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Valve doing their Valve thing.

It’s beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.

I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There’s not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

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A lot of people (especially on Reddit and Lemmy too) don’t understand even the basics of economics. They see “luxury” and immediately make their judgement. “The rich”, “up there”, and “elite” are probably the most used words in comments. Not everything is immediately a conspiracy. Most of it is just basic economics. Plain and simple.

There is accessibility settings for everything. Why not for this?

You’re completely oblivious to modern day society. It’s not difficult to understand that this idealized reality doesn’t exist. It’s basic economics.

You’ll be the one who runs the movie industry into the ground. It’s not going to be Disney. It’s going to be piracy.

If you don’t vote with your wallet and you don’t support good movies over bad movies, you’re helping nobody except yourself.

So buying one ticket to Disney world means I get to go back whenever I want right?

This totally depends on the ToS of the ticket issuer. It’s his right to decid that for you because he’s providing the product not you. What is the point you’re trying to make?

No. Almost all industries nowadays rely on IP. Nobody is manufacturing in Europe or US anymore. The most lucrative business of scale rely on software, logistics and other IP.

Most people who do piracy don’t understand how their job also depends on IP in one way or the other. Their idealostic world view is incoherent. If you do privacy at least own up to it. You’re copying someone else’s work and there is no moral argument to do that in a non-socialist world.

The mental gymnastics in this.

Movies are products. Movies are investments in future movies. Yesterdays movie pays the employees that produce todays movie.

Time is money and money is time. So if you invest your time you should also invest your money. If you don’t do that you actively contribute to either artists getting payed less, movies getting worse by being funded less, or streaming services deteriorating even more. You are hurting the people that obtain the movies legally. Basic economics.

Besides, you mention Disney streaming. There are countless other ways to legally enjoy a movie. I don’t understand why everyone here thinks streaming is the only way.

If your kids want to watch a disney movie they spend their time enjoying it. You need to compensate whoever is providing for that. If they enjoy their time in Disneyland they also need to pay the ticket, eventhough the rides will work without them paying for the ticket.

You can find Blue-rays to buy online of pretty much every movie in existance. 99% of them have all the extras too like documentation and interviews.

My 300+ discs collection is akready 10 years old. No disc has failed yet. Most modern Blue-ray discs have a lifespan of up to 150 years. You’re probably thinking of writable discs that have a lower lifespan.

A digital backup of my own discs that I’ve purchased is not piracy in many countries. It’s legal to do that for personal use. Besides, there is no moral argument against it. You already payed for your time you’re going to enjoy it.

Enlighten me! Try not to mention how shitty the other options are and how much you hate the big corps. Because that’s irrelevant for the answer.

By 10 year old blue-ray collection is doing just fine.

They are not the only place. There are thousands of ways to legally obtain the content you want to enjoy. Blue-ray is one of countless others.

Not paying anything is worse in any case. The content and services will get even worse over time if more people start pirating stuff. The only way to change that is to vote with your wallet. Not paying does not entitle you to have an opinion and complain.

It’s not about belief. It’s just pure logic in argumentation. There is just no conclusion here.

It’s like robbing a store because you didn’t like its shelf layout.

All of the arguments I read here are justifications. Nobody is actually trying to make a point here. They just want to enjoy free content.

Better to have competition than relying on the same launcher for every app. Monopolies are convinient but actually really bad for you.

These are all arguments against the corresponding service. I don’t hear an argument for piracy.