As I said, there are opposite material interests at work, anything coming from a pirate's mouth is a pheromone trying to lower your guard.
I still don't understand the difference between pirating and asking you for a copy. Is this some sort of a custom you are trying to establish? A ritual?
But, more importantly, have you taken a look at my bug report above?
I have read it solely because I'm here shitposting.
Don't expect anything here to be read in the future, or answers to anything.
As said, I am not providing support to this forum out of principle.
As for the difference, it's a matter of numbers. In a day of uploading, you can provide access to hundreds of faceless people who are pretty unlikely to be anything besides convenience pirates.
Meanwhile, anyone who actually requests access from me:
1. I trust them to have a valid reason as individuals.
2. I find them more likely to contribute and at least get
something out of their access to the game, even if that's just knowing an individual cared enough about the thing I create to ask for it.
It's purchasing good will from the people I want to earn it from, by offering free access to my game.
It's what supporting pirates
should be, yet isn't due to the size of this place and the culture surrounding it.
And even though for some reason people here insist it's not working, it very much is.
A bunch of people have accepted the offer, and many of them have thrown some kind of non-monetary contribution my way. For example, several people have asked something like ''is there any bug I could help you figure out?''
I think that's rather cool of an interaction, personally. Even for those who simply ask and provide nothing, it feels... human.
A lot more appropriate than having hundreds to thousands of people download the game for free because it's convenient.