- if there's merch or something that goes directly to the developers then buy that

@lexd0g
I pay for streaming services that I don’t access.
Access is easier through unofficial means.
Same reasons.

@lexd0g if paying is not owning, then pirating isn't stealing :3

@lexd0g This is remarkably similar to my experience of buying RDR2. Except I gave up and hit the refund button when I saw those damn captchas. I just can't do them.

Why publishers insist on treating their paying customers worse than people they perceive as "stealing", I'll never understand.

@lexd0g There are still DRM-free games on GOG. But major publishers abuse their position with DRM.

@lexd0g what is the fascination with every AAA game coming with it's own launcher???

@lexd0g the problem with the piracy experience is the potential for malware to be included in the binary. But I guess in many ways the official method requiring Internet access to transmit your activity as you play is a kind of malware itself. 🤷

@lexd0g me: lucks into a used physical copy of a game and is able to use 7zip to install it despite the steam code having already been used