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Now I want developers to port more AAA games over to our platform and so I want to remind my fellow users to buy the games and piracy will kill Linux as a gaming platform if it becomes widespread.
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Otherwise, in Windows users, the illegal is the rule and the legal is the exception...
I bet 80% of Steam 4 Windows users run their games on an illegal/ cracked version, just because the games need windows, and not because they like Windows.....
I believe that if gonna use Windows because you love videogames, You have to buy it...
Im about to install a legal Windows 7 SP1 OEM on a machine.. It cost me about 200 U$D (that is the price in Argentina)
Plus, how many no-steam cracks for Linux are available out there?
And I hope you right about pirating games is against the culture of most Linux users.
I've repeatedly seen a few people in our comments claim piracy is okay for *reasons*
The best way is to call these people out on their idiocy. Make sure they know not many share their opinion and so on.
I don't do it and I'm sure most of the people who do are mostly driven by not having to pay. I see just buying as much more convenient for the relatively small price you have to pay anyway and I'd like to see more releases of games on Linux so it makes sense to pay for them. That said, making the issue that simple is what I'd rather describe with that word.
It's an operating system that was strongly influenced by a movement that has the philosophy that not sharing software is unethical. It's not at all suprising if there are people that see piracy not just as ok but as the right thing to do.
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Have you seen evidence of software piracy on Linux?
I've never seen pirated software for Linux (hack tools are a different issue and aren't related to piracy). Except for Windows cracks that people use on Windows versions of games/software through Wine. Because Linux itself and most of the software on it being free, from what I've seen if a company releases a good product people want that can't be replaced with a equally capable free version they buy it. Since moving to Linux I even bought office 365, so I can make docs in Linux people using Microsoft Office can view properly (I may abandon it if they start advertising through it, which I have a feeling is coming. I also don't trust it for sensitive docs since Microsoft probably logs every word you type and their EULA allows them to do what they want with it). I'd like them to make standard office for Linux as I really don't like the concept of 365.
I have no respect for Microsoft since they have no respect for me as a customer. Same goes for DRM schemes, I don't respect developers that expect you to let them install what basically amounts to rootkits to install their games. For Linux if a game wants root privilege to install a rootkit so I can play the game, I will be requesting a refund. Linux respects me as a user and I would never pirate anything that runs on Linux.
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By then it's second nature. It doesn't stop until you change your attitude towards it and have some disposable income. I've been completely free of pirated software (well, almost, one exception) for a while and even bought a whole bunch of games on Steam to settle a 'debt'.
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I don't want to know where it is as I have no interest in it, I'm just curious if it actually exists in any substantial amount.
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I have a couple Steam games as well that would qualify for that category. Things I played as a teenager that were usually borrowed from friends and shared by too many people. To be honest there's a lot more I would still need to buy to settle the score.
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I'm no saint, have pirated a few games myself when I was a teen (which is almost 17 years ago) but then I realized how they held no value and have since replaced them with their original retail/digital counterparts - 200+ boxed games and over 250 more on GOG.
For the record I also buy my music in album CD, it's become a hobby to collect all albums by a particular band.
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It does exist but not in the same volume compared to Wintendo. The usual torrent sources carry the software but most of it is simply copies of GOG packages. There are very few Linux 'cracks'.
In my younger days my college buddies and I pirated DOS and Win software but since my move to Linux my attitudes have changed and I genuinely feel guilty if I do not contribute properly!
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Maybe I am wrong. You have information that it was due to piracy and not just something content owners insisted on for protection?
It happens on all platforms where it's possible to do so.
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Fact: Steam is not only and store, is a DRM too...
Fact: DRM is against Linux philosophy....
so... I don't support to buy/download illegal copies and I also don't support Devs that loves DRM.
So.... No-steam cracks for Linux games I have legally on my steam library? Interesting...
I would like to play MY legally acquired games without having to install that spyware on every computer I have..
That's why I Love GOG and Humble...