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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's just a better product.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Yup, if you present me a side-by-side of the free one and the paid one when the free one is better even disregarding costs, I'm pirating 100% of the time.

  • "Oh, you'll only have access to this as long as our servers remain online or as long as we keep renewing the license."
  • "Sorry, your device needs to phone home to use this."
  • "Don't you love ads in your paid product?"
  • "You'll need to juggle several different services if you want what you can otherwise get for free on a central hub."
  • "Yes, you can only use this on one or two devices at a time thanks to DRM."
  • "Fuck you, you'll need an account with us to use this even though you bought it without that account somewhere else."
  • "This thing's only ongoing cost on our end is version updates you totally need and want, so it'll be an indefinite subscription (which we'll make a pain in the ass to cancel)."
  • "This game runs noticeably worse because of the shitty DRM we shoehorned in."
  • "You're saying you don't like being spied on for ad targeting?"
  • "You can only get this bundled with a bunch of other bullshit you don't want and would never pay for individually."
  • "Our UI that you're forced to interact with to use this is fucking garbage."
  • "We don't sell this anymore; ask Scalper4478 on eBay."
  • "We use the money that you pay us to lobby against your rights as a consumer."
  • "We somehow lack QoL features that the free version has."
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I have a game my ex me for my Xbox I think it was rainbow six I've never played because I couldn't get through the obnoxious sign up process to play a goddamned game that I owned.

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