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This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don't need it doesn't matter anymore lol.

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[–] neidu@feddit.nl 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Similar attitude by the HoI devs caused me to buy HoI2 and every new release after that.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Googling hol2 finds nothing useful

[–] neidu@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago

Hearts of Iron

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never caught that. As an adult I've purchased every Paradox back catalog for years of high seas as a youth.

[–] neidu@feddit.nl 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's not so much paradox endorsing piracy as it was them not caring and thus releasing it without any form of DRM or even install features beyond copying files. This meant that grabing it off of someone else was just drag&drop from a network share, and then double click to play.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Understood. Iirc we didn't need cracks or anything for their older games

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 11 months ago

Why would they care? They've already sold one person thousands of dollars of DLC and don't need your friend to buy it too

[–] Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] neidu@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.org 1 points 11 months ago

Oh haha, yeah that makes more sense