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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightBeam" data-source="post: 10515448" data-attributes="member: 466154">I think I can understand that sentiment, but I think it's more an issue of how it's accessible, hence why I mentioned it to begin with. They might be related in some way anyway because as you said, they clearly see it as some amalgamation of things that hurt their sales, but accessibility clearly plays a major role on how « much » piracy there is. Smash Bros was leaked so early, almost 3 weeks before the official release iirc, but emulators weren't as popular as they were, there wasn't any SteamDeck to even emulate the console on a handheld.Not most people clearly. That's probably my own anecdotal evidence, but I know that when there's a semblance of risk, or manipulations that people aren't used to, even if I were to propose to do that stuff for them on Anydesk, most people won't feel like it.Now, they still pirate some stuff, but they're using repackers, one click installers and shaddy websites that are known to be not really trustworthy (but most people don't). They can't even figure out how to navigate on cs.rin.ru and need to follow some Youtube tutorials for that. That's a major turn-off, and I think that's to the benefit of the scene in general.Not saying that we should make things complicated by design, but going out of the way to make it easier to download stuff creates problems we never wanted to solve. Sure we like to share and all, I like it too. But I also wish people would do the bare minimum of research, and know what they're doing.My best friend struggles to mod his V1 Switch despite me not getting banned online and being able to give him whatever he would need to avoid such. But I always try to make sure that people are aware of the risks, and that's what makes people reconsider.Heck, I've had multiple people trying to figure out the new Steam Family system, I was able to play Sea of Thieves and Helldivers 1 with my little brother with a single copy at the same time, and my friends didn't want to take the risk because they're afraid that Steam might nuke their account or something.In short, I think that it's more productive to have things harder to access, rather than asking people to think about devs and their job safety. That's probably why Nintendo's approach will work. It just sucks that things need to be this way.</blockquote>

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