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In the 33 months since Baldur's Gate 3 launched, it's hardly ever fallen out of the top 5 most-played games on Steam Deck (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Me and my brother pirated it, loved it, bought it. (Especially because the multiplayer works on pirated version and very simply so.)

Piracy increases sales.

Remember the PS1 demos? Had I been of working age back then, I'd have bought half of them merely because I loved the demos.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, piracy increases sales of a good game. Same as demos, though demos may misrepresent the actual gameplay if done poorly.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You would have brought it anyway. I like piracy it's fine but you don't have to cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I would not have bought it, no. I don't really buy games.

Also it was like 50-60 euros, that's a dent in my monthly drinking budget man, I can't take that. It's like one nice or two semi-nice or three okay bottles of rum.

cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.

It's you who's "coping" actually.

The EU commissioned a study on piracy affecting sales some years back. When it came back as "no negative effect, perhaps even a positive one", the EU lowkey tried suppressing the study.

https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

There's the actual study.

And here's the news about the suppression.

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537