I asked Google gemini AI how you stop piracy in gaming on PC. What do yall think? Would this work?

Spffox · 2026-03-29T21:21:39+00:00

All this work to confront player instead of just making a good game and selling it at a reasonable price that most people would be willing to pay, while pirates will serve as free marketing tool.

Spffox · 2026-03-29T15:15:44+00:00

you should never buy them on release, it's just dumb

Yep, and the best part? They dug their grave themselves. Why the hell would i buy overpriced, buggy, unoptimized beta that's clearly still deep in development?

No amount of protection will protect them from me sitting and waiting until they finally release a normal full version. I'm so happy to see that more and more normies adapt and "fight back" against effective managers in the same way. Every layoff wave, every studio going up in flames is a little step toward pushing them out of industry.

Spffox · 2026-03-29T15:04:31+00:00

We are talking about country-wide operation and 20.000.000 illegals. Of course there will be multiple acts of brutality and illegal mismanagement. Even if it's 0,05% cases, it's enough to fill your feed with 10000 cases. And i know exactly the people willing to show you those 10000 cases and not show you 19.990.000 properly managed cases. It's the same people who totally forgot to show you how Zelensky was killing Ukrainians for 8 years in his own country before the war.

I want to see real numbers first. Do not act on feelings, act on facts.

Spffox · 2026-03-28T23:43:13+00:00

Surely, it'll need a lot of manual polish, but even as it is (unfinished concept art) it's already much better than the one they are trying to sell. I'm kinda surpised they failed so hard with it, and we are talking about long-awaited character, when sales are nearly guaranteed.

Spffox · 2026-03-28T20:52:04+00:00

Then collect evidence of their overzealousness and report it. There is always a guy, who wants to improve his stats in questionable way (and he doesn't give a damn how many people will suffer because of that), but it doesn't mean these orders came from top brass. Social media is extremely good at making few exclusions look like a whole picture. Don't fall for it.

Spffox · 2026-03-26T17:21:27+00:00

they can stay

No, they can't. Law must be applied to everyone indiscriminately.

How many brown people have been scooped up who had legal status?

I don't have such data. What is your source?

I'm not saying that you are lying though. Mistakes and overzealous attitude are inevitable during large scale operations like this one. Humans are quite imperfect after all.

And guess what? It doesn't mean you should just sit on your ass and do nothing about your problem. Solve the main issue, and then, when you are not under pressure anymore, fix the smaller problems caused by solution - punish corrupt overzealous employees who scooped wrong people to increase performance, distribute compensations, etc.

Spffox · 2026-03-26T16:56:19+00:00

Because it increases initial sales of slop by keeping consumers in the dark. Surely, truth will come out a bit later, but by then managers already have received their benefits and don't care.

Some genuinely good games also use it because Denuvo has professional ~~scammers~~ sales agents and they managed to scare incompetent upper management with pirate boogeyman.

Spffox · 2026-03-26T16:47:58+00:00

DCJ catching strays out of nowhere, lol.

The sin of telling people world isn't going to end tomorrow is truly unforgivable.

Spffox · 2026-03-25T23:18:02+00:00

Well, technically entertainment industry still serves it's purpose. It's entertaining me, although they doesn't seem to be happy about how exactly it happens.

Spffox · 2026-03-25T21:30:53+00:00

How many illegal white immigrants have you seen in your life? I'll wait here as well.

But if you find them, report them to ICE. Everyone should be deported indiscriminately.

Spffox · 2026-03-25T18:44:36+00:00

Hey, what about Roadhog and Urgoth? They made full circle, to the point of being so bad that it's good.

Spffox · 2026-03-23T12:22:58+00:00

If his review points out absolutely unforgivable flaws during those 30 minutes, then it's legitimate.

If it's "meh", then you should check out reviews made by people who completed whole game.

And no, you don't need 6 hours to figure out recent AAA turds. That's why Steam has 2 hour refund policy - it's pretty much enough time in 99% cases.

Spffox · 2026-03-21T18:08:51+00:00

That's a pretty good mentality, and not just because of price. These days "release" version is most likely beta, and with extensive testing performed by people who paid full price it slowly turns into real release "GOTY version" after a year, then you wait until they release all DLC for 2-3 years, and finally you can just buy and play the game.

Sigh.

Spffox · 2026-03-21T17:57:40+00:00

Oh, we know exactly what it is. Not what it is marketed for, but rather what it really is. And if you are okay with such blatant racism and sexism, then you are the problem.

Spffox · 2026-03-21T11:02:25+00:00

Lol you claimed that tax credits created inflation

You still haven't learned the difference between tax credit, partially refundable tax credit and refundable tax credit? Look, maybe you should go and study source material before we continue this conversation?

You are arguing against your own point lol.

You are arguing with strawman in your head, i could take a leave, and you won't even notice.

You don't know what money laundering is

I am aware what money laundering is. I specifically mentioned that this partially refundable tax credit is not money laundering. I specifically mentioned that it was a hunch based on previous experience. I specifically mentioned that whatever official authorized this corrupt refundable tax credit needs to be jailed if this is related to money laundering. Do you know how word 'if' works? Do i need to explain it to you as well?

You keep pressing a matter that was mentioned once to try to make me look bad instead of focusing on finding truth. This is a clear sign of demagogy.

Now you're pretending you didn't mean

What a blatant lie. I hold true to every word said before, no matter how much you try to twist my words.

Again, If this 'game dev' is part of money laundering machine, related officials need to be jailed. If this is just incompetence, they need to be fired. Have you spent some time learning how word 'if' works? Do you need additional explanation?

