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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mecen@lemmy.ca to c/games@lemmy.world
 

This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game's quality.

Advice:

buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.

Repost from reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Advice:

Just pirate.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 134 points 1 week ago (61 children)

It is not self-explanatory. You needed to explain it. On its face, it sounds like it's saying to just pirate. I can get behind the message, but these three words aren't it. I know that coming up with effective, catchy slogans is hard, but this one's not going to do well.

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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (15 children)

At this point I think it's safe to assume all large companies are evil and so piracy of any software/media/etc created by a large company is the moral thing to do.

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Kinda telling that Valve aren't on here. They also only sell a license to play a game, not the game.

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[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm going to be honest, this sounds like an astroturf campaign trying to reduce SKG into absurdity to harm it's credibility.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago

This is list of companies who lobbied against stop killing games

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If buying is not ownership, piracy is not stealing.

Fuck em.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Piracy isn't stealing either way, but this slogan is good. We need more people to pirate than ever before.

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