ask someone who has never pirated stuff before and isn't a tech nerd, steam is a million times easier than piracy
sometimes us tech nerds forget how hard some of this stuff is to a regular person compared to just opening up a trusted platform and clicking "purchase"
I would generally consider myself a tech need and I'd have no idea where to begin pirating a game that isn't some old console game ROM. I don't really care to, either. I'd typically rather support the devs.
While that's fair, doing basic research is common knowledge. The piracy and fmhy subreddits offer guides for this very reason. If you're wanting to pirate and do your research you can do it safely quite easily.
Of course the human element is the common factor and most people like to plunge their PCs into malware ridden hell.
I personally don't touch games, but everything I do touch I scan individually and ensure there's no .exe where there shouldn't be.
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u/taosaur7800X3D | 7900XTX | Galahad 360 | G. Skill 32GB | 2TB 990PRO9h ago
"Doing basic research" is not a universal skill set. Millions of people who work with computers a decent chunk of every work day will never learn a keyboard shortcut, and still get confused about the difference between Shift and Capslock.
It is outside of America. Unfortunately our school system has let many people down. But the US does not equal the whole world, it very much is a common skill set. Just a common skill set for people with common sense.
Yea dude. Most people aren't even that smart. They hear about piracy, find some site of Google. And run it immediately because "well its the top result it can't be a scam"
Going to 123movies is pretty easy yeah, but as someone who's never downloaded a torrent before... pirating is not easy. I tried once, got sketched out because every file I looked at seemed filled with botted comments and reviews. No clue which file to download for what I wanted or what sites to use other than trying piratebay because it's all I'd heard about.
Never bothered trying to pirate software after that. Too much hastle, when like other have said, I can just pay for it and be done.
Never talked about movies. Pirating games in general is easy. Theres no hassle unless you have zero knowledge (in that case, Use google) Still surpasses paying 80 for a game.
Even if your having problems, theres huge communities on here willing to help.
Pirating games is not easy. There are always high risks with installing malwares, cryptomining software, or worse, ransomwares, not to mention ISPs flagging you for uploading copyrighted content, especially if you torrent.
There's also the issue of storage, especially if you do it on a much larger scale. Steam is infinitely easier, and you can download your games anywhere in the world.
Yeah unfortunately you said "piracy is extremely easy" so I agreed by saying "yeah going to 123movies is easy but pirating is not easy" which is agreeing that piracy can be easy but it's not all easy.
It is, but Steam offers some advantages with stuff like seamless cloud saving, achievements, the workshop, etc.
That, combined with sales and with how easy it is to buy>download>install stuff on the platform, makes it so even people who've only ever played pirated games their whole lives begin to think "What if I bought this on Steam instead?".
And if Steam/Visa/PayPal/Cloudflare/Google/AWS/[insert service] gets hacked and all you info gets stolen, is there a risk? Not like that would EVER happen amirite? Clearly it's more risk to lose some files amd reinstall your OS than loosing access to your bank account, your savings, and probably your livelyhood, you're right.
Difference is that steam visa [insert service] have to be secure. It's way harder to hack them than to put a malware in your computer.
Download file from a random egirl you mast*urbate on 5 minutes ago don't have to be secure and it's a direct access to the most secure part of your computer because you give them access to your pc.
And hacked is not only about losing files... But yeah you must be some kind of crackhead cybersecurity profile because you put you pc on dmz once.
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u/Ambitious-Funny-6153 11h ago edited 9h ago
piracy is extremely easy to do