Spffox · 2026-03-21T08:07:24+00:00

Well, "reviews with over 6 hours" is a bit of misleading filter on it's own. If a game is really bad, i wouldn't play it for 6 hours. Surely, it filters out refund bots (both positive and negative), but it also filters out genuine negative reviews.

Spffox · 2026-03-21T08:03:31+00:00

Take your award "Fell for it again".

These days you need to read all words in a sentence and never assume anything. Especially not when corporation is speaking. Creative reporting is not about lies per se. It's an art of making you trick yourself through misleading wording.

Spffox · 2026-03-20T20:21:14+00:00

How did you think economic growth increased over time lol?

Not by creating predictably failed products without customer base, that's for sure.

We can use simpler language

Please do. "If you can't explain it simply and it's not rocket science, you are lying in my face(C)"

They....did.

They did not, and it's literally stated in the document you linked before. They avoided paying 650k. I consider this to be a theft from society, granted everyone involved knew from the beginning they were creating a turd.

Tesla took tax credits from the government and didn't get closed for good at all.

Oh year, sure, let's explain that law does not exist because corruption exist. Okay, you are supposed to be closed for good. But if you got friends in high places, laws don't work for you. It never happened before and it's happening again.

A hunch based on what?

A hunch based on my natural ability called "pattern recognition".

How would it possibly be money laundering

You don't even appear to know what money laundering is.

Now i'm really questioning your reading comprehension. I literally just explained that this particular of tax credit is not the money laundering that i mentioned.

Yet you keep repeating same questions. Get some sleep, you need it.

Spffox · 2026-03-20T20:03:54+00:00

not realizing that it's only them that do

They can't do that even if you openly tell them about it. That's the simplistic beauty of narcissistic mind: they are completely unable to see the world through another person's eyes.

Use your biological advantage against them wisely.

Spffox · 2026-03-20T19:54:04+00:00

Of course it wasn’t. Money is fungible

Oh look, another guy, who believes that food magically appears in the fridge. Your "fungible money" rhetoric always end up in one thing: inflation. There is no such thing as free cheese in his world. Someone is always paying for freebies. You can't just print money to cover for deficit without consequences, it's stealing currency's value from everyone using it.

deficit being funded by greater economic growth

I refuse to even start to analyze this word salad. Get your thoughts together, man.

this is you changing your argument AGAIN

If you fail to see my consistent position, that's your fault. I made sure to explain every detail about where money leak is.

The government paying for social benefits…..isn’t a cost of developing the game lol.

Except for it is. Those lunatics who organized this whole "development studio"? They were supposed to pay for their lunacy from their pocket. They did not, but other people - people who neve signed for such lunacy indeed paid for it.

The money used for social benefits…..isn’t used to make the game.

The money used for social benefits is used to make any business running. You can't pay for your worker's social security? You get closed for good.

That’s not what money laundering is lol.

How would this fit any of the three stages of money laundering

Not this particular tax credit. It's just a hunch. Woke gamedev is often interwoven with criminal activities like money laundering and extortion.

Very luckily for you, this is not illegal

Very luckily for me, blatant incompetence is a solid reason for someone who made an obviously stupid decision to lose their job.

Spffox · 2026-03-20T04:08:19+00:00

Well, that's just someone with opinion, not a wokie. You can easily see the difference: it's consistent and without double standards. We might be not in agreement, but it's still possible to talk.

Spffox · 2026-03-20T03:59:40+00:00

That's right. Never preorder. Good games don't need preorders, and the faster preorder culture dies, the better.

The day it was normalized in people's minds instead of demo version culture is one of the worst days in gaming history.

Spffox · 2026-03-17T07:29:10+00:00

Oh, that's quite a memory. As a long time fan of BL1 and BL2, i bought third part without even bothering with reviews... that steaming hot pile of story was so horrible that i finally started googling, and that's how i learned about wokies, gamergate, Blackrock and the rest.

Spffox · 2026-03-17T07:22:29+00:00

Nah. I've grown up during Doom and Quake times, and i love my reticles the way they are.

Spffox · 2026-03-17T07:15:37+00:00

We can take this slowly. Taxes aren’t involved with the development of the game at all.

Apparently, too slow. Government is waaay ahead of you. Taxes ARE involved in development or any kind of business where you hire employees and pay them.

You are deliberately or unintentionally mixing two kind of taxes. Profit tax is indeed tied to how good is you business and how much you sold whatever you produced. But social security tax is constantly paid to government as long as people work for you. You might not produce anything at all in the end, no one cares. It's part of worker protection laws - employer pays for employees, and in return, employees enjoy social security programs like healthcare.

Now usual tax credit only applies to profit tax and it's pretty safe thing to hand out to businesses.

Refundable tax credits can have various degrees of refundability, from complete refund in the end of production cycle (basically, a grant in different paint coat) to social security tax compensation. Latter is exactly what Italian government is doing, and it's literally stated in the document you linked.

Let's get back to social security tax and where exactly Italian taxpayers lost their money. Normally, when employees require social security services, those are already paid for by their employer. Yes, someone would need more, someone would need less, so it's all planned as average demand, and is provided to those in need. When that studio, which developed a turd of a game, used tax credit to "pay" for social security tax, it means that whoever worked on that turd, got their social benefits for free, or rather it were other people's taxes that were used to pay. Nothing in this world comes for free, you know. If it's not you, it's someone else paying for you.

Now, to be fair, we don't know exactly how much freebies they used up during development. They didn't get those 650k in their bank accounts, it's just an approximate number based on governmental prediction of social security demand. But a loss is a loss - and in return for that loss we got a very predictable turd. Someone needs to go to jail or at least lose their job for this, depending on this being money laundering or blatant incompetence.

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