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welp this video was made for friendly debate so why not get debating, so: piracy probably doesnt really help the industry, but helps the consumer and isnt really morally wrong the whole denuvo thing is pretty obvious, its terribly optimized but one thing you did miss is it in fact does stop piracy for a lot of different games. only the most popular denuvo games are probably going to get cracked while the ones not as popular will probably not get cracked for a long while. viruses, you make a point that viruses are a big bad lurking on piracy websites, but all you need to do is find one that you know is safe and popular and use that site, still worried about viruses? VM (Virtual Machine) it. a virtual machine is basically running windows inside of windows, making it so most viruses cant escape. or, dont give it any permissions. most games wont need permission to edit your machine in the first place nor access to the internet even. even if you did get a virus all you'd need to do is re-install windows from a clean slate, i already do that about yearly anyway to remove clutter and bloatware. for the bit about if 10% of pirates purchased the game it wouldve doubled the revenue, his point that hes trying to make is that despite people pirating the game the studio was wildly successful with soaring profits. the part you also conveniently left out is saying if those numbers are accurate, and the entire thing beforehand about how data sets are inaccurate. we don't know if they're telling the truth or not about that. i guess you kind of say something at the end but that feels like a mere fraction of the time taking their reports at face value, and then later ignore it. drawing the line where piracy is immoral is pretty easy in fact, you probably shouldnt pirate indie devs because when you buy their piece of art, they get 100% of the profits. all of the profits goes to a small team of devs who put their work into their game. i say shouldnt because not everyone is fortunate to be in scenarios where they can spend money on games. some are in other countries, as you've said, but some people are just poor, everyone i know who pirates games does it out of a necessity and its hard to judge someone who does that. on top of that theres plenty of people who pirate games as to try them before they buy them. when you think pirate you shouldnt think of someone who doesnt have to worry about buying a game, because they will buy the game, no reason not to. for the thing about AAA game studios, yes, it is true that developers of AAA studios should be paid for all of their hard work, something you left out of this video is the part where he said even if you pay a company a ton of your money that doesnt mean the employees will be treated well or get paid well. i shouldnt call it one of my favorite animes but i dont watch that much anime, so, one of my favorite animes jujutsu kaisen has this issue. the people who work for the studio, MAPPA, are often commissioned for work at a rate where they're sometimes being paid pennies on the hour, with strict deadlines to boot. ironic you mention nintendo developers because Japanese work culture is actually horrific. if im paying to view a piece of art, but all of the artists have already been paid, and at the same time were also treated badly, why shouldnt i pirate it? seriously, the situation at MAPPA is genuinely horrific. some of the animators have said "im seriously deflated, nothing is fun anymore, i cant stand it" and other alarming messages that would need a trigger warning, i recommend looking into it if you have the time. you also didnt mention the part where Bobby Kotick left Activision Blizzard with a 400 million dollar severance, however you were very close to it. if i were to buy a game instead of pirating it whos to say my money would end up in the hands of someone who deserves it and not making a rich guy richer, or how about the higher ups at blizzard who turned out to be really bad people. thats like paying a charity that gives the founder 99% of profits but 1% goes to a kid in need, its not worth it. a company that makes more money doesnt mean that the developers will get paid well or will get better conditions. the part where the data about piracy is inconclusive and correlation doesnt equal causation, i dont think you got what he meant. he meant because theres lots of variables in an industry like this its hard to pinpoint which variable is causing what data set to change and it can cause a variety of conclusions. piracy as a protest, imo, is moral. you make a point about just "not buying the game and voting with your wallet". well, if im never going to purchase the game, and the developers who make the games are most likely never going to see my money, and the publishing company is just evil, then it shouldnt hurt anyone for me to pirate it. im not ganna buy it anyway so why should they care? thats basically it, all of my points still stand for illegal emulation and theres no reason for me to disagree with legal emulation, and ive already made my stance known about people in other countries who arent as lucky as you or me. right now in poland where my friend lives, everything is double the cost and the minimum wage is half. essentially shes paying 4x money when she shouldnt be. a nice little 5$ game meant to deliver on the 5$ pricetag (being short, sweet, but well made) is now 20$ to her, a 20$ indie game is now 80$ to her, and a AAA game is something that she simply cannot purchase no matter what. i try not to judge with piracy, because, you never know what situation someone is in or what their moral compass is when talking about something like this.

