• atomicfox@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Since you’re ostensibly a pirate, it stands to reason that you wouldn’t understand how buying a game works.

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          1 year ago

          You obviously don’t understand how companies work. Now get down off your soap box you are just showing your naivety and lack of knowledge lol

        • Khotetsu@lib.lgbt
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          As somebody who almost went into the game industry and didn’t because of the low wages, horrible working conditions, and just generally poor quality of life, I think I know more about how devs get paid than some rando on the internet.

          And I haven’t pirated a game since the Bay went down like 10 years ago. I just hate people who get so holier-than-thou because a handful of dollars from their purchase will go towards paying the devs’ salaries on the studio’s next game while ignoring how much of it will go to stock options for the shareholders and buying the CEO another Ferrari. You wanna pirate games or not, I don’t care. Just don’t give me this “my money is going to the devs” crap. Because it isn’t. That’s just the excuse you use for your pearl clutching.

          I will happily buy more expensive games that are shorter and with worse graphics than modern AAA games, so long as the devs are getting paid well and aren’t crunched. Because my money isn’t going to the devs, but it certainly tells the company what I do or don’t care about.

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      1 year ago

      they been paid a salary this whole time. you think they are waiting for the sales to start trickling in so they can finally feed their family?

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        1 year ago

        And again, how did the company make the money to pay them that salary? Way to deliberately misunderstand my comment.

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      As if they do lol. All the money goes to the high level managers/shareholders.

      The ones doing all the work get paid a small flat amount.