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Kevin Beaumont
@doublepulsar.com

I'm not linking the discussions around it as it's just people pirating it now. The Steam change obviously got rolled back but now everybody is just pirating it to play early. Shit sucks, I know somebody who worked for years on it, the piracy will cost jobs.

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poker-dio.bsky.social
@poker-dio.bsky.social

I expect 95% of Steam users who ever buy games online wouldn't consider pirating a game under any circumstance simply due to convenience. And if you pirate the game and like it, there is an intense incentive to buy it on Steam anyway.

Martijn Brant
@mbr.bsky.social

Yeah someone else also posted that but would this really hurt sales? Some are going to pirate anyway, now just a few days earlier than expected. Pirates get an easy release. But the real fans will still buy it? Or at least play on Xbox Game Pass? I think this tips scales, barely if at all.

Martijn Brant
@mbr.bsky.social

I'm not saying this isn't a bad thing.. it really sucks for everyone involved in creating yet another great game in this series.. but it's not like the source code leaked in the middle of production like Half-Life 2, forcing a complete rewrite?