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This is an old clip from an interview with Gaben talking about piracy. Its well known video, but not everyone may have saw it, so I put it here too.

Video description:

This is the un-abridged, web-exclusive version of ABC Good Game’s interview with Gabe Newell, which contains the full version of Gabe’s take on Anti-piracy. Despite what the title and YouTube says, this video is actually in 180p, due to it being a web-exclusive download for a show in Australia, where out of all the other first-world countries, we had (and still have) the worst internet known to man. I have attempted to smooth out the video output so it looks less “pixelly”, you can find the original video on ABC’s site for Good Game, it’s from Season 5, Episode 24. This upload is much less compressed than the other uploads found here on YouTube.

  • NightFantom@slrpnk.net
    16·
    11 hours ago

    Tldw: piracy is a service problem. If you have a product that’s not available in your local language, but the pirates localise it days after release instead of months, and at a much better quality too (and without all the crappy drm that forces always online etc), that’s a game developer/distributor/… problem, not a piracy problem.

    I also recall (not in this vid though) gaben (or maybe someone else?) saying something about piracy actually increasing sales of games, as a form of demo or try before you buy (for good games anyway lol). I know I’ve done that, pirate a game when I was a poor student (no sales money lost because otherwise I just wouldn’t have bought it) and then bought it on steam years later and never played it there, just because I believe the devs deserve it.