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[–] abraxas 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Several reasons.

  • Paying customers are footing the bill for that anti-theft
  • The guy is making over $500k off someone else's product with a couple days' work. I'm no Tankie, but you don't have to be a high schooler or a pothead to have a problem with capitalism's more toxic extremes. People have been conditioned to forget this, but piracy is a counter-leverage to prevent product pricing from going out of control. Just look at the average prices of Switch games vs PC games. The harder it is to pirate a product, the further the price of that product is from a value consensus.
  • These types of anti-thefts tend to false-fire for the paying customers (who footed the bill). This is especially true because he builds his mods against a closed-source product that behaves in ways he cannot always predict. Published modding interfaces are never perfect.
[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the response. While I don't really agree with all these points, but at least I can understand that. So, thanks!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then why not just open with "I'm ignorant" instead of whatever it is you're bothering to try and say?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever tried not being a cunt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An actual, serious "No, you!"

Oh my god I dont need to be laughing this hard before bed. How fuckin sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Okay pal, sweet dreams internet warrior.