Starfield gamers have begun pirating a popular upscale mod for the game after the developer placed it behind a paywall. The mod, as its name implies
  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2522·
    10 months ago

    Things don’t need to be novel and amazing to be marketable. And if it’s that trivial, rather than pirating it people would just rewrite it. The fact that they’re stealing it means it has value.

    • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
      2813·
      10 months ago

      The fact that they’re stealing it means it’s priced above its perceived value though.

      • Double_A@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        71·
        10 months ago

        So it has perceived value…

        But that guy above was saying that it’s worthless and trivial to implement…

        You can’t have it both ways.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        That’s not true at all. People often steal because they value the item but cannot afford the price.