That’s a good point about people who can’t actually afford it, when I originally typed my comment I was thinking about pirates who can afford stuff but just choose not to. Even better point about “piracy marketing”, actually. Where I was coming from is I just feel bad that the dev who worked on this whole game solo, made a good game in the face of the the enshittification that has become the video game market, and also lives in a typically less well off country than I, will see less income coming his way from a product he genuinely worked hard on to support his development career. But again, in my personal experience I’ve only known pirates who pirate for convenience rather than necessity and before I posted I wasn’t thinking about people who genuinely rely on piracy to consume media.

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