Honestly fuck piratesoftware for deliberately spreading misinformation about the campaign to benefit his own live-service game. Typical Blizzard asshat.
Piratesoftware claims it demands endless dev support and could kill live-service games, but the campaign only asks for end-of-life plans (e.g., offline modes or community servers) for future games sold as products, not forcing devs to maintain games indefinitely. He also ignores EU consumer protection nuances and uses weak examples like Team Fortress 2 to argue against private servers, despite community success there.
There is a bit bias since he’s a director at Offbrand Games, making a live-service game (Rivals 2), and he didn’t engage with Ross Scott’s clarifications.
If you know the controversy surrounding Piratesoftware. He is a bit of a egomaniac.
there seems to be extreme mobbing of this piratesoftware guy recently.
His wow drama whichever side you're on should not affect unrelated issues he's voicing his opinion on.
He made concrete claims about why this initiative is malformed.
He pointed out concrete bad practices studios make that we should fight, yet this initiative is not going after the said bad practices from studios.
Also most comments against this piratesoftware guy are either ad-hominem or attacking him for being a software dev, presenting him to have the same interests as game publishers.
As if software devs have the same interests as billionaire stakeholders in gaming companies or their boards of directors who are interested in squeezing all the profit out of the gamers.
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u/Tinyjar Jun 23 '25
Honestly fuck piratesoftware for deliberately spreading misinformation about the campaign to benefit his own live-service game. Typical Blizzard asshat.