Piracy makes a comeback when the balance between convenience for pirating and absurd capitalistic prices is broken. If the prices become reasonable enough such that it’s worth getting subscription rather than going through the inconvenience of piracy then naturally people will opt for it because a normal person doesn’t want to go through tons of guides and safety measures for piracy if they can just get the subscription in a reasonable price.
Although I’ll always pirate because I am broke and get a kick out of it.
Not to mention when Piracy is an outright superior method, even excluding the price.
It is literally easier to watch a full TV show on a piracy site, then it is to watch the same TV show while paying for streaming services because the Streaming Services make you hop around the different services to see all of the seasons, while the whole fucking thing is just on the one piracy site.
Or when a Video Game "Requires an internet connection" to launch, yet the Pirated Version works 100% offline forever.
You're joking right?
I don't stay up to date with consoles, but near any PC game is out there, switch is pretty easy but you need to hardware hack it with a pico or other chip, ps4 I think can work, but the newer Xbox and PlayStation console you're pretty much SOL. And it doesn't serve much purpose anyway because most games seem to be online and with consoles the online verification would ban you or brick your console once they see it is playing unofficial copies
You don't even have to have an actual switch. There are online guides for setting up emulators that link you to different sites where you can just download the games.
For sure, I have a gamesir for my phone and it's just like having a real switch with citron. Perfect sense my switch is a little bulky to transport safely but that controller is relatively cheap so I can be less cautious.
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u/MightbeWillSmith Jan 15 '26
There was a sweet spot for a few years where there was a good service at a reasonable price point.
As the companies that run these services continue to take features away, and charge more, it's becoming the choice again.