Stop thinking that you are important. I never read your comments before leaking the game. I only subscribe for short peroids of time so I dont have access to the builds right now.
Who said I'm important? Can you quote me saying it? Because I'm pretty sure I didn't.
I stated a fact that happened with the last leak.
If YOUR interpretations of what I said is that I think I'm someone important, its YOUR thinking, not mine.
Don't show off here; your behavior is more like one end of a diode, where your world consists only of two extremes with no middle ground.
There's no middle ground when it comes to marketing strategies in releasing a product.
You can ask for a fee or price for someone to buy it or to access it as a service (for a monthly fee).
Or you release it for free with a paid better version or more complete version.
We aren't talking about morals here, we are talking about a product. Stop throwing this politics view of "no extremes, they're bad, middle ground is more correct" in everything you see.
If the dev decided not to share a free version, there's no middle ground, or you buy it, or you don't play it.
Unless you want to jump to piracy, it's another story.
If game creators truly don't want any leaks affecting their immediate earnings, they would indeed add restrictions within the games, such as activation codes.
Have you ever coded or marketed something in your life, you're just pulling opinions out of nowhere? It isn't as simple as you think it is. Solo developers (like the majority of AVN devs) work alone, they barely have time to write, code, render, test bugs, etc. Doing a restriction against piracy isnt that simple.
If it's an unique activation code, this would require a GOOD deal of programming, if it's a single code, people will just share it on the place they leaked it.
Even BIG companies from triple A games have gone as far as to use Denuvo that eat a BIG portion of players FPS just to try to make piracy impossible, imagine a small dev. Things aren't simple as you think.
This is not "your world consists only of two extremes with no middle ground", when you market a product, or you release it for free and ask money for a more complete version, or you ask money for it.
So, if you like the game, buy and support, if not, there'll be no leak, nor public versions. Dev could do, but he don't want, it's his choice. His supporters could do, but they don't want.
Get over it "middle ground politics" super smart guy. And stop mixing politics "no extremes" view into anything, marketing is a science, not an opinion.
I won't criticize game developers for implementing restrictions to protect short-term revenues from leaks, but those who advocate for such actions must be devoid of critical thinking.
Why would not people advocate for a person working and choosing to ask money from it? Should I advocate for stealing intelectual property? Should I advocate for people to ignore someone work hours just to get a free fap in front a monitor or smartphone?
You're the only one devoid of critical thinking here, thinking you're the protagonist of the world and that everyone should throw everything free on your way.
Stop being so stuck up like you're any smart, go study, get a well paying job and pay for your fap material. If you don't want to pay even with money, fap to whatever is being delivered for free and stop crying over "lack of critical thinking".
Critical thinking may be used to see if a product is worth it's price, and it'll vary from people to people. Depends of financial situation of a personal, personal preferences etc. You need to have critical thinking in my country to think if it's worth to pay 40% of a montly minimum wage on the last FIFA game. If a person plays it a lot and enjoy, why not? If the person is loaded in money why not?
Critical thinking is to be able to analize something considering the pros and cons, not wishing thinking to have everything for free. I don't think FIFA is worth 40% of the monthly minimum wage, so I don't buy, I don't have to go to piracy for something I don't see value.
Wanting paid stuff for free because you don't have money or don't want to pay is NOT critical thiking.