I mean I'm looking at a download link to the game right now, clearly not winning that battle. As long as a link exists you're not winning. People are posting download links that can be DMCA'd, just wait until people start uploading the game in ways that aren't.
I mean I can understand where you are coming from (by the way don't know what you mean "like you", I've never downloaded your game because its not my type of game, I just thought it was a unique concept worth checking up on). If I was in your situation I wouldn't necessarily like people pirating my game but I'd come to terms with the fact I'm making 25k a month off a game that lets be honest is nothing crazy, so combating pirates would not be a concern for me. The only true way to combat pirates is by having your game so unpopular that people don't care to go through the effort or pirating it and clearly that isn't your scenario. Trying to do a good thing here and save you from wasting time and money.
Takes some serious fucking density on your part to not understand my numbers are already better as a result of fighting it.
What you said goes for pretty much all adult games; almost none of us are popular enough for upload links to always be up immediately. The latest builds aren't even on here right now.
The more downtime for uploaded builds, the more revenue made. That is simply how it works and what the data behind the scenes shows.
That will remain the case, and it's why anyone fights against piracy, not because they think they'll prevent it entirely.
This subset of the industry in particular has a real fucking problem with normalizing piracy and devaluing their own games. That is a
personal, non financial problem I have with this place; while I'd earn more just staying silent and not riling people like Iaduna up to mass-upload my shit, I can afford that downside to rant at people who believe any of this is ok.
The kind of complete bullshit you're writing here is even more nefarious than any piracy; I'd know because again, I convinced myself this place was worth supporting for far, far too long.
Plenty have taken your recommended approach of apathy and silence. I have, and even now I recently deleted all my comments here with the intention of just silently fighting it and never coming back.
I realized I don't fucking care about money enough to stay silent. Let it be a stupid ass "war" as the 'tism dude says, if it means I get to not be silenced.
Suggest you keep your misguided good-intentioned "expertise" to yourself, if you actually are trying to do a good thing.