vlad321 said:
Don86 said:
vlad321 said:
Don86 said:
vlad321 said:
I am fairly well aware of the torrent stats. Please look at the unbiased studies before you spout out bullshit. If you had, you woudln't be talking out of your ass the way you are.
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I am not spouting bullshit.
While I understand that piracy in western countries are not as high as in asia(or S.E. asia), it's slowly increasing.
You also have to count in the open secret of pirates selling PC bootleg games for a few bucks in many asian countries even in countries like south korea.
The fact that you have to resort to personal insults says alot about the agenda you're trying to sell.
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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3988276
My agenda is further supported by some serious studies on the effects of piracy, the insults are just the cherry on top. What is your agenda supported by?
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My agenda is supported by what I see on the ground here in the lanshops and some illegal bootleg gaming shops in my country singapore and around other countries in Asia.
In my country, It has been heavily controlled in the recent years by the government but there are still sources if you know how to look and you are too lazy to torrent.
I'm just trying to point out that if you don't pay attention to the piracy problem, it will just keep growing.
I'm sure there's alot of articles regarding piracy on the PC..so I'll just point out one- http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/12/29/most-pirated-games-2010
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Ah, so your agenda is backed up solely by your limited experience. Glad we got that out of the way.
P.S. The link you showed is absolutely pointless if you cant show pirated copies are lost sales. Which many studies have shown to be not true.
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Limited experience?
Have you played in any of the lan shops in asia? Have you noticed that many of their games like warcraft 3 can't access the bnet or the official multiplayer network?
In some other S.E.Asia countries, you can see many people openly peddling many bootleg pc games.
And are you sure that majority of the people that torrented the game will buy the game?
I will tell you that the pirates of the yester-years(around 10 years ago) will eventually buy the games because they liked the game enough to make them want to play online..but nowadays especially with external lan/multiplayer programs like garena and hamachi(and god knows what else is there), what is the motivation for them to buy the original copy?
