Pirating this game is probably the most ethical way to play it
this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025
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Unless you bought it when it came out, it’s now the only ethical way to play it.
OOTL casual scroller - what happened?
I only know so much, something about switching dev teams/ownership and screwing the original devs but I found an article that claims to know the whole thing.
https://80.lv/articles/truth-behind-firing-disco-elysium-developers-za-um-s-canceled-sequel
to save anyone reading this: basically it's big business boys trying to rat fuck each other with a series of sneaky business moves to acquire shares or maintain operational control... at the expense of creative efforts and next projects. So some (presumably nice, innocent) people got fucked over by corporate greed at the expense of art but likely someone got rich off it.
Basically, giving something away for free that would normally have a cost is a market manipulation tactic. Epic does this as a means to draw customers away from their competition, primarily Valve, thereby reinforcing their position in the capitalist market.
Does Epic pay the full amount to the game publisher per copy when they give away free games, or does it work some other way?