

I would not have bought it, no. I don’t really buy games.
Also it was like 50-60 euros, that’s a dent in my monthly drinking budget man, I can’t take that. It’s like one nice or two semi-nice or three okay bottles of rum.
cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.
It’s you who’s “coping” actually.
The EU commissioned a study on piracy affecting sales some years back. When it came back as “no negative effect, perhaps even a positive one”, the EU lowkey tried suppressing the study.
https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
There’s the actual study.
And here’s the news about the suppression.
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537









Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
One can be a fucking idiot and Putler’s lapdog.
Saying “we don’t know for a fact he’s working for the Russians” is just willful ignorance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials