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apropos of nothing, here's an old blog post i did about piracy and when/whether it's ok and things like that when the people who make the games aren't even getting to keep their jobs, far less profit from a game's success, pirate those suckaz tbh www.joewintergreen.com/one-time-a-g...

I get the virtue of this narrative (and where it's aimed), but as an indie it's demoralizing to be expected to cultivate a parasocial relationship before gamers will feel guilt about stealing from you. I wish just making the thing was enough for people to value it, you know? It's already so hard.

Including you I would argue - that someone pirates something does not necessarily mean they *have* stolen from you, *or* that they don't value the thing

Yeah, "piracy isn't a lost sale," obvs. But all the "piracy is good, actually" logic is people (ironically) platforming market economics, marketing, and supply/demand priorities, when what we should be doing is destroying capitalism altogether.

Like, the good thing about *doing piracy* is that it lets (some) people opt-out of capitalism, which is incredible and unimpeachably beneficial (for those same some), but all the arguments *for* piracy as a social driver are extremely pro-capitalism. The irony is utterly baffling to me.