Refusing to crack it would be a stand with the troons, refusing to touch the game DRM due to its controversy as a stand to keep "the wizard game" paywalled.
It's more the challenge for these types of people it was always about the challenge, bragging rights at being the person/group who did it first. If you aren't first you are last but if you fuck up the crack they will nuke your release.
The typical argument is that if people like a game they play for free, they might buy an official copy later to support the creator (esp if it’s a fledgling indie studio/one man operation, part of a fandom, or on one side of a controversy). Thus piracy leads to sales that otherwise wouldn’t have happened. While I’m sure that happens sometimes, the vast majority of people who pirate games do it because they want to have games they like from creators they like without paying for them.
It's like getting the True Ending in a VN
Every time I see some Reddit janny bullshit like this I see this image I shamelessly stole from the tranny meme thread
Better yet, you know where you gotta select yes or no to accepting whatever bs terms are usually in game?
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Its the opposite, it was the troons who wanted a crack fast to own the developers.
I used to pirate shit, but I stopped because it's a hassle and I'm not a poor child anymore.
Not really, they can just download the crack and not send any money to her bitcoin.
GODSPEED EMPRESS!
The bitching about empress being or not being a troon for pages upon pages is just as autistic as the trannies themselves.
That's not the way this works and you know it
I was very very on the periphery of the 90s scene. Shit back then was wild to get up first. One group I knew deployed multiple teams on scooters, one per disk, to get a copy of Ultima VIII the moment a distributor opened in the UK. They split up the disks and rode back to their places to parallel-upload the data to the cracker who then gave images to couriers (people with multiple modems) to parallel-upload it to the big scene BBS of the time.
