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and then so they're morally obligated to make their games break down on purpose after a while and make pirating them useless because they won't work without online services. and then we're morally obligated to not buy those games because those features are anti-consumer and stupid. THEN the company actually starts losing money. we are here.
software piracy is unironically moral and just, but in my opinion if i don't like a game enough to buy it then it's not worth pirating, either. i pirate games as demos so when i have an opinion on a game i can say i did in fact play it, but let's not beat around the bush, the entire reason for games being designed that way is to curtail piracy. and it works. by tying even the simplest game into centralized servers you control who gets to play it and when. simply having barebones multiplayer with an account system is the best drm imaginable, because even the average skiddy pirate is not going to bother exposing their computer to fuck knows what trying to make all that shit work for free.