173k Torrent downloads İts over.....

[Grayson.]

20k legit players its over square will never make pc port ever again... thanks piracy.

[MancSoulja]

Nguyên văn bởi Pheace:

Nguyên văn bởi The Beaphomet:

https://youtu.be/msS2YqyqUW4?si=VuU1v-TySFezFops

I like what this guy had to say on this subject :D

With a dumb title like 'People are stealing' it's not exactly inspiring. Piracy has never been stealing, it's copyright infringement.

it doesn't matter what label you want to give it, it's wrong and the only people you're stealing from is paying customers.

[Pheace]

Nguyên văn bởi MancSoulja:

it doesn't matter what label you want to give it, it's wrong and the only people you're stealing from is paying customers.

I mention it because usually the same people that call it stealing are the ones making the dumb argument that "If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing"

[AlSemz™]

Nguyên văn bởi Grayson.:

20k legit players its over square will never make pc port ever again... thanks piracy.

This doesnt even make sense.. Thats total downloads.. ok how many total purchases of the game on all platforms.. an example of how flawed your assessment is theres 34k players on steam playing right now 8am EST

[Zekkah]

Nguyên văn bởi Colonel Death:

Nguyên văn bởi Iron Reaper:

pirating is for losers. they're gonna be stuck with no dlc and no updates or patches

also, most of them are 14 and can't buy games anyway

You do realize that patches and DLC get pirated as well, right? What a silly goose of a comment.

Yeah, I can confirm this, as I have Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with all DLC and patches and much more Nintendo Switch games on my PC.

[Pheace]

Kind of depends. Cracked Denuvo games (not that they happen anymore in recent years) tended to be frozen at the point of cracking, lacking any content/updates that got released after the crack, because it's so involved to do it they don't update after it.

[PopCornFlakes]

Nguyên văn bởi Pheace:

Nguyên văn bởi The Beaphomet:

https://youtu.be/msS2YqyqUW4?si=VuU1v-TySFezFops

I like what this guy had to say on this subject :D

With a dumb title like 'People are stealing' it's not exactly inspiring. Piracy has never been stealing, it's copyright infringement.

what if you steal a Porsche and drive it , it's copyright infringement maybe? You're dumb af.

[Pheace]

Nguyên văn bởi PopCornFlakes:

what if you steal a Porsche and drive it , it's copyright infringement maybe? You're dumb af.

Thanks for the laugh

[TheλrtOfJoking]

Nguyên văn bởi PopCornFlakes:

Nguyên văn bởi Pheace:

With a dumb title like 'People are stealing' it's not exactly inspiring. Piracy has never been stealing, it's copyright infringement.

what if you steal a Porsche and drive it , it's copyright infringement maybe? You're dumb af.

Piracy isnt stealing ur porsche that u paid for, its me making a copy of ur porsche which is identical 1:1 and driving away for free while ur orignal porsche still stays in ur garage.

[The_Box]

Nguyên văn bởi Pheace:

Nguyên văn bởi The Beaphomet:

https://youtu.be/msS2YqyqUW4?si=VuU1v-TySFezFops

I like what this guy had to say on this subject :D

With a dumb title like 'People are stealing' it's not exactly inspiring. Piracy has never been stealing, it's copyright infringement.

No, it's theft. It would be tried as theft. Copyright infringement is what the sites providing the downloads are doing, or making a copy of something someone else made and trying to sell it as an original thing.

[Silvalfare]

Check KC:D II lololololololol

[Artins90]

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3lhc3xrqq7k2z :
"Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth had a fantastic Steam launch. Across physical & tracked digital, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth was the best-selling game of the week ending Jan 25th in the US market ($ sales), while the FFVII Remake & Rebirth Twin Pack ranked 3rd. Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service"

Good games sell.
Draconian DRM doesn't make money magically appear into pirates' pockets and Square Enix knows it well, they have a long history of publishing on PC and they have had the opportunity to evaluate the performance of custom DRM solutions on PC.

It hurts game preservation, it hurts customers, costs a lot of money and It's not worth it.

[Nohiro]

Nguyên văn bởi Coffee Addict:

people who pirate the game never had any intentions of buying it so its not a lost sale for square

seein the state of it I think i should have gone that route instead of buying it... AND samll update ending up making me redownload 130 gigs... the joy...

[krugg.the.gamer]

Nguyên văn bởi ★ JOHN HELLDIVER ★:

Nguyên văn bởi Coffee Addict:

people who pirate the game never had any intentions of buying it so its not a lost sale for square

seein the state of it I think i should have gone that route instead of buying it... AND samll update ending up making me redownload 130 gigs... the joy...

have you tried it out yet since then? not shilling, but it runs a lot better for me now, I use one optimizing mod from nexus with it, but I was using the same one before the update, so I think it's whatever they did.

[MaxiTB]

Nguyên văn bởi Grayson.:

20k legit players its over square will never make pc port ever again... thanks piracy.

That is not how it works.

People don't go through the hassle to pirate a game because they don't want to pay, they either do because they literally don't have the disposable income to pay or they don't think the product is worth buying.

In other words: Would there be no other source of the product, the product would basically sell the same beside a few low single digit exceptions - however it would have less buzz around it, less word of mouth which actually generates additional sales if the product is any good.

FF7 on PC was never good, it was decent at best. There is a ton of issues with this game from the fact that both games were super lazy ports doing the bare minimum while dumping the game for full price instead of 10 bucks when considering the put in effort. Additionally the game itself has serious design flaws - the minigames are repetitive and often boring/annyoing, and again since those where made for consoles they don't feel good on PC; quite the opposite. Yes, the game is throwing around a lot of assets but gameplay wise it doesn't bring a lot new innovations, it's pretty much more of the same comparing it to Remake but it feels even less polished even though Remake was super rough to begin with.

[sick duck]

Nguyên văn bởi MaxiTB:

Nguyên văn bởi Grayson.:

20k legit players its over square will never make pc port ever again... thanks piracy.

That is not how it works.

People don't go through the hassle to pirate a game because they don't want to pay, they either do because they literally don't have the disposable income to pay or they don't think the product is worth buying.

In other words: Would there be no other source of the product, the product would basically sell the same beside a few low single digit exceptions - however it would have less buzz around it, less word of mouth which actually generates additional sales if the product is any good.

FF7 on PC was never good, it was decent at best. There is a ton of issues with this game from the fact that both games were super lazy ports doing the bare minimum while dumping the game for full price instead of 10 bucks when considering the put in effort. Additionally the game itself has serious design flaws - the minigames are repetitive and often boring/annyoing, and again since those where made for consoles they don't feel good on PC; quite the opposite. Yes, the game is throwing around a lot of assets but gameplay wise it doesn't bring a lot new innovations, it's pretty much more of the same comparing it to Remake but it feels even less polished even though Remake was super rough to begin with.

If paying is optional does that make us donors instead of customers? Piracy the difference between a paying customer vs someone who is donating out of the kindness of their heart?