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In light of a "free" copy on Epic Games (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/discoelysium@lemmy.zip
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[–] 32 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Pirating this game is probably the most ethical way to play it

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Unless you bought it when it came out, it’s now the only ethical way to play it.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    OOTL casual scroller - what happened?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    ZA/UM was an artist-owned cooperative studio.

    But then an investor fraudulently obtained financial control over the company, forced out the original leaders, and out-lawyered them. Now it's just another corporate game studio, and neither the lead writer, the lead programmer, nor the art director of Disco Elysium works there anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    shoot, tried the game through my brother's free epic copy and then bought it for myself thinking it was so good that I had to give it back to the studio. It was on sale for 5€, but still I feel uneasy now..

    At least one advantage of epic's shenanigans is that I'd probably never have played this game if the free giveaway had not happened.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I only know so much, something about switching dev teams/ownership and screwing the original devs but I found an article that claims to know the whole thing.

    https://80.lv/articles/truth-behind-firing-disco-elysium-developers-za-um-s-canceled-sequel

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    to save anyone reading this: basically it's big business boys trying to rat fuck each other with a series of sneaky business moves to acquire shares or maintain operational control... at the expense of creative efforts and next projects. So some (presumably nice, innocent) people got fucked over by corporate greed at the expense of art but likely someone got rich off it.

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    • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    zero rating

    Basically, giving something away for free that would normally have a cost is a market manipulation tactic. Epic does this as a means to draw customers away from their competition, primarily Valve, thereby reinforcing their position in the capitalist market.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    They're not drawing me anywhere. I made the mistake of buying something on there once and was dismayed to find that the updates for the game that had been available on Steam for months just weren't applied to Epic.

    Now I just grab all the free stuff which is usually a bit older and thus fully updated anyway.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Does Epic pay the full amount to the game publisher per copy when they give away free games, or does it work some other way?

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