I can't disagree with you more on this point. Our work will always be shared for free. Use it for marketing. You tell me Summertime Saga, Badik, WVM, CoBD are all suffering because of pirating?
Pirating will never go away, find a way to use it to your advantage. I am one of those who believe even pirates end up being supporters and see it as a great medium to advertise one's product and make money whether it's a hobby or fulltime. At the end of the day its down to luck(flavor for most players) and type of content that makes the big money.
Pirating will never go away, find a way to use it to your advantage. I am one of those who believe even pirates end up being supporters and see it as a great medium to advertise one's product and make money whether it's a hobby or fulltime. At the end of the day its down to luck(flavor for most players) and type of content that makes the big money.
That's because your main area of interest is games.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong here. Yes, it might arouse some people's interest at first and they might subscribe to your page/website out of curiosity. But on the long term you are loosing more folks just because, hey, they can get your stuff here or someplace else, for free. This "free advertising" theory is false, sorry!
I post a lot of images myself, here and in many other places. I make renders for fun. It's not a job for me, it's just hobby. I opened a patreon page at the suggestion of some folks a while ago, because they wanted more stuff from me, offering to pay me, in exchange of some visual depictions of their fantasies (commissioned work, more or less).
The thing is, for small developers and/or freelance artists, leaking their stuff may lead them into abandoning their endeavor. So what's the point?