outcast3 wrote:Then I might have misinterpreted your comment. I interpreted that you were saying that McDonalds workers shouldn't earn more and that they should face more abuse, basically that your economic hardships and abuse in career was reserved for fast food workers and that you as an creator shouldn't face things that are meant for working class people to experience. That creator at the minimum are entitled to have it better than workers. Hence I took an issues with it, when workers face abuse it's deserved and that's how it should be? but when creators/entrepreneurs face abuse it never should had happen and it's out of place?
Not saying you have to like online piracy. Just that it's futile to try to combat like it's an crusade especially for an indie dev. The energy and time you spend on combating pirates is better spend on game development. You say people who work hard don't think about how much money they can make, yet you seems to be very upset that pirates can enjoy your work without paying for it? pirates never intended to pay anyway, stopping them will not bring you more income. Marketing your games more might draw the attention of more uploaders and pirates, but it can also bring in more paying consumers. Why do you feel like you need to deal with pirates anyway? Just file an DMCA takedown and call it a day, because in the end it's mostly futile. Imagine your work being uploaded to some Romanian pirate site. you file a complain to the Australian police, Romania is outside of Australia's control, all they can do is to request the Romanian police to take action, but the Romanian police force never take action because they have other crimes to deal with and they don't consider this worth their time or they don't care. So nothing will happen, this is the case most of the time. Also no-one is willing to go to war in order to enforce copyright laws. Just go read about the pirate bay, in the end despite all the effort of large companies to bring it down, the creators of the site walks free(the Swedish government even shorten their sentence to release them early from jail) and their site is still up. For all those places I mention where piracy thrives, their law enforcement will at most take token action against pirates, then set them free to go back to business again. What I am trying to tell you is that dealing with pirates is mostly a waste of time.
I have no idea how you could've interpreted that from that. Nobody deserves mindless abuse regardless of job and occupation. But fair enough, I would've taken issue if I read something like that too.
What you're saying about spending energy and time being better spent on game development is the very problem lol. You can't stay motivated or not burned out if it's happening to you. Resources and money that could've been spent on getting assets and making content is FORCEFULLY taken away from what you want to do. Your MIND is taken from making content to saying 'fuck you too' right back at them. That is why I compared it to someone coming into your workplace, spitting in your face and taking half your paycheck. Because it literally is that. And if that happened to you, you would not be thinking on content as the first thing. Instead you would be focusing on getting back, and trying to make your mind calm down back to work instead IF you want to continue creating content. You're saying it's pointless, I'm saying from experience this is why we have not many good long time creators because they either do nothing and get worn down and quit, or they do something like me. Sure piracy isn't going to stop, but if it stops just 1 guy from uploading stuff publicly and they can see that we're human too, that goes a long way. And the longer something isn't pirated publicly, the longer and better you can focus on your work. I don't rant about piracy, as much as I am making people aware that by doing it they are just making their favourite creators leave, that we are human, and that a lot are uploading pointlessly and causing work to drag out even longer before it is released. If you are uploading stuff, what is the point when the people you are doing it for don't give a shit about you, and you just want a little attention. EVERYONE loses in the end. Sure, I'm more aggresive than most creators, I sue people or get them in trouble in other ways depending their country and where they upload. But I'm not doing it so much on gaining income as opposed to NEEDING to keep my motivation if I am to stay on.
If someone was literally killing you, taking away funds from things like medicine/emergencies, and driving out your motivation that you can't even treat yourself to anything and are slaving away. You would do something about it no? In my case, I want to be a creator and make multiple games. So I'm taking action on what I need to do to keep at it. I've heard every excuse from uploaders/pirates trying to justify public uploads. Yet they don't give a shit about those slaving away literally to make the things they want to see and cry about giantess/vore droughts when their dumb ass brought it on us in the first place. And because I want to help other creators be treated like they're human too or to even start creating works for us. I do something about it, I'm vocal, and I can hit back twice as hard if I'm inclined to.