My buddy wants to play Baldur’s Gate 3 but I don’t feel like paying for it.

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    1 year ago

    You should pay for it if you can, it’s an amazing game and it’s worth the price.

    However, I believe you should be able to play it pirated online, because you could do so in Divinity: Original Sin 2 with no problems.

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    Pay for it.

    When developers actually put this much work into making an incredible experience, it should be rewarded. Otherwise, more andore developers will trend toward F2P, P2W, GAAS crap.

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      As a player of the Early Access I gotta say: yea, this game is worth the price. I’m waiting until my day off tomorrow to start the full version.

      There’s no MTX and they’ve stated that there won’t be any. The game is beautiful. They care and it shows.

      Pay the money. Support good game developers. Pirate EA and the like’s shit til the cows come home IDGAF.

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        Well said. Funny though, I almost didn’t download the game because it had SO many issues in Early Access and I didn’t get a chance to enjoy it. Glad I listened to everyone else’s praise this last week.

    • Artificial Human No. 20@lemmy.world
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      I’ll concur. This is one of the few games I’ve actually paid for, and it was worth every penny, even during beta. Probably going to be my go to for the winter.

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      With their stance on absolutely no microtransactions, this is a game that people should be supporting

      I bought the game twice already, a copy for myself, and for someone else I know.

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      1 year ago

      i would love to pay for it but i pirate because i dont have money to pay for stuff

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    Game dependent. Some games can via port fowarding, some by abusing space wars server, some incable.of multiplayer at all.

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    Well, this thread is surprising. I pirate a lot of games and I don’t feel too sad about these poor companies only selling millions of games. I like Larian but, come on.

    That being said, multi-player with cracked games is a pain: it usually doesn’t work at at, sometimes it’s half broken and often it’s painful to setup. So do it only if you feel up for a challenge.

    Otherwise, pirating solo games and paying for coop ones is a good balance for me.

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      My negative reaction to the post is due to “I don’t feel like paying for it”

      “I can’t afford it”, “I want to see if I can run it”, “I don’t support the restrictive drm” are all valid reasons to pirate in my opinion, but none of them appear to apply here and “I don’t feel like paying” absolutely isn’t, especially if they would buy it if they couldn’t pirate it (which is the impression I get from the post).

      In most cases calling piracy stealing/theft is stupid, but in these cases it actually is akin to shoplifting from a chain store

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        I am surprised your calling that stealing in a piracy subreddit. Sure your right on that saying they deserve the money but calling someone who didn’t wanna pay for it as stealing isn’t the right way to go about it. People can absolutely pirate it and buy it later if they end up liking it and that should be encouraged. Considering the other option is them being deterred away from trying it altogether, this is a much better option. I myself have bought a ton of games only after trying out cracked as I often end up playing it for a couple days then never again even if it’s good. Although nowadays I just end up buying a bunch of stuff on sale and it rests in library for a long time before I even try it out. Can’t say everyone has that privilege and let people play it even if they don’t wanna buy it.

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        I mean there are further reasons like:

        “I will only purchase things where the laborers are contractually obligated to some or all share of the profits”

        I’d never pirate a product from a worker co-op, charity, or artisan but everything else is fair game in my opinion.

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          I take it you follow every company’s bonus and employee stock programs then, to ensure you’re only pirating from companies which only pay a basic wage and standard bonus?

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            I check more often than not if they’re a co-op.

            I dislike parasitic capitalists with ill-gotten wealth expanding it.

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        I understand it a bit differently. In sentence “I don’t feel like paying” can be hidden different things and most probably a combination of few.

        Maybe “i am ashamed I can not afford it” or " not sure if friend can afford it rigth now" or just plain old 'if we really like it we might find money for it, but are not sure we like it enough and that amount of money is serious expense for both of us".

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          Say “I can’t pay for it now” or “I don’t want to pay for it yet” or something then… “I don’t feel like paying for it” has a connotation of “I could pay, but I want it for free” rather than even “I don’t want to pay for it” which can be taken from more viewpoints such as “it’s too expensive right now to justify paying, I’ll wait for it to come on sale” or “I’m not ready to pay for it until I’ve tried it”

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            You don’t really understand humans, do you? Or you don’t want to accept what being human is?

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          I’m not gonna stop them, I disapprove and have given my reasons why but at the end of the day it’s up to them

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    If all parties use the same cracked version, and play on LAN, then yes.

    Be very wary of malware though. I’ve had one cracked CS1.6 infect me (and presumably all my buddies) on a LAN party at the uni dorm.

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    It would be a shame to pirate that game. I don’t think most games are worth what they make you pay but that game is certainly worth more than they ask.

    EA, Activision and the like are not worth your money but developers like Larian or Team Cherry are not only worth your money but also really need it to make more games worth playing, without microtransactions, nonsensical quests, bloat and bullshit like that.

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    Local co-op, yes. LAN, yes.

    I don’t wanna sound like a broken record, but if there’s one game you actually spend money on this year, it should be this game.

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    1 year ago

    It really depends on the game. Some you wouldnt expect to be able to you can others the opposite.

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    1 year ago

    If there’s a LAN mode you can do a virtual lan and play that way, I remember doing that with Dying Light

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    Did you download it from 1337x?? Just found out that malware (a miner) was discovered by a few people who downloaded that game so far

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    back in the day i used to play cracked left 4 dead online using garena (it was basically a game server software where users could join rooms and they would have servers. i mostly remember there being south americans/slavic people on there. was quite interesting. afaik it would use steam group servers to connect (which may could be a lan type thing but idk).

    idk how it works now but i’d imagine it would be tougher now with current games acting more like a live service. if you get bored of playing with slavs every time then it’s time to buy the game.