My radical take on this is, okay, you want me to pay for the content? Fine, but I'm taking my fucking copy as is without any of your shitty DRM latched onto it like a fucking headcrab and I'm going to enjoy it offline whenever I want.
Oy vey being able to use the thing you pay for is literal theft! you need to be dependent!
they're erasing certain versions from the internet and trying to make you by the more modern shitty version.
During the disastrous Warcraft III Reforged fiasco, the Battle.net launcher downloaded the remake version over top of the classic version of the game on people's computers, erasing it forever. You couldn't download the old version anymore, you had to manually reinstall it with the CDs (hope you still have them!).
I'm not asking people to feel ashamed about piracy, I am asking people to stop fucking talking about it, making it more visible, and ruining it for the rest of us when they clamp down harder on it. Too many people are treating it like a badge of honor they need to tell the whole world about, bringing more unwanted attention to it in the process.
Oy vey being able to use the thing you pay for is literal theft! you need to be dependent!
During the disastrous Warcraft III Reforged fiasco, the Battle.net launcher downloaded the remake version over top of the classic version of the game on people's computers, erasing it forever. You couldn't download the old version anymore, you had to manually reinstall it with the CDs (hope you still have them!).
I'm not asking people to feel ashamed about piracy, I am asking people to stop fucking talking about it, making it more visible, and ruining it for the rest of us when they clamp down harder on it. Too many people are treating it like a badge of honor they need to tell the whole world about, bringing more unwanted attention to it in the process.