Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.
Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.
By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.
That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.
I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.
So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.
But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.
If you can’t afford the $200 fee for EVO just go to the roulette table and bet $200 on red. If you win it’s free entry and if you lose your dumbass was not guessing right on throw loops anyway so it saved you the weekend.
@beeyonceknight This is the opposite of woke. It’s an example of how eurocentrism has made Filipinos feel that they, and their cultural practices, are inferior to the western (global north’s) idea of modernity and “decency”.
After two years of research I made public a database of fighting games that are playable in some form on Windows
100% manually made in 90's HTML code that looks like shit on mobile. There's a lot of work left but I hope it will be helpful for some people
https://t.co/1X2IgsPhkb
In case you missed it, a Fighting Game Library of Alexandria dropped.
Every game has a short description and useful related links.
Hayama even took the time to address differences in ports, revisions, which versions are played comp, etc.
Top tier work all around.
Check it out!
we really need to decouple being a DDS and with being poor, especially when DATA tells us that malakas rin yung hatak ng mga Duterte sa Classes A, B, and C.
these ~infuencers~ are only good at punching down, and rarely marunong mag punch up.