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“What you see right there is variable pricing,” Bowser told The Washington Post. “We’ll look at each game, really look at the development that’s gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay experiences.

AKA corporate greed.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I pirate N*****o games just to spite them and I don't even play the games

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Set up a torrent to /dev/null/ so the torrent is forever being fed into a state of nothing, they'll loose 100 gajillion dollars by the end of the month.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Make sure you use a VPN! The only time I ever got a letter from my ISP to stop pirating was when I torrented a ROM of a Nintendo game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I live in a 3rd world country so my ISP don't really care

[–] FlembleFabber 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What country were you living in if I may ask?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You don't need a VPN if you use a Debrid service for torrents instead of a torrent client. It's cheaper than a VPN and you get direct downloads at consistent Gigabit speeds too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's not really cheaper, and I can use my VPN for other things. Torguard with promotional price is $30/year. I got a dedicated IP so I can open ports with it. Used them for almost 7 years, upload about 1TB/day

Nzb and newshosting gets me gig speeds too