I’ve been getting into mass effect trilogy finally, and since I don’t own a gaming pc, I like to play through GeForce Now.
Well, just now I had some things come up a couple of times a row and I quit my game a few times, and now I can’t continue because of some sort of lock mechanism against playing on multiple computers…?
Did not know this is a thing, but I have a few vacation days and wanted to get this series properly started, so it’s a little bit annoying. Who knows how long I have to wait?
Ugh…
Edit:
Talking with EA support, they informed me that the wait is 24 hours. Jesus christ that is long for something like this. There goes my vacation day opportunity…
Edit2:
Wow! The customer support really pulled through, suggested they request a password change on my account from their side.
Turns out, this seems to toggle that flag, and I could now start the game! Hooray! Akash, my man, you saved the day! Cheers 🍻
Piracy is completely justified.
How would that help in this case?
Not having to deal with EA’s bullshit
OP said they don’t have a gaming PC, meaning something capable of playing games at full spec
Pffft, just download some more RAM. You’d download a car, wouldn’t you? 😂
Just go into your local electronics store and pirate a gaming PC.
True, yeah
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I bought a gaming PC because I was so sick of stuff like this on GeForce now. Great service but implementation was annoying.
Also ended up sailing the high seas for some games instead of purchasing. Although a lot I did purchase after but some like Unravel have too much DRM content that I bought but never used the legit version.
Pirate the hardware. Yo ho…
Just bring out your ship and set sail!
Hot take:
Piracy is virtually always justified. By pirating you are simply opting out of transferring wealth from consumer to big business which could be seen as a redistribution of wealth (however small) from rich to poor.
Exceptions would be indie Devs or filmmakers for which you would have more disposable income to support if you saved your money by pirating big budget films/games/software.
Hot take:
Shoplifting is virtually always justified. By shoplifting you are simply opting out of transferring wealth from consumer to big business which could be seen as a redistribution of wealth (however small) from rich to poor.
Shoplifting is actually stealing. You’re taking something away from the vendor. Piracy doesn’t actually take anything physically from the vendor.
Besides, if I can’t actually buy it (only a license to use it), then it’s not possible to steal it.
The mental gymnastics people use to excuse themselves of their entitlement continues to amaze me.
Interesting, because the inability of people to understand basic concepts continues to disappoint me.
For what it’s worth, I never argued that shoplifting isn’t stealing. I only pointed out the absurdity of the argument that piracy is justified.
Feel free to educate me on the basic concepts I’m failing to understand.
From poor to rich*
Yes, this is the big picture view of things.
Unfortunately, a lot of small-minds can’t (or don’t want to) comprehend it.
No, this still exacerbates the disparity in wealth unless the creators are globally poor.
Piracy is never justified. The solution is to not buy or use games from EA if anything.
Piracy is justified if it’s to run abandonware, to bypass a broken DRM protection scheme blocking legitimate users from playing what they paid for, and for historical purposes (archiving, etc).
or if it costs 300 bucks in my 3rd world country, for a game that will probably be unfinished.
I don’t consider some things to be piracy. However that is a very small grey area
Poor Greg…
Yeah I’m bad about making typos.
If you don’t own the software when you buy it, it’s not stealing to pirate it.
That’s not true in the least. The smart move is to use alternative software.
Lol yes, except when you can’t. How do you find an alternate game? If EA owns the rights they own it there is no alternative. For Photoshop, Microsoft office, etc, I get it.
Exactly. There have been a few open source, free adaptations of games in the past but it’s rare. Rollercoaster Tycoon comes to mind as a rare outlier. Didn’t someone come out with a great free approximation or was it just for Linux?
You’re probably thinking of OpenRCT2. It’s available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Android. You do need a copy of the original Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 game (since it uses some assets from it), but you can buy that DRM-free from GOG for less than $10 (currently $2.49 on sale).
This is common with remakes. It’s totally legal to reimplement a game by observing its behaviour and writing code that mimics it, but it’s not legal to redistribute any of the original code or assets. Asking the user to provide the original game disc avoids any potential issues. This is also why some emulators require you to provide a BIOS dump.
I don’t necessarily agree with the guy you’re arguing with, but are you really claiming you not only have to play games, you have to play a particular game? That is the most neckbeardy thing I’ve ever heard. Forget touching grass, touch better priorities.
Well Mass Effect ripped off its main plotline from the Freespace series, and that’s available DRM-free and runs on an open-source engine.
In our society piracy is always justified
Fuck every last one of these corporations
How so? You are supporting them using their software.
*their
But it doesn’t support them when they don’t see income from it. You don’t even register as a number on their side, likely
You are still supporting them by using a product from them. It doesn’t matter if you are paying or not.
So what’s the problem with piracy then? I’m still supporting them but I’m saving money in the process. Win/win. What a world!
Not paying them means you are not supporting them
If you even use the software you are supporting them. The only way not to is a complete boycott
How?
Mostly because you are not using alternatives. By using it you are more likely not to pirate it if they make harder to pirate or run a sale. There is also the fact that others see you using it and are encouraged to not using alternatives.
I don’t really know if any of that holds true if I already have the game in my possession. Maybe if it was theoretically the case that future software was harder to pirate for some additional drm insanity, but then the neat thing is that games that are just released are harder to pirate and tend to never be on sale, so that’s a kind of automatic balance. Also
what do you mean by “alternatives”? alternatives to piracy? alternatives to the games people want to play?
I bet you watch ads, too.
Not OP, but I typically only pirate games if they’re unavailable for purchase in a more legal way. Like PS2 games, for example.
Most of the modern games I buy these days are from developers I genuinely want to support and see more from, like Atlus or Vanillaware.
And, no, I use uBlock Origin.
Well no, I just stay away from proprietary software. For the internet I use ublock origin.
☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ that’s right me mateys, being a pirate is lame and you should definitely…… nottttttt do it………….
Good thing I have this eye patch so I can wink without anyone seeing.
Courageous to make such a comment on Lemmy, where the community will bend over backwards to justify piracy.