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Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 7:51 am
by meganothing
eugenekay wrote: Fri May 15, 2026 1:59 am
Klonan wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:50 amWe don't really consider playing with a friend or relative in your own home as piracy,
We're sure if the game is fun and engaging enough for them, they will eventually buy their own copy
It is apparently considered to be a form of advertising. This is the classic “Shareware” scheme - as used by id Software. Many copies of Doom and Quake were burned to Floppy or CD and passed-around schools and offices in the 90s.
Good Luck!
Careful. Klonan said : "in your own home". This should not be confused with sharing with everybody on a school yard. The latter is a recipe to spread a single copy to thousands (since whoever gets it will continue to share it further). I assume Klonan is talking about sharing a single copy only for playing with a family members or friends in his home, without those friends taking that copy to their homes as a legaly owned copy to play it there and continue to share it on.
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 9:55 am
by aka13
Brother this game has no drm, the whole schoolyard has been downloading for 10 years at this point.
It has sales from people wanting to buy it + people wanting mod portal comfort, not from forum sheriffs enforcing some arbitrary imaginary border to share.
If you read the ToS, everything is plain and clear. Distribution is generally not permitted. What is this "careful" even about?
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 10:52 am
by pioruns
aka13 wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 9:55 am
Brother this game has no drm, the whole schoolyard has been downloading for 10 years at this point.
It has sales from people wanting to buy it + people wanting mod portal comfort, not from forum sheriffs enforcing some arbitrary imaginary border to share.
If you read the ToS, everything is plain and clear. Distribution is generally not permitted. What is this "careful" even about?
Some people have higher moral standards than you, and may simply choose not to pirate the game and won't play it pirated. I am one of them, I bought the game instead of downloading pirated gog copy.
Some people will consider buying a second copy, to play comfortably in multiplier with family etc, hence this thread.
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 11:11 am
by aka13
Funny projections that you have, as you see I bought it at a point where it was in a crowdfunding state
. At this point you certainly had a train or a lab named after myself ingame.
I'd buy again nowadays without hesitation, still best-in-class and genre-defining. No, in fact, it was best in class then, but nowadays, it is above and beyond all humble expectations I had then. Literally no competition nowadays whatsoever, re polish & scale. So I guess I would buy it more eagerly nowadays, than I did back then.
Also, you are quite literally quoting what I said - one buys it because you find it the right thing to do (as we both agree upon) or because of comfort.
What I am saying is, I see no point in trying to justify piracy - one can either pirate, and shut up about it, or not pirate, and also shut up about it
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 11:28 am
by pioruns
aka13 wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 11:11 am
Funny projections that you have, as you see I bought it at a point where it was in a crowdfunding state
. At this point you certainly had a train or a lab named after myself ingame.
I'd buy again nowadays without hesitation, still best-in-class and genre-defining. No, in fact, it was best in class then, but nowadays, it is above and beyond all humble expectations I had then. Literally no competition nowadays whatsoever, re polish & scale. So I guess I would buy it more eagerly nowadays, than I did back then.
Also, you are quite literally quoting what I said - one buys it because you find it the right thing to do (as we both agree upon) or because of comfort.
What I am saying is, I see no point in trying to justify piracy - one can either pirate, and shut up about it, or not pirate, and also shut up about it
That's great
I wish I knew this game when it was in preorder state, I would buy it then. Or maybe I don't - I play it now, in perfect, finished state.
Sorry for assuming you are OK to pirating, that's how I read your post.
I am not OK to pirating, I did that when I was a kid, but nowadays I just buy the game, developer who is worth it will always get my money.
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 2:07 pm
by aka13
Absolutely. One should always try and support whatever one finds fun
Re: The price of the game is way to high
Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 12:59 am
by meganothing
aka13 wrote: Sun May 17, 2026 9:55 am
Brother this game has no drm, the whole schoolyard has been downloading for 10 years at this point.
It has sales from people wanting to buy it + people wanting mod portal comfort, not from forum sheriffs enforcing some arbitrary imaginary border to share.
If you read the ToS, everything is plain and clear. Distribution is generally not permitted. What is this "careful" even about?
Who is enforcing anything? I was just saying to be careful with the interpretation of Klonans words and possibly spreading false rumours. Since my native language isn't English my choice of word can sometimes be odd.
You are correct with the schoolyard, but adults usually don't pirate anymore. But they might if someone told them the developer thought it okay to use their software like shareware
I wish I knew this game when it was in preorder state, I would buy it then. Or maybe I don't - I play it now, in perfect, finished state.