r/explainitpeter • u/IAmABoss37 • 10d ago

I need your help. Explain it Peter.

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Is the implication that PC gamers pirate their games?

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u/PeterExplainsTheJoke The Peter in Question 10d ago

Hey guys, Peter Griffin here to explain the joke, returning for my cake day. So basically, this is used to represent the fitgirl website, which is used for piracy. So, the joke is that PC players don’t complain about the prices of games because they pirate them, and so get them for free. Peter out!

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u/Sad-Pop6649 9d ago

Not as a further explanation of the meme but as an addition on PC gamers: even when not pirating PC players have a choice of several large platforms selling games these days, each with their own sales and/or giveaways. There are sites for tracking the historic pattern in these sales so you can figure out how long it will probably be before the next one. There are bundle sites that will sell you ten games for one dollar and there are more limited time freebies than you can shake a hat at. If you spend any effort on building a PC game library you'll be buried in hundreds of games you still need to play in no time. The only two times you'll ever spend serious money on PC games is if you want the latest and greatest, or if you want a specific title and you want it now.

Contrast that to Nintendo games that essentially just don't go on sale all the way until they're obsolete. Now that's a legit business strategy. I'm not saying they don't deserve full pay for their work, but it is a difference as a consumer. If you care less about specific new titles PC games are very cheap by comparison.

And even when monetization increases it kind of still works in our favor. A bunch of titles that were considered abandonware, "you can freely share this because clearly the publisher stopped caring, it's not being sold anymore", are now being sold again. But this also means that they are being ported, emulated or whatever needs to be done to make them playable on modern PCs again. You pay a few dollars for a 30 year old game like Doom or Tomb Raider, but it works.