• Selmafudd@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    Oh shit this is good news, I looked at it yesterday and it’s $120 here and instantly thought fuck that I’ll wait until it’s cracked

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    Maybe I’m just old but $70 base is too much for any game let alone one from a studio with known issues

  • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Lol man I generally agree with the hive mind, but on this particular point I never will. With the singular exception being a complete lack of availability, I will always view pirates as being cheapskates that are totally cool with theft. Try to justify it all you like, in the end you are receiving a product without paying for it. Just admit what you’re doing.

    • Smoky@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      As long as you admit that selling a game that doesn’t work is also stealing money. They’re selling an incomplete game for the price of a complete game.

      • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        No I will not, because it is not. If you are unable to wait until feedback has returned on a game and you happen to be unhappy with the quality of the product then the only thing you are a victim of is your own stupidity. Do you think non-extended cut films are theft as well?

        • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          False equivalence there my dude. The games industry, and especially Bethesda, have earned themselves a strong reputation for releasing basically unplayable clusterfucks time after time because their management choose to push unfinished products to the market to capitalize on hype at the expense of the consumer. The consumer has every right to be wary and cautious with these companies and the product they release.

          With movies, what you are basically getting is the final product, much like games used to be before updates could be pushed as patches over the internet for them. Imagine going to see a movie and the actors start T posing, you can see camera men and the director on the side of the set, then the movie projector just crashes and you don’t get to see the rest? That’s how bad Bethesda and major AAA games have been over the last several years.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’s literally not theft. There are other reasons why I disagree with you, but that’s the big one that really takes the weight out of your argument. The owner is deprived of nothing.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Most of us are cheapskates that take advantage of the law. At least in the US you are allowed to try out the software for free for 30 days, and you buy if it’s worth the $$$, delete if not.

    • Conyak@lemmy.tfEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      It is theft, i just don’t give a shit about corporations. If it was a small indie games studio sure but fuck Bethesda, and fuck capitalism.

  • TheBlue22@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    I never pre order games

    I never buy games full price

    And I definitely do not buy Bethesda games before playing them and seeing how broken they are and if I enjoy them.

    I never ever bought a Bethesda game before cracking it and playing for at least a few hours. Bethesda just does not deserve it.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t want to sail the high seas you can also get it on xbox game pass for like $10 for the month once it’s out for the plebs in like a week.

  • aksdb@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    The expensive part for me is, that I need a new machine to run it. My good old GTX 1060 doesn’t cut it anymore. No crack can help me with that. (Unless the crack manages to optimize the engine.)

    Well, I cross my fingers for a GeForce Now release of Starfield. Otherwise it will have to wait a bit.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    $20 for a two hour movie ($10 per hour) sure

    $70 for a game ($7 per hour if you only play 10 hours) no way.

    Though I am a fan of pirate first, pay when they fix the bugs. The low quality of games at release and the whole seemingly 10 year pre-release cycle sucks.