Regarding Terry Prattchet, never read the discworld books, or any of his books for that matter, though I have wanted to read them as they have been recommended to me.
Sexinati, providing the links and spreading the pirated content is quite literary hurting our financial situation. And no amount of self awareness is going to change that fact.
I don't really see how
I am literally hurting your financial situation... I'm not there in your house stealing your money, nor am I there nerd-spasming out about Seeds-of-Chaos things or saying you should write more Greyhide scenes, which is probably what I would do If I was literally able to be in your presence, I'd be too busy Nerd-gasming to steal anything at all. Virtually would be a better word to use in this instance, literarily speaking.
If the only people left behind who are not patreons are people who want the game but don't have money cannot become patreon subscribers, then in all reality I've not done anything except provide them with what they want... which can be good or bad. Once they have money, they could become patreons.
Someone who is 'financially-abled' could pick up the game and try it, and then decide to 'commit'.
But then, said 'financially-abled' person might go "Hah, I'm not paying for this" and still play the game. Because people can be just like this.
Essentially, who knows how it goes. I could be hurting your business, yes. On the otherhand, the piracy could be helping your business also. There have been cases were Internet piracy actually helped people become successful. It can also be harmful.
Additionally, I am sure there are other factors that could be hurting your financial situation other than piracy. People might have lost their jobs, the holidays might be coming up and don't want to pay, et cetera. This seems to happen a lot in Patreon. I'm also sure that the negative comments by butt-hurt people in 4-chan circles calling it "Seed-of-Cucks" and etcetera is not helping things either.
And I am speaking directly as a person who is in one of these categories. I've bought several games because I pirated them and loved them. I would not have bought them If I did not try them out. I would have never pledged $60 towards Kingdom Come Deliverance If I never tried the Alpha, which I had torrented. That game Is literally my favourite game of 2018.
I don't think you can say that I am literally hurting your financial situation. I could be, or I might not be. I might not even have any impact at all. I'd suppose the best you could say is that... I'm 'a variable'.
Overall, I'd say that my actions as a 'pirate' hurting the Seeds of Chaos team would probably have about the same impact as my Year 10 English certificate towards getting me a job recommendation. Which is to say, not very much, if at all.
Another variable, however, Is word-of-mouth. I've recommended this game to several like minded people over the internet. I'm not sure if any of them became patreons, but they've heard about it. I will continue to say good things about Seeds of Chaos.
Whether I am a net positive or negative, is up to viewer preference. Without having solid stats, who knows. What you have said could be fact. Or it could not.
Either way. The person you want to be pissed at are the 'fans' who leak the data. Without them, this conversation would not be happening And the world would be Hunky Dory. But this is the real world, unfortunately enough.
I guess you could look at this from the observance that I am a cunt, from your point of view. But At least compared to the asshole who laid out a bag full of dogshit on your front door, cunts are probably preferable. Although, If you are an Australian, the reference would be different. I would be a 'Good' cunt, and the asshole would be a 'Shit' cunt. Suffice to say, we have a lot of 'cunts' in our language.
I commend you on on a wholesome philosophy, but perhaps you should consider if spreading joy though pirating other’s people work is something to take pride in.
I never said I have pride in pirating anything. As for joy. Joy is joy, If joy has been gotten through conventional or other means, joy would still be joy. Though, that would probably be a matter of semantics rather than of philosophy.
