tenchiken

Conglomerated with DarkStar Industries and featured through Pegged Productions

February: Best review possible, got a raise and bonus.

June: Laid off after 17 years at the company, to maximize profit.

Capitalism is balls.

Wait, we kicking the shit out of conservatives?

Did I miss the fun AGAIN?! Damn…

or even a group that funded it

I noted I’m ok with investors.

I’m against parasitic groups that feed on properties and prevent money getting to the actual dev folks.

Cool argument, except a huge quantity of pirated works aren’t “owned” by the creator or even a group that funded it, but instead by parasitic companies that abuse capitalistic tools to actually steal value from those creators.

I have thousands of purchased games. 3 categories here:

1: obtained as part of a pack (humble gog etc)

2: purchased AFTER trying out via pirate copy to know if it is my kind of thing

3: picked up early access due to demo or general interest from being a known smaller dev/studio (hare brained for example)

With less and less access to shareware and viable demos, piracy is often the only conduit to prevent me getting ripped off of $80 for something that looks like a shiny sports car but end up being another “buy $800 in dlc for the full story!” Ford pinto.

Additionally, I now flat refuse to fund the likes of Denuvo, and wish that piracy actively hurt the bottom line of companies deploying that kind of anti-user shit.

Yup, just got this myself too. Fucking abysmal how painfully bad it is.

Almost as gross as the fact that an absurd percentage of the recipients are going to believe this crap.

My immediate thought was to the 1984 bit about choco rations being “increased”.

Double plus good that is!

Facepalm

/me waves in awkward sysadmin fashion

Looking forward to nonsense gibberish on the Internet being put to good use instead of politics!

Coordinated High-speed Optical Media Protocol Subterfuge.

C.H.O.M.P.S.