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Red Dead Redemption PC port will cost almost as much as a brand-new game - upcoming port for this 14-year-old game isn't cheap. (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The secret ingredient is....

Piracy

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And this is exactly why I laugh when PC gamers bitch about being ignored. As a dev, why would I want to sell to an unpleasable, toxic audience that's just gonna steal the product anyways?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why should anyone pay $50 for a game that's 14 years old?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody is asking you to. You can just not.

I don't think most things at the store are worth what they cost, but I don't steal them and justify it later

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Except the difference between a person not buying the game and a person pirating it is literally nothing from the perspective of the company. Except actually, as many devs have found and acknowledged, people who pirate the game often actually result in increased word of mouth and publicity, and things like merch sales, not to mention many go on to buy the game later when they never would have if they hadnt pirated it first. So saying "just dont buy it" is kinda fucking dumb, because thats all theyre doing in the first place, and the only negative consequence of piracy for the company is a "potential lost sale" that never would have happebed anyway.