lfg

Same

hell, OCTOPATH, persona 4 and 5, and xc2

all of them

i playe dmaybe anhour

Which is why my solution to piracy is steam instituting a mandatory 5 or so % of the game being free to play

as a demo

and then a few months later finished them

if you could play shit risk free for long enough to determine if you like it, would you not lose the reason to torrent then

They kind of have that with the refund policy

2 hours free

essentially

refund policy was a huge gamechanger

for sure

2 hour tutoriasl

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and I would bet (have not seen the stats) game piracy went down slightly as a result

sort of

with Early access and Patreon shit

it's up high again

I think you have a moral duty to steal early access shit

no one wants to use their 2 hours, on Alpha 1.4

games and anime will always be kinda high though

due to kids

until they fucking release their game

There also comes those games, that use non of Steams features

you could argue music, but a lot of iphone kiddies are just buying theirs/using spotify because of aforementioned reasons

which to me, is asking me to pirate it

There are so many ways to de-entice me from pirating something

#1 is making a good game

Same reason I back shit on Kickstarter/Fig

There are games I want to exist

see #1 is not even a factor for me because I just do not play bad games

Spiral Scouts

mediocre, would not say bad perse

I just don't think anyone has any obligation to pay to consume media

In all seriousness though, I will buy shit randomly if it is cheap enough

I think there are so many easy ways, to get peope to pay for it nonetheless

and I don't think all games should literally be free

okay that was my main contention with what I thought you were crusading for

I do agree that all games should incentivise buying them through being good, and using features that paying would allow you to improve the experience

LNs are actually doing it right, ironically movies too

physical/theatrical releases

and then digital releases later

Okay, so I got a fix for gaming

If I care about something enough, I'll pay a premium for the former

out of my own desire to see/read it

all games will come out on a streaming service like google stadia or at a game playing arena first, then 6 months later you can buy it on steam

lol could you imagine the levels of piracy

How do you feel about textbooks Pika

Scam

I have bought and own every textbook I needed

make fun of me

I like having physical books

I wish I didn't

Do you feel taken advantage of

Yes

or like you got a good value

Yes, but I like physical books

I bout about 50% of my textbooks

the ones I wanted to own

and have physical copies of

Only ones I feel ripped off for are mostly my first year ones

I think they're doing them all wrong for the most part

Thing is some books have access codes tied to them required for the course

after that they are mostly alright for how useful they are

None of my classes tried that

A lot of my upper year courses do not use textbooks so much as just coursenote packages I have to buy

The thing is though that college itself is a scam

partially true

but the coursenote packages are usually better so I do not mind

it's overpriced right now

because most institutions are funneling all their money into the administration and facilities

I really do want to learn past high school, but

because everyone has access to unlimited student loans

Well, at time it doesn't even feel like it's gone past high school

My schools solution to the overpriced problem is it just ramps up international tuition when they want more money

my rates only increase at like 1% a year

internation already pays 30k and got a 15% increase for next year