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What happened to the PC games (or what happened to consoles)? (hexbear.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I got out of video game piracy for a while, but I'm coming back. One thing I have been absolutely SHOCKED by is how finding PC game torrents is actually kind of difficult from my normal sources. Now it'd be one thing if I just wasn't seeing games, but for some reason Playstation and Switch have far more uploaders and seeders on the sites. This is something that would have been unthinkable when I was into piracy. But from a quick glance, it looks like the Switch has a bigger piracy scene than PCs do right now. This was so extreme I couldn't find a torrent for Minecraft past 1.12. I found a download, but not a torrent. Or I couldn't find any of the old versions of Five Nights At Freddy's on PC, but could find them on other platforms. Things I'd consider true PC staples of the past decade with absolutely nothing popping up in my normal sources.

I'm not asking where to find PC torrents (although I certainly wouldn't mind). Are consoles actually becoming more popular to pirate for?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

To quote the mighty GabeN: "Piracy is a service issue, not a price issue"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what looks cheap to you in the USA certainly isnt at all in the rest of the planet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And there's also kids who don't have credit cards yet too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Except when publishers don't opt for regional pricing and games cost absurd amount of money because of poor exchange rates