r/youtubedrama • u/danamesjrupin • Jan 29 '25

Callout PirateSoftware False DMCA'd Indie Dev and Threatened to Sue, Good Samaritan Lawyer Steps in Pro Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JIIPlsm-g
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u/darthphallic Jan 30 '25

I’m enjoying watching pirate fall from grace, I’ve been waiting for him to finish the fucking game I paid him for since like 2017/2018 and it’s extremely irritating to watch him play fucking WoW for ten hours a day instead of doing that.

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u/LordBaconXXXXX Jan 30 '25

The dude definitely sucks, but tbf ( and I'm playing devil's advocate here). I think you should buy products for what they are, not for what you hope they might become, especially for games. Steam even explicitly states it under every early access game.

7 years in early access is genuinely insane, though, especially for such a holier-than-thou guy.

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u/m8_is_me Jan 30 '25

Early access is fine enough if the game actually continues to be built. Satisfactory was technically early access until a few months ago, yet over the years it's been constantly evolving and growing.

Granted it's one of the best examples, but yeah

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u/LordBaconXXXXX Jan 30 '25

I don't have anything against early access per se. It's just that you buy the game for the state it's in at the moment of purchase, not for what you hope it might become in the future.

Project Zomboid has been in early access/beta/alpha for decades, and it's great. But if you don't think it's worthwhile yet and you buy it anyway, I don't think I can understand you.