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"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."

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[–] loops@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wish more companies did this; however, I believe most CEO's have the biased view that everyone has at least some money to spare which, as you probably know (likely on personal level), isn't true.

I understand that participating in cultural aspects of society must cost money due to the very nature of economics (if you want the artist to continue to make art, make sure they don't starve to death) but 'pirating' things is there not only as a stop gap to terrible service and personal risk (privacy violations, etc.), but also as an equalizer between those that have, and those that don't.

[–] Tigwyk@lemmy.vrchat-dev.tech 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll be pedantic and say that CEOs are paid to think everyone has money to spend. ;)

But I totally agree with you.

[–] loops@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I live for pedantry. (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

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