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Hell yeah, game devs don't deserve to be paid for their work ๐คก
... Do you think workers in a car factory don't get paid until someone actually buys the car they helped build? All the devs have already been paid!
Given how video game studios work, also probably laid off
And how do these companies make the money required to pay the salaries of their employees?? ๐ค
They were the best selling game on steam for month before the gane even came out.
"Enough suckers ahead of me have paid for the game, now it's morally right for me to pirate it!" ๐คก
Ask the people who worked on Avatar (the one with the blue people), which was simultaneously the highest grossing movie of all time and also the most pirated movie for several years after its release.
Record-breaking profits usually suggest that even when they have all the money, they will not pay the devs much.
If you carjack someone else, commit actual grand theft auto, does that mean the workers in the car factory that produced the car get their pay retroactively revoked?
That's actual theft, you stole it from the owner, and even then it doesn't affect the factory workers' salary at all.
If I get a copy of Starfield from a friend after they're done playing it, does that count as stealing the devs' salary?