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Didn't watch it. Was too busy seeding my torrents 😎

15:47 its the only kind of piracy i partake in. Current or last gen i legit buy my games, but the old stuff like 8bit-32bit and arcade era... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Good video, valid points 👍

i have 4 1 tb drives and a 2 tb drive all full of games i dont play anymore

Piracy is a net positive. You've overblown the negative effects, and totally ignored all the positives. This is just spreading ignorance.

u are disconnected from reality. u think every one can offerd to buy 70 broken games and what is funny its usally is not full game for that u need to drope onther 20 or 30 ,

it’s good there is someone brave enough to talk about this. so many people use “piracy is good “ as an excuse to make them feel better. great video!

My rebuttal. If buying it does not mean I own it, then pirating it does not mean I stole it. If you can buy a digital copy of a game only for a company/platform/whatever to decide "you know what, we don't want you to have that" and then pull it from your library (for whatever reason) without reimbursement, _why should anyone be expected to buy it?_

So i guess when Nintendo comes out with the next Zelda game and it needs to connect to [lay online, guess I'll have to miss out on that and vote with my wallet😅

age of empires, masterpiece

When you defend crap like denuvo you're just plain wrong. Piracy is bad. Pirated software can sometimes be sketchy. Commercial software with things like denuvo IS ALWAYS SKETCHY. These systems have been known to include root kits and security vulnerabilities. Official software has been caught spying on users and uploading personal info from the computer. No way anyone should trust software that includes such things. If a company includes trash like denuvo EVERYONE should pirate it and put them out of business.

Preserving games tho. 🤷‍♂️ not to mention plenty of games you can’t play and what kid is going to pay 200 dollars out of pocket to play a game that they really want to play. ESP someone who isn’t well off

The main good of piracy is preservation, something that IMO shouldn't even be a necessity in the first place, abandonware should be classified as such and distribution of unlicensed copies should be made legal. Also why the hell can't companies just sell roms/isos of their old games on their website? Like you could be making money off of people wanting to play your old games, but you make them turn to piracy instead? Anyway I don't think there's anything wrong with pirating a game if you can't buy a new copy, since buying a used copy is effectively the same thing as far as money going to the developer/publisher. Another case where I will turn to piracy is when I own a game already but can't access it on my platform of choice. More specifically I own a lot of games on steam that are best played on Windows XP, I have a PC set up specifically for this purpose, but I can't play my steam games on it because steam doesn't support Windows XP, so I have to resort to piracy to be able to play those games on that PC. I own the game, I have paid for it and if I have to pirate it to play it the way I want to then there's nothing wrong with that, but once again it's stupid that I have to. There is also one benefit of piracy to the developer/publisher, however it's only really relevant for middleware or indie games, and that's that it can act as a free demo for people who aren't willing to put down the money up front (of course refunds being a thing on steam nowadays does deminish that need), the people pirating the game can then spread the word about how good the game is leading to an increase in legitimate sales. That aside I generally agree that it's better to just not buy a game that implements terrible DRM or something else, or if you really like the game but want the better version of it, buy it and then pirate it and play the pirate copy. You've paid for the game so there shouldn't be a problem with playing a different copy of it, right? As for people being priced out I don't think it's good (morally) to resort to piracy, but I also don't think it's that bad, since the developer/publisher never would've gotten a sale out of them anyway, it's no money lost to them. I'd say it gets more questionable the more possible it is for someone to buy the game at some point, like if you live in a western country but you're really poor because you have a shit job and rent is high or you're a student or something. At that point just wait for a steep discount and save up some money for it, given enough time most games will be available for $5 after a few years unless they're call of duty or something so popular it retains its value for really long like The Witcher 3 or GTA V.

Nintendo didn’t win their lawsuit, Yuzu settled, you should learn the difference.

I’m tired of people who are like “just pirate the game 🤓”

Your arguments in this video, especially in the back half, makes this a must watch for anyone on the fence concerning this issue

I agree. Any kind of Piracy is bad. Why do I have to explain this? lol. I agree that even though all Piracy is bad, it is very sad that it's so popular right now, and not just from bad people but from people who are just very frustrated with the state of the entertainment industries, including video gaming.

Its pretty simple, 1 word, immersion, all new games lack it, it is the magic sauce that makes a game good, and none of the games out there have it anymore, you dont feel like your in the world of that game, you not sucked in, lost in it. This is a major factor which has been forgotten by the gaming community as a whole.

maybe you should play simulation instead...like cities skylines...tropico...prison architect...etc...triple A is like a movie...becoming too linear...the pattern on side quest is typical for long hours become boring and tiring...more stress rather than entertaining...

Absolvers world gave me an exestential crisis once, I dont know what it was but looking out upon the mass of ancient destroyed structures scattered about tye mountains and greenery gave me an inexplicable sense of both serenity and futility that kinda just brought me to near tears....... Oh the game? Yeah no it was pretty good

You're a great narrator. Thank you for your work.

Good concept for a video, but you come to a lot of wrong conclusions.

its at least partially to penalize piracy also.

Nintendo are greedy clowns who milked all their franchises wtf you saying bro

The game is fantastic and I loved it for the dark fantasy mood and all... Still i'm quiet tired and pissed off of soulslike game where artificial difficulties is just cheap, i mean what's even the point of having skills and combo when you just cannot use em cause the bosses have 0.5 seconds of window to be punished, those are not skill checks. To me the best bosses remains the Heroic ones from death gambit.

AAA slop

Good games with procedural generation: Don't Starve, Left 4 Dead 2, Spelunky, Valheim, Binding of Isaac, Hades, Terraria...

why was leon not in smash?

triple aaa company forgot their actual target audience that pay for their product, the working adult. we got no time to play lazy ass, time consuming, tedious loop gameplay with shit content.

missed Sea of Stars, great video btw

You showed Chasm.. thats a good game.

I'm 66 and retired so I have plenty of gaming time, but I have stopped buying games and just replay the Fallout games, Bioshock games, Horizon games, driving simulator games, and Zelda and other Nintendo/Switch standards. Games just got too complex and/or focused on ancient history or horror, neither of which are interesting to me personally.

1:18 what game is that one?

There were tons of JRPGs in the Western world before FFVII was released there. FFVII wasn't the first at all.

I killed the Fire Giant fourth try but hated the fight. The camera goes nuts somtimes, the debris in the arena just sucks and the rolling move is so annoying and has a terrible hitbox.

I hope we get a fan mod/recreation of Ever Crisis that removes all compulsory-online and gacha aspects.

Good video. What's the game at 12:52?

I like how all of these dent heads actually like rise World is better.

If you stopped making games about just being bigger is better, then they wouldn't take so long to come out and require so much money to develop. As you pointed out. A simple 2 hour game that is actually fun to play versus an expensive source of stress that modern gaming has become. Many would be happy going back to what gaming was. A fun distraction from stressful life. And these games would not require "microtransactions to make it successful." The game itself, if it was complete on day one, and actually fun to play, is what would make it successful. And make the company all the money they would need. They did it back in the day. Stop being greedy. There's your real problem and why modern gaming sucks.

the more you progress in elden ring, the more unfair it becomes. I love the game but there is a point from the mountain tops and all the regions after that where you health doesn't matter because every thing kills you in 2 hits, the damage of the monsters skyrockets. Also for me it felt like I fought the last bosses to "close" to each other (there was less exploration, the last 3 or 4 felt like a boss rush) not necessary bad, it could also be just me, I used to explore a lot but in the endgame i skiped some optional stuff because i just wanted to finish the game, there was no point dying again and a again on a boss i already fought multiple times for a weapon i will not use (thats for the new game + ). If I could give an advise to future players that would be to not torture themselves, if something feels unfair use summons, use magic, if there is in the game you can use it ,don't bother with the "gEt GuD" people, play whatever you want. Godskin duo is unfair, summon your +10 mimic, Malenia is unfair summon 2 friends and bully the shit out of her

-The simple answer to your title question is "you got old, bro"

Greed and laziness,that's why!

Diablo 2 had procedural generated maps. One of the best games ever made. So it's not always bad. You guys are just too young to remember good games.

Mimic tear trivialises the bosses and ur in foe a shitshow without them. Ur right the game's bosses went downhill from radahn but atleast the areas were good..... until the mountaitops and the fuckin haligtree. 0 creativity, just used the same recycled enemies except cranked damage and heathpool to 11 and I hated myself for spending my hard earned money to get tortured. Also whoever designed farum azula deserves to get roasted. Seriously? 5 dragons along with respawning hard hitting skeletons with god awful platforming. I have had enough.

I get the feeling they included spirit ashes just so they could make bosses more aggressive. Unlike summons in previous souls games they are not just an option, they are borderline a necessity

tough because some of us want more Procedural generation and some of us like the bigger games...... just so you and this rabble know,, Shadows of doubt is almost completely pg, is a complete breath of fresh air creative and immovative, and did i mention it came 2nd in the steam awards?....and btw IT will be remebered in 20 years time....unlike your 5 second thrill seekers..

For me personally, every game seems the same template just a different color, its like every game is kinda like another game already made

i dont see it, absolver complexity is what made the game fun

why arent youtube explained videos fun anymore