Dev Behind Highly Regarded PC Game Explains Why He Raised The Price: "Go Pirate It, I Don't Care"

While this is not a nice, I don't understand why this is a big deal? And why anyone would pirate the game as a result of this 2 Dollars increase (which in percentage as ~33% increase sounds worse than it is). Others are doing this too, adjust the price after long period of supporting it. And for such a low price and as an indie developer, I think it's only fair. Also for anyone thinking of pirating the game out of principle, rethink it again. Game gets deals over time and at some point it was available for ~4 Euros (which should be more like 3.79 Dollars or whatever it might be).

The game in question is https://store.steampowered.com/app/1846170/Iron_Lung/ BTW. It has Very Positive reviews on Steam and is a horror themed short game. And the dev doesn't even come up with fake excuses or anything like that, it's straight honest about making more money. Which is fair to me! And before anyone accuses me, I am not affiliated with the dev or game, never purchased or received anything; it's the first time I hear about the game. Just mentioning it, because of my positive words defending the price increase. This is a rare situation where I am fine with it.

The game is Iron Lung, and it went from $6 to $8.

The game went from 6$ to 8$ USD.

A $2 increase!? OUTRAAAAAAGE

Factorio has also had a tradition of slowly increasing its price. Honestly, it's their right - now that we're in the era of live service games, and constant inflation, it actually makes sense too.

What's more, the outrage seems to only make sense from people that had an interest in a game, but were waiting for a sale. If you had no interest in the game, you don't care about its price increase. If you only cared about it enough to pay a price even lower than its original, then it also doesn't seem to matter much to you. If you already owned the game, it doesn't affect you.

There's also the obvious situation where someone does care about playing the game, but lies to others or even themselves about not caring; hence leading to terrible backwards-logic justifications of piracy.

Well, if he doesn't care, then I just might bother the time and effort to pirate it. But then again, a dismissive creator who's working with Markiplier isn't someone I'm really keen on supporting in the first place. I wish him luck, and that he is approximately as successful as I am in financial terms.