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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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The future of gaming is budget pc builds and piracy.
No, budget PCs and indies - NOT piracy.
If you base your gaming life around piracy, no one is paying for the industry. No golden parachutes for Take Two execs, but also no return on indie development - every game would be by a first time studio mortgaging their house and closing immediately after.
Do not condition people around never paying for media. You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying, you doom yourself to pages of games full of ad-driven AI slop.