Only thing I’ve pirated was a show with no reasonable means to access it legitimately in my region. Hell, I couldn’t even access it via VPN because the services it was on didn’t accept my card due to region.
Normally of the mind that if it isn’t worth my money it isn’t worth my time, but in this case I just wasn’t allowed to pay them for it. Hardly my fault when they’ve gone that far out of their way to block me buying it.
Stealing and selling their best prototype also means they couldn’t send it to a better reviewer to demonstrate it isn’t a bad product.
Honestly atrocious behaviour from them over this. Any 1 bit of this would be bad, but all of them together could absolutely ruin a start-up. And all because Linus didn’t want to spend “up to” $500 worth of people’s time.
The biggest pain with premium is how prevalent in video ads are. Not fun to pay and still see ads anyway.
I wouldn’t mind if they were right at the start or at the end. But they’re always either 30 - 60 seconds in or in the middle of the video and so many of them are over a minute.
ThatGuyGlen is a recent favourite. Great videos on the development of various popular Indie games.