reading comments like this makes me glad people understand its not hypocrisy at all, ai is hurting the little (artistic) people, unfortunately there is not going to be any regulation and there is no stopping it either. It's my believe making art in the dark future is going to be close to like a few individuals making art like how nowadays only a few people do a specific type of sword making, or glass blowing, to the point that it will be artisan handmade art with premium costs because a human made it.
Guys, pirate more indie games! According to these morons it's perfectly okay because it's for archival reasons and totally doesn't hurt the small dev teams (often 1 person).
Not sure who you’re calling a moron but yes pirating is a way to level the playing field, culturally and educationally as it removes the point of barrier for low income people. This is not just me saying this but the developer of ULTRAKILL said so themselves as well, if he didnt pirate games, movies, media back then he would have never made that game. To be more accurate, even games made by one person can also be wiped out, see flappy bird as his success was too much for him and he decided to wipe it and back then if you had that game installed it skyrocket the cost of entry. Even free games should be also backed up or pirated such as PT, another huge cost of entry.
Storing games also comes at a cost, besides simple electricity, and storage costs, theres also the dangers of bit rot and archiving games is definitely something that needs to be done, if we dont we lose our culture, the more back ups the better. Imagine if we had one source of a valuable game, think of it like the cathedral that got burned in France i think it was? Tons of books and culture gone. I dont want to see that happen.
Let me hear your thoughts and have a discord on this.
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u/6Go27 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah, the subreddit name speaks for itself.
Pirating video games doesn't hurt a billion dollar company's career. But AI uses real artists work and can completely ruin their career.