Investors became investors by paying creators for their work in advance without knowing what they'd produce. It's incredibly short-sighted to say "hey, the creator already got their paycheck so my purchase makes no difference now".

Maybe it would help to think of it as paying the creator for their next game.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Thats a pretty story, but completely unconnected to reality. If it worked like that, id be okay with it.

Also, when you pay for stuff, abd like it, and want to revisit it later you usually cant. And that always makes me feel like a fool. I don't like feeling like a fool. I don't like paying to feel likeva fool. I don't like expecting a thing i like to be there then it not being there; that ruins my day. And the sheer fucking regularity of this makes. Me think it's going to keep happening.

When you steal it, they cabt steal it from you, 'cuz they don't know you have it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca -2 points 17 hours ago

Thats a pretty story, but completely unconnected to reality. If it worked like that, id be okay with it.

What do you think an investor is then?

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 0 points 5 hours ago

And they invested knowing that piracy was a thing and figured that into their calculations regard to the risk vs potential return. If they didn't get that right and end up with a loss, well, that's capitalism for you.