i find it weird that people still equate piracy with lost sales. Honestly, the majority of people wouldn't consume this piece of entertainment if it wasn't free in the first place. I don't think people on f95zone ever think (or if they do it happens so rarely it's negligible) they should buy/support the product in order to get access to it. If it wasn't free to begin with, they would just skip it, and never think of it again. Personally, 100% of the games i have actually supported, i have found through f95zone. As long as this type of games still rely on patreon/subscribestar for funding, the majority of the devs are amateurs doing this in their spare time and they release in an unfinished state, i find it a bit disingenuous to expect people to pay recurrently for unfinished products. Of course, everyone views the process of supporting devs differently, and i wholeheartedly recommend people to support their favourite games (or devs)...
It's saturday evening, i am a bit drunk, and i honestly don't know where i was going with that
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