Because they should be angry at their incompetent marketing people who didn’t vet the keys they sent.

Each key they send has a cost, and this is part of it. There are technical solutions to their problems, in the form of running a beta for the streamers, and releasing beta-only keys

This is a fabricated story because the keys they’re complaining about have no reason to exist. Its pure incompetence on the manufacturers marketing teams part.

Why should it be a crime? Spell it out for us.

The property becomes mine, I resell it. Nothing here is illegal.

Also, like, lol… that’s entirely on the marketing people to do their job and vet.

These streamers are a business expense to drive their marketing department. They could time-limit the keys or limit them to a beta just for the streamers, but they just blindly issue fat tranches of keys and get upset when people use the copies of the game they minted.

The CD key is conceptually the same as a game cartridge. Why would I -not- give away my review copies of a Nintendo 64 title?

Ya’ll cooked if you can’t see it. You’re all jumping infront of the bullet for companies who’s purpose is to make money, like Apu.

I do not care, even in the slightest about a marketing departments “losses” from issuing CD keys.

Not even in the slightest. Its the cost of doing business.

No other industry, not even the software industry, gets to do this.

Unilever sends me some shit to review? They’re not allowed to be upset about the eventual fate of those things.

CD keys are property, and property is tradable.

Just because the original intent is X or Y, doesn’t mean dick for shit.

If they didn’t like it, maybe they shouldn’t issue so many free copies.

At some point they have to take responsibility for the keys they’re minting. They can always issue time-limited keys.

There’s so many technical solutions to it and so much crying over the resale that I just do not buy the story.

Then I don’t think you’ve ever received or given a gift? A Faustian bargain is not a gift.

It was a gift, no?

Who are you to tell me what to do with a gift. Its mine after you give it.

Software industry understands neither property nor consent.

Yeah, I’ve never bought this. “oh no, someone redeemed a code we gave away/already sold”

“Hot swapping” means doing it while the machine is running. You can’t hot swap an NVME SSD. You gotta turn the computer off.

It would appear that theres a standoff for 2230 and maybe 2280 on the right, so you can just reuse your Steamdecks SSD.

Unnatural, illogical laws of man.

Its only this way because we humans say so. We can decide otherwise.

People aren’t stealing the content because why? Are people just stupid now? Its easier than it was in the 00s…

Whats your point, that we should go back to the 80s pricing?

get outta here with that shit.

The $80 price tag hasn’t been for anything, ever though.

Its an unacceptably high price for what it is.

I mean they might be about to fuck the whole industry about in the funniest way dropping GTA6 single player for $29.99.

It’d be hilarious watching the ghouls in the industry promptly shit their britches.

Because they can pay for it, and because humans enjoy spectacle.

The one about mazda is also excellent

What cruel god would willingly let such a calamity wreak its havok?

British Leyland. Specifically so we can have a boogieman.

The EU is tryin’…

I dunno man, ARM and RISC-V are pretty dope.

It’d be nice if, say, ST would shit out a EU market RISC-V linux SoC akin to the CV1800B or SG2002 or BL808. But like, europe fabs.