- Aug 20, 2018
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All I have to say is that Edef is 100% the most based game dev I have ever seen
The fact he recognises that piracy is inevitable and encourages people to support him instead of forcing them to before they try the product is genuinely respectable. There's no doubt he knows of this thread and it's genuinely good to see him taking up a more lenient stance on the whole ordeal.
I know that I personally prefer to try something out before deciding to support projects (especially porn games with how intermittent their quality can be and the very real chance of development simply stopping) and the fact he's okay with that is legendary.
I don't think the praise is unnecessary and I don't want to take anything away from it but I think this is just the most pragmatic stance on piracy any developer can ask for, especially small devs like Edef. Piracy is inevitable, especially with digital goods. Fighting it is at best spitting on a forest fire at worst pissing in the wind. It's still a good stance to take however and a dev can always just respond with something to the effect of "it sucks, I wish it didn't happen, but I can't stop it and aren't going to worry too much about it" and Edef explicitly said "if you can't get it legally go ahead and pirate it, if you can get it legally and like it please considering supporting the patreon" and that is definitely a better way to approach the matter.