JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
No, the reason why so many companies screeched about piracy was because it became an easy way for a studio to defend itself after a flop. "We did a good job, our game did not suck, it's a good game! The reason why it's a financial failure is because of those pesky pirates!" It's a great way to shovel the blame onto some anonymous force out there, with no easy way to prove or disprove it. Companies subsequently overreacting with draconian DRM like always online for single player games and the like was a logical consequence of that.It was never as bad as they acted like, no. I think a lot of it was just butthurt anger at people getting their shit for free.
Now devs of shitty games complain that Steam takes too big a cut and doesn't do enough marketing for them (it's a store platform, not a marketing service you retards), also the fact that Steam allows everyone to release their games on it means games get lost in a flood of stuff. That's the reason our game failed, honest, if Steam had better curation our game would have been a massive success! It's not our game's fault!!