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Postal Devs ask fans to pirate games instead of using key resellers, giving explicit permission to fans (twitter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ram@lemmy.ca to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Running With Scissors:

Key reselling websites hurt indie developers like us. There are many ways to obtain our games and we STILL prefer piracy over people buying from those websites.
Illegaly obtained keys are a source of money for scammers and it could even affect you as the customer in some cases.

NiX:

I love you guys and postal series, but I’m not made of money, if I can get a game for cheaper I’d rather pay less than more.

Running With Scissors:

Which is why we're telling you to pirate our games instead of paying a scammer who will cost us money and probably even get your key revoked
Our games are cheap right now through official sites. Is saving a few cents worth lowering the chances for releasing another POSTAL game?

NiX:

Isn’t pirating illegal? You want your fans get fines and shit? Now they are on sale so I might pick up some but normally i still rather get the game of g2a for cheaper

Running With Scissors:

You can't get fines if the owners of the IP give you permission to download.
Just know that by getting on G2A, we not only get no money, we also have to pay for the chargeback, that's the core of the problem and it means no new games in the future and no more RWS

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[–] Leone@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Hold on a minute. Developers need to generate the keys so third parties can resell them. And they can revoke or disable them if they were obtained fraudulently.

What is the point of all this? Just disable the keys and fuck the scammers.

[–] megahbite@dataterm.digital 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it were that easy then G2A wouldn’t exist. Use some common sense.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate these guys just tell you to "use common sense" without explaining any shits. Your comment does not contribute to the discussion at all.

[–] megahbite@dataterm.digital 9 points 1 year ago

If it were so simple to revoke these keys as OP is implying, why would the game publishers be telling people to literally steal their games instead of buying on one of these key resellers?